Small-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive [Edited Collection]

Proposals due September 1, 2014

In recent years, the advent of reality television’s “hicksploitation” alongside the rise of scripted dramatic series such as True Blood and The Walking Dead has seemingly kept the U.S. South as a small-screen spectacle of wonder and…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. Please take a look at the brief description of the topic and the research questions below. Feel free to add any other comments and questions and let me know if you are i…[Read more]

Call for abstracts: NEMLA: Northeast Modern Language Association https://nemla.org/index.html 2015 annual convention Ryerson University, Toronto 30 April to 3 May 2015 Panel “Digital Humanities and Publishing Humanities Scholarship Today.” Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, org. Purdue University and Purdue University Press…[Read more]

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly revise the standards in order to…[Read more]

Dear friends and colleagues,

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is proud to announce the alpha release of a new dataset, consisting of page-level features extracted from a quarter-million text volumes.

HTRC Extracted Features Dataset:

https://sandbox.htrc.illinois.edu/HTRC-UI-Portal2/Features

Features are data attributes defined in such a…[Read more]

If, as Marshall McLuhan famously asserts, media act as prosthesis, then our increasingly haptic relationship to digital technologies (think the nearly ubiquitous touchscreen interface of tablets and smart phones, as well as the rise of immersive VR as evidenced by Facebook’s recently announced acquisition of Oculus) seems only natural. What, then,…[Read more]

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CFP: MLA 2015</p>

Special Session Roundtable: Gender and the Archives</p>
This roundtable will discuss ways in which gender interacts with or impacts the collection, preservation, or very existence of archives and archival materials, broadly understood.</p>
<p dir=”ltr”>We encourage submissions from scholars working in all historical p…[Read more]

This panel explores theoretical implications and analytical challenges of literary works in ‘weird’ non-print forms. 500-word abstract and two-page vita in one PDF. by 15 March 2014; Jason Camlot (jason.camlot@concordia.ca).

Designing an Archive for Cloud and Crowd –
How can networks (human and/or digital) combat institutional amnesia? What digital spaces can we build today to preserve a history for tomorrow? 350-word proposals by 14 March 2014. Contact amanda.licastro@gmail.com or benmiller314@gmail.com

Teaching with the Oxford English Dictionary: A Roundtable

We invite proposals for 8-10 minute presentations (which will be followed by a general discussion). Topics include: teaching students to use the OED; descriptions of successful assignments; negotiating the OED Online; and broader reflections on dictionaries in the classroom.

Please send…[Read more]

Call for Submissions

FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN

Intellect Books

Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm

A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.

This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE

Translating Social Movements

Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014

The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]

The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for prototyping projects to define and implement a tool or service that will help scholars better identify and select relevant resources at scale from the HathiTrust corpus and/or facilitate the construction of large-scale worksets useful for scholarly analyses. Grants of $40,000 will be offered…[Read more]