Dear Colleagues,

Scottish Literature is particularly well represented at the MLA in Vancouver this year. We warmly invite you to our sessions and to the Friday night Cash Bar jointly hosted with the English Romantic and Victorian Divisions. Please see below for further details.

If you don’t already know the The Association for Scottish Literary…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to invite you to submit abstracts to the Annual ASLS (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) Conference, to be held in Stirling, UK, on 3-5 July 2015:
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<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers on Globalisation and De…[Read more]

Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 2015 (Boston, May 21-24)

How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The South in the North

A Pre-MLA Mini-conference

January 6-7, 2015

Simon Fraser University (Harbour Centre)

Vancouver, BC

Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne D…[Read more]

Walk Poems: Moving Through America on Foot

NeMLA’s 46th Annual Conference in Toronto, Ontario, April 30 through May 3, 2015

Deadline for Submission: September 30, 2014

This panel seeks papers on the ways in which American poets write about walking and the significant role the walk poem has played in American literature. What is it about the…[Read more]

Calls for papers have been published for the Scottish Literature Discussion Group’s sessions at the 130th MLA Convention in Vancouver, 8th -11th January 2015. There are two sessions, as follows. Both are listed in the MLA’s calls for papers. We welcome abstracts, or please contact us with any enquiries.

 1. Discussion Group in Scottish…[Read more]

The forum provides a place where we can discuss what’s happening in Scottish literature. Do you have anything to share? Here’s your chance . . .

Peer Reviewers Needed for ICIK E-News
Storytelling as a Mode for Expressing Indigenous Rights

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Dr. Judy Bertonazzi, Guest Editor for ICIK E-News is seeking peer reviewers. Located at the Pennsylvania State University, the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge is part of a global network of indigenous knowledge…[Read more]

<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 1950s, when she joined an influx of immigrants to London. Comparative studies welcomed.
Please send 10-to-15-page MLA-style papers to the issue’s co-editors Robin Visel ([Read more]

The Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference.  The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 6-9, 2014. Hosted by Duquesne University and co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh, the conference will feature plenary addresses by Rachel Blau…[Read more]