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The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that exp…[Read more]

The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of racism and eth…[Read more]

Special Session (to be proposed)
Teaching first-year writing to community college students through an ecocritical lens: interdisciplinary aspects, nature writing, journaling, environmental research, field trips, service learning, etc. 300-500 word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Emily A. Hegarty (emily.hegarty@ncc.edu).

This panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric  perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]

Please tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]

Please tell us about your experience (use this link) and help shape a new volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017 Division Forum. You are encouraged to submit to…[Read more]

Please tell us about your experience teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey (use link above). Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Please note that this Survey and CFP is in addition to the…[Read more]

The Intimacies of Four Continents: Crossing Boundaries, Disciplines, Archives

Engagements with Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents. Assessments, critiques, possibilities for new approaches, archives, connections. 250 word abstract and one-page CV by 15 March 2016.

Jeehyun Lim (limj@denison.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)

Special Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).

Black Pacific

Intersections of African, Asian, indigenous diasporas across the Pacific. Literary/cultural mappings and imaginings of cross-racial interaction, settler colonialism, labor migration, militarism, gender and sexuality. Abstract and CV by March 11.

Ira Dworkin (idworkin@tamu.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)

Latina/o Indigenous Pacific

Intersections of Latina/o and Indigenous production and identity within, around and through the Pacific Rim. Conversations, re-imaginings and re-formations across shared and divergent spaces and histories.  Abstract and CV by March 11.

Anna Nogar (anogar@unm.edu) and Ruby Tapia (rtapia@umich.edu)

Writing (…[Read more]

Please consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.

1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum

queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of wr…[Read more]

Please consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.

1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum

queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of…[Read more]

“Liberty Crack’d”

What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).

2. “La Raza y Gaza”

Papers engaging the political resonances of Palesti…[Read more]

“25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage”

Special session proposed by the 19thc American LLC and the Chicana and Chicano LLC

Papers considering past contributions, archival silences, and future prospects of the Hispanic Recovery Project with interest on dissensus or dialogue with other currents in the long American 19th c…[Read more]

“Teaching Borderlands at 30”

As we commemorate the thirty-year anniversary of Anzaldúa’s Borderlands we invite papers that address how we teach this genre-blurring text. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Laura Halperin (lhalperi@email.unc.edu)

“La Raza y Gaza”

Papers engaging the political resonances of Palestine for Chican@s. Intersections in various texts, teaching, or other topics. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu)

“Liberty Crack’d”

What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).