Dear colleagues, (apologies for previous multiple posts; a website glitch, now fixed), I have been asked to share this call for papers. You can also see it here: https://www.womenandlanguage.org/submissions

Call for Papers | Women & Language

Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University            

Women & Language, an internation…[Read more]

Shared on behalf of Leland G. Spencer, PhD, editor of Women and Language:

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical,…[Read more]

Isidore of Seville and the Persistence of Classical Antiquity in Iberia and the British Isles during the Middle Ages--Collaborative session with LLC Old English and LLC Medieval IberianMLA official CFP page: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Paper12918.html Papers on the dissemination of Isidore ́s works across Western Europe d…[Read more]

Deadline tomorrow!

Two CFPs for MLA 2021 in Toronto, sponsored by the CLCS Medieval ForumAbstracts by March 15th

ObjectsHow do objects circulating within and around premodern literary texts reframe or intervene in traditional (national or imperial) literary histories or unearth new “global” literary histories? 250-word abstracts to Shirin Kha…[Read more]

MLA 2021 in Toronto,  CLCS Medieval — two CFPs:

Objects

How do objects circulating within and around premodern literary texts reframe or intervene in traditional (national or imperial) literary histories or unearth new “global” literary histories? 250-word abstracts to Shirin Khanmohamadi (shirin1@sfsu.ed) by March 15.

Medieval Empir…[Read more]

The CLCS Forum European Region welcomes nominations and self-nominations for the upcoming election to replace departing Executive Committee member Corinne Scheiner by 25 January.

The main duties are to design topics for our guaranteed sessions, to identify candidates for election, and to think of ways to promote European Studies. MLA attendance…[Read more]

Buon giorno a tutt*,

Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.

I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

From the MLA Old English Forum Executive Committee:

We write to express our support for the changes currently being pursued by the membership of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.

First: We wish to recognize the work of Dr. Mary Rambaran-Olm, who served as second vice-president of ISAS from 2017 to the present, whose resignation from…[Read more]