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Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP – Travel and its Crossroads- Oct 8-10, 2015 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoDeadline extended to July 12, 2015
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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP – Travel and its Crossroads- Oct 8-10, 2015 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes,uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
Deadline: June 12,…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic WGSC NeMLA cfp for panels, Hartford, 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers – NeMLA Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus
47th Annual NeMLA Convention
March 17-20, 2016 Hartford, CT
Hosted by the University of Connecticut
Session Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2015
Call for Papers Begins: June 15, 2015
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2015
All submissions are online at: http://www.buffalo.edu/ne…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures, 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoHelp your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future. Please attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, for your classes.
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Siendou Konaté started the topic CFP Hegemony and Domination in Translation Studies in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCahiers Ivoiriens d’Etudes Comparées (CIEC)/ Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies (IJCS)
Volume 2 Numéro 1
Hégémonie et domination en traductologie
La traduction a été perçue comme la “reproduction du message” du texte original dans la langue-culture cible par Eugene Nida et Charles Taber (Theory and Practice of Translation, Leiden: E.J.…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoSpecial Issue for Postcolonial Text
CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue
(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)
In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compil…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic Do you teach about aging to undergraduate students? in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoGood morning colleagues,
I am conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or…[Read more] -
Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. Oct. 16 and Sat. Oct. 17, 2015 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme: Conflicts and ResolutionsFeatured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec Foster
Location: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512
We live in a society that has c…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWe are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While Morrison’s novels examine m…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoFamilial/Communal Structures
Black Motherhood
The Presence of the ancestor
Other Mothering
Collective Memory/Cultural Trauma
Mothering-Controlled Reproduction (racialized maternity)
Language Theory (Julia Kristeva)
Violence
Cultural/Individual Meaning of Motherhood
Relationships between mothers and daughters/sons
Mothers & Sexual…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: MLA Panel for 2016 – Forum on South Asia and South Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoTransnational Memories: 9/11 and South Asians (guaranteed panel)
Papers that engage with racial injury, anger, trauma, and grief of South Asians in post-9/11 US, Canada and Britain; representations of 9/11 in fiction, cinema, memoirs, etc. produced in South Asia and in the West; surveillance and securitization in South Asia and in the W…[Read more]
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Michelle A. Massé started the topic CFP Extension: Age Studies Forum panel, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe 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]
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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Teaching Memory Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Members of the Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing 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 hinds…[Read more]
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic CFP: MLA 2016- Collaborative panel offered with Chicana/o Studies Division in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis Bridge Called My Back
In honor of This Bridge’s 35th anniversary, we invite engagements with its historical impact, attendant contexts, and continuing salience. Brief CV & 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2015 to Laura Halperin lhalperi@email.unc.edu and Ruby Tapia rtapia@umich.edu. -
Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCFP: 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]
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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCFP: 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):
1. Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Cynthia Franklin started the topic Q&A about Academic Boycott in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoIn the wake of the Delegate Assembly’s discussion of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions at MLA 2015, a DA member sent the following important queries regarding the scope and practice of the boycott. Some MLA Members for Justice in Palestine reply to her questions here. It’s a long document, but provides a concrete sense what is implied (…[Read more]
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