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]

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).

2015 is the centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth. As part of the celebration of this event, the Arthur Miller Society is organizing a session at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver on a central theme in Miller’s literary work and his career as a public intellectual: the elusiveness of the American Dream, the Dream’s foundations in what often are c…[Read more]

Applications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz.  From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]

Applications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz.  From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]

Call for Papers
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill

Sessions Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Panel 1: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline Hopkins frequently…[Read more]

I would like to invite anyone interested in theater, psychological or philosophical issues in literature, narratology, or cognitive approaches to literary analysis to consider attending the following MLA special-session round-table discussion sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society. We plan to allow at least 25 minutes of this 75-minute session for…[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]

Media and Literature’s session CFP for MLA2014 is out — please circulate widely. Proposals are due March 12.

Literary Social Media, Past and Present

Relationships between social media (broadly conceived) and literary history, including networks of production / dissemination as mediated in any genre / period. 300 word abstracts. by 12 Mar…[Read more]