“SITUATING LYRIC”

First biannual conference of International Network for the Study of Lyric

To be held at Boston University June 7–11, 2017 (CFP extended deadline: February 17, 2017)

The general theory of lyric is a developing field of study. After a period of relative neglect, a breakthrough moment seems to have arrived with multiple new model…[Read more]

CFP: American Documentary Poetics

American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MA

Call for papers on any topic related to American docupoetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including photos and i…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

We hope you will join us for the following panels organized for the 2017 MLA by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum. They are as follows (sorry for cross-posting)

Session 200: States of In/Security: Global Palestine in Literature, Culture, Art, and Activism
Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pe…[Read more]

The expansive contours of the Iberian world in the 16th and 17th centuries, expressed in the imperial motto plus ultra or “further beyond,” can at times obscure the aporias (of ecologies, ethnicities, and epistemologies) at its fringes. Recent scholarship on the material cultures, political economies, and discourses of gender of imperial Spain has…[Read more]

Call for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED (January 15, 2017)

The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies

Spring 2018 Special Issue: Law and Literature from the Global South

Guest Editors: David Babcock (James Madison University) and Peter Leman (Brigham Young University)

Deadline for Submissions (approximately 4,000-5,000 words): DE…[Read more]

The MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities will offer two panels and a special session at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia.  Please join us as we consider challenges to shared governance, bullying, and climates of fear.

Combat Management: The End of Shared Governance?

Thursday, 5 January, 7:00–8:15 p.m…[Read more]

MLA Sessions Relevant to Age Studies

Note: All of the sessions below relate to the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions

Thursday 5 January

Session 9

“Reimagining Adolescence: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”

12 noon-1:15 p.m.

102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Session 96

“Out of Narrative Bounds: Medical Humani…[Read more]

The Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month.  We hope that you can join us for these sessions:

Session 67.  “Object Lessons in Personhood”

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities

Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]

The Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month.  We hope that you can join us for these sessions:

Session 67.  “Object Lessons in Personhood”

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities

Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]

The Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month.  We hope that you can join us for these sessions:

Session 67.  “Object Lessons in Personhood”

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities

Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]

Call for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more]