CFP: South Asian Literatures in the World
South Asian Literary Association Annual Conference
January 6-7, 2019
The Wits Hotel, Chicago, IL

The South Asian Literary Association invites papers, panels, and roundtable proposals for the 2019 annual conference to be held in Chicago January 6-7 on the topic “South Asian Literatures in the World.” We…[Read more]

CFPs for Global South panels at MLA 2019 (Chicago):

**Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South**
Encounters with waste in narratives both historical and contemporary welcomed. Possible entanglements include animality, comparative modernities, labor and the environment.
Abstracts of 300 words by 15 March 2018; Rosemary J. Jolly…[Read more]

MLA 2019 Session: Expanding Colonial Geographies

This panel aims to re-conceptualize traditional colonial geographies in the Spanish speaking world by considering the transactions between Colonial Latin America and the Global Hispanophone world. How did colonial commercial and knowledge networks between Latin America and the Global Hispanophone…[Read more]

MLA 2019 Session: Textual Transactions in the Global Hispanophone

As the nexus of seemingly highly disparate groups, Global Hispanophone studies explore the paradox of a separation that unifies. This paradox is reflected in texts that navigate separations such as those between countries, languages, generations, interior frontiers, and colonial…[Read more]

MLA 2019 (guaranteed) Session: Teaching the Global Hispanophone
(Roundtable)

Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: for instance, curricula structured according to mid-twentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; issues of language; or difficulties in securing copies of texts. How have you met these…[Read more]

Extended deadline for the Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association.

Call for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (LHCALA)

In line with the theme proposed for the 44th annual meeting of the African Literature Association in 2018, “The Environments of African Literature”, the Lus…[Read more]

CFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:

Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions

Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]