Dear Colleagues,

The Sept. 1 deadline for the Studies in the Novel special issue, “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupation of the American West” is approaching. Full CFP and submission guidelines below.

Call for Papers: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West

Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a s…[Read more]

(With apologies for cross-posting)

Registration is now open for #BUDSC16, Bucknell University’s third annual Digital Scholarship Conference, October 28-30. This year’s conference, “Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration,” will feature speakers with a range of interests and specializations, including faculty, librarians, students, an…[Read more]

With apologies for cross-posting:

The deadline for the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference has been extended to June 15!

Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration

Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its third annual digital scholarship conference on October 28-30, 2016. The theme of the…[Read more]

(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the Novel

Special Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West” 

Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more]

(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the Novel

Special Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West” 

Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more]

CFP for American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 17-20, Denver, CO

Home Screens: Digitizing Belonging and Place in American Studies

This panel seeks contributors who have been involved with a digital project that preserves, recreates, or generates notions of “home” in the American context. In keeping with the conference theme, Home/Not H…[Read more]

Part-time faculty and other contingent faculty are eligible for travel grants to attend the convention in Austin.

Here’s the link:
https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Honors-and-Awards/MLA-Financial-Assistance/Non-Tenure-Track-Faculty-Members-and-Unemployed-Members-Traveling-to-the-Convention

Freeway Fliers can be found here. It contains very interesting observations, including a point about the tenure process now being very much complicit in the de-radicalization of the professoriate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hsMUuEpxO0

The Public and its Privates

Submission deadline: October 16, 2015
Submit to: mlasubconference@gmail.com

Between the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books
January 6-7, 2016
Location: Studium Art Space
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702

Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public…[Read more]

Between the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books

January 6-7, 2016 (FREE)
Location: Studium Art Space (FREE)
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702

As the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to…[Read more]

As the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to propose sessions somewhere “Between the Public and its Privates”.

Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public without uncovering its uncanny twin–the private. Consider Google’s Han…[Read more]

CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West

<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more]

CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org</div>
<div>
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more]