***SPECIAL OFFER***
Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—
“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”
a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time
For new members, or members who were not m…[Read more]

This panel will consider the audiences for Bukowski’s oeuvre and public self in conversation with the social milieus of his fictional counterpart, Chinaski. Specific topics panelists might explore include, but are not limited to:

Bukowski/Chinaski and media other than print (film, television, audio recording, etc.)
The varying nature of…[Read more]

CFP: 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]

CFP: 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]

The new MLA Forum on Global Hispanophone is delighted to invite submissions for our inaugural session/s, which will take place at the MLA Annual Convention in Austin, Texas, on 7-10 January, 2016. (Note: these Calls for Papers are also available on the MLA website).

Hispanophone Literatures and Postcolonial Theory

The term ‘Hispanophone li…[Read more]

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Dear Colleagues,

I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).

GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum  to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-a&hellip;[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).

GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum  to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/

We still need your…[Read more]

Call for Papers

2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX

Forum: 20th- and 21st-Century German LLC

Readers, Viewers, Listeners, Users

What ever happened to readers, and do they have a future? For all the work that has been done on the state of reading in today’s world, the audience remains a problem. Or does it? In film studies, a discipline once e…[Read more]

Call for Papers

2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX

Forum: 20th- and 21st-Century German LLC

Readers, Viewers, Listeners, Users

What ever happened to readers, and do they have a future? For all the work that has been done on the state of reading in today’s world, the audience remains a problem. Or does it? In film studies, a discipline o…[Read more]

Call for Papers. “Considering the Western Sahara: Multi-Discipinary Approaches to Post-Colonialism”Special Issue on the Western Sahara for the Journal

Transmodernity, co-edited “y Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo and Jill Robbins.

Call for Papers:

This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary assessment of the representations of the unreso…[Read more]

Call for Papers. “Considering the Western Sahara: Multi-Discipinary Approaches to Post-Colonialism”Special Issue on the Western Sahara for the JournalTransmodernity, co-edited by Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo and Jill Robbins.

Call for Papers:

This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary assessment of the representations of the unresol…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:

It is with great pleasure that I invite you to participate in this graduate student conference at the University of California in Irvine. Please see attached CFP and feel free to visit the Eco-Materialisms website for more information.

EcoMaterialisms: Organizing Life and Matter

University of California, Irvine

Friday…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

this is to invite you to submit abstracts to the Annual ASLS (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) Conference, to be held in Stirling, Scotland, on 3-5 July 2015:
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>EMPIRES AND REVOLUTIONS
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers on Gl…[Read more]