Sue D. Sorensen
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Leila Tarakji started the topic CFP: Global Halal Conference in the forum
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoGlobal Halal
An International Conference on Muslims and the Cultural Politics of the PermissibleFebruary 19-21, 2015
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Global Halal is an international conference organized by the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University in partnership with the UK-based Muslim, Trust and Cultural…[Read more] -
Jon Smith started the topic CFP: The South in the North (MLA pre-conf @SFU Jan 6-7 2015) in the forum
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The South in the North
A Pre-MLA Mini-conference
January 6-7, 2015
Simon Fraser University (Harbour Centre)
Vancouver, BC
Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne D…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear 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. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Free E-Review Copy of "Romances of George Sand" in the forum
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[Read more]
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Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Canadian Literature Discussion Group now invites proposals for two panels planned for the MLA 2015 conference in Vancouver, including one collaborative panel organized with the Children’s Literature Division. The due date for both is March 15th.
Visual Cultures and Young People’s Texts in Canada
Exploring visual culture produced by, for…[Read more]
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Robin E. Visel started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Doris Lessing Studies in the forum
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months ago<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 1950s, when she joined an influx of immigrants to London. Comparative studies welcomed.
Please send 10-to-15-page MLA-style papers to the issue’s co-editors Robin Visel ([Read more] -
Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies Association (Nov. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA) in the forum
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference. The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 6-9, 2014. Hosted by Duquesne University and co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh, the conference will feature plenary addresses by Rachel Blau…[Read more]
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Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoFrom Sharon Aronofsky Weltman:
Applications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen,” 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 Monday, July 7,…[Read more] -
Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere are the Victorian Division’s calls for papers for MLA 2015:
Victorian Animals
Human and nonhuman animals; reflections on the in-, non-, post-human. Papers welcome on the state of the field and on new methods and modes of inquiry. One-page abstracts and CVs by 1 March 2014; William A. Cohen (wcohen@umd.edu).
Victorian…[Read more]
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Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for papers for the Canadian Literature Discussion Group session at the MLA Convention in Vancouver (January 8-11, 2015)
Coastal Canada
Ecozones, shipping terminals, ports of entry, and real estate gems, Canada’s coasts are sites of desire and contest, exploitation and stewardship, abandonment and creative inhabitation, and they feature r…[Read more]
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Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe 2015 MLA conference in Vancouver gives us a great opportunity to showcase Canadian literature and criticism. The discussion group executive committee would like to encourage all interested members to propose sessions. Calls for papers can be posted on the MLA site if they are sent by Feb. 21, and, of course, the MLA Commons is another great…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic new online issue of CANADA & BEYOND in the forum
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCanada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has
just published its latest issue at
http://www.canada-and-beyond.com/index.php/canada-and-beyond. We invite you
to browse the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review
articles and items of interest.Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Pilar…[Read more] -
Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoCheck out our session at MLA 2014:
Indigeneity and Diaspora: Exploring Intersections through Canadian Literature
Saturday, 11 January, 2014
1:45–3:00 p.m.Indiana-Iowa room of the Chicago Marriott
Presiding: Pauline Wakeham, Univ. of Western Ontario
1. “Reaching Gold Mountain: Rereading Labor Narratives in Chinese Canadian Literature,” Mal…[Read more]
