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]

Contemporary Poetry of Statelessness

In her poem “Nights,” Mona Kareem cycles between images of natural processes (cloud formation, rain, phases of the moon) and human ritual actions (dancing, lamenting, singing), suggesting a delicate balance in the liminal zone between the porous self and the ever-changing world. Celestial bodies and human…[Read more]

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]

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]

Luigi Pirandello’s One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (1926) presents a radical meditation on the fragmentation of identity, the impossibility of “true” self-perception, and the crisis of being seen differently by others. Published exactly a century ago, the novel interrogates the ways in which individuals exist not as unified selves but as…[Read more]

Title: “Queer Creoles in French and Francophone Contexts.”

This panel explores queer language use across borders and cultural contexts, which includes, but is not limited to creolization, language accumulation, and translanguaging.  This is a guaranteed session. Send 250-word abstract and bio by March 13, 2025 to Denis Provencher: dmproven@ncsu.edu

Title: “Metropolitan Relations: Diasporic & Indigenous Perspectives in Contemporary Cities.”

This panel explores French and Francophone representations of place-making, cultural memory, and spatial justice in urban environments. This is a guaranteed session. Send 250-word abstract and bio by March 13, 2025 to jmontlo@emory.edu

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 2026 through the close of the January 2030 convention). Responsibilities of the committee members also include serving as…[Read more]

MLA 2025 Convention

MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession

Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session

NB: Session Information Follows. The mentoring session will continue informally following the roundtable via happy hour. Location: Ernst Café (600 S. Peters St.; across the street from the Hilton R…[Read more]

Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.

We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[Read more]

Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

Hi All,

I am co-organizing a session with Joseph Wager for the 2025 ACLA. Our topic is “World Literature and Disappearance.” Please consider submitting, and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested. Full CFP below. Thank you!

Best,

Peter Leman

 
World Literature and Disappearance
Enforced disappearance has become a lingua fran…[Read more]

Hi all,

I’m sending along a job posting from Texas A&M, which is in long nineteenth-century <span id=”_mainContent__descriptionText”>multi-ethnic, transnational, and comparative approaches to US literature</span>. This search is being chaired by Jessica Howell: https://faculty.tamu.edu/JobDetail?JobId=151010.

I also invite folks to add to this…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Members in this group may be interested in the following conference. It is possible to attend the event online. Registration is needed: https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/89430443-ec0a-4dd1-8d2c-d3dfb82ad014

Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity (29 October)

This conference investigates the global development of…[Read more]