Call for papers, Special Session to be proposed for the MLA’s 2018 Annual Convention.  This session invites papers concerned with the stakes and importance of literary study in an era of misinformation and American cultural uncertainty.  Areas of inquiry for discussion may include, but are not limited to:

– New (and/ or necessary) approaches to l…[Read more]

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<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”>A Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative…[Read more]

THE DEADLINE FOR THE NEH SUMMER SEMINAR ON KING LEAR DIRECTED BY RICHARD STRIER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THIS SUMMER (JULY 10-28) IS MARCH 1.  NON-TENURE TRACK AS WELL AS TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK INSTRUCTORS ARE WELCOME TO APPLY.  STIPEND IS $2700.  DETAILS ON THE SEMINAR AND THE APPLICATION PROCESS CAN BE FOUND AT:  [Read more]

<p style=”background: white;”><span style=”font-family: Georgia; color: #333333;”>DEAR FOLKS,</span></p>
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<td>Age Studies, The Teaching of Literature…[Read more]

Organization:
Age Studies, The Teaching of Literature collaboration

Title of session:
Approaches to Teaching Age in Literature

Submission requirements:
300-word abstract, brief CV

Deadline for submissions:
10 March 2017

Description:
How and why do/should faculty incorporate age and/or aging into l…[Read more]

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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…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Women’s and Gender Studies Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers:

The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.

Panel One: Open Topic

Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser

Panel Two:…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s representative in the Delegate Assembly 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 nominations, it is req…[Read more]

Just a reminder…the deadline approaches!

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 Alison Bechd…[Read more]

[The following comes to us from Dr Jane Grogan.]

Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during the International Spenser Society luncheon, to be held at…[Read more]

This summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago.  All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply.  The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]

This summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago.  All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply.  The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]