I would value recommendations of novels and stories that explore, directly or allegorically, business, economic, and work-related behaviors – especially in the context of contemporary, developing markets. This is for a project to bring world literature into the business classroom, scholarly management research, and even the dialogue of busi…[Read more]

CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South, March 11-12, 2016

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…[Read more]

Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia 

(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)

The editors of a forthcoming special issue of Postcolonial Text—to be dedicated to the memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam—would like to remind scholars that papers are gratefully accepted until June 15, 2015.

To date, we have recei…[Read more]

Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia

(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)

The editors of a forthcoming special issue of Postcolonial Text—to be dedicated to the memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam—would like to remind scholars that papers are gratefully accepted until June 15, 2015.

To date, we have rec…[Read more]

Below are the abstracts for the proposed MLA 2016 Special Session Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics.

David Román (University of Southern California) will serve as respondent to the following three panelists.

Octavio R. Gonzalez (Wellesley College), “The ACT UP Boston Archive: the Bio-Politics of Early Clinical Trials for AIDS Tr…[Read more]

We invite proposals for a volume in the MLA Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women’s Writing, edited by Deepika Bahri and Filippo Menozzi.

This volume seeks meaningful responses to the following questions: What do we teach when we teach South Asian Women’s Writing? How do we teach it in a variety of cont…[Read more]

We invite proposals for a volume in the MLA Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women’s Writing, edited by Deepika  Bahri and Filippo Menozzi.

This volume seeks meaningful responses to the following questions: What do we teach when we teach South Asian Women’s Writing? How do we teach it in a variety of cont…[Read more]

Cahiers Ivoiriens d’Etudes Comparées (CIEC)/ Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies (IJCS)

Volume 2 Numéro 1

Hégémonie et domination en traductologie

La traduction a été perçue comme la “reproduction du message” du texte original dans la langue-culture cible par Eugene Nida et Charles Taber (Theory and Practice of Translation, Leiden: E.J.…[Read more]

Call for Papers: Permanent Section – Creative Writing II (Prose) – Deadline Extended

2015 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention

Border(ing) Anxiety: Constructions of a Biopolitical Other

The force of biopolitics in contemporary society marks boundaries beyond geopolitical borders, inscribing otherness on bodies simultaneously necessary…[Read more]

Special Issue for Postcolonial Text

CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue

(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)

In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compil…[Read more]

Special Issue for Postcolonial Text

CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia

(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)

In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a fo…[Read more]

Special Issue for Postcolonial Text

CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia

(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)

In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a forthcoming i…[Read more]

Abstracts for the MLA 2016 panel, “Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics,” will be posted here prior to the convention.

WSQ, Call for Papers: Special Issue

QUEER METHODS

Guest Editors:

Amin Ghaziani, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia

Matt Brim, Associate Professor of Queer Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY

Queer Studies is experiencing a methodological renaissance. In both the humanities and the social sciences, scholars…[Read more]

[The deadline for this panel has been extended to March 18th!]

MLA 2016 Special Session: HIV/AIDS and the Literary/Cinematic Archive

Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. With the current proliferation of theories and conceptualizations pertaining to archive studies, how can the literary o…[Read more]

Transnational Memories: 9/11 and South Asians (Guaranteed panel)

Papers that engage with racial injury, anger, trauma, and grief of South Asians in post-9/11 US, Canada, and Britain; representations of 9/11 in fiction, cinema, memoirs, etc. produced in South Asia and in the West; surveillance and securitization in South Asia and in the W…[Read more]