Disability in World Film Contexts [cfp-edited volume]

The edited volume titled ‘Disability in World Film Contexts’ has received initial interest from Yoram Allon of renowned film publisher Wallflower Press (now part of Columbia UP). Contributions are invited in the form of chapters that focus on an individual film or films from a specific nat…[Read more]

Dear colleagues in the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture:

As your Divisional Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly, I write to remind you of the fast-approaching deadline of 12:00 a.m. EDT on 2 June 2014 (in other words, Sunday 1 June 2014, before midnight EDT), to cast your online ballot for the MLA member ratification vote on R…[Read more]

Please see this story on testing and the Common Core. There is a link to sample tests.

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/09/299073572/an-education-reporter-puts-himself-to-the-standardized-test?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=share&utm_medium=twitter

Narrating “Arab Americans”

Reflections on the term and its intersections with history, memory, geography, religion, race, gender, and sexuality in narratives by and about Arab Americans. 250-300 word abstract and CV by 10 March 2014; Pauline Homsi Vinson (phvinson@gmail.com) and Dalia Gomaa (dmgomaa@uwm.edu).

Please join us for the following session, arranged by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession:

MLA 2014 Convention • Chicago • Presidential Theme: Vulnerable Times

369. The Twenty-First-Century University: Gender, Technology, and Learning

Friday, 10 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Michigan B, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the M…[Read more]