The current Delegate Assembly representative for this forum has a term that will expire in January 2018. An election for a new delegate must therefore be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the e…[Read more]

TC Disability Studies will hold an election for a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is r…[Read more]

In the fall of 2017, TC Age Studies will hold its first-ever Delegate Assembly election. The nomination process that applies to executive committee elections will also apply to the election of forum delegates, so membership suggestions are needed–see Valerie Lipscomb’s post. So when the forum’s executive committee meets during the January 2017 c…[Read more]

Call for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefutures

The fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more]

Call for Suggestions

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nom…[Read more]

This is a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for The Comics of Alison Bechdel approaches! 12/1/16

The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In

“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will conta…[Read more]

When the Age Studies Forum Executive Committee meets in January, we will consider possible nominees for the fall 2017 exec. committee election.  We nominate at least one candidate who has been suggested by the forum’s membership, unless there are too few suggestions. We encourage all of you to submit possible nominees, and self-nominations are en…[Read more]

As a nominee for this forum’s executive committee, I would like to introduce myself and my research.

As we know, Age Studies is one of the most interesting, developing fields at the moment. For the MLA panels, I would be interested in choosing topics that showcase the interdisciplinary nature of the field. I would also like to solicit s…[Read more]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbacks/
Over 2000 yellowback covers: single volumes of popular fiction published in Britain during the 19th century.

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Of interest to members of the forum on Life Writing:

The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In

“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Aliso…[Read more]

NeMLA 2017 – Disability in Anglophone Literature (Panel)

48th Annual NeMLA Convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 23 – 26th, 2017

Deadline to submit abstract: 09/30/2016
Categories: Anglophone and British Literature.
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
Institutional host: Johns Hopkins University

CFP: panel on “Disability in Anglophone Literature”

This…[Read more]

On the DL: Athletes, Athletics, and Disability is the title of a proposed essay collection that will read competitive athletics through a disability studies lens. Given the myriad definitions of “sport” across the globe, On the DL is interested in compiling a wide variety of theoretically-engaged analyses of sporting culture. In addition to…[Read more]