The 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

June 2-5, 2016

The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
Early Bird Special for Registration ends April 1!

Register here: http://www.planetreg.com/greenmountainhawthorne

Please please go to the website below to download a DRAFT of the program for the conference. This will be updated…[Read more]

African American Interrogations of American National Narratives: how do African American texts (e.g. Morrison’s Playing in the Dark, Paradise, or A Mercy) question the stability of American mythologies? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to thabiti@wsu.edu by March 25.

Nat Turner: From Confessions to Film: How do various media re-imagine black rebellion/revolt as related to the 1831 “Confessions,” Styron’s 1967 novel, and/or Nate Parker’s film “Birth of a Nation”? 250-word abstracts, CV to miriam-thaggert@uiowa.edu by March 25.

Contemporary African American Theatre: what critical conversations and new directions must emerge to sustain the vitality of African American theatre and performance and our understanding of its role in society? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to d_williams@howard.edu by March 25.

Respect, Responsibility, Coalition, Relation (MLA 2017)
In the wake of Idle No More and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists, writers and scholars are called to self-reflexively articulate and act upon a politics or poetics of relation. What forms might such a politics or poetics take? How are these…[Read more]

https://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=6828

The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of racism and eth…[Read more]

Announcing the American Literature Society 

On behalf of the Advisory Board, I am pleased to announce the American Literature Society, a professional organization of scholars devoted to the preservation, study and recognition of American literature and culture. Formerly known as the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association…[Read more]

Illegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema

The Afropolitan is an increasingly salient but contested figure in African literary studies. This panel focuses on alternative figures of diaspora for whom an Afropolitan identity appears beyond reach or ill-advised. The panel provides an opportunity to build on the work of Khalid Koser in the…[Read more]

Please help with the formation of a new MLA Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum by signing the petition here.

Please tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]

MELUS Call for Papers 
Special Issue: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures

(A commemorative special issue in honor of MELUS Emeritus Editor Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.)

Guest Editors: A Yęmisi Jimoh and Angelo Robinson

Deadline for submission: 31 August 2016

Anticipated publication: 2018

With more than a decade and a half…[Read more]

We welcome proposals on biographical/contextual relations; representations of women; intertextuality; trans-Atlantic/trans-American treatments; race, gender, class, and sexuality, etc.

Please send 250-word abstracts to Ivonne Garcia (garciai@kenyon.edu) and Charlene Avallone (avallone000@gmail.com) by March 15, 2016.

Sixth Biennial Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 1 March 2016.
This conference, sponsored by The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, looks at stories, histories,…[Read more]

CFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”

MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)

This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]

See below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:

The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed.
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017.

Taking a cue from the presidential co…[Read more]

The Revolution(ary) South

Across its history, the South, broadly conceived, has been the site for numerous revolutions and revolutionary ideas. These moments have been classified under many headings, including but not limited to: rebellion, insurrection, and protest. This panel invites papers that interrogate these revolution(ary) Souths as…[Read more]