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Monica Cure started the topic CFP Vulnerable Travelers, ACLA 2016 Harvard, Deadline Sep. 22 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoFor colleagues writing on travel literature, please consider submitting an abstract (200-250 words) for our panel at the annual American Comparative Literature Association conference held at Harvard from March 17-20, 2016. Abstracts are due by September 22.
This panel invites scholars to explore vulnerability in travel writing from a range of…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Interesting project. Is there a deadline for submission of essays?
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Thank you for your question. The deadline is October 31, 2015. We hope that you will send an essay. Best wishes! Janet
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Reid Gómez replied to the topic N. Scott Momaday RE: Story in the discussion
American Indian Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoahéhee!
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Robert Dale Parker replied to the topic N. Scott Momaday RE: Story in the discussion
American Indian Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoIt’s from his essay “The Man Made of Words.”
Best wishes,
Bob Parker
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Reid Gómez started the topic N. Scott Momaday RE: Story in the discussion
American Indian Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoYá’át’ééh-
I am looking for a quote from N. Scott Momaday. I recall him saying “writers have one story to tell; they just keep telling it.”
But I have no recollection where I read/hear this. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
Ahéhee’.
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Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP on Travel – Deadline extended to July 12, 2015.
30th ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE IN THE HUMANITIES
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the University of West Georgia (UWG) invite you to celebrate the 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, October 8-10, 20…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes, uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic "Russia and the Middle East" (Pre-modern) – MLA, Austin, 7–10 Jan. 2016 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:
131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016
Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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Dustin D. Stewart started the topic CFP: Naming the 18th Century in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoIf you’re concerned about the place of eighteenth-century studies in the new forum structure being implemented by the MLA, you might consider applying to the following proposed special session for the 2016 convention in Austin:
Naming the 18th Century. What’s at stake in naming this period “long” (1660-1830), “short” (1715-1789), early modern, En…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic Sustainability and Population in American Literary History in the forum
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 11 years agoSpecial Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying ecocritical topics, demography in literature, race, reproduction, or other American literary topics. Papers on Jefferson, Malthus, Delany and black nationalism, and eugenics and conservation are some of the t…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic Sustainability and Population in American Literary History in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSpecial Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying nineteenth-century American literature. The panel is on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in 116 VCC West. More information about the panelists and papers can be found at ht…[Read more]
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Brad Evans started the topic MLA Vancouver, Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoSpecial Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon
http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening
In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an e…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson started the topic ANN: 2015 Futures of American Studies Institute: Questions Worth Asking in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDARTMOUTH COLLEGE ANNOUNCES A ONE WEEK SUMMER INSTITUTE
THE FUTURES OF AMERICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE: QUESTIONS WORTH ASKING
MONDAY, JUNE 22 — SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2015Director: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
Co-Directors: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University), Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern U…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic CFP Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2015 Conference in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoSSAWW Triennial Conference November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Call for Proposals
Due Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2015 for all proposals.
For the 201…[Read more]
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Jon Smith started the topic CFP: The South in the North (MLA pre-conf 6-7 Jan 2015) in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoThe South in the North
A Pre-MLA Mini-conference
January 6-7, 2015
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne Duck, Jennifer Greeson, Matthew Lassi…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai posted an update in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS — MLA 2015, VANCOUVER
Around the World in Eighty Clicks: Travel and New Technologies
Discussion Group: Travel Literature
How have new technologies – the internet, planes, trains and automobiles influenced the experience of travel? 250 word abstract and c.v. by 15 March 2014; Gaurav G. Desai (gaurav@tulane.edu).
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Matt Cohen posted an update in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2015: Here and After: Periodization and American Literary Studies.
A collaborative session proposal by the Divisions of American Literature to 1800 and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
As one of the most resilient classificatory principles in American literary studies, periodization often silently frames modes of analysis. But…[Read more]-
Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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