MESSAGE FROM PROF. SEAN ROBINSON RE: STUDY ON THE EXPERIENCES OF LGBTQ FACULTY

Inside the Lavender Tower: Stories of LGBTQ Faculty
Call for LGBTQ Faculty Participants

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

I am conducting an international, qualitative study on the experiences of LGBTQ faculty. The purpose of my research is to capture the stories and…[Read more]

The New York Public Library

LGBT Visiting Scholars Program

Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars

http://www.nypl.org/node/113221

Each year, The New York Public Library provides stipends for up to two Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars. The stipends support travel to New York City and related expenses to do research in the Library’s premier LGBT (…[Read more]

Sponsored by both the Division on Postcolonial Studies and the Discussion Group on Law as Literature.

Sexualities, Legislation, and Memory
How are global victories and legal challenges to LGBT rights shaping autobiography, film, relationships with nations of origin, political engagement? 300 word abstracts by 14 March 2014 (deadline may be…[Read more]

Of interest to women’s studies scholars:

MLA 2015: ROUNDTABLE

Of interest to women’s studies scholars:

Elena Poniatowska: Five Decades of Critical Inquiry

Elena Poniatowska’s corpus has inspired three generations of scholars to engage in highly diverse approaches to literary theory and criticism, including approaches to testimonio, j…[Read more]

The Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus (WGSC) of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) welcomes session proposals (panel, roundtable, seminar) for the 2015 Convention in Toronto ON Canada, April 30 – May 3. The deadline for submission is April 22, 2014, and the online proposal form will be available mid-March.<b> </b>Please see [Read more]

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Remembering, forgetting; loss, abandonment, preservation, invention; foundations, authorities; remainders, survivals, salvages; epistemic arrangements, derangements, reorderings; material and immaterial archives; future archives; archive fever; presence, place, trace. 250-word abstracts, 1-page CV by 15 March…[Read more]

MLA 2015 Vancouver Panel Proposal:

We solicit papers on afro-modernist literature and film that reveal the usefulness and limits of the long durée as an analytical tool. How do African American and other Black diasporic texts engage the dialectic between modernist aesthetics and philosophical concerns with history? Does this engagement move…[Read more]

<div>”Sustainability and Population”

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<div>This panel invites papers that examine the intersections of “sustainability” and “population” in literature. Papers may consider how race, demography, biopolitics, fertility, economics, agriculture, and spatial distribution help clarify, illuminate, and evaluate “sustainability”—what literary…[Read more]

This may be of interest to Women’s Studies members.

Call for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<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 19…[Read more]

Proposals are invited for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, to be held in New York City at the Roosevelt Hotel on 45th Street near Madison Avenue (http://www.theroosevelthotel.com/) Thursday, February 26th, to Sunday, March 1st, 2015.  Our PSA-sponsored conferences have been located at cities where Poe lived and worked; we have…[Read more]

“Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)

Sex is everywhere – even on the left.  Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it?  Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed encount…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Division of Nineteenth Century American Literature:

During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century American Literature executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature:

During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the division’s executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels that the general shift from “…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature:

<span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”>During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the division’s executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the </span>divisions<span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”> in Ame…[Read more]

Call for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill

Session Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Panel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more]

Call for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill

Session Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Panel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more]

Call for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill

Session Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Panel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more]