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Kellie Charron started the topic CFP Winter 2014 in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoThe Winter 2014 (Vol. 18, Iss. 4) Issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed print journal, is now accepting submissions for its special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice. Articles may explore issues of theory, practice, and experience in writing center work, including qualitative and empirical…[Read more]
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Roberto Rey Agudo started the topic CFP Spaces of Dialogue: International Conference on Transatlantic Studies in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear 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]
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Robin E. Visel started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Doris Lessing Studies in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis may be of interest to Women’s Studies members.
Call for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<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 19…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2015: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP 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] -
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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April Logan started the topic Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C. in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more] -
Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic CFP-Aphra Behn Society Europe in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago6TH CONFERENCE OF THE APHRA BEHN EUROPE SOCIETY
Aphra Behn and the Challenges of Genre
University of Huelva, Spain
12-14 June, 2014CALL FOR PAPERS
Aphra Behn was not only one of the most prolific writers in the seventeenth century, but also one able and willing to tackle all genres. She earned a name in the theatre in her own time, and showed…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic CFPs: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSessions Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel 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] -
María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS 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]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State U. in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoIdaho State University (ISU) has a distinctive program Ph.D. program that might interest members of this group or their students.
The Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English integrates research in literature with practical and theoretical training in the teaching of composition and literature. The aim of the program is to prepare graduates…[Read more]
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A. Yemisi Jimoh started the topic Journal Editing Opportunity in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoThe Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) invites proposals for an Editor-in-Chief to lead its award-winning, peer reviewed journal. The Editor-in-Chief will have oversight for all aspects of the publication, management, and promotion, and editing of the journal. The successful candidate should be a…[Read more]