If you do, please contact me or another member of the current ExCo with a brief proposal. We will discuss them at our January ExCo meeting and select the best. This Forum will have two guaranteed panels in 2016, and may propose two further panels (non-guaranteed). We are eager to hear your ideas, so fire away! MLA deadlines are quite far in…[Read more]

The print titles listed below are now available for review in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. If you are interested in one (or more), drop me a line at <Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu>. We ask for reviews of between 1200 and 1500 words within approximately three months of receipt of the book.

Since it is often the case that I get…[Read more]

The print titles listed below are now available for review in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. If you are interested in one (or more), drop me a line at <Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu>. We ask for reviews of between 1200 and 1500 words within approximately three months of receipt of the book.

Since it is often the case that I get multiple…[Read more]

Dear all,

could you perhaps suggest a play that could be seen as fantastic in Todorov’s sense? (Yes, I know he didn’t want to include anyting but prose, but even Hamlet has its moments — the ghost is too clearly present on stage to be truly “fantastic” in the sense of ambiguous, though…)

Thank you!

(My apologies for the cross-post, but wanted to make sure this reaches as many people as possible. Please feel free to circulate widely.)

Dear Colleagues,

The MLA annual conference is being held in Vancouver, Canada from January 8 to 11, 2015 and the program features a number of panels related to Asia. In honor of those representing Asia within…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Children’s Literature Society

American Literature Association

26th Annual Conference

May 21-24, 2015

The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02116-5798

The Politics and Morality of Children’s Literature: From Left to Right

Authors use children’s literature to communicate their political and moral viewp…[Read more]

View the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals

Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and A…[Read more]

Panel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century

(Session ID: 15391)

Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391

Deadline: September 30, 2014

Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)

Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)

For…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

Thanks to those who have signed the petitions for the prospective fora. As there seems to be a little bit of confusion about how to navigate to/sign the petitions, however, please allow me to post some instructions:

If you can read this, you are logged into the Commons, which is the first step. Next, you need to know the names of…[Read more]

I support the establishment of the forum “East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900”

Hello everyone, another PLEA TO SIGN THE PETITION(S) SUPPORTING THE PROPOSED NEW FORA. We are under-enrolled in all of the proposed Asian fora (except for Korean — nice work folks!), which means that they will not be established. This would be a shame, since we have the potential for much more participation of Asianists at the MLA with fora in…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

Call for Papers MAPACA 2014
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY AREA

The Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) invites academics, graduate and undergraduate students, independent scholars, and artists to submit papers for the annual conference, to be held in Baltimore, November 6-8, 2014. Those interested in presenting at the…[Read more]