The editor asked us to share the following call for submissions with the HEP Community College Forum.

The call can also be found here: https://www.womenandlanguage.org/submissions

Call for Papers | Women & Language

Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal…[Read more]

Please consider submitting an abstract by March 30, 2020 for the following panels:

Panel 1:

“A (Socio)Historical Perspective” Papers should address how language attitudes and/or ideologies have persisted, evolved, and/or changed over time and its socio-political implications. 300-word abstracts to Roshawnda Derrick, roshawnda.derrick@pepperd…[Read more]

Please consider submitting an abstract by March 30, 2020 for the following panels:

Panel 1:

“A (Socio)Historical Perspective” Papers should address how language attitudes and/or ideologies have persisted, evolved, and/or changed over time and its socio-political implications. 300-word abstracts to Roshawnda Derrick, roshawnda.derrick@pepperdine.…[Read more]

At least one member of the forum has asked for an extension of our CFP. It seems the least we can do, given the circumstances. MLA has not extended the deadline to submit panels, however, so we still need proposals this week, by end of day Wednesday the 18th if possible. Please email with any concerns: scasey5@cscc.edu.

This week I return to…[Read more]

The Forum in LLC: Jewish American is sponsoring a panel that asks: How have US borders figured in Jewish writing?  How have Jewish authors, texts, and discourses circulated across them?  Papers will theorize and remap Jewish borderlands in the diaspora.  250 abstracts and brief CV requested. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15 March 2020 Dean Jo…[Read more]

The Forum on LLC: Jewish American is sponsoring a panel on Jewish American literary engagements with antisemitism apart from or prior to Zionism including antisemitism in 19th c. literature, diaspora and national identity, and counter-histories.  Papers may theorize the topic.  250 words, CV. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15 March 2020 Dean J…[Read more]

“How do collaborative teaching and learning, alternative assessments, corequisites, and other classroom strategies reject the deficit model and center student experience? A panel on practical approaches for dismantling hierarchies in English.”

250-word proposals  may be submitted directly to Shawn Casey scasey5@cscc.edu by 15 March 2020.

2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.

Deadline for…[Read more]

CFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”

Modern Language Association Annual Convention

January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Presidential Theme: “Persistence”

The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the…[Read more]

The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal 

Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)

Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai

The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina

“Capital,” Marx tells us, “is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks;” for a ce…[Read more]

The MLA International Bibliography is an online database that covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also…[Read more]

“How do collaborative teaching and learning, alternative assessments, corequisites, and other classroom strategies reject the deficit model and center student experience? A panel on practical approaches for dismantling hierarchies in English.”

250-word proposals or questions may be submitted directly to Shawn Casey scasey5@cscc.edu by 15 March 2020.

Hi colleagues,

The Language Change forum is currently looking for members who would be willing to be nominated as an alternate for the upcoming executive committee member election. If you are interested, please let me know by Wednesday, February 5th.

For more information about the MLA’s executive committee forums, please visit the following link…[Read more]

The Japanese since 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations, including self nominations, for candidates and alternate candidates to stand for election on the committee. This year we need to fill two positions (term 2020-2025 and 2021-2026) so please consider self-nominating as a way to help promote East Asian presence in MLA. Please c…[Read more]

The Language Change forum’s executive committee would like to solicit ideas from its membership for potential session topics for the 2021 convention in Toronto. Topics related to the 2021 presidential theme, “Persistence,” are welcome but not required. If you would like to contribute your ideas, please respond to this post no later than Friday, January 24.