The deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession:  Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15.  The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.

What difference does age make in w…[Read more]

The deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.

What difference does age make in what we…[Read more]

Word Books and Material Culture

Sponsored by the new Theory and Method forum Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography (formerly known as the Lexicography Discussion Group).

ABCs, dictionaries, spellers, synonymies, thesauruses: what is the life of a word book? What stories do word books tell? Please submit 250 word abstracts by the deadline.…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Teaching of Literature group,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:

Teaching Memory Studies

Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flash…[Read more]

Queers Read LGBT Literature
This panel explores the state of contemporary LGBT literature and the value of a LGBT literary canon. Calling for papers that ask: what is LGBT literature now? Abstracts by 15 March 2015; Shanté Paradigm Smalls (smallss@stjohns.edu) and Ramzi Fawaz (fawaz@wisc.edu)

Dear colleagues,

We welcome proposals that examine translations of books and exchange of knowlege between the Middle East and Russia in the pre-modern period:

131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural interaction be…[Read more]

Proposals invited for MLA roundtable session on innovative approaches to teaching literature surveys. Papers may encompass the practical (e.g., syllabus design, teaching strategies, assignments/assessment), the institutional (i.e., ways of introducing curricular innovation), and/or the theoretical (i.e., on place of the survey course in our…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Please consider submitting a 300-word abstract to this CFP for the 2016 MLA convention.

Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature.

Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. This panel seeks papers that discuss how archiving the HIV epidemic shapes our…[Read more]

CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:

Dear Friends,

The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):

Global Arab Texts and their Publics

Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]

This special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin will examine the role of translation in developing new audiences for literary texts, especially texts with multiple translations in different languages and for different time periods. How have translations created new audiences in the past and created contemporary audiences for classical t…[Read more]

This special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin will examine the role of translation in developing new audiences for literary texts, especially texts with multiple translations in different languages and for different time periods. How have translations created new audiences in the past and created contemporary audiences for classical t…[Read more]

This announcement from Anne Neveu should be of interest:

ANNOUNCEMENT

2015 NEH Summer Institute for College and University Instructors

What Is Gained in Translation? Learning How to Read Translated Literature

Applications are now being accepted for a three-week summer institute for college and university instructors on the topic “What Is G…[Read more]

Call for papers: MLA 2016
We invite you to submit paper proposals for any of the following panels, which we are planning for the January 2016 Modern Language Association annual conference, to convene in Austin, TX.

A Public Face for East Asian Poetry?
Investigating contemporary poetry’s impact on readerships large and small. Papers could address…[Read more]

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I look forward to receiving your…[Read more]

Call for Proposals:

Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference
November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA

Panel on “Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Literature by Women”

This panel welcomes papers that examine how Arab American women…[Read more]