Dear all,

Please consider submitting to our ACLA seminar on the intersection of life writing and the city:

The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South

Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College

Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University

Contact the Seminar…[Read more]

For Volume 5, Lifewriting Annual seeks critical and scholarly essays and reviews for a special section dedicated to lifewriting as it intersects with Islam across time and the world. We seek submissions that engage with representations of Islam and Islamic culture in/through biography, autobiography, essays, memoirs, journals, diaries, and letters…[Read more]

We are excited to announce that Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, is now available for open peer review on MLA Commons. As the volume focuses on pedagogy, we would particularly value the input of members of this forum, so please do take a moment to read t…[Read more]

Guest Editors: Dr. S. Shankar, Department of English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA, and Dr. Charu Gupta, Department of History, University of Delhi, India.

Submit: 400-word abstracts to S. Shankar (subraman@hawaii.edu) and Charu Gupta (charu7@hotmail.com) by September 15, 2015

Life Narratives (biographies, autobiographies, Fa…[Read more]

Stacey Lee Donohue has uploaded two documents that might be of interest to this group to the new repository, CORE. You can access them by clicking on the “CORE” tab at the top of the screen, the “Deposits” tab to the right of this group’s page, or via the links below.

“What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Becoming a Community College…[Read more]

Warner’s essay is concerned that students will continue to be ill prepared for college because of Common Core testing:  https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/unfortunately-i-am-ready-common-core

Deadline extended to March 20!

General Call for Papers
Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference

May 8-10, 2015, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

*What is the future of illustration studies?
*What can comics scholars learn from animation studies and vice versa?
*Do illustrated books or graphic novels resist the supposed obsolescence of the…[Read more]

In conjunction with AX Anime Expo in Los Angeles, July 2-5, 2015, the largest anime convention in North America, the AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium is seeking presentations on topics related to Japanese visual culture and the worldwide popularity and impact of anime and manga.  Participation in the symposium also includes a complimentary…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing Group,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:

Teaching Memory Studies

Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hinds…[Read more]

***SPECIAL OFFER***
Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—
“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”
a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time
For new members, or members who were not m…[Read more]

Charlie-Hebdo and its Publics

Ever since the tragic murders of staff members of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, there have been heated discussions in the public sphere regarding free speech, religious expression, and the power of satire. Reactions have differed dramatically among national and social groups, East and West. These varied…[Read more]

Call for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association

(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.

Satire and the Editorial Cartoon

Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded the combination of humor, hyperbole, and…[Read more]