MLA Commons | Joon-Hwan Kim | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/jhk1203/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Joon-Hwan Kim is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:32:06 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 084a019d484abc583af12fbee2ccf294 Domna C. Stanton replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/#post-1040987 Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:36:47 -0400 Thank you so much for sending me this announcement about the topic your plan investigate with your panelists at the 2027 MLA. It is enormously  timely and interesting and I know  members will want to attend. Unfortunately  I am on leave as of the end of december 2026 and very eager to return to my book project which is way over due. So sosry ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa10eb0e78fbd8db520238fa9a08ae57 Grace Monk started the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:20:47 -0400 Sharing a CFP for the MLA 2027 Convention in Los Angeles. I hope it is of interest!

Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem

Roundtable examining jobs beyond faculty roles, highlighting how humanities training informs career trajectories. All career stages welcome.

Deadline March 16, 2026

Link:…[Read more]

]]> 0 209e48696653b95d79fdc6f3795ee3cc Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aural-reorientations-or-sound-studies-as-listening-otherwise/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:35:39 -0500 Dear Sound Studies Communities,

The MS Sound Forum executive committee has just published the CFP for our guaranteed session at MLA 2027. We look forward to receiving many of your proposals! :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

]]> 0 6fb44110c847f56105435123316c33c3 Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic CFP MLA 2027 Roundtable in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-roundtable/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:58:27 -0500 MLA 2027 CFP Sponsored by the LLC Colonial Latin America Forum (guaranteed session)
 Unbounding the Colonial Latin American Archive
Round table examining historical and critical approaches to the colonial archive and their political implications. Dissident narratives, emerging subjectivities, new geographies, displacements, regimes of visibility,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ab98575169b38c50f12b905c2a160a8 Julia Frengs started the topic CFP for MLA 2027: Queer Emancipatory Narratives of the Francosphere in the forum LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-queer-emancipatory-narratives-of-the-francosphere/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:39:00 -0500 This panel seeks proposals engaging with the articulation of queer emancipatory narratives from throughout the “francosphere.” We aim to consider how queer discourses of emancipation are constructed throughout the French-speaking world, taking into account a variety of cultural norms that might restrict queer voices. We would be delighted to see…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e06941fab37302863906624655c4fa1 William J. Spurlin started the topic CfP for MLA 2027 in Los Angeles: Queer Nations: Remembering Jarrod Hayes in the forum LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-in-los-angeles-queer-nations-remembering-jarrod-hayes-2/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:36:22 -0500 This guaranteed session, sponsored by LLC Francophone, celebrates the work of the late Jarrod Hayes, Professor of French Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at the University of Monash in Melbourne, Australia, at the time of his untimely passing in 2025, and previously Professor of French and Francophone…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b3d0dcffea9e20c766f2f1a1e69dae1 MelissaBarchi Panek replied to the topic CFP: MLA 2027 (Los Angeles) — Mediated Futures: Technology and Transformation in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-los-angeles-mediated-futures-technology-and-transformation/#post-1040868 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:15:00 -0500 Call for Papers

Comparative Literature and Culture Studies (20th–21st Century)
Modern Language Association Conference, January 7-10 Los Angeles
Electronic Roundtable (8 participants)

Mediated Futures: Technology, Transformation, and the Literary-Cultural Field

This electronic roundtable invites short, exploratory interventions on the t…[Read more]

]]> 0 eed160b9adf7eb4744a28cbd016c0b6c Cole Rizki started the topic Nominations for Candidates to Delegate Election in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-for-candidates-to-delegate-election/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:19:15 -0500 Hi everyone, I write to solicit nominations for candidates to the MLA delegate election. For eligibility: any candidates for election must have been included in the membership list of the association for the preceding year. No one can occupy more than one delegate seat at a time and delegates may only serve two consecutive terms on the Delegate…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8ad4ac0690f479f608f8ec8080425d9 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic call for nominations: MLA Delegate Assembly Representative in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-mla-delegate-assembly-representative/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:37:03 -0500 Please send nominations (including self-nominations) for 20th/21st-c French forum representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly to freedthall@nyu.edu, by March 9, 2026. The elected representative serves a 3-year term and must attend the annual Delegate Assembly meeting, held during the MLA convention. Learn more about the Delegate Assembly here:…[Read more]

]]> 0 faee167f1f88339eeb2ef291f12233f0 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aesthetics and Politics of Resistance in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aesthetics-and-politics-of-resistance/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:15:04 -0500 This panel explores the aesthetics and politics of resistance in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. Possible topics include: conditions of control, surveillance, capture, and repression; fascism/antifascism; refusal, fugitivity, emancipation, or revolution. This is a non-guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March…[Read more]

]]> 0 360ae55cbfad2134312c716031801caa Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Literature and the News in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-literature-and-the-news/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:55:07 -0500 This panel explores intersections between literature and journalism in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. Topics include, but are not limited to, the fait divers, truth and disinformation, politics and aesthetics, fact and fiction. This is a guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March 15, 2026 to sk130@wellesley.edu

]]> 0 c5422136117d01a9bf1d4678024a3a64 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Reproductive Justice in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-reproductive-justice/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:30:10 -0500 On the centenary of the birth of Simone Veil (namesake of the landmark 1975 French law legalizing abortion), this panel explores sexual autonomy, gender freedom, decolonial feminism, and reproductive dignity in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. This is a guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March 15 to freedthall@nyu.edu.

]]> 0 4a3e696105cf9639e86c490f2c4dd7c0 Helen Finch replied to the topic Seeking new Forum Committee member for LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/seeking-new-forum-committee-member-for-llc-20th-and-21st-century-german/#post-1040772 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:49:23 -0500 Dear all, apologies for the formatting above.

Apologies for the formatting above: please see clean copy below.

The Modern Language Association of America LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German (D061) Forum is seeking a new Forum Committee Member to take up the role for a five-year term starting in 2027. We would particularly welcome applications from…[Read more]

]]> 0 03c28885b10dd5c753fc3b6802b3f234 Helen Finch started the topic CFP: Beyond Identities: Queer Formations in 20th and 21st C German Culture in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-beyond-identities-queer-formations-in-20th-and-21st-c-german-culture/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:54:07 -0500 <div class=”x_elementToProof” data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>Dear colleagues, please do consider submitting an abstract for the Forum sessions at the MLA conference in Los Angeles from 7 to 10 January 2027,  on <b>Beyond Identities: Queer Formations in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century German Culture</b>. Abstracts are due by 16 March 2026.…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed3bf905fb590373ab996b08082a1777 Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations to serve in the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-to-serve-in-the-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:02:29 -0500 The Executive Committee of the LLC Colonial Latin American Literature invites Forum Members to send nominations or self-nominations to the Forum’s executive committee.  Send nominations by March 1, 2026 to Karen Stolley (kstolle@emory.edu) or Luis Fernando Restrepo (lrestr@uark.edu) or the MLA directly, as indicated below.  The five year term is a…[Read more]

]]> 0 22eaebfef1511160dba471458faedfb6 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC 20th-and 21st Century French Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-5/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:54:18 -0500 Dear Colleagues, The LLC 20th 21st Century Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2027 through the close of the January 2031 convention). Responsibilities of the committee members also include serving as…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ad17d03574041682cf2793f5dfa08c6 Shannon Kelley replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/?view=all#post-1040696 Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:56:02 -0500 Hi, Lamees, we have two positions: a 2-year replacement who would be Secretary and then Chair, and a 3-year position. This person would observe for a year and then rotate into the Secretary and Chair positions. We organize two guaranteed panels each year at MLA. Attendance at the conference is required to share the work of supporting our speakers.…[Read more]

]]> 0 84647b979af966f891706a04e75bf9cd Moumin Quazi replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040694 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:02:55 -0500 I’d be more than happy to serve, Shannon. My paper (presented Thursday in a virtual session, #63) was a pedagogically-based essay. I’m a 28-year member of the MLA. My email is quazi@tarleton.edu. My cv is attached.

Cheers,
Moumin

]]> 0 bcebea8ea62870f4c9fbc10a9d58ce3f Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040693 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:46:43 -0500 I’d be honored and delighted to join the committee; I’ve emailed you, too, Shannon, with my CV. I’d be glad to provide anything else to support candidacy.

]]> 0 144e4c8c3fb181d1a29a5971eeee5140 Lamees Fadl replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040692 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:46:16 -0500 Hi Shannon,Would you please share more information? The term, the duties…etc
Thank you, Lamees 

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

On Saturday, January 10, 2026, 1:35 PM, Shannon Kelley <noreply@hcommons.org> wrote:

#yiv6192818141 html, #yiv6192818141 body {Margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important;min-height:100% !important;width:100% !im…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c26b802a3e503a3f685ee274416b788 Shannon Kelley started the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:31:23 -0500 The Teaching of Literature Forum needs one replacement committee member and one new committee member. This is an excellent opportunity for junior or senior faculty to serve at a national level. Please email me with any questions: skelley@fairfield.edu.  — Shannon Kelley, Chair, The Teaching of Literature Forum

]]> 1 28075c8c04be07f6b04dfa6431914967 Lanie Millar started the topic Nominations: Forum executive committee in the forum LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cuban-and-cuban-diasporic/forum/topic/nominations-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:17:29 -0500 The Cuban and Cuban Diasporic Forum Executive Committee is soliciting nominations and self-nominations for a new member for the Executive Committee, for a five-year term. Please email Forum Chair Mirta Suquet, suquet@susqu.edu and Secretary Lanie Millar, lmillar@uoregon.edu by January 23, 2026.

]]> 0 21613f4d7281e7e57f243100ab1f58c4 Cole Rizki started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:07:48 -0500 Hi everyone, I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Friday January 23rd with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 dbaa5602e9857944ce31adcdbc958a1f Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940348/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:24:56 -0500 0 6a3fe91f5a5b33a51aeaca46ebf3461c Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940345/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:22:47 -0500 0 18d5efa7eab9aaae3c3d9cf96295ce19 Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940344/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:21:09 -0500 0 9a69482e422108e49b614808749176b3 Giovanna Montenegro started the topic Join us for Happy Hour/ Cash Bar in Toronto- Friday January 9 5pm in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/join-us-for-happy-hour-cash-bar-in-toronto-friday-january-9-5pm/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:36:51 -0500 Coming to MLA#26 in person? Please join LLC Colonial Latin American Literature along with CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern and LLC Medieval Iberian for a Happy Hour in Toronto.</div>

Please join us at 3 Brasseurs at  5pm on Friday January 9 275 Yongue St.
This is a cash bar, and the bar can do individual checks.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/<wbr /&…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a134d04b52bbae087bb76be6fc88d27 Andrea Zemgulys started the topic Joint Conference in Twentieth Century Lit (FeministinterModernist Space Between) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/joint-conference-in-twentieth-century-lit-feminist-modernist-and-space-between/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:07:30 -0500 FORWARDING ON BEHALF OF OTHERS (see email for contact information!)

A joint conference of the Space Between Society and the Feministinter/Modernist Association (FiMA)
University of North Carolina, GreensboroMay 26 – 29, 2026Proposals Due: January 15, 2026

CFP: SOLIDARITY!
Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for this year’s joint c…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae0f6db7ddb684ad47e0728031f6a372 Luis Restrepo started the topic MLA 2026 Toronto Colonial Latin American Literature Sessions-- join us! in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/mla-2026-toronto-colonial-latin-american-literature-sessions-join-us/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:32:57 -0500 2026 MLA LLC Colonial Latin American Forum Sessions

 

Thursday, 8 January 2026

 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

#93 – Rethinking Connections between Latin American Colonial and Dutch Atlantic Worlds

Presider, Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton U, State U of New York

 

Living with Water: Aquatic Engagements in Colonized Neerlandophone Deltas

Julée Al-…[Read more]

]]> 0 94769bd097a589d0e3a2d734482ab6c6 William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936463/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:27:18 -0500 0 0e8778175fa4e3943197d13818255d7c Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-3/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:50:52 -0500 Please consider applying and share widely!

]]> 0 952afe8057c263865a68a49978fe97e0 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-2/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:48:01 -0500 Please see the attached position and share widely.

 

]]> 0 6860801d45c0871e5b6be0bfa544f739 Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel-3/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:34:57 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of <b>ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature</b>

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extr…[Read more]

]]> 0 8837e72eb935955339045e16a296ce98 Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel-2/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:33:49 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of <b>ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature</b>

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extr…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc5164b16277686d63d3ef2b1d08fefd Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:28:27 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extrajudicial kill…[Read more]

]]> 0 331fdbb76ec0d66fd7caa3e7ff63e943 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cf-applications-for-the-position-of-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:10:00 -0500 The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies.

 

Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: global animation; cinemas of East, Southeast, South, or Western Asia and…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc23953ca41a5b0470b18ce556a91ae7 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-3/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:03:43 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c886f0108ce73fd05556964fc4a0b75 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:31:13 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 0 619d74ca55798701cebc4e1a0e9e084d Jennifer Stoever started the topic Recommendation for real-world assignment with Wiki Education! (not spam!) in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/recommendation-for-real-world-assignment-with-wiki-education-not-spam/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:45:32 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear all,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I wanted to share with everyone a high-impact teaching opportunity that has added a lot to my own classroom – the </span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Wikipedia assignment</span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>. </span>

I have had great success and enjoyment fr…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee658bc86a722c27351a576af5880a22 Jennifer Stoever started the topic CFP: Hate and NonHuman Listening, Due 14 July 2025 in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-hate-and-nonhuman-listening-due-14-july-2025/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:15:47 -0400 Call for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
A Guest Series for Sounding Out! guest edited by Kathryn Huether
Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT

Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: kathryn.huether@gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.

We invite subm…[Read more]

]]> 0 4eefe464e65fee6c5839be2742476097 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP: Literature, Spiritualities and the Politics of Meaning in Liberal Italy in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/cfp-literature-spiritualities-and-the-politics-of-meaning-in-liberal-italy/ Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:07:16 -0400 Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to share the CFP for a special issue of Romance Studies, titled “Literature, Spiritualities and the Politics of Meaning in Liberal Italy (1861–1915)”.

Scholars interested in contributing are invited to submit an abstract by 31 August 2025.

Further details can be found in the attached document.

Best regar…[Read more]

]]> 0 c694f9b6566ca18fb3d5310e6922fad3 Letizia Modena started the topic Narrating Renewal: Literary, Visual, and Physical Cultures of Urban Regeneration in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/narrating-renewal-literary-visual-and-physical-cultures-of-urban-regeneration/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:36:44 -0400 Call for Papers – Roundtable Proposal; 2026 NeMLA Convention, March 5-8, Pittsburgh, PA .

Narrating Renewal: Literary, Visual, and Physical Cultures of Urban Regeneration

This roundtable explores how urban regeneration is represented, shaped, and critiqued through literature, film, photography, and physical practice. It invites i…[Read more]

]]> 0 de6584d7523b9ec9f4b235077aed8f4d Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-amplifying-womens-voices-of-resistance/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:53:35 -0400 CFP for “Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance: Challenging Power, Shaping Change”, for a special issue of the South Atlantic Review: The Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

This special issue seeks to honor and amplify the voices of women who have resisted, challenged, and redefined societal norms—both histori…[Read more]

]]> 0 82a9b03f6b6fddb6f20ca6965a96954c Lee B. Abraham started the topic Call for Papers: MLA 2026 for Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2026-for-forum-on-second-language-teaching-and-learning-2/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:22:29 -0400 Call for Papers
Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 8-11, 2026, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 0 677646ccbf60b3825df5f5d7390f97a7 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-9/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:34:16 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0f5b92dc79b61535ec1f51a1ecfec05 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-6/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:40:01 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 db5e1f2431cafc9c6703e9142f0fe46e Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-4/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:26:51 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7da316a141a2bc02639058e70f13a92 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:16:01 -0500 Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge of sustained scholarly interest in the area. Biographies, autobiographies, letters, and diaries from…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad3a4f55f7fe48a0b41921495368c2b4 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2026 CFP – Clapping Back in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-clapping-back-2/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:34:05 -0500 Dear MS Sound Forum,

I write on behalf of the MS Sound Forum Executive Committee members to share the MLA2026 CFP “Clapping Back: Responses from Sound Studies to Censorship & Silencing.” Please consider applying & help spread the word :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

p.s. We will soon launch a Discord channel for the Sound Studies scholars, in hopes of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7974eee32a97cd3fbf0e12b3aa461eae Lynn Wolff started the topic CFP: The Holocaust in a Global Context in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-the-holocaust-in-a-global-context/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:10:57 -0500 Please consider submitting an abstract to the session The Holocaust in a Global Context at the MLA conference, taking place January 8–11, 2026 in Toronto. Submissions are due by March 15, 2025. This session is organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum.

This panel series seeks to examine Holocaust literature, broadly defined, by p…[Read more]

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