**Awards Announcements** 2017

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.

Graduate Student Paper Award

Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2017) or the Thoreau Society A…[Read more]

The New York City Chapter

of

The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)

presents:

ROYA BIGGIE

 “Inter-Elemental Sympathies and

Cross-Species Compassion:

Caring for the Hybrid Body in Titus Andronicus”

ROYA BIGGIE, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, is also a PhD Candidate in English at th…[Read more]

“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”

The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]

“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”

The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]

“Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)

Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysi…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.

If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper

Religion has…[Read more]

Crossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide: Modernist Women Writers and Artists beyond Frontiers

A Seminar at ACLA 2017 (6th-9th July, Utrecht)

Organizers: Esther Sánchez-Pardo (esanchez_pardo@filol.ucm.es) & Renée Silverman (silvermr@fiu.edu)

Proposals due Sept. 23, 2016

Apply online: http://www.acla.org/crossing-anglo-hispanic-divide-mode…[Read more]

Rust Belt Literature
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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.

This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]

Programming for Humanists

A continuing education course and online webinar Offered by the
Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture – Texas A&M
University

Registration is still possible!
Go to: Fall 2016 Programming4HUMansits Registration:

Registration

Beginning Friday, September 2, 2016 – 9:0…[Read more]

The concept of “minor/small literatures” is Eurocentric, provincial, and regional not only because it has been defined along the lines of European standards, such as the geopolitics of small nations, the sociolinguistics of minority languages, and the aesthetics of revolutionary modernism, but also due to its identification with the lit…[Read more]