“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”

The focus of this session is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that engages public events/ideas/issues, as well as exploring the ways lit…[Read more]

Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women

For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting essays on working women in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century American literature. The volume will focus on the American working woman and how she has been represented and underrepresented in American realistic and…[Read more]

This roundtable reopened a longstanding debate on the place of the author, the function of authorship, and the challenge of competing literatures in an expanding literary canon, one that seeks to include global Englishes, world literatures, and multiple perspectives (animal studies, ecological studies, disability studies, etc). Prompted in large…[Read more]

246. Recent Work in Narrative and Discourse
Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 18 VCC East: Floor Plans
Program arranged by the Division on Language Theory
Updated: December 30, 2014
1. “Lula versus Obama and the 2016 Olympic Bid: A Cognitive Framework for Discourse Analysis,”
Ricardo Gualda, Universidade Federal da Bahia
Abstract
On October 2…[Read more]

Studies in Cognitive Linguistics

Thursday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 14 VCC East:  Floor Plans

Program arranged by the Division on Language Theory

1. “Cognition in Interaction: Substantiating Context in Language Use and Grammaticalization”
Anneliese Kuhle, Freie Universität Berlin
Abstract

Usage-based approaches to the study of language mai…[Read more]

Abstracts below:

Friday, 9 January

Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir

10:15–11:30 a.m., West 210, VCC West

Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association

Presiding: Stacey Lee Donohue, Central Oregon Community Coll.

“Photo-graphics: Mediating Memory in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” David Bahr, Borough of Man…[Read more]

The Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University has extended the deadline for general CFP submissions until January 9, 2015. Please also note that this CFP includes below a link for SEWSA conference registration and membership.

The FAU WGSS Center is proud to host SEWSA 2015: “Trafficking in Gender: Feminist Di…[Read more]

The Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University has extended the deadline for general CFP submissions until January 9, 2014. Please also note that this CFP includes below a link for SEWSA conference registration and membership.

The FAU WGSS Center is proud to host SEWSA 2015: “Trafficking in Gender: Feminist Di…[Read more]