The executive committee is seeking a candidate, to serve as a replacement member, for upcoming election on the fall 2019 ballot. Given the timing of this election, the replacement term is only two years (13 Jan. 2020 through the close of the Jan. 2022 convention). The person elected will serve as secretary in the first year of his or her term…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

Writing Sex & Power: Liberations & Constraints​ (Deadline Extended March 31)
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As Chair of MLA’s Executive Committee of Nonfiction Prose, I am seeking papers exploring the language and rhetoric of sex and power in all nonfiction prose mediums with a focus on liberation and constraints. Please forward to interested pa…[Read more]

Currently seeking active MLA member interested in running for nonfiction prose committee. The term is for five years and candidate must be available to attend annual meetings at the MLA convention and possibly chair panels and propose Call for Papers. Email David Bahr @ dbahr@bmcc.cuny.edu

This guaranteed session explores populism as a “discursive style” of paranoia, division, identity formation, conspiracy and/or emergency, among other categories. All periods/global perspectives welcome. 300-word abstracts by March 15; David Bahr (dbahr@bmcc.cuny.edu)

Religion in American Public Discourse

Competitive session co-sponsored by the Religion and Literature Forum and the Forum on Nonfiction Prose.  Religion has long figured in the public discourse of the United States.  During election season in particular, religious issues figure in campaign and more generally political discourse.  President Do…[Read more]

“The Boundaries of Religion in Public Discourse.” Forum on Non-fiction Prose (special session). Discussions, invocations, and uses of religion in the public sphere. Any historical period or global region. 250 word abstracts, 15 March, h.horwitz@utah.edu

During a presidential election year in the U.S., the airwaves and media fill with pro…[Read more]

Forum: Guaranteed Session, Nonfiction Prose
With specific attention to works of non-fiction prose, but broadly enough defined to include literary theoretical and literary critical texts, papers for “Style, in Theory” will take up the question of style. What is style? How theorize style today? How might attention to style produce new encou…[Read more]

Forum: Guaranteed Session, Nonfiction Prose Studies

Almost thirty years ago, Russell Jacoby defined public intellectuals as “writers and thinkers who address a general and educated audience.” Yet from Rousseau to Jacoby, the public intellectual has been perceived to operate most effectively outside the power elite, including the university…[Read more]

I’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.

Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at  [Read more]

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<div>Edited by Jay Ellis, University of Colorado at Boulder, Critical Insights: American Creative Non-Fiction provides an overview of a genre of genres called “creative nonfiction,” but also takes a look at lyrical essays. Simply introducing a collection of essays about cre…[Read more]