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: 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: 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 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]