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Mario Santana started the topic CFP Translation and Iberian Literatures in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos has posted a call for papers for a dossier on “Translation and Iberian Literatures”: http://www.pasavento.com/convocatoria.html
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Over the last three decades, translation has gained increasing visibility and attention in literary studies. This development is related to the questioning of p…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic Call for Abstracts: ICLA Conference 2016 in Vienna; Comparative Gender/Queer in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts relationally rather than…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Call for essays in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Women’s Studies in Language and Literature Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on wo…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Twentieth-Century American Literature Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on working…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar started the topic CFP–Caste and Life Narratives: Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoGuest Editors: Dr. S. Shankar, Department of English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA, and Dr. Charu Gupta, Department of History, University of Delhi, India.
Submit: 400-word abstracts to S. Shankar (subraman@hawaii.edu) and Charu Gupta (charu7@hotmail.com) by September 15, 2015
Life Narratives (biographies, autobiographies, Fa…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Infinite Summer: Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network in the group
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis chapter explores the Infinite Summer reading project, in which a group of bloggers read and discussed David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in dialogue with one another and with a wide readership, arguing that such social reading projects present the potential for developing crucial kinds of ethical human connection (of which the novel depicts…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Travel and its Crossroads – extended deadline 07/12/15 in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is October 8-10, 2015. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections (with literature, aesthetics, philosophy, etc.)
Place: University of West Georgia, Carrollton GA (45 miles west of Atlanta)
When: October 8-10, 2015
Deadline: July 12,…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Travel and its Crossroads- Deadline extended to 07/12/2015 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe deadline has been extended to July 12, 2015
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Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP – Travel and its Crossroads- Oct 8-10, 2015 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoDeadline extended to July 12, 2015
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Ignacio Infante replied to the topic CFP: Translation Review –Special Issue “Contemporary Translational Literature" in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoQuick clarification: I’ve just been informed that Translation Review is no longer the official journal of ALTA. Apologies for the confusion.
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Ignacio Infante started the topic CFP: Translation Review –Special Issue “Contemporary Translational Literature" in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers for a special issue of Translation Review (Routledge) expected to come out by the Summer of 2016 (the second issue of vol. 92).
Widely recognized as one of the most important peer-reviewed journals in the field and the official journal of ALTA, Translation Review serves as a major critical and scholarly journal to facilitate…[Read more]
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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP – TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is October 8-10, 2015. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Place: University of West Georgia, Carrollton GA (45 miles west of Atlanta)
When: October 8-10, 2015
Deadline: July 12, 2015
Keynote speaker: Dr. David T. Gies,…[Read more]
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Michael Lackey started the topic CFP for book about Styron's Nat Turner Novel in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoRevisiting William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner:
Fifty Years Later
Editor: Michael Lackey
The University of Virginia Press has expressed interest in publishing a collection of essays commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner, which was published in 1967. So that the boo…[Read more] - Load More
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