Do you teach Korean literature? Please fill in our survey designed to gather information about instructors’ materials for teaching texts and translations of Korean works. We are also currently accepting proposals for this new initiative.

https://scholcomm.mla.hcommons-staging.org/in-development/survey-call-for-proposals-korean-texts-and-translations

The deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession:  Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15.  The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.

What difference does age make in w…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Teaching of Literature group,

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 practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flash…[Read more]

Proposals invited for MLA roundtable session on innovative approaches to teaching literature surveys. Papers may encompass the practical (e.g., syllabus design, teaching strategies, assignments/assessment), the institutional (i.e., ways of introducing curricular innovation), and/or the theoretical (i.e., on place of the survey course in our…[Read more]

Heavens Above: Envisioning Religion in Science Fiction (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)
Alien religions, post-secular numinous experience, evolutionary religious developments, neo-religious epiphanies–science fiction rarely leaves religion behind as it leaps to the stars. Papers addressing teleologies of transcendence, apocalyptic religious…[Read more]

Call for papers: MLA 2016
We invite you to submit paper proposals for any of the following panels, which we are planning for the January 2016 Modern Language Association annual conference, to convene in Austin, TX.

A Public Face for East Asian Poetry?
Investigating contemporary poetry’s impact on readerships large and small. Papers could address…[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]

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Scripture as Literature: Reading East Asian Religion

Close readings of East Asian religious texts (Buddhist, Daoist, etc.), premodern or modern (poetry, fiction, film, etc.). Interested especially in interpretations that cross disciplinary boundaries in literary and religious studies or cross national boundaries.…[Read more]

Scripture as Literature: Reading East Asian Religion

Close readings of East Asian religious texts (Buddhist, Daoist, etc.), premodern or modern (poetry, fiction, film, etc.). Interested especially in interpretations that cross disciplinary boundaries in literary and religious studies or cross national boundaries. 300 word abstracts by 1 March…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:

Please see the CFP below. Feel free to distribute it wherever you feel it would be effective. I say that especially for the Japan and Korea specialists, because you know better than I the best avenues for distributing information. Thanks for your support on this.

Best wishes,
Christopher Lupke

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A Public Face for East Asian…[Read more]

Abstracts below:

Friday, 9 January

Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir

10:15–11:30 a.m., West 210, VCC West

Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association

Presiding: Stacey Lee Donohue, Central Oregon Community Coll.

“Photo-graphics: Mediating Memory in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” David Bahr, Borough of Man…[Read more]