MLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:

Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern

Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]

MLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:

Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern

Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]

MLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:

Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern

Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]

https://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=6828

The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that exp…[Read more]

<h2 class=”title”>The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of rac…[Read more]

Special Session (to be proposed)
Teaching first-year writing to community college students through an ecocritical lens: interdisciplinary aspects, nature writing, journaling, environmental research, field trips, service learning, etc. 300-500 word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Emily A. Hegarty (emily.hegarty@ncc.edu).

This panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric  perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]

Call for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses Crowne Plaza

Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016

Proposal deadline 15 March 2016

Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]

Please tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]

An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016.  Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore the implications for the humanities of cogn…[Read more]

Please tell us about your experience teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey (use link above). Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Please note that this Survey and CFP is in addition to the…[Read more]

The Intimacies of Four Continents: Crossing Boundaries, Disciplines, Archives

Engagements with Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents. Assessments, critiques, possibilities for new approaches, archives, connections. 250 word abstract and one-page CV by 15 March 2016.

Jeehyun Lim (limj@denison.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)

Black Pacific

Intersections of African, Asian, indigenous diasporas across the Pacific. Literary/cultural mappings and imaginings of cross-racial interaction, settler colonialism, labor migration, militarism, gender and sexuality. Abstract and CV by March 11.

Ira Dworkin (idworkin@tamu.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)

Latina/o Indigenous Pacific

Intersections of Latina/o and Indigenous production and identity within, around and through the Pacific Rim. Conversations, re-imaginings and re-formations across shared and divergent spaces and histories.  Abstract and CV by March 11.

Anna Nogar (anogar@unm.edu) and Ruby Tapia (rtapia@umich.edu)

Writing (…[Read more]

Hello, All!

I would love to see this forum become a community of scholars and teachers. If you have any wonderful or terrible–or somewhere in between but could be wonderful with just a little bit of help–experiences in Arthurian literature classes, share them here.

Last semester, I turned my final exam in to a final Arthurian experience.…[Read more]