Dear Colleagues,

I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]

For the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.

1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]

Dear group members,

I’m pleased to announce that my book on Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1

The Introduction and a translation of the Pasolini-Pound interview of 1967 are available for free download in th…[Read more]

What is a life worth living?Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of prolonging it, whether artificially or by providing warnings against our current behavior in order to preserve the life that already exists. The fact that death and…[Read more]

Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

The Cognitive and Affect Studies forum invites papers that discuss vital signs in literature for a guaranteed session at the 2024 MLA. Please submit a 250-word abstract and short bio to mhulstyn@stanford.edu by 15 March.

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

We welcome nominations from our membership. Please feel free to email  ylee@wellesley.edu before Jan. 17, 2023.

P14 Chinese Forum members, we are in the process of soliciting nominations for the forum executive committee. We are particularly interested in midlevel senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world literary methodologies. Please send all nominations, including…[Read more]

Greetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!

Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 5-8). At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2024 in Philadelphia (Jan 4-7).

So we can ensure representation…[Read more]

All: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).

All: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).

I hope everyone will attend our forum’s sponsored sessions this year at MLA2023! Here is a convenient link to all three in the convention program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Symposium/2149

We have three very different sessions this year. First up, on Thursday, is a face-to-face session exploring neurodiverse modes of literary…[Read more]

I hope our forum members will consider attending our sponsored sessions at this year’s MLA convention, and help out our work by letting others who will be in attendance know about them!

* Attention, Please! Thu 5:15-6:30, Moscone West – this face to face session examines attention from neurodiverse perspectives, including neuroqueer, ADHD, and…[Read more]