Application deadline: April 1, 2021

The MLA International Bibliography  would like to expand the coverage of Korean-language scholarly publications, and we believe our fellowship program for field bibliographers might be of interest to members of this forum and other faculty and graduate students in their departments.

We are now accepting appl…[Read more]

MLA 2022 CFP: Afrosouthernfuturism and the Black Speculative Arts

Recently scholars have begun to explore how black artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers construct blackness, black embodiment, and black experiences in the speculative arts. Indeed, as Isiah Lavender III has argued, “one might argue that chattel slavery is an apocalyptic e…[Read more]

Care in the Age of Chaucer

Premodern care across political, ethical, religious, medical, environmental discourses. Gender, conduct, and responsibility. Consolation and therapy. Justice and reparation. (Un)caring acts and affects. Pastoral, non-Foucauldian, Lordean paradigms. Self and community. Please submit 250-word abstracts to Wan-Chuan Kao…[Read more]

What kinds of atmospheres does Chaucer’s work engage with or create? How can we understand the social, political, ecological, juridical, poetic, sensory, or media atmospheres within which his poetry circulates? To what extent is Chaucerian poetry part of our contemporary atmosphere? How can we engage with premodern and/or modern theories of a…[Read more]

CFP MLA 2022 (Guaranteed panel): We invite papers exploring antiracist pedagogies in modern (1900 to the present) Japanese Studies classrooms, program curricula, and campus/disciplinary outreach. In particular, we seek presentations that are intersectional in approach, taking into consideration relations between race and class, gender, sexuality,…[Read more]

CFP MLA 2022 – LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)

This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]

CFP MLA 2022 – LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)

This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]

Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies
vol. 45, no. 1 (March 2021)

Contents

The Female Experience of Epidemics in the Early Modern Low Countries
Daniel R. Curtis

‘I, Who Used to Serve as Jupiter’s Lightning on Earth’: Geeraerdt Brandt’s De Veinzende Torquatus (1645), Providentially Assigned Stadtholders and the Politics of Rational…[Read more]

A postscript to my previous post on CFPs for MLA 2022: Here is a more detailed description of “Found in Translation: Opera Among Languages” panel.

In keeping with the MLA 2022 conference theme of Multilingual US, the Executive Committee of the Media Studies Forum on Opera and Musical Performance has announced the following guaranteed session: Foun…[Read more]

Sequestered away from our institutions, colleagues, and students, and yet continuing to seek connections with them, many medievalists have no doubt registered the uncanny resemblance between the newly remote experiences of our work and the already pervasive perceptions of that work as remote, both within and without academe. On the one hand, we…[Read more]