[The deadline for this panel has been extended to March 18th!]

MLA 2016 Special Session: HIV/AIDS and the Literary/Cinematic Archive

Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. With the current proliferation of theories and conceptualizations pertaining to archive studies, how can the literary o…[Read more]

Queers Read LGBT Literature
This panel explores the state of contemporary LGBT literature and the value of a LGBT literary canon. Calling for papers that ask: what is LGBT literature now? Abstracts by 15 March 2015; Shanté Paradigm Smalls (smallss@stjohns.edu) and Ramzi Fawaz (fawaz@wisc.edu)

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Please consider submitting a 300-word abstract to this CFP for the 2016 MLA convention.

Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature.

Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. This panel seeks papers that discuss how archiving the HIV epidemic shapes our…[Read more]

Organizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston) 

Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this special session of MLA 2016 at…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

The Forum on Modern Arabic Literature and Culture invites paper proposals for its three sponsored panel at the next MLA convention in Austin, Texas, 7–10 January 2016:

1. Who Reads Arabic Literature?

The publics of Arabic literature, its translation into other languages, worldwide circulation, reception, teaching, and a…[Read more]

The cfp for our guaranteed MLA session is now available on the MLA website:

Theory Now
Where is theory in relation to posthumanism or the post-humanities, new materialisms, object-oriented ontology, the neural turn and other recent developments? 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2015; Lauren Lacey (llacey@edgewood.edu) and Tilottama Rajan (<…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

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 support because GAAM…[Read more]

Here are CFPs for 3 different sessions we’re sponsoring for MLA2016 in Austin:

QUEER PROXIMITIES 

Forum: TC Sexuality Studies

Explorations of the sensorium; texture, sensation, affect, touch; spacing and relationscape; distance and distancing, nearness, seclusion; relationalities, withdrawal, fusion; transpecies, human; bonds and bonding, i…[Read more]

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Please consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …

After more than 3 hours of committee reports and discussion of organizational changes within the MLA, the Delegate Assem…[Read more]

The Executive Committee of the Arabic Division would like to invite the membership to submit ideas for a special session for the MLA in Austin, 2016.  The special session should speak to the Presidential theme, “Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future.” If you have an ideal, please submit a short abstract of the panel and a sample C…[Read more]

Check out our sessions and related sessions for MLA 2015 by visiting our blog entry. We look forward to seeing you at the sessions and also to continuing the conversation online!

http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/forums/topic-tag/global-arab-and-arab-american-literature/

Carol N. Fadda-Conrey:

We are happy to share the good news that the MLA has approved the formation of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum!

There will be an organizational meeting of the new CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Literature…[Read more]

Help us acknowledge LGBTQ activism by academics; deadline extended to November 30.
THE MICHAEL LYNCH SERVICE AWARD
This award serves not only to honor an LGBTQ academic activist every year, but also, in Eve Sedgwick’s words, “to publicize and celebrate—and as widely as possible—the range, the forms, the energy, and the history of queer act…[Read more]

Dear all,

I’m sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but style and method are closely connected, after all.

Could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not…[Read more]