How do writers make languages Jewish or inject Jewishness into language? English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, etc. as Jewish languages; Anglish/Yinglish and other Jewish lexicons; Hebrew-Arabic crossovers; language as hybridity. 250-word abstracts and short bios to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk. Deadline: March 8, 2021

Submissions exploring diverse approaches to contagion in Jewish literature and culture; interpreting contagion, infectious affects and ideas, transnational/linguistic transmission, thematic proliferations, infodemics and political contaminations, illness/disease narratives. 250-word abstracts and short bio to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk. Deadline: March 8, 2021

Submissions exploring diverse approaches to contagion in Jewish literature and culture; interpreting contagion, infectious affects and ideas, transnational/linguistic transmission, thematic proliferations, infodemics and political contaminations, illness/disease narratives. 250-word abstracts and short bio to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk

Deadline: March 8, 2021

MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews

We seek submissions exploring diverse approaches to myth in Jewish literature/culture; literary/cultural myths about Jews; language; feminist readings; gender critiques; contemporary myths; temporality; race; Memory Studies; Holocaust Studies; all genres, including…[Read more]

MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas

We seek submissions for a forum panel exploring hybrid languages, identities, genres, cultures, genders, in prose/poetry by most recent Jewish immigrant writers; diverse approaches welcome: comparative with 1881-1924 Jewish literature; hemispheric, multilingual,…[Read more]

MLA 2022: Maus at 30 Years (a collaboration between the CLCS Global Jewish forum and LLC Jewish American forum)

We seek submissions for a roundtable, 30 years later, on Maus’s enduring influence; teaching and/or scholarship on/around Maus; diverse approaches wanted, eg., Memory Studies, Comics Studies, Autobiography Studies, Holocaust Studies, in…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

The Forum in LLC: Jewish American is sponsoring a panel that asks: How have US borders figured in Jewish writing?  How have Jewish authors, texts, and discourses circulated across them?  Papers will theorize and remap Jewish borderlands in the diaspora.  250 abstracts and brief CV requested. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15 March 2020 Dean Jo…[Read more]

The Forum on LLC: Jewish American is sponsoring a panel on Jewish American literary engagements with antisemitism apart from or prior to Zionism including antisemitism in 19th c. literature, diaspora and national identity, and counter-histories.  Papers may theorize the topic.  250 words, CV. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15 March 2020 Dean J…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2018, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2018 convention in New York. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: center;”>Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>CFP – Special Issue of The Journal of Jewish Identities</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel, Anna Guttman and Isabelle Hesse</p>
Similarities between Jewish and colonial su…[Read more]

Seeking Membership Suggestions

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for mak…[Read more]

CFP: The Novels of Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel has long been a pivotal figure in Holocaust discourse. His book Night was one of the earliest works by a survivor and continues to be a significant point of reference in Holocaust literature. He went on to become an incredibly prolific writer, working in a range of genres. His death in July 2016 invites…[Read more]