Toni Morrison CFP

We are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While…[Read more]

<div>CFP: “The modernist ‘mysterium’, between allegorical drama and revolutionary politics”</div>
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Modernist Studies Association Conference
November 19-22, 2015
Boston, MA
In The Death of Character (1996), Elinor Fuchs conceptualizes the “mysterium” as a modernist theatrical practice with a strong didactic orientation that adapts the exposit…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Drama Division is equally pleased to post this call for papers for a proposed cosponsored Panel with our colleagues in the Law as Literature Discussion Group. A more complete version, authored by Alex Feldmann, follows the short description below. We look forward to hearing from you and to seeing you in Austin.

(up)Staging…[Read more]

Call for Papers
Panel Topic: Evolution, Ethics, and Tragedy

Conference:
Why the Humanities: Answers from Cognitive and Neuroscience
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
July 9-12, 2015
http://www.kent.edu/cas/why-humanities

Contact Person for this Panel:
David Palmer
Humanities Department
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
dpalmer@maritime.edu

I am…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Division (soon to be “Forum”) on Drama and Performance is pleased post below a lengthier description of our plans for Austin, 2016.

On behalf of Brian Herrera, Eng-Beng Lim, Nadia Ellis, and Shane Vogel, we are very much looking forward to your queries and proposals,

Jody Enders, Chair (2016)

What are the lim…[Read more]

In mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]

In mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]

Mentoring isn’t just for students. Great advice from Joycelyn Moody. Let’s keep the conversation going at #MLA15!  http://bit.ly/1wPU6y9

Is there one? Can’t find anything in the online program.

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2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Proposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”

Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked…[Read more]

2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Proposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”

Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminal…[Read more]

View the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals

Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out F…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

As some of you may know, John Hawley and I are putting together a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. We have received a number of excellent proposals but are interested in a contribution from someone who teaches Ghosh’s works in a creative writing workshop. If you or anyone you know does so, I would be…[Read more]

John Hawley and I are editing a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. If you teach Ghosh’s works and haven’t done so already, please do consider filling the survey below. We also welcome proposals for contributions to the volume.

Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mlasurvey_ghosh

Regards,

Gaurav Desai

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. 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]

Dear colleagues,

I wonder if those of you who are interested in Arab American literature and culture can take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.

You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab…[Read more]

MLA 2015 Vancouver Panel Proposal:

We solicit papers on afro-modernist literature and film that reveal the usefulness and limits of the long durée as an analytical tool. How do African American and other Black diasporic texts engage the dialectic between modernist aesthetics and philosophical concerns with history? Does this engagement move…[Read more]

<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> seeks submissions 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]