Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)

We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the possibilities and limitations of combining formal textual analysis with the question of informal…[Read more]

The 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.

Deadline: June 12,…[Read more]

Call For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education

Gender in Distance Education

Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?

Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

The…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno, which I am editing, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society discussion group,

I am organizing a special session on literary and legal approaches to personhood for the 2016 MLA in Austin. Please consider submitting an abstract, due March 15. Below are the full CFP and a more detailed description. The CFP can also be found here:…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society group,
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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 pract…[Read more]

“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”

The focus of this session is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that engages public events/ideas/issues, as well as exploring the ways lit…[Read more]

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE TITLE:

BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA

Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University

Indigenous studies Working Group…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Group:

You may be interested in the following:

Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women

For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting essays on working women in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century American literature. The volume will focus on…[Read more]