Heading to MLA in Chicago? Looking for mentoring in writing for and publishing in peer-reviewed journals in your specialization? It’s not too late to sign up for Chat with an Editor! Sessions with experienced editors from MELUS, English Literary Renaissance, Legacy, Papers on Language and Literature and more still available for Friday and S…[Read more]

Dear Members,

Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2019.

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

Thursday Jan 3rd

54. And What does Colonial Mean? 

1:45-3:00 pm, Erie, Sheraton Grand

Presiding Mónica Díaz, U of Kentucky

Speakers: Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkley; Kathleen Myers, Indiana U, Bl…[Read more]

233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory  10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019  Sheraton Grand – Superior B

Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and the…[Read more]

Hello all, here’s a CFP that may be of interest. I assume W&L must be interested in eco approaches, since the editor asked us to post. Had to edit submission requirements. Cheers.

Women & Language

Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original…[Read more]

Hello all, here’s a CFP that may be of interest:

Women & Language

Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language…[Read more]

Natural Language: Readings and PerformancesJanuary 4, 2019 @ School of the Art Institute of ChicagoReception at 6:30,; Readings at 7:30
In conjunction with the 2019 MLA conference, the Electronic Literature Organization and the Art & Technology Studies (ATS) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will host an evening of…[Read more]

*NEW HUMANITIES PROGRAMME AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES LIST: CALL FOR PROPOSALS! *Emerald Publishing (2018 IPG Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year) is pleased to announce investment in a new Humanities book programme. Our commitment to interdisciplinary research means that we are moving into the Humanities for the first time, building…[Read more]

German Studies Association

Oct. 3-6, 2019 – Portland, Oregon

“Future Past”

Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Network

Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2019

The Environmental Studies Network invites submissions for a series of panels for the GSA 2019, taking place October 3-6, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.

We invite submissions for a series of pan…[Read more]

German Studies Association

Oct. 3-6, 2019 – Portland, Oregon“Future Past”

Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Network

Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2019

The Environmental Studies Network invites submissions for a series of panels for the GSA 2019, taking place October 3-6, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.

We invite submissions for a series of pan…[Read more]

Vegetal Imaginations: Plants in German Literature and Culture

This panel will explore the role of plants in the German literary and cultural imagination, with a special focus on questions of gender, sexuality, and ecofeminism.

Please send 300-word abstracts and a short bio or CV by 1 March 2019 to Joela Jacobs (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu) and…[Read more]

Will you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.

Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]

The Chat with an Editor event takes place at the MLA each year.  This professional development opportunity, sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, gives advanced doctoral candidates, postdocs, and new faculty the opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Modernism/modern…[Read more]

Resisting Otherwise: Mobilizing Submerged Perspectives in Global Social Ecologies (Guaranteed Panel for ASLE, June 26-30, 2019, Davis CA)

Ends on December 15, 2018

Organizers:  Katherine Hummel (hummel@umich.edu) and Constanza Contreras (cbcontre@umich.edu), University of Michigan

Planned Format:  Roundtable (5-6 Presenters)

For decades, i…[Read more]

Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association

July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. Te…[Read more]

This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms, and ecological processes are vastly under-theorized. I…[Read more]