The CFP for this forum’s 2019 MLA panel is out. Please consider submitting:

*Commemorating Travel*
The circulations, aesthetics, politics of material artefacts of travel and travel writing throughout history: books and blogs, photos and Facebook, Tshirts and mementos. 250-word abstracts, cv by 12 March 2018; Lauren Coats (lac@lsu.edu).

Please consider submitting a proposal for the Travel Writing forum’s guaranteed session at MLA 2018.  Details below.
<h1>“Papers, please”: Travel Documents and Travel Writing</h1>
<div> Forum: GS Travel Writing</div>
Critical approaches to how travel documents (of lack of) shape travel writing and mobility in a globalized world. 250 word abstr…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”.  See short and long CFP below.

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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]

Call for Suggestions

This forum will need to hold an election for a Delegate Assembly representative 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. The executive committee is responsible for making nominations, b…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.

If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper

Religion has…[Read more]

The Travel Writing Committee welcomes proposals for the forum’s session at MLA 2017:
“Orientalism” Revisited: Travel Writing & Neo-Orientalism
Forum: GS Travel Writing
Reconsideration of Said’s theoretical framework for understanding aesthetic and political dimensions and implications of travel writing. 250 word abstract and c.v. to Ali Behdad b…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

FYI, this special panel at the MLA 2016:

48. Russia and the Middle East from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202, JW Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Suha Kudsieh, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York
1. “The Middle East in Arseny Sukhanov’s Pro…[Read more]

For colleagues writing on travel literature, please consider submitting an abstract (200-250 words) for our panel at the annual American Comparative Literature Association conference held at Harvard from March 17-20, 2016. Abstracts are due by September 22.

This panel invites scholars to explore vulnerability in travel writing from a range of…[Read more]

The 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.

Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes, uwgconference2015@gmail.com.

More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.

Dear colleagues,

Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:

131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]

I wanted to bring to your attention a tenure-track assistant professor position in African Diaspora Heritage Studies, which may be of interest to travel writing scholars in this group.  North Dakota State University is a Carnegie RU/VH institution, and English Department faculty teach a 2/2 course load.  Here is the MLA JIL p…[Read more]