Dear Members of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century literature group:

Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women

For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting essays on working women in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century American literature. The volume will focus on the American working woman and how…[Read more]

Special Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying ecocritical topics, demography in literature, race, reproduction, or other American literary topics. The panel is on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in 116 VCC West. More information about the panelists and papers can b…[Read more]

Special Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)

Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon

http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening

In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an enti…[Read more]

2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Proposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”

Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminal…[Read more]

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<div>This panel invites papers that examine the intersections of “sustainability” and “population” in literature. Papers may consider how race, demography, biopolitics, fertility, economics, agriculture, and spatial distribution help clarify, illuminate, and evaluate “sustainability”—what literary…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature:

During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the division’s executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels that the general shift from “…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature:

<span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”>During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the division’s executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the </span>divisions<span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”> in Ame…[Read more]

Call for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill

Session Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Panel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more]

Call for Papers
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill

Sessions Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Panel 1: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline Hopkins frequently…[Read more]