Disability in World Film Contexts [cfp-edited volume]

The edited volume titled ‘Disability in World Film Contexts’ has received initial interest from Yoram Allon of renowned film publisher Wallflower Press (now part of Columbia UP). Contributions are invited in the form of chapters that focus on an individual film or films from a specific nat…[Read more]

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Watch for this exciting panel, which has just been approved, at the 2015 meeting!

“Writing the Future”
The East Asia to 1900 and East Asia after 1900 divisions have selected for a collaborative session four short papers that focus on the ways in which literature written for children addressed the often turbulent transitions to…[Read more]

Watch for this exciting panel, which has just been approved, at the 2015 meeting!

“Writing the Future”
The East Asia to 1900 and East Asia after 1900 divisions have selected for a collaborative session four short papers that focus on the ways in which literature written for children addressed the often turbulent transitions to modernity in East…[Read more]

Call for Papers
Anthropocene is a neologism that refers to humans’ massive “built” habitats that have disturbingly altered the earthly topography, and over time have infused its presence in the human subconscious as “natural” landscape.  In this panel we focus intensely on such erosion of human perception of the nonhuman material world by reveali…[Read more]

The Divisions of East Asian Literatures (pre-1900 and post-1900) are sponsoring a collaborative panel at next year’s Modern Languages Association Convention in Vancouver, British Columbia (January 2015). While it is not a guaranteed panel, chances are good that it will be accepted.

Writing the Future: Children’s Literature in East Asia

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