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Panel: “Digital Humanities and Latin America: New Trends, Challenges, and Developments”
This roundtable explores the impact of the Humanities going digital in Latin America, from both a Latin American and United States perspective. Papers will explore new trends and developments on the subject such as the inclusion of…[Read more]

SESSION 1:

Collaborations: Women in the Arts

Dr. Carolyn Woodward

writecjw@gmail.com

During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of the century, Edward Young put forth an idea of the individual author and his original work, it was Goethe, Wordsworth and…[Read more]

46th Annual NeMLA Conference
April 30 through May 3, 2015
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014

This panel seeks papers on the ways in which American poets write about walking and the significant role the walk poem has played in American literature. What is it about the walk poem that suits American poets so well? How…[Read more]

Call for Papers

WORLDS and WORDS

29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities

Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities

Carrollton, Georgia

October 30-November 1, 2014

Deadline Extended until July 22nd

We welcome submissions from across…[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

XVII International Conference
(A Silver Jubilee Event of the Forum on Contemporary Theory)

Jointly Organized by
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
&
The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
Re-Imagining Theory:
Towards New Horizons in the Humanities and the Social Sciences

21-24…[Read more]

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]

Delegates have been very reasonably reminded that we ought to encourage members of the Divisions to vote on the ratification ballot for the below items (deadline: MIDNIGHT tonight).

The link is here: http://www.mla.org/ballot_ratification

You will have received Rosemary Feal’s recent email about the actions on the ballot. N.B.: the short…[Read more]

Delegates have been very reasonably reminded that we ought to encourage members of the Divisions to vote on the ratification ballot for the below items (deadline: MIDNIGHT tonight).

The link is here: http://www.mla.org/ballot_ratification

You will have received Rosemary Feal’s recent email about the actions on the ballot. N.B.: the short…[Read more]

And Forgetting? And future? Negotiating sites of memory focuses on various forms of remembering and seldom on the role that forgetting plays in creating a past. This is because we in literary studies normally assume that forgetting is the opposite of remembering, which is a rather narrow, Aristotelian way to understand this process and phenomenon.…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard is putting together an international conference on April 24-25th. Submissions from all relevant areas in literary and cultural studies are welcome. I am copying below the full text of the Call for Papers and relevant information for those interested in participating or attending.

Spaces of…[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]

CFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more]

This is a reminder to the members of the Restoration and early 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:

Thank You and Next Steps

If you are attending MLA, please try to…[Read more]

<p align=”center”><b>6TH CONFERENCE OF THE APHRA BEHN EUROPE SOCIETY</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b><i>Aphra Behn and the Challenges of Genre</i></b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>University of Huelva, Spain</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>12-14 June, 2014</b></p>
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<p align=”center”><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></p>
 

Aphra Behn was…[Read more]

Dear All, in light of Deidre Lynch’s post on the Commons site in the “Later Eighteenth Century” group, in which she helpfully listed the sessions for that Division and encouraged all MLA-attending members to attend as many of the Division sessions as possible, I’m posting here the information about the sessions for “Restoration and Early…[Read more]