Allied Organizations

American Association for Italian Studies

Intermediality in Modern and Contemporary Italy
papers addressing interaction of media in various forms of Italian culture: film, literature, ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

Translating for (and from) the Italian screen
This session seeks to examine the process that takes place when films are dubbed or subtitled. ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012, last updated 7 February 2012

“Mistreated and Well-treated Foreigners in Renaissance Italy”
Travel literature by or about foreigners (short-, long-term sojourns or permanent residence) in ... See more
Posted 20 December 2011, last updated 1 February 2012

American Association of Australian Literary Studies

History, Fiction & Australia
Papers are invited that address the broad topic of history and fiction in relationship to ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

American Association of Professors of Yiddish

Access to Culture, its Fulfillments, Its Illusions
Following MLA 2013 theme Avenues of Access, we seek papers on Yiddish or Yiddish-related works ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

American Association of Teachers of Italian

Italian Cinema: Death or Rebirth?
This panel seeks to dialogue about contemporary Italian cinema by addressing this question or ... See more
Posted 22 February 2012

Outsiders In, Insiders Out - Italian Cinema & Literature
Examination of migration (literary, cinematic, cultural, historical lens). Papers on ‘otherness’ ... See more
Posted 22 February 2012

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

One Hundred Years of The Rite of Spring
Examines the cultural legacy of the controversial ballet; Papers from a variety of disciplinary ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Reading Dissident Writing after Revisionism
We invite approaches to reading Central European writing that transcend the Cold War binaries of ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

Spain through Romanian Eyes
Papers on images of Spain, a Romance language sister country, in the works of Romanian-speaking ... See more
Posted 15 January 2012, last updated 16 January 2012

“Spanglish" in oral communication and literature
Papers addressing the controversy over the so-called Spanglish as a form of communication in the US ... See more
Posted 15 January 2012, last updated 16 January 2012

American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators

Access for Contingent Faculty
Seeking contributions (surveys, polls, policies) for a round-table on trials & tribulations and, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012, last updated 26 February 2012

American Boccaccio Association

Boccaccio at 700
In celebration of the year of his 700th birthday, we welcome proposals related to the study of ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

Boccaccio the Humanist
We welcome papers that address Boccaccio's role as an early humanist, inspired by the past and ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

Lecturae Boccaccii
An ongoing MLA tradition, the lecturae are intelligent readings of a single Decameronian novella. ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

American Conference for Irish Studies

"Facts I Wish I Did Not Know": Debating Legibility in Anne Enright's The Gathering
This session explores critical responses to Anne Enright's novel The Gathering. It has ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Ireland and the American South
How have Irish writers imagined the American South and how has Ireland been imagined by Southern ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

American Humor Studies Association

“Laughing to Keep from Crying”
Exploring the complex relationships between pain and humor. Productive readings that avoid ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012

American Name Society

Literary Onomastics
From character names and author names to the names of literary works themselves, papers dealing ... See more
Posted 27 December 2011

American Portuguese Studies Association

Rereading CORPO DE BAILE
New approaches to Guimarães Rosa's CORPO DE BAILE. Comparative readings are particularly welcome. ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

Spaces at the Margins/Alternative Spaces
Cultural productions (literature, music, film, theater, etc.) forged from within marginal and/or ... See more
Posted 18 January 2012

American Theatre and Drama Society

Performance and Access
Proposals welcome approaching American theatre, performance, or drama studies and various practices ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Association des Amis d'André Gide

The Symbolism of Nature in André Gide’s Works
Place of nature (plants, landscape...) in fictional and non-fictional writing. A 250-word abstract, ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Association for Business Communication

Classroom Space and Cyberspace: Transitioning between “Casual” and “Professional” Communication in Business Writing
Using social media in classroom spaces and in formal Business Communication. Abstracts/CV by 12 ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012

Association for Documentary Editing

Fraud and Forgery in Literary Texts
We seek presentations around the theme of fraud, forgery, and deceit regarding literary texts, ... See more
Posted 31 December 2011

Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures

American Indian Gothic
Panel seeks to investigate the recent prevalence of this subgenre within contemporary Indigenous ... See more
Posted 28 September 2011

Native American Literature and Environmental Justice
We explore the distinct epistemological framework of indigenous knowledges, asking how literature ... See more
Posted 25 October 2011

New Native Writers
This session seeks papers analyzing texts by Native American writers whose work was first published ... See more
Posted 28 September 2011

Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism

Avant-Garde Poetics of Media
Papers welcome on the poetics, aesthetics, and materiality of media technology in the avant-garde: ... See more
Posted 10 February 2012

Dada, Surrealism, and Colonialism
Papers welcome that explore new approaches to avant-garde engagement with colonialism, ... See more
Posted 10 February 2012, last updated 21 February 2012

Dada and Surrealism in/from Romania
Highlighted will be scholarship on the interdisciplinary and transnational nature of Dada and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

Environment and Media
Exploring the intersections of ecocriticism and media. Does environment shape media? How do ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012

Native American Literature and Environmental Justice
We explore the distinct epistemological framework of indigenous knowledges, asking how literature ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing

Innovative Pedagogy and Research in Technical Communication
Presentations that explore “New and Innovative Pedagogy in Technical Communication” and “New ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Byron Society of America

Teaching Byron
Pedagogical approaches to Byron's life and works. Any and all aspects of teaching Byron will be ... See more
Posted 30 November 2011

Cervantes Society of America

Cervantes and His World in the Novelas ejemplares
Celebrating the 400th anniversary, material culture and everyday life in the Novelas ejemplares. ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Children's Literature Association

Children and Fame
Papers address the relationship between children and fame in children’s literature and films, ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

College English Association

Eat Your Vegetables (Before They Eat You!): Plants in Fiction and Culture
This panel seeks papers that explore the multifaceted relationship between industrial Western ... See more
Posted 22 February 2012

Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones

"Francophonies numériques" (Session jointe Division Francophone)
Impact des technologies numériques sur les études francophones: soutien à la diffusion des textes ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012, last updated 19 February 2012

Nouvelles zones interdites en francophonies
Emergence possible de nouvelles perceptions de l'interdit en francophonie - espaces théoriques, ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Council of Editors of Learned Journals

Inventing New Journals: The Pressures For/Against New Scholarly Publications
Journals need to respond to critical trends and increasing pressures to publish within ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America

Beyond Fiction: Other Genres in D. H. Lawrence's Works
Papers consider genre issues in, interactions among, or pressures produced by Lawrence's texts on ... See more
Posted 13 January 2012

Joyce and Lawrence
New parallels between Joyce and Lawrence including: educational institutions; taboo; animal ... See more
Posted 15 January 2012

Modernism and D.H. Lawrence
How are modernist studies expanding Lawrence scholarship? Such expansions might align Lawrence with ... See more
Posted 13 January 2012

Dickens Society

The Dickens Theater
Papers are invited exploring Dickens’s staged readings and amateur theatricals; performativity and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Dickens/Poetry
How does poetry’s circulation shape Dickens's career? Dickens's own poetic composition, citation, ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012

Doris Lessing Society

Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook": 50 Years On
The Doris Lessing Society invites papers exploring "The Golden Notebook" fifty years after its ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

In Other Worlds: Atwood and Lessing’s Speculative Fiction
Atwood and Lessing have both produced fiction that interrogates the boundaries of “science ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

Edith Wharton Society

Wharton and Nostalgia
Backward glances, little girl's New York, ages of innocence. How does Wharton's writing address ... See more
Posted 13 January 2012

Emily Dickinson International Society

Dickinson, Frost, and the Vernacular Tradition
We seek papers that discuss language or regionalism of New England literary culture. Formal and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Open Call
We seek papers on any aspect of Dickinson’s poems and letters, including biographical, theoretical, ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012

Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society

Faulkner and Hemingway: Changing the Game
Comparative approaches to the two writers/icons taking the conversation beyond "rivalry." ... See more
Posted 15 September 2011

Eugene O'Neill Society

O'Neill and Postcolonialism
Given his sea travels, it’s not surprising that O’Neill wrote about problematic encounters between ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012, last updated 19 January 2012

Ezra Pound Society

"From Imagisme to Amygism to Vorticism: The Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell Literary Wars"
If Pound's Chinese-themed poems are Imagism's models, their prototype was the epigram of The Greek ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

Pound in H.D.'s Writings
For a joint session with the H.D. International Society, papers are sought that explore depictions ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012, last updated 15 February 2012

Feministas Unidas

Alternative Feminist Voices: Transatlantic Visions
Representations of Hispanic, Luso, Spanish, and Latina feminist voices in languages other than ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012, last updated 6 February 2012

Female Migration Representations: Hispano and Latina Women Crossing Over
This panel will explore different perspectives and interpretations of migration in literature/film ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012, last updated 6 February 2012

GEMELA: Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800)

Gender and Empire
What role has gender played in Spanish empire, from the 16th-19th centuries? How have gender and ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

Global Connections & Women in the Humanities
How did colonial Latin American and/or early modern Iberian women cross geographical boundaries ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

George Sand Association

Exploring Women Writers' Biographies: George Sand and her Sisters
The literary, cultural, historical, psychological, and feminist perspectives on the biographies of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Sensuous Sand
Papers on sensualities in George Sand, from her figurations of feminine sensuality or sexuality ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Goethe Society of North America

Goethe als Vermittler
Following Goethe's notion of "the experiment as mediator," papers on forms, acts, and effects of ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012, last updated 16 February 2012

Mathematics in the Goethezeit
We seek papers that explore ways in which different aspects of mathematics intersected with ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Graduate Student Caucus

LGBTQI Graduate Students and Academia
We invite proposals for papers that call attention to areas where higher education is falling short ... See more
Posted 4 February 2012

Tropes of Passing Time in the 19th-Century European Novel
We seek papers that investigate narrative strategies employed by authors that construct the passing ... See more
Posted 4 February 2012

Henry James Society

Henry James and "Foreigners"
Foreign views of Henry James, excluding U.S. and U.K. in James's time and ours. Who loved or hated ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Henry James and New Media
Telegraph to Internet, Radio to Twitter, "new media" in James's time and/or after. What's ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Henry James, Mark Twain, and Globalization
Papers on global versus provincial perspectives of Mark Twain and/or Henry James. Comparisons of ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

International Association of Galdós Scholars

New Approaches to Emilia Pardo Bazán
This panel will explore innovative approaches to Emilia Pardo Bazán’s oeuvre, including both ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Revisiting Galdós's Political and Ideological Evolution
Interdisciplinary approaches reexamining the evolution of Galdós's politics and ideology vis-à-vis ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

International Brecht Society

Brecht and Celan
Is there common ground between Brecht’s ostensibly political poetry and Celan’s presumed hermetic ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012

Brecht – Müller – Poetry – Language
How does Heiner Müller’s poetry “translate” Brecht’s poetic language as a mode of textual ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012

International Courtly Literature Society

Courtly World and Ecocriticism
This session explores how ecocritical concepts suggest how the courtly world viewed and interacted ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012

International James Joyce Foundation

Joyce and Intertextuality
Papers are invited on divrse aspects of intertextuality in Joyce including: influences; comparative ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

Joyce and Lawrence
New parallels between Joyce and Lawrence including: educational institutions; taboo; animal ... See more
Posted 15 January 2012

International Society for the Study of Narrative

Perspective and Interior Spaces before 1850
How do narratives present interior spaces without internal focalization? Do descriptions allow ... See more
Posted 1 December 2011

International Spenser Society

Edmund Spenser in the 18th Century
A session exploring Spenser’s presence in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature, ... See more
Posted 13 December 2011

Open Session
Open session will feature three 20-minute papers on any aspect of the life or work of Edmund ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

International Virginia Woolf Society

Conrad and Woolf: Comparative Territories
Comparative Territories: Topics might include overlapping territories, inner/outer voyages, ... See more
Posted 22 December 2011

Everyday Woolf
Panel on Virginia Woolf's provocative conception of everyday life, or the ordinary day, as both ... See more
Posted 15 January 2012

Virginia Woolf & Katherine Mansfield
The panel will explore the complex relationships--both literary and personal--of these two major ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012, last updated 22 January 2012

Joseph Conrad Society of America

Conrad and Woolf: Comparative Territories
Comparative territories: Topics might include overlapping territories, inner/outer voyages, ... See more
Posted 21 December 2011, last updated 28 December 2011

Conrad's Chance 100 Years Later
Exploration or reassessment of any aspect of this novel--which was Conrad's first blockbuster ... See more
Posted 11 January 2012

Keats-Shelley Association of America

Reimagining the Romantic Imagination
Papers on any aspect of imagination in the Romantic era welcome, including physiological, ... See more
Posted 10 February 2012

Langston Hughes Society

New Approaches to Teaching Langston Hughes’s Writings
Abstracts focusing on innovative ways of teaching Hughes’s texts. Presenters must join the Modern ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations

Eugene O'Neill and Music
O'Neill uses music in many of his plays, and many of his plays have been set to music. We welcome ... See more
Posted 14 January 2012

W. S. Gilbert as Author and Critic
W.S. Gilbert changed English musical theatre. We seek studies of all aspects of Gilbert's work. ... See more
Posted 14 January 2012

Margaret Atwood Society

In Other Words: Atwood and Lessing's Speculative Fiction
Atwood and Lessing have both produced fiction that interrogates the boundaries of "science ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Margaret Atwood: Religion, Ethics, and Debt
Papers may explore these themes in a specific work or within/across genres. Please submit a 250-500 ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012, last updated 21 February 2012

Margaret Fuller Society

Fuller and Antebellum Urban Writing
Fuller and/or urban contemporaries: Child, Sedgwick, Stephens, Poe, Foster, Lippard, Fern, Whitman, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Mark Twain Circle of America

Henry James, Mark Twain, and Globalization
Papers on global versus provincial perspectives in the works of Mark Twain and/or Henry James. ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012

Open Topic
Open call for papers on any topic related to Mark Twain and his work. brief abstract by 10 March ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Marlowe Society of America

Marlowe and his Others
Papers may address Marlowe's representations of otherness, the alien, and the foreign but also ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

Narratives and Politics of Transracial Adoption
Considerations of autobiographical, fictional, and polemical writing about transracial and ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012, last updated 19 February 2012

Urban Ethnicity: Work, Protest, and the American Dream
Panel seeks proposals that investigate the impact of corporate greed on America's middle and ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Melville Society

Melville and Protest
We invite papers on protest, resistance, refusal, and collective action as forms of opposition to ... See more
Posted 10 December 2011

Milton Society of America

John Milton: A General Session
Papers on all topics (8-page or 20-min). Please send abstracts or complete papers. by 15 March ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012

Modern Greek Studies Association

Comparative Mediterranean American Literatures
Literary works by Americans of Mediterranean origins (Anatolian, Levantine, Maghrebi, Southern ... See more
Posted 24 January 2012

Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

Nature, Culture, and Gender in Hawthorne's Work
This call expands our earlier CFP on the topic "Green Hawthorne" to include treatments of culture ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

Poe, Hawthorne and the Conventions of Antebellum Fiction
Studies of Hawthorne, Poe and antebellum fiction. Comparative approaches are especially welcome. ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012, last updated 8 February 2012

Paul Claudel Society

1)"Claudel: Heroes, Villains, Saints" 2)"Poétiques croisées : Claudel / Valéry / Gide, la poésie en question à la NRF de 1908 à 1914."
One or two sessions depending on response. 250 word Abstracts. by 15 March 2012; Madhuri Mukherjee ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012

Pirandello Society of America

Pirandello and International Modernism
We welcome papers exploring the relationships between Pirandello's works and Modernism in ... See more
Posted 18 January 2012, last updated 19 January 2012

Pirandello and the Female Subject
Papers that explore the variegated typology of female characters of different social/economic ... See more
Posted 18 January 2012, last updated 19 January 2012

Poe Studies Association

Poe and Mystery
Studies of how Poe’s sense of mystery figured in his genre experimentation, including adaptations ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

Poe, Hawthorne and the Conventions of Antebellum Fiction
Studies of Hawthorne, Poe and antebellum fiction. Comparative approaches are especially welcome. ... See more
Posted 28 January 2012

Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages

Literature and the Radical Left
How has the radical left figured into literary production? This panel investigates the relationship ... See more
Posted 19 January 2012, last updated 22 January 2012

Reception Study Society

Affect and the Space/Time of Reading
papers dealing with reading in its affective dimensions (identification, aesthetic pleasure, ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012

Reception Study and Book History
We invite papers on any topic related to literary/film reception or book history. For inquiries ... See more
Posted 22 February 2012

Renaissance English Text Society

Gender and Literacies in Early Modern Englnd
Possible topics might include--but are not limited to--femininity, masculinity, illiteracy, ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

Robert Frost Society

Dickinson, Frost, and the Vernacular Tradition
We seek papers that discuss language or regionalism of New England literary culture. Formal and ... See more
Posted 22 February 2012, last updated 24 February 2012

Robert Frost: A Reappraisal
We invite fresh perspectives on any aspect of Frost's work or his role as a public intellectual and ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012, last updated 26 January 2012

Romanian Studies Association of America

East-European Women’s Migration Narratives
Recent (post-communist) narratives (fiction, newspaper articles, documentaries, websites, blogs, ... See more
Posted 27 January 2012

Looking Out/Looking In: New Directions in Romanian Cinema
We invite papers on recent post-socialist Romanian films that feature tensions between globalism ... See more
Posted 10 February 2012, last updated 13 February 2012

Spain through Romanian Eyes
Papers on images of Spain, a Romance language sister country, in works by Romanian-speaking writers ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012

Samuel Beckett Society

Beckett’s Manuscripts
Recent initiatives (e.g. Beckett Digital Manuscript Project) have galvanized an area of enduring ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012, last updated 15 February 2012

Simone de Beauvoir Society

The Influence of Simone de Beauvoir's Writings on Following Generations of French Women Writers
Collaborative session with Women in French. How texts by women reflect Simone de Beauvoir's ... See more
Posted 27 January 2012

Simone de Beauvoir's Relevance in the 21st Century
An exploration of Beauvoir's influence on contemporary readers and society. Title and abstracts for ... See more
Posted 27 January 2012

Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch

Leadership and Decision-Making in the Romance Epic
Leadership as portrayed through decision-making: values, uncertainties, and relevant issues in a ... See more
Posted 24 November 2011

Society for Critical Exchange

Debt Theory
What is the nature and theory of debt? What does it mean to be in debt to another? What is the role ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Pedagogies of Debt
How is pedagogy shaped by debt? What roles do student and intellectual debt have in the classroom? ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature

Early Modern Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism: The ability to experience people of different nations, creeds, ethnicities; to ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

Medieval Gender and Space
This panel will address how theoretical discussions of gender intersect with architectural space, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

The Road Less Traveled: Female Shape-Shifting and Alternatives to Agency
Female shape-shifting/metamorphosis is a way to sidestep medieval gender boundaries and acquire ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature

What's Place Got To Do With It? Voices and Visions in Midwestern Literature
Is there a renewed interest in Midwestern Literature? Should there be? title, one page abstract, ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012

Society for the Study of Southern Literature

Southern Heroes
Larger-than-life figures, from Civil Rights activists to Confederate veterans to celebrated ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

The Undead South: Beyond the Gothic
Death, deathways, and hauntings in literature, cinema, music, comics, etc., uncoupling ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012, last updated 13 February 2012

South Asian Literary Association

Mapping a New Ethics for a Globalized South Asia
Papers on contemporary South Asian literature and cinema exploring the ethics of globalization, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

South Asians in North America
Issues of history, culture, representation, theory - including and beyond race, ethnicity, class, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Translation in Sri Lankan Conflict Literature: Challenges, Opportunities, Implications
Papers on the aftermath of the ethnic conflict, emphasis on reconciliation through and challenges ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Thoreau Society

Recovering Thoreau’s Topography
How have recent projects in digital mapping, biogeography, cultural geography, and environmental ... See more
Posted 23 August 2011

Western Literature Association

Remembering the American West
Some western writers rely on notes/memories to write about the American West from the East. How do ... See more
Posted 21 December 2011

William Carlos Williams Society

Williams & Armory at 100
Honoring the centennial of the Armory Show, this panel will explore William Carlos Wlliams's ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012

William Faulkner Society

Faulkner and Hemingway: Changing the Game
Comparative approaches to the two writers/icons taking the conversation beyond "rivalry." ... See more
Posted 15 September 2011

Faulkner's Publics
Interactions between Faulkner and diverse public constituencies during his lifetime and afterward. ... See more
Posted 31 October 2011, last updated 6 November 2011

Fictions of Power: Faulkner and Energy
How/where does Faulkner engage modern energy ecologies? What power sources “fuel” Yoknapatawpha, ... See more
Posted 31 October 2011, last updated 6 November 2011

William Morris Society

Print and Beyond: Publishing Rossetti, Morris and the Aesthetes
This proposed joint session with SHARP will consider 19th and 20th century presentations of ... See more
Posted 12 January 2012

William Morris and the East Coast
Papers should consider the influence of Morris's writings, Morris and Co., and the Arts and Crafts ... See more
Posted 12 January 2012

Women in French

Périodes charnières dans les vies de femmes
How contemporary women writing in French evoke key moments (birth, death, maternity etc.) and their ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012, last updated 24 February 2012

Women in German

Child Protagonists in (German) Literature and Film
Papers welcomed on works set in German-speaking Europe featuring child protagonists who demonstrate ... See more
Posted 2 January 2012, last updated 5 February 2012

Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages

Gender and Contingent Labor
How is contingent labor feminized (or not) on your campus? We particularly seek examples of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Gender Work and Two-Year Colleges
We’re interested in the material conditions of, and organizing activities in response to, gender ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Labor Negotiations: Family Medical Leave
Schools have official and unofficial practices about eldercare, parenting, and medical leave. We're ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Wordsworth-Coleridge Association

British Romantic Books
Essays should examine book production and publishing history, libraries and learned societies, ... See more
Posted 8 January 2012

Community College Humanities Association

Re-visioning Concord: A 21st Century Look at the New England Transcendentalists
New approaches to reading and/or teaching the Transcendentalists. Stacey Lee Donohue at See more
Posted 17 January 2012, last updated 19 January 2012

John Clare Society of North America

John Clare: Nature and the Self
Papers addressing any aspect of John Clare's poetry and prose, especially regarding his ... See more
Posted 16 November 2011

Society for Textual Scholarship

Crossed Codes
Papers exploring prescience of the digital encoded in pre-digital printed works or uncanny print ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

Print and Beyond: Publishing Rossetti, Morris and the Aesthetes
This proposed joint session with the William Morris Society will consider material presentations of ... See more
Posted 14 January 2012

Printing Science
SHARP is seeking papers that detail facets of the historic or contemporary symbiosis between ... See more
Posted 13 January 2012

Divisions

American Literature

American Indian Literatures

Native Literary Boston
This panel seeks papers on Boston as a space, hub, and/or crossroads of Native American and ... See more
Posted 12 January 2012

Sovereignty and the Archive
We seek papers that consider the politics of the archive, broadly conceived, of Native American ... See more
Posted 12 January 2012

American Literature to 1800

Early American Temporalities
New work on temporality in early America: aesthetics, economics, history, natural history, ... See more
Posted 12 January 2012

Asian American Literature

Has Asian American Literary Studies Failed?
Evaluations of the public, political, intellectual, and institutional successes and shortcomings of ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012

Illness and Disability in Asian American Literature
Literary representations of illness, disability, and trauma as complex and productive metaphors in ... See more
Posted 24 January 2012

Narratives and Politics of Transracial Adoption
Considerations of autobiographical, fictional, and polemical writing about transracial and ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Textual Sensations: Sensoria and Disorder in Asian American Texts
Papers exploring sensory, emotional, affective reordering of subjectivity, how sensoria textures ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Black American Literature and Culture

The Black Diaspora and the Digital Humanities
This panel invites theoretical inquiries (digital injustice/divide) into the impact of new media as ... See more
Posted 22 February 2012

Chicana and Chicano Literature

Chicana Feminisms: Past, Present, and Futures
Innovative treatments of theory and literature, including, but not limited to, engagement with ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012, last updated 13 March 2012

Networked Chican@s
Interdisciplinary approaches to digital, social, and/or new media as they relate specifically to ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012, last updated 13 March 2012

Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature

Materializing Urban Ecologies in the late C19 and early C20 US
Abstracts exploring the intersection of the material conditions of urban life and broadly-defined ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

Nineteenth-Century American Literature

A Critical Past?
Americanists are fond of declaring their independence from earlier generations of critics. Of what ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Twentieth-Century American Literature

Libraries in the 21st Century
From Occupy Library to shrinking prison libraries to personal libraries stored in "clouds": what’s ... See more
Posted , last updated 2 March 2012

Networks, Webs and Ecosystems
Climate change, terrorism, financial markets, social networks, the drug-trade, the internet, ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

Comparative Studies

Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Exotic Epistemologies
What kinds of knowledge and apprehension constitute exotic epistemologies? Does literary form ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012, last updated 10 February 2012

The Many 18th Centuries of Orientalism
18th-Century Orientalism mediated between distant sociocultural spaces and temporalities, between ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature

Literature and the Other Disciplines: In Honor of Eugene Vance
Effects and environments---of a cultural, social, intellectual, discursive or other kind---produced ... See more
Posted 11 January 2012

Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature

Food and Culture
Eating and drinking, production and consumption, gastronomy and nourishment: we request papers ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012, last updated 30 January 2012

Is there a Baroque novel?
Proposals should reflect directly or indirectly on historical, stylistic, or generic implications ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012, last updated 30 January 2012

The Renaissance Dialogue
This panel will study the Renaissance dialogue in comparative context. All approaches and examples ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century

Anthropomorphism
Papers on anthropomorphism, with a particular interest in critical or strategic uses in or in ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

Risk
We request papers addressing the topic of risk as it intersects with Comparative Studies in ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012, last updated 6 February 2012

Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Alternative Voices of the Mediterranean Basin
Mediterranean authors belonging to cultures less often studied (Slavs, Turks, Arabs, Berbers), or ... See more
Posted 21 January 2012

Theory: A 20th-Century Genre
The rise and fall of Big-T or Grand Theory in the 20th century. Abstracts of up to 500 words (or ... See more
Posted 12 September 2011, last updated 7 November 2011

European Literary Relations

Dada and Surrealism in/from Romania
Highlighted will be scholarship on the interdisciplinary and transnational nature of Dada and ... See more
Posted 18 January 2012

Napoleon as a Literary Figure
200 years ago the Napoleonic Era came to an end. European writers and film makers have shaped his ... See more
Posted 18 January 2012

English Literature

Chaucer

Chaucer and Philosophy: A Session in Honor of Eugene A. Vance
Where do we find “philosophical” or “theoretical” Chaucer? Papers might address medieval or modern ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

Dirty Chaucer
Famously, the fabliaux are the dirty bits of the 'Canterbury Tales.’ But how can we rethink Chaucer ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

English Literature Other Than British and American

Minorities and National Literatures
Refugees, sexual, ethnic, religious, regional minorities and the national canon. How do the ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

The English Romantic Period

The University of Romanticism
See Prelude VII:52-57. Relation of Romantic writers/writing to institutions, practices of learning, ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Mixture and Impurity
Against ancient privilege for purity (of blood, essence, genre), the eighteenth century discovered ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Slow Time
We invite papers that complicate assumptions about modernity's acceleration of time, including ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature

Circuits of Comparison
Papers on methods or theories of comparison attentive to the global circuits that produce the ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

Scales of Comparison
Papers on comparison, or using comparative methods, that foreground issues of scale, with respect ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012, last updated 5 February 2012

Sites of Comparison
Papers on comparison or using comparative methods relating to the issue of sites, with respect to ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012, last updated 4 February 2012

Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare

Women Writing in Early Modern Manuscript Studies
How do manuscript materials by early modern women help us to rethink assumptions about reading, ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer

Humanisms Old and New: A Roundtable
This panel invites short statements about premodern, early modern, modern, or postmodern humanism, ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

Medieval Things: Ecology, Ecomaterialism, Environmentalism
New Materialism and medieval literature: green readings where “web” is privileged over that of ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

Old English Language and Literature

Affectively Anglo-Saxon
Papers exploring emotions, emotional expression, sensory experiences, interiority, and the various ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Anglo-Saxon Legalities
Papers on any aspect of Anglo-Saxon law and literature, including legal language and metaphors, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Early Medieval Materialisms
Papers on early medieval discussions of physical objects, materiality, holy matter, material ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Medieval Sexualities
Papers on any aspect of medieval sexuality and erotic life. Papers on Anglo-Saxon topics especially ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Celebrity, Fame, Notoriety
Extending discussion in PMLA/October 2011, papers addressing celebrity, fame, or notoriety in any ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Edmund Spenser in the 18th Century
A session exploring Spenser’s presence in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature, ... See more
Posted 14 December 2011

The Long Restoration
Papers that address the persistence of Restoration moods, modes, and models into the early ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Open Access? ECCO, EEBO, and Digital Resources
Theoretical or practical implications of proprietary and open databases for research and teaching; ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Seventeenth-Century English Literature

"Demons, Witches, and Other Objects of Hatred."
Papers sought that address the imagination of evil or alienness in 17th-century English literature. ... See more
Posted 28 January 2012, last updated 30 January 2012

"Were there 'Metaphysical' Poets? Definitions, Practices, Dismissals."
Papers sought that interrogate or embrace the critical category of “metaphysical” poetry. Abstract ... See more
Posted 28 January 2012, last updated 30 January 2012

Shakespeare

Supernatural Shakespeare
providence; demonology; science and magic; preternature; miracles vs wonders; angels; demons; ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

Twentieth-Century English Literature

Public Poetry
How does British, Scottish, or Irish poetry respond to the Welfare State, Thatcherism, New Labour? ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012

The Victorian Period

Victorian Attention
“Paying” attention, attending to others, absorption, noticing, considering, learning, memorizing, ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

Victorian Distraction
Diversion—literal and figurative; hobbies, travel; fugue states, madness, confusion, ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

French Literature

Eighteenth-Century French Literature

American Lumières: Transantlantic Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century
Proposals should address any variety of intellectual interaction between France and the Americas ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

Causes, Affaires, Engagements
How do they define, undermine, nuance our understanding of the French eighteenth century? Inviting ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

The Enlightenment and the Ancients
How has our understanding of the Enlightenment been transformed by recent work that places the ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012

Francophone Literatures and Cultures

Eloge de la créolité: 25 Years Later
Anticipating Éloge de la Créolité's 25th anniversary, this session will discuss this seminal work ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012, last updated 13 February 2012

Francophonies digitales (collaborative session with CIEF)
Impact des technologies digitales sur les études francophones: soutien à la diffusion des textes et ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012, last updated 13 February 2012

Re/Thinking the Animal and the Human in Francophone Literatures and Media
Recent scholarship has examined the Animal in relation to the Human. This session will reevaluate ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012, last updated 13 February 2012

French Medieval Language and Literature

Honoring Eugene Vance
Papers on any aspect of medieval French and Francophone literature relating to the life and work of ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Medieval Lives: Angelic, Animal, All Too Human
Meditations on the limits of life in medieval Francophone texts. How are human/angelic/animal lives ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Human Rights and Literature
The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man as unfinished business: excluded social categories; ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012

Technologies
An exploration of inventions, machines, technologies that shaped nineteenth-century culture and ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012

Seventeenth-Century French Literature

The Miraculous
How do the extraordinary and the unexpected become the Miraculous? What role does the Miraculous ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012, last updated 4 February 2012

Premodern Affects
Roundtable on Affect Theory in scholarship from either side of the Cartesian mind/body divide; its ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Terminus: dénouement, catastrophe, finale
Considerations of literary, philosophical, aesthetic generic ends: tragic catastrophe, epiphanic ... See more
Posted 4 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012

Sixteenth-Century French Literature

Current Research in Sixteenth-Century French Literature
Proposals for 15-minute papers on all aspects of 16th century French literature are welcome. Work ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

Premodern Affects
Roundtable on Affect Theory in scholarship from either side of the Cartesian mind/body divide; its ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012

Translation and translatio in the French Renaissance
Papers on all aspects of translation and translatio are welcome: linguistic disseminations; ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012, last updated 12 February 2012

Twentieth-Century French Literature

Imagine a World Without Animals?
Considering presentations on the influential presence of animals in French and Francophone ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Rancière: Literary/Cinematic Democracies
How might Rancière’s thought on democracy, politics and aesthetics spur new approaches to current ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Genre Studies

Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing

Building Ethnic and National Identities through Life Writing
Historically and today, life-writing has been deployed to construct community around the world. ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

Curating Lives: Museums, Archives, Online Sites
What is the significance of curating "lives" for archival preservation, museum exhibitions or ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

Graphic Lives in Wartime
Papers examining the depiction of selves, experiences, and memories of wartime in all types of ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012, last updated 9 February 2012

Drama

Performing Urbanisms
We invite proposals that focus on theater and the city; theater beyond the city; gentrification, ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

Political Theater?
We invite proposals that focus on investigations of citizenship; electoral rituals, campaigning, ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

Film

Animated Film in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Past masters and current trends; theories of film-making; the impact of new technology. 300-word ... See more
Posted 22 February 2012

Comics, Moving Images, and Intermedial Criticism
How have modes of analyzing moving images informed approaches to comics and graphic novels? How do ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012, last updated 22 February 2012

The Divided Spectators of Post-Colonial Cinema
What viewing positions have films produced by colonial powers constructed for colonized and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Shame
Shame as fundamental affect in cinema, psychoanalysis, ethics, and politics. Questions of the ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism in Africa
Papers of broad interest to MLA members concerning critical movements, individual critics, or ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

Literary Criticism in East Asia
Papers of broad interest to MLA members concerning critical movements, individual critics, or ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

Literary Criticism in Latin America
Papers of broad interest to MLA members concerning critical movements, individual critics, or ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

Methods of Literary Research

Bibliography in the Digital Age
The digital future of descriptive and analytical bibliography (digital tools; theoretical and ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012

Numbers and Letters: Empirical Method in Literary Studies
How are numbers and data useful to literary scholars? How might the tasks of reading/counting be ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012, last updated 30 January 2012

Old Wine in New Wineskin: The Collected Works Project in the Digital Age
Session examines current collected works projects—funding, archiving, virtual representation, ... See more
Posted 23 January 2012, last updated 30 January 2012

Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography

Christopher Hitchens and his Legacy
Following his recent death, we should consider the legacy of this master essayist and public ... See more
Posted 24 January 2012

Representing Genocide and Civil Conflict in Nonfiction Narrative
Creative nonfiction narratives addressing 20th and 21st Century genocidal violence and civil ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Shaping Public Opinion in 2012
Contested terms: inequality, opportunity, democracy, debt, government, freedom, values, education, ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Poetry

Lyric Theory
The Poetry Division solicits papers on any aspect of Lyric Theory: historical approaches, or ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012, last updated 14 February 2012

Prose Fiction

Prose Beyond the Novel
New theories and old debates about non-novelistic prose genres – short stories, essays, journalism, ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Prose Fiction as/against Poetry
New theories and old debates about separation and intermediality. What identifies fiction as not ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

German Literature

Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature

The End
concepts/ figurations of the end/endings, approached thematically and/or formally (e.g., ends as ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

Mathematics in the Goethezeit
We seek papers that explore ways in which different aspects of mathematics intersected with ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012, last updated 1 February 2012

What Stories Are They/We Telling: Narration in 18th Century German Literature
narration in/about 18th c German Literature, resonance, legacy today, incl. Digital Age, new ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

German Literature to 1700

Open Session
We invite submissions for papers on any topic of medieval and/or early modern German literature. ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

Open Session on Medieval/Early Modern German Literature
We invite submissions for papers on any topic of medieval and/or early modern German literature. ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature

Bildung
Philosophical and literary origins and development of the idea of Bildung since the Goethezeit or ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012, last updated 17 February 2012

Bildung and the Humanities
Bildung in current discussions of humanities, new justifications and critiques, how issues in its ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Twentieth-Century German Literature

Translation Unbound
Seeking papers that explore translation as a mode of textual expansion, as text "unbound." How does ... See more
Posted 27 January 2012

Hispanic Literatures

Colonial Latin American Literatures

Baroque Forces
What is the force of the Baroque? Papers that analyze violence, movement, energy, or power in ... See more
Posted 21 January 2012

NATURAL AND MORAL CHAOS IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
Papers that analyze colonial Latin American texts/discourses dealing with natural ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature

Gender and Empire
What role has gender played in Spanish empire, from the 16th-19th centuries? How have gender and ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012, last updated 8 February 2012

Literature and History: Disciplinary Relations in Peninsular Studies
How do we approach the rewarding yet sometimes problematic intersections and disjunctions between ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

New Media in XVIII and XIX-Century Spain
How did 'new" techniques and technologies (e.g. woodcut illustrations, mass media, serialized ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900

Geographical Culture
The role of geography (discourse, discipline, institution, environment, etc.) in Latin American ... See more
Posted 21 January 2012

Material Culture I: Consumption and Commodities
Consumption and commodities in nineteenth-century Latin America, as related to affectivity, the ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature

Lusophone Eco-Criticism
What is the relation between culture and nature in artistic production? How does art represent ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012, last updated 8 February 2012

National Literatures
To what extent do national literatures represent the national character? How to understand "nation" ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012, last updated 24 January 2012

Spaces at the Margins/Alternative Spaces
Cultural productions (literature, music, film, theater, etc.) forged from within marginal and/or ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012, last updated 8 February 2012

Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Iberia Unbound
Abstracts on research that considers medieval Iberia not as delimited by geographic boundaries, but ... See more
Posted 22 January 2012

New Currents in Medieval Hispanic Studies
The Division of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures invites abstracts on new ... See more
Posted 19 January 2012

Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama

Censorship and the Spanish Comedia
Acts and programs of censorship on texts, performances, performers, and producers of comedias from ... See more
Posted 14 January 2012

Cognitive Theories and the Comedia
Papers exploring how cognitive theories shed new light on early modern Spanish drama and how the ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

The Morisco Minority in Spanish Early Modern Drama
The presence the Muslim minority in Spanish dramatic texts, including the Granada uprising of 1568, ... See more
Posted 14 January 2012

Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose

Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares
Production, Reception, Influence in Spain and Beyond. Collaborative Session with Cervantes Society ... See more
Posted 4 February 2012, last updated 6 February 2012

Quevedo Politics
Satire and the public sphere, crisis and criticism, invective. 1-page abstract 2-page cv by 15 ... See more
Posted 12 January 2012

Violence and Representation
War, captivity, cruelty, torture. 1-page abstract 2-page cv by 15 March 2012; Barbara Fuchs ... See more
Posted 12 January 2012

Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature

Circuits of Comparison
Papers on methods or theories of comparison attentive to the global circuits that produce the ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

Gender[ed] Performativities in Latin American and Latin@ Graphic Novels
Explores the theme in contemporary graphic novels from Latin America and/or by Latin@s in the USA; ... See more
Posted 13 January 2012

Literary Critics in/from Latin America
Discussions of and engagements with literary critics (including but not limited to scholars, ... See more
Posted 12 January 2012, last updated 13 January 2012

Questions of Flight
This panel seeks discussions on the themes of escape into or out of Latin America in aesthetic, ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature

Embodiment and Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Peninsular Culture
Theoretical and critical explorations of embodiment in Spanish Peninsular cultural texts and ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

Emotions and Affects in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Spanish Culture
This panel invites reflection on aesthetic, political, social, somatic and psychological ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

Life Stories: Biography and Autobiography
Critical explorations of the cultural factors involved in the writing and marketing of biographies ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Anthropological Approaches to Literature

Reading Society
Reading Society. New interpretive methods provided by key practitioners of anthropology/sociology ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012

Children's Literature

Child Protagonists in (German) Literature and Film
Papers welcomed on works set in German-speaking Europe featuring child protagonists who demonstrate ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012, last updated 6 February 2012

Make Way for Boston: Children’s Literature and New England
Investigating “Avenues of Access," this panel considers the ideological and spatial ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012, last updated 6 February 2012

Margin Call: Children's Poetry
This session explores the nature of children’s poetry and its problematic relationship to the study ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012, last updated 6 February 2012

Theorizing the Early Reader Chapter Book
This session works to theorize the early reader chapter book, a category of children's literature ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012, last updated 6 February 2012

Cognitive Approaches to Literature

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention
We invite papers on perception, focus, and attention, as well as lack of attention (e.g. ADHD) in ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012

Cognitive Theories and the Comedia
Papers exploring how cognitive theories shed new light on early modern Spanish drama and how the ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012

The Past, Present, and Future of Cognitive Literary Studies (Round Table)
We invite papers reflecting on the history, current state, and new directions of this ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012

Disability Studies

Disability Studies Methodologies
Seeking new approaches to disability studies including interdisciplinary, historical and cultural ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012, last updated 2 February 2012

Interiorities of Disability
Subjectivities actively navigating processes of internalized stigma, shame, subjection, ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

"A rough hewn verse:" Disability and Poetic Traditions
Referencing disabled bodies in poetical traditions. We invite papers on the intersection of ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature

1898 and the Legacy of Empire
Treating Puerto Rican and/or Filipino identity negotiated through language choice or linguistic ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

South Asians in North America
Issues of history, culture, representation, theory--including and beyond race, ethnicity, class, ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

W.E.B. Du Bois and the 21st-Century Color Line
Examining Du Bois's relevance to comparative, global and interdisciplinary studies of race, class, ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Gay Studies in Language and Literature

Medieval Sexualities
Papers on any aspect of medieval sexuality and erotic life. Anglo-Saxon topics especially welcome. ... See more
Posted 23 February 2012, last updated 25 February 2012

Queer Occupation
Critical/political queerings of "occupation": inhabitation, cohabitation, work as ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012, last updated 12 February 2012

Linguistic Approaches to Literature

The Linguistic Construction of Narrative Space
Papers exploring linguistic approaches to the interaction of style and narrative space: character ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012, last updated 22 February 2012

Literature and Other Arts

Archaic Returns: Alchemies of Old and New Media
This session will explore the techno-historical palimpsest through which the so-called “new” media ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Experiential Aesthetics: Psychophysics, Pragmatism, Intersensoriality
This panel investigates 21st-century readings of aesthetic experience in literary studies and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Experimental Theory: From the Arcades Project to The Telephone Book and Beyond
This session addresses literary, graphic, sonic, and performative experiments conducted by 20th- ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Literature and Religion

Faith and Travel
Two-page proposals invited for MLA 2012 panel on Faith and Travel, sponsored by the Division on ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012

Literature and Science

Scientific Findings on the Benefits of Literary Study and Performance
Empirical research regarding effects on emotional intelligence, empathy, etc.; critiques of ... See more
Posted 12 January 2012, last updated 18 January 2012

Scientific Narrative and the American Public Sphere
Scientific and literary accounts of the human, with attention to post-WWII U.S. class formations, ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

Philosophical Approaches to Literature

Responses to Werner Hamacher's
Reflections on the challenges Hamacher's Theses present; explorations of their implications for ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Popular Culture

Adaptation
Does the explosion of adaptations across platforms -- books to comics, video games to film, ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture

Postcolonial African Cinema
"Commercial" Nollywood/Gollywood looks beyond violence and political dysfunction. How have recent ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Theorizng Migration
Do we view the undocumented as workers? As migrants? What are the global, political implications of ... See more
Posted , last updated 24 February 2012

Psychological Approaches to Literature

Fantasizing Stardom
Fantasizing Stardom Star/celebrity culture from a psychoanalytic perspective. Psychical origins and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Shame
Shame Shame as fundamental affect in cinema, psychoanalysis, ethics, and politics. Questions of the ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Sociological Approaches to Literature

The Experience of Class in the Academy
Upward mobility, debt, academic labor, precarity, graduate school, comportment, pedagogy, class in ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

The New Racial Capitalism
Papers on genealogies, rationalities, and apparatuses of contemporary racial capitalism, in which ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Women's Studies in Language and Literature

The Bed Is the Front Line of the Struggle
How do depictions of sexual relations in western and Arabic literatures reflect and inform ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012

Italian Literature

Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature

ITALY AND THE OTHERS
Muslims, Transalpines, pilgrims, merchants, etc...: non-Italians as seen by the inhabitants of the ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012, last updated 18 January 2012

ITALY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
The role of Italy and Italian dialects in the Mediterranean as portrayed in literary, legal, ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012

LAW AND LITERATURE
Legal concepts and jargon inspiring literature. Law and jurisprudence informing the literary text. ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012

Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature

Games, Tricks, and Illusions
Papers can address games, tricks, and illusions as literary topics or cultural practices. What kind ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

Human and Non-Human
Papers will explore the relationship and question the boundaries between the human and non-human ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

Twentieth-Century Italian Literature

Disability Studies in the Italian Context
Representations and theories of disabilities and difference in Italian cultural production. ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

Intermediality in Modern and Contemporary Italy
papers addressing interaction of media in various forms of Italian culture: film, literature, ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

Reinventing Italy's Past
How do Italians reimagine their past in order to create their modernity between 800 and 900? ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Language Studies

Applied Linguistics

Learning Outcomes in Online Second Language Learning Environments
Papers examining online L2 learning environments with a focus on learners' production as well as ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

Second Language Development through Collaborative Learning
Papers exploring the relationship between group/pair work and sociolinguistic competence, fluency, ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

Translation in Second Language Development: Access or Barrier?
Papers that justify, situate, and/or problematize translation as a component of the World Languages ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

The History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition

Promotion, Tenure, and Digital Scholarship
This panel considers practices and places that have successfully connected traditional criteria for ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Language Change

At What Cost Change? Language Preservation, Identity, and Public Policy
As language changes, what else happens? How should we respond? All languages and methodological ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Language Change and Changing Work: A Roundtable
As the academy changes, why does linguistics remain important for MLA disciplines? Papers in any ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Language Theory

Language Change and Changing Work: A Roundtable
As the academy changes, why does linguistics remain important for MLA disciplines? Papers in any ... See more
Posted , last updated 21 February 2012

Language-Free Literary Studies
Aren't the advantages of a vernacular obvious--that change and variation are always everywhere? ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012, last updated 21 February 2012

Open Session
Any aspect of language theory. 200-800 word abstracts by 12 March 2012; Mary Blockley ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012, last updated 21 February 2012

Language and Society

Languages of the Occupy Movement
Mic checks, jazz hands, tweets, human microphones—these are just a few of the languages of OWS that ... See more
Posted 10 February 2012

Other Languages & Literatures

African Literatures

AFRICAN QUEER STUDIES?
Seeking theoretically informed examinations of LGBTIQ issues in African literatures and film. What ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012, last updated 16 February 2012

African Testimonial Literature
Papers examining the value of African testimonial literature, real and fictional, including ... See more
Posted 9 January 2012, last updated 18 February 2012

Gendered Violence in African Literature and Film
Papers discuss the voicing, sites, and representations of gendered violence in African Literature ... See more
Posted 9 January 2012, last updated 13 January 2012

Arabic Literature and Culture

The Bed Is the Front Line of the Struggle
How do depictions of sexual relations in western and Arabic literatures reflect and inform ... See more
Posted 23 January 2012

Cultures of the Arab Uprisings
What tropes, forms and narratives are at work in promoting, channeling or quelling the ongoing ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

Religion and Secularism in Arabic Literature Today
How does contemporary Arabic literature cast light on the religious and secular encounter? Does ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

Unfound in Translation
What are the linguistic, cultural, social or economic challenges to translating from Arabic? Panel ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900

The Affect of Difference
Papers that theorize affect in literary studies across East Asia, with particular emphasis on the ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012

Reciprocal Accessibility: What can the MLA and East Asian divisions achieve together?
Reciprocal accessibility to the theories and historical knowledge in Anglo-European and East Asian ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900

Critical Theory in Premodern East Asian Literature
Readings of premodern East Asian texts for resonance with current topics of theoretical debate. ... See more
Posted 11 January 2012, last updated 13 January 2012

Language and Literature in North Korea
Cultural development in North Korea from the post-Liberation period to the present, including ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012

The Materiality of Writing in East Asia
On the materiality and social practice of writing in pre-1900 East Asia cultures, including ... See more
Posted 8 January 2012

Slavic and East European Literatures

Animated Film in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Past masters and current trends; theories of film-making; the impact of new technology. 300-word ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Embodiments of Identity in the Slavic Grotesque
The panel invites papers examining literary constructions of identity in the grotesque mode. ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

Gay Culture in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Gay writers past and present; queer identity; changing social norms; cultural spaces and texts. ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Three Worlds as Theory, Reality and Historical Legacy
Three worlds theory as an object of cultural and literary history; legacies both imagined and real; ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Teaching

Teaching as a Profession

Teachers' Credos
As a teacher, what is your credo? Abstract of 250 words by 2 March 2012; Vincent B. Leitch ... See more
Posted 22 January 2012, last updated 24 January 2012

The Teaching of Language

Developing Translingual and Transcultural Competence in Language Programs
Session critically examines the framework of the 2007 MLA Report's call for the development of ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012, last updated 6 February 2012

The Post-Communicative Context and 21st-Century Faculty
This session discusses theoretical approaches to L2 teaching/ learning in the ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012, last updated 6 February 2012

The Teaching of Literature

Teaching Literature in the Student-Centered Classroom
Papers on any aspect of moving to a student-centered approach to teaching literature. 300-word ... See more
Posted 26 January 2012

The Teaching of Writing

Rethinking Delivery at Conferences
This panel will demonstrate how digital technologies can reshape our views of conferences, of ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Discussion Groups

Age Studies

Age and/as Disability
Intertwining of age and disability through ageism (age as disability), denial (insistence upon ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Age, Obsolescence, and New Media
Panelists will consider the implications of age and obsolescence for individuals, objects, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Arthurian Literature

Reciprocity: Competition and Game-Playing in the Arthurian World
We solicit papers exploring any aspect of competition, exchange, game-playing, and reciprocity in ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

Bibliography and Textual Studies

Digital Archives and Their Margins
How have digital archives, as recovery projects for marginalized texts, fared in the past decade? ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Canadian Literature in English

Image, Voice, Text: Canadian literature
How have recent projects exploring the borderline between the oral, written, and visual—graphic ... See more
Posted 5 September 2011, last updated 6 September 2011

Catalan Language and Literature

The Internationalization of Catalan Culture
Papers that analyze the opportunities and challenges that internationalization has presented and ... See more
Posted 28 January 2012

Classical Studies and Modern Literature

Ovid Then and Now
How has Ovid’s Metamorphosis been utilized by modern writers? Proposals invited on works of modern ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012

Comics and Graphic Narratives

Black Studies and Comics
How Black Studies might inform comic scholarship and vice versa, to promote greater understanding ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

Graphic Lives in Wartime
Papers examining the depiction of selves, experiences, and memories of wartime in all types of ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

New England DIY Comics
Papers that analyze New England DIY comics /minicomics as unique, handcrafted objects and their ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

Comparative Romance Linguistics

Selected Topics in Comparative Romance Linguistics
A wide range of participants and approaches is welcome, with preference given to papers addressing ... See more
Posted 24 January 2012

Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production

Rethinking Race, Class and Nation:
Papers discussing racial, socio-economic and/or national identity in cultural production of Cuba ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012, last updated 18 February 2012

Folklore and Literature

The Future of Things: Folklore and Literature through Material Culture
Folklore works with Material Culture Studies (like Thing Theory), to reveal how authors project ... See more
Posted 10 February 2012

Transnationalism and Folklore: Strangers, Acquaintances, or Much More?
How does Folklore, as analyzed in literature, anticipate or coordinate with Transnationalism? How ... See more
Posted 10 February 2012

General Linguistics

"Fossilized"-Languages in the 21st-Century
Session explores linguistic attributes of languages/dialects often considered fossilized and how ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

Germanic Philology

Topics in Germanic Linguistics and Philology
20–minute papers, addressing any aspect of Germanic Linguistics and/or Philology, including English ... See more
Posted 10 January 2012

Hebrew Literature

Memoir in Hebrew Fiction, Fiction in Hebrew Memoir
Fiction-memoir integration. Interpretive or pedagogical approaches to content and stylistic ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Hungarian Literature

Hungarian Literature and Culture Abroad
We invite papers on digital/print access to Hungarian literature, art and culture from abroad; ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Teaching and Hungarian Identity Formation
Papers on the formation of Hungarian identity through the teaching of Hungarian literature, history ... See more
Posted 22 February 2012

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society

Biopolitics and Their Limits
This panel will address the theoretical turn to biopolitics, biopolitical production, ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

Italian American Literature

Comparative Mediterranean American Literatures
Literary works by Americans of Mediterranean origins (Anatolian, Levantine, Maghrebi, Southern ... See more
Posted 24 January 2012

Saccos and Vanzettis: Revisiting Italian-American Radicalism
Roundtable presentations that reconsider literary and historical depictions of the role of social ... See more
Posted 14 January 2012

Jewish American Literature

Jewish-American Literature Goes Global
How has Jewish-American literature impacted people around the world? Abstracts by 19 March 2012; ... See more
Posted 23 January 2012

Talking Jewish
What presuppositions occur when writing critically about Jewish-American writers, either within the ... See more
Posted 23 January 2012

The Transnational Within: Writing American Jewish Literatures in Other Languages
Papers on translations of Jewish writing into and out of English, or on reading overlooked American ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Jewish Cultural Studies

What is (a) Jewish Language?
Papers examining the role of language (choice) in performing Jewish identity in literature, visual ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

Law as Literature

Intention, Motivation, and Agency in Law and Literature
Papers exploring how intention operates, is represented, interpreted, engaged with, or deployed in ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Law, Media, and Rhetoric
How have new media challenged rhetoric and law, drawn new responses from them, and energized the ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Panel: Law and Literature: The State of the Field
Law/literature scholars assess twenty-five years of work in the field and chart some promising ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Lexicography

Digital Dictionaries
Dictionaries once stood apart, as bound paper: now they gloss digital text digitally. Who uses ... See more
Posted 22 November 2011, last updated 28 November 2011

Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English

Multilingual American Literature
We seek papers on any of the growing number of literary works written in mingled English and other ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012

Lusophone Literatures and Cultures outside Portugal and Brazil

Variation and Translation in Lusophone Cultures
Diversity and language contact in the Lusophone world. Border areas (e.g., Southern Cone, Lusophone ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

Media and Literature

Reading, Reading Machines, and Machine Reading
This panel examines reading as a medium-specific practice based in and shaped by machines, ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies

Mexico's Narrative Acts of (Re)Mediation
Have intermediaries (mis)represented Mexico? We seek paper exploring how imaginative works ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012, last updated 12 March 2012

Representations of criminality in Mexican literature and culture
This panel seeks to explore representations of criminality and banditry in Mexican literature and ... See more
Posted 12 January 2012, last updated 17 January 2012

Theorizng Migration
Do we view the undocumented as workers? As migrants? What are the global, political implications of ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Netherlandic Language and Literature

Language and culture of the Low Countries
We invite submissions for papers on any aspect of Dutch language, literature, and culture, ... See more
Posted 23 February 2012

Old Norse Language and Literature

Memory and Modes of Knowledge in Old Norse-Icelandic
Theme intended to include, but not be limited to, proverbs (for example, in Icelandic sagas). The ... See more
Posted 22 January 2012, last updated 30 January 2012

Part-Time Faculty Members

Pedagogy of the Precariat: Conference, Classroom, Community
We seek practical ideas for collapsing boundaries of this convention, embedding workplace democracy ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

Present-Day English Language

Modernity or Postmodernity?
This panel will focus on the relationship between modern and postmodern thought, as instrumental ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012, last updated 23 February 2012

Puerto Rican Literature and Culture

Puerto Rican Print Cultures
Forms, technologies, ideologies, and practices of the printed word on the island or in the ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Romance Literary Relations

Wonder and Marvel in Cross-cultural Encounter
How do writers/filmmakers describe the moment(s) of encounter? Topics include travel narratives, ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

Romanian Studies

Becoming Women: Gender Identities and Tensions in Romanian and World Literature
This panel invites comparative studies that explore social and cultural gender constructions in ... See more
Posted 14 January 2012, last updated 10 February 2012

Scandinavian Languages and Literatures

Kierkegaard's Legacies
In Kierkegaard's bicentennial year, we invite papers that consider his legacy in a variety of ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature

Religion in Science and Speculative Fiction
Representations of faith, such as new and alien religions, playing god(s), hard-wired beliefs, ... See more
Posted 9 January 2012, last updated 10 January 2012

Scottish Literature

Scottish Studies after Cultural Studies
We invite reflections on the field of Scottish studies, with special interest in new directions of ... See more
Posted 7 January 2012, last updated 18 January 2012

Sephardic Studies

Bridges Between Past, Present and Future Sephardic Cultures, Literatures and Identities
Abstracts/Papers in English. Please send short bio, title and abstract by 15 March 2012; Johann ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012, last updated 17 February 2012

Slavic Literatures and Cultures

Central and Eastern European Culture through Emotion
Papers that exemplify how attention to emotions, as affect but also as socially conditioned ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Modern Tragedy, East of Europe
Theoretically engaged investigations of tragedy as aesthetic, philosophical, or political strategy. ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012, last updated 19 February 2012

South Asian Languages and Literatures

South Asian Periodical Culture
This panel explores the history, development, and contemporary life of periodical culture on the ... See more
Posted , last updated 28 February 2012

The Parchment of Kashmir
This panel explores the concept of Kashmiriyat which requires the revitalization of political, ... See more
Posted , last updated 28 February 2012

Mapping Pre-1965 South Asian America
Literary representations, theoretical analyses of early migration and settlement in North America; ... See more
Posted , last updated 28 February 2012

Southern Literature

The South and Sexuality
This panel will explore the myriad roles sexuality has played in the literature of the U.S. South. ... See more
Posted 23 January 2012

Translation

Materialities of Translation
Papers dealing with instances of interlingual transfer attentive to material aspects of language, ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012, last updated 17 February 2012

The Transnational Within: Writing American Jewish Literatures in Other Languages
Papers on translations of Jewish writing into and out of English, or on reading overlooked American ... See more
Posted , last updated 28 February 2012

Travel Literature

Travel Literature and Photography
Uses of photography in travel literature; all aspects of text-image relations in representing ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

The Two-Year College

M(other) Tongues: The Case for Biliteracy
How can we promote what has traditionally been seen as a deficit? 250-word abstract by 15 March ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

What is the next thing? Postmodern Pedagogies in the Composition Classroom
This session explores alternatives to the research paper, innovative pedagogy, and classroom best ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

Yiddish Literature

Hybridity and Multilingualism in Yiddish
This session solicits papers that investigate points of contact and engagement between Yiddish and ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012

American Literature Sections

American Literature Section

scientific narrative and the american public sphere
Scientific and literary accounts of the human, attending to post-WWII US class formations, media ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

MLA Committees

Committee on Community Colleges

The Duality of Assessment: Tool of Instruction, Weapon of Destruction
Papers exploring uses of assessment that inform and enrich instruction, and misuses that limit, ... See more
Posted 27 January 2012

“This is Not the Ivy Tower” – Scholarship at Community Colleges
Papers addressing the assumption that academic research doesn’t belong in Community Colleges. Can ... See more
Posted 27 January 2012, last updated 30 January 2012

Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession

Gender and Contingent Labor
How is contingent labor feminized (or not) on your campus? We particularly seek examples of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession

Age and/as Disability
Intertwining of age and disability through ageism (age as disability), denial (insistence upon ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

ASL Literature
How does ASL literature modify concepts of the literary? How do theories drawn from cinematic, ... See more
Posted 26 January 2012

Disability and the Coloniality of Power
How do classifications and embodiments of disability, race and ethnicity inflect one another in ... See more
Posted 9 January 2012, last updated 10 January 2012

Committee on Information Technology

Electronic Roundtable Demonstrating Games and Pedagogy
Electronic demonstrations may include: assignments; student results (success and failure); syllabus ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012, last updated 22 February 2012

Theorizing Digital Practice, Practicing Digital Theory
How do we theorize digital scholarship? What are the social and political implications of digital ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012, last updated 22 February 2012

Committee on Scholarly Editions

Crossed Codes
Papers exploring prescience of the digital encoded in pre-digital printed works or uncanny trace of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Digital and/or Analog Critical Editions of Continental Literature? Pros, Cons, Discussion
Does critical edition protocol resist born-digital format? Panel to discuss the case for (or ... See more
Posted 24 February 2012

Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada

Publishing Indigeneity: Future, Fact, and Fiction
How are Native poetry, fiction, speculative/experimental forms received by contemporary publishers? ... See more
Posted 20 September 2011

Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession

Terminal: Examining Master's Degrees
Roundtable on the value of and expectations for the MA in English and foreign languages as a ... See more
Posted 9 September 2011

Special Sessions

" I am a pretty piece of flesh" : The Eroticism of Male Beauty in Early Modern English Literature
All theoretical paradigms are encouraged regarding this topic. 250-500 word abstracts by 5 March ... See more
Posted 13 October 2011

The 1930s: Scholarly Politics, Political History
Seeks papers presenting new approaches to British fiction of the 1930s that consider the decade’s ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

20th Century Imperial Spain
Residues and resonances of Spain's imperial legacy in 20th Century constructions of national ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012

21rst Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism
Issues of postmodern feminism- Latin American narrative 21rst century: Marginalization, ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

The 21st Century Woman’s Historical Novel
How have historical novels written by women in the 21st century transformed, challenged, and ... See more
Posted 9 January 2012

The 411 on Roberto Bolaño's 2666
How does Bolaño's monumental novel 2666 treat issues of language and its ability to name or evade ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

Accessing Gower: Translation and Hypertextuality
The Gower Project invites presentations that focus on medieval or contemporary translations, ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Adapting Social Science Methods to Humanities Research
Session examines emerging overlap between the humanities and sociological, ethnographic, and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

The Aesthetics of Debt
Papers on the relation of aesthetic and economic debt, via Bloom or other. Abstracts by 15 March ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

The Aesthetics of Vice in French Literature (1800-present)
How do authors give form to vice, which connotes deformation? Possible topics include genre and/of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

African American Culture through the Eyes of Alan Lomax
We solicit papers dealing with ways the Lomax Collection informs modern/contemporary African ... See more
Posted 23 January 2012

After Taste: Modernism's Lingering Aesthetic
We request papers addressing the concept of taste as it persists in 20th-century literature and ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012

Agency, Identity, and the Petitionary Genre in Colonial Latin America
Strategic uses Natives, Africans, creoles, mestizo/as made of petitionary media to stake claims, ... See more
Posted 22 January 2012

'All Black Everything': Speculative Futures of Blackness
Futures of blackness/cultures of black speculation. SF blackness, black queer, black femininity, ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

All Ears: Listening as a Way of Understanding Literature
Invites papers on acts of listening in literature and literary theory. . 250 - 400 word proposal ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Alternative Early Modern Perspectives
Explores representations of animal and other non-human modalities of sensation and perception in ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

America and (the End of) the Road
From John Steinbeck to Jack Kerouac to Cormac McCarthy: changing meanings of 'the road' in American ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012

America as Access and Excess in Maurice Dantec's oeuvre
America as site of access (to literary genres, postmodern technological cultures) and source of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Amnesia and the Romantic Novel
Papers discussing the role of amnesia, forgetting or forgetfulness in late-18th or early-19th ... See more
Posted 6 January 2012

Anger in Women's Fiction
This session invites papers that address the significance of anger, pettiness, and ressentiment in ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Anglo-Saxon Futures
Papers on any aspect of futurity and/or future directions for Anglo-Saxon Literary Studies. ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Animality Studies and Its Discontents
Animality studies in relation to fields such as animal studies, critical animal studies, ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012

Antifascism and Culture
An exploration of cultural productions which use antifascism as a means of critiquing and resisting ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

The Archival Turn
Papers exploring the uses, the reconceptualization, or the lure of the archive for literary ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Articulations of Home in Contemporary Literatures of Migrancy: House, Place and Metaphor
Comparative studies of articulations of home as both place and metaphor in contemporary world ... See more
Posted 22 February 2012

Atlantic Slavery and Transatlantic Romanticisms, 1767-1867
Intimate, vexed relationship between Romantic literature (British, American, and Anglophone) and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Auden at Work
This panel addresses craft’s relation to thought. How do formal patterns embody/develop ideation? ... See more
Posted 4 February 2012

Avenues of Access for Recent PhDs
This roundtable will address the current academic climate and discuss where panelists have found ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Baby at the Breast: Representations and Discourses of Breastfeeding in Western Culture
Breastfeeding in Western literature, film, art, and contribution to/engagement with discourses of ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Ballad Modernism
This panel seeks papers that explore how theories of the ballad shaped modernist poetry and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Before Humanity
This Special Session investigates representations of time ahead of emergence, finitude, or ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

The Beginning of Now: Contemporaneity in Early Modern Writing
Papers invited on theatre, poetry, newsbooks, as explorations of present experience and/or ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Bewitching Postmodern Forms
Feminist or queer approaches to the body in a digital age; spectacle or glamour in representing the ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

Beyond Critique?
This panel explores methodologies that go beyond ideological critique to explore reparative, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Beyond the Essay: Assignment Innovation
Papers addressing the development and use of innovative assignments that extend and challenge the ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Beyond the madeleine: Digesting Proust 100 years later
At the centennial of the Recherche, we seek papers that address food in and after Proust. 250-300 ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Beyond the PDF: Experiments in Open-Access Scholarly Publishing
What innovative forms, review strategies, engagement techniques, analytical metrics, social tools, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Black Women’s Literature and the Carceral State
Panel invites papers exploring how African-American women's creative texts theorize legally ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Bohémien, Tsigane, Gitano, Roma: Representing the Margins
Inviting assessments of the (mis)representation of Roma in literature or film from the middle ages ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012

Breaking Bad and American Culture
Papers on any aspect of the television show Breaking Bad are welcome, including drugs, violence, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

British Literature and the State, 1880-1940
How do literary works explore the economic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of ... See more
Posted 26 December 2011, last updated 10 February 2012

The British Mediterranean
Papers addressing any aspect of British writing in and about the Mediterranean. Comparative ... See more
Posted 11 January 2012

British Romantic Expatriates
Essays should examine real and imaginary journeys by British Romantic writers to the United States, ... See more
Posted 8 January 2012

Building a Book History of Criticism
How might we tell the history of modern criticism through its means of publication, for instance ... See more
Posted 19 January 2012

Bullying and Self-expression
This session examines how writers, critics, young people and others create commentaries on ... See more
Posted 9 January 2012, last updated 10 January 2012

BUSINESS AND LITERATURE
Literary reactions to business activities_Power of literature stirring public opinion to better ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012

The cinema of Marco Tullio Giordana
Open session on Italian film director Marco Tullio Giordana. Please send a 250 words abstract by 15 ... See more
Posted 25 August 2011

The Classroom As Interface
This panel seeks presentations about the classroom as interface, a point of interaction between the ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Community and Belonging in Post-9/11 US-American Literature
9/11 led to negotiations of the relation between community and the self. Submissions addressing ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012

Contemporary Fiction and the Twenty-First-Century Media Ecology
Print fiction as part of an age of social media, smartphones, ebooks, crowdsourcing. Forms, themes, ... See more
Posted 10 February 2012

CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FILM
This panel will address significant films, filmmakers, and trends in French and Francophone cinema ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Convergent Histories of the Book: From Manuscript to Digital
Manuscript and digital: What authorial/readerly roles do these mediums facilitate/foreclose? Do ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England
Explores conversation as a collaborative, compositional methodology. Possible topics: ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Cosmopolitanism and the Study and Teaching of Literature
The implications for teaching and criticism of Kwame Anthony Appiah's idea of cosmopolitanism. ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Creating the King: Masculinity and Governance in Early modern France
How is the image of Medieval and Renaissance French kings created through masculinity and gender in ... See more
Posted 5 January 2012, last updated 12 January 2012

Criminality and Passing
This session invites papers examining the intersection of tropes of criminality with tropes of ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

Critical Digital Humanities
This panel seeks to explore how new digital humanities tools and methodologies develop unique ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Critical Gender Narrative Approaches to Comics
Critical analyses of feminist, queer, and anti-heteropatriarchal narrative techniques in comics and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Crossing Borders/ Finding Homes
This session aims to discuss Diaspora writers immigrating to the US from various geographic ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Cultural Critique and New Materialisms
Papers on materialism and cultural critique. Abstracts by 15 March 2012; Kimberly DeFazio ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

Cultural Ludology: Video Games and the Future of Cultural Studies
This session seeks papers addressing any aspect of the relationship between games and culture in ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

A Currency for Collaboration: The Ethics and Economics of Academic Partnership
Exploring financial, ethical, and other ramifications of individual and institutional partnerships, ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Deconstructing Chicano Literature after the Chicano Movement
Hybridity, assimilation, biculturalism, are concepts that incentivize the validity of the Chicano ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012

Deconstructing Downton Abbey
The “costume soap opera” as contemporary commentary; Neo-Edwardianism; Julian Fellowes’s Tory ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012

"Delight and Instruct": Restoration & Early Eighteenth-Century British Popular Entertainment
This session will examine various genres and texts, including popular novels and plays performed on ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Denise Levertov's Converging Poetics
This session invites submissions which explore Denise Levertov's poetics as a converging space of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

The Diabolical Fin de Siècle Female Artist
Representations of female genius as diabolical, Dionysian or decadent; artistic-vs-“natural” ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012

Diasp(horror)
We invite abstracts for a proposed panel on the links between diasporas and the literary or ... See more
Posted 29 January 2012

Digital Culture and Environmental Practice
This session invites projects that consider intersections between digital poetics and environmental ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Disability and African American Literature
Session explores the language, representation, and meaning of disability in African American ... See more
Posted 24 February 2012

Disability and the Ghost Story
In what ways can disability studies offer new approaches to the ghost story, including ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

Early Modern Contemporary
Browning waxed Shakespearean; Eliot got metaphysical; Rich composed her own valediction. How has ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Early Tory Women Writers
This panel seeks papers on the raucous, philosophical, hybrid, experimental literature that ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Economic Misfits
Papers examining lack of ambition, the refusal to capitalize on money/talent, the underemployed in ... See more
Posted 19 December 2011

Education and Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century England
Explorations of education in England during the long nineteenth century. Topics: narrative ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Education in Prison
Papers on the challenges and opportunities of higher education programs in prisons. 250-word ... See more
Posted 25 November 2011

Ekphrasis and the Politics of Perception
This session invites papers on the relationship between ekphrasis, aesthetic politics, and theories ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Elements of Genre Creation
Unlike most published genre studies, this session invites papers that look practically at how ... See more
Posted 2 January 2012

Embodying Modernism: Feminist Approaches to Corporeality
This panel will explore the intersection between feminism and embodiment in the modernist epoch. ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012

Enabling Access: Gower and Premodern Disability Studies
We seek papers that explore Gower's work (in English, French, and Latin) in relation to perceptions ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

The End of Postmodernism in the Digital Age
Postmodernism championed the subjective voice. In the Digital Age, writers must negotiate a ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Enigma and Epiphany in the Narratives of Soledad Puértolas
To explore the role of enigma and/or epiphany in the narratives of the Spanish writer and ... See more
Posted 26 January 2012

Entertaining Resistance
Musicians are committed human rights activists . This panel explores the lyrics of songwriters who ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012, last updated 12 February 2012

Environment, Epistemology, and Literature of the Americas
This roundtable will explore environmental epistemologies in the literature of the Americas, ... See more
Posted 13 January 2012

Environments in Science Fiction: Beyond Dystopias
How do spaces (both built and unbuilt) in science fiction texts and films help shape the ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012

EUROPEAN FEMALE MIGRATION: CONTEMPORARY NOVELS
We explore reasons behind the increasing trend of women migration to and from Europe in the late ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

The Event
How do extreme events have a positive non-traumatic formative influence on the subjectivity of the ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

Everyday Romanticism
Papers are welcome that examine the category of ‘the everyday’ in transnational Romantic-era ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

FEELINGS FOR SALE: The Commodification of Affect
The commercialization of emotion, the rise of affective labor, the "waning of feeling"--how the ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012

Figuring Translation in Renaissance Literature
How is literary or linguistic translation represented or figured in Renaissance literary works ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Finance Capital and Contemporary Theory
Papers on Value, Finance and Cultural Theory from Marx to Badiou by way of Negri. Abstracts by 15 ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

Finishing the Cooper Edition
This session will discuss strategies for scholarly publications appropriate for editing the ... See more
Posted 19 October 2011

Forgetting, Memory: Time and Mourning in Sebald
Papers addressing the role of memory and forgetting and their relation to time and mourning in the ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

French and Francophone Women's Writing in the Wake of the New Novel: Literary Heirs of Nathalie Sarraute and Marguerite Duras
An exploration of the influence of Sarraute and Duras. Abstracts of 250-500 words by 1 February ... See more
Posted 14 November 2011

French Literature and/on the Radio
Studies of the relationship between French authors and radio (interviews, literary programs, ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012

French Pre-Revolutionary Libertines
Discarding social constraints and challenging moralistic fallacies on the margins of Ancien Régime ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

French Radio Dramas and their Stage Adaptations
Strategies and techniques for adapting French radio dramas to the stage including success stories ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012

The Functioning of the Public Sphere in 16th Century France
Papers on pamphlets, publishing, printing, reading practices, propaganda, oratory, rumors, oral ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012, last updated 12 February 2012

The Future of Jewish Literature from the Maghreb
Proposals in French or in English are welcome on all aspects dealing with the future of Maghrebi ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Gender and Love in Opera
We seek papers that explore the performance of gender in the context of the history of love as a ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Gender Conflict and Ethics in Latin America
New treatments of male and female as conflicting ethical discourses or territories. Implicit or ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012

A Genealogy of Poetry: Elegies for Poets
Welcomes papers on elegiac responses to poets' deaths from the sixteenth century to the present ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

Genres of Evidence
How are texts constructed as 'evidence' in courtrooms or elsewhere? Is genre addressed? What ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

George Saunders: Post-Postmodernist?
Abstracts welcome on any aspect of George Saunders's fiction (and nonfiction) as it relates to ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Girls and Girlhood in Adaptations of Shakespeare
Representations of girlhood and girl characters; girls as actors, patrons, performers, readers, ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012

Giving and Getting Access: Student Access and Success in General Education Courses
This proposed roundtable discussion explores possible solutions to help diverse student bodies ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

"A God-Intoxicated Man": Romantic and Victorian Representations of Spinoza
This session invites papers examining the diverse literary and philosophical representations of ... See more
Posted 29 November 2011

Graham Greene in the 21st Century
How is Graham Greene relevant today? Topics are open; possible subjects include coloniality, ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Graphic Novels and Life Writing
I am seeking abstracts on any topic exploring the unique relationship between graphic novels and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Grotesque Romanticisms
The grotesque as an important aesthetic category within Romanticism and/or as a distortion of the ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

Habits of Highly Successful Language Learners
College students are self-directed learners who thrive by taking responsibility for their own ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012

Harry Potter and the Feminine Ideal
This panel examines the contributions girls and women made to the wizarding world and their role in ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012

Hispanic Literature on the Opera Stage
Roundtable exploring operatic treatments of Hispanic literary texts. Seeking a range of treatments ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

A History of a Lie and The Future of the University
Examination of the lies, deceptions, rationalizations used by higher education to justify its ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Horror Film Trends and Paradigms in Latin America
Explores emerging issues such as: political and allegorical readings of horror films; its ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Human Rights in U.S. Literature and Beyond
Panel studies U.S. writers, activists, filmmakers who deploy human rights discourses to undermine ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Iberian Literature in the Age of Globalization
Approaching issues like: the death of the novel, Trans-Atlantic studies and the question of world ... See more
Posted 8 January 2012

Images of Inquisition
Papers on medieval or early modern representations — literary or visual — of inquisitorial ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Imagining Socialism in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Papers that investigate fictional works that take a positive or negative view toward socialism to ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Independent Publishing in the Romantic Era
Papers that explore self-publishing during the Romantic Era: inducements, advancements, and/or ... See more
Posted 28 January 2012

The Influence of African Discourse on Western Texts
Presentations that focus on European texts and African cultures to argue that African thought ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012

Integrating One-on-One Teaching Strategies in the Classroom
This session focuses on innovative ways of translating one-on-one teaching strategies to the ... See more
Posted 9 January 2012

Intellectual/Cognitive Disability Studies
Any aspect of intellectual/cognitive disability studies will be considered. Of particular interest ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Interdisciplinary Methodologies
How do scholars embarking alone or collaboratively on interdisciplinary research define their ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Intersections between Academic and Creative Writing
Role of creative process in constructing academic essays; value of creativity in light of ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

Intonation and Poetic Convention
What is the relation between conventions of verse lineation and intonation? How might metrical and ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012

The Irish Fin de Siècle
Papers are invited exploring formal and textual experimentation in Irish texts of the 1890s; New ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Irish Neoclassical Verse
Proposals are welcome on any aspect of Irish neoclassicism, from Thomas Parnell to William Preston ... See more
Posted 11 February 2012

Is Disability Studies Accessible?
Is Disability Studies accessible in “the real world”? How can we make Disability Studies more ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Islands without Borders: Teaching the Caribbean across Languages
This panel explores teaching Caribbean literature in a comparative manner. Proposals should cross ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012

Israeli and Palestinian Literature and Culture
Seeking papers with focus on social, psychological, historical, philosophical, traumatic, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Issues in Data Management for Humanities Research
This session asks: What counts as data in the humanities? Can humanists develop models for ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

J. G. Ballard and the Community of Violence
Welcome papers on Ballard's major themes, such as elective psychopathology, therapeutic violence, ... See more
Posted 9 January 2012

Juan José Saer: Memory and Experience
This panel aims to explore Juan José Saer's narrative, particularly in terms of the relation ... See more
Posted 4 February 2012

The Kafka Factor in Post Holocaust Literature and Film
All aspects, literatures, genres, ethnicities and countries will be considered. Contact See more
Posted 13 January 2012, last updated 17 January 2012

L2 Sociolinguistics from the Classroom to the Community
This panel seeks papers that explore the development of sociolinguistic competence by L2 learners ... See more
Posted 29 December 2011, last updated 26 February 2012

La métamorphose du/dans le texte
Transgression et animation du texte et de l'image par le biais de la métamorphose comme processus ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

Latin America and the Politics of Literary Form
If the literary has not reached a point of exhaustion, what might a politics of form look like in ... See more
Posted 29 January 2012

LATIN AMERICAN MIGRATION: CONTEMPORARY NOVELS
We will study the effects of migration both internal and abroad on latino identity and self ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Latin American print culture
How has Latin American print culture (circulation, materiality, publishing practices, and/or its ... See more
Posted 13 January 2012, last updated 8 February 2012

Latina/o Literature and War
Analysis of any genre of U.S. Latina/o literature that focuses on war or militarism from any ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Le mouvement dans l’œuvre de Mabanckou
Transgression et contestation des frontières textuelles, idéologiques et identitaires chez Alain ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
New theoretical approaches on the interaction between liberation theology and philosophy and ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

The libertine or the art of bachelorhood
Papers discussing seduction, loneliness, masculinity, evolution/redefinition of the figure of the ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012

LIFE AFTER THE NOBEL PRIZE: MARIO VARGAS LLOSA NOVELS
Papers welcome regarding his novelistic production as the main theme or a specific novel. A ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Limits of Translation
How does translation operate in the transnational context of literary studies? What narrative, ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012, last updated 14 March 2012

Literacy, Digital Humanities, and Pedagogy
The panel is about aspects of literacy and digital humanities in today's education both in theory ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

The Literary Classic in and through Time
What is the classic? Has its meaning changed? What value system underpins criticism in different ... See more
Posted 23 January 2012

Literary Kinetics
Papers on motions as units of meaning or models of motion as models of meaning in literature of any ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Literature and Peace
This session invites papers that examine literary engagements with the problems and possibilities ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012

Literature and Reductionism
What is reductive thinking—and is it always a bad thing? This panel invites papers that reconsider ... See more
Posted 10 February 2012

Literature and the Materiality of the Past in the British Eighteenth Century
How did intellectual and affective investments in historical objects shape literary and cultural ... See more
Posted 26 December 2011

Literature and the Philosophy of Technology
Approaches to literature drawing from philosophy of technology or critical theory of technology. ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

Literature of American Immigrant Communities
Papers on literature (including newspapers and journals in English and/or native language) from ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Literature/Film: Disciplinary Tensions
As Film Studies increasingly moves away from the position of English department minor, is the field ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Local or translocal aspects of colonial modernities
Sites and practices of colonial modernities, including but not limited to the cultural, linguistic, ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Logic and Nineteenth-Century Literature
Literature and logical form, modes of reasoning or demonstration, probability and statistical ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Mad as Hell: Representations of Adjuncts in Higher Education & Beyond
Readings of how adjuncts have been depicted in The Chronicle of Higher Education, etc. Abstracts by ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Madame de Genlis in Literary History
What is Madame de Genlis’s place in literary history? How did her work participate in Enlightenment ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

Madness and Mayhem in Women's Novels of the Black Diaspora
Papers invited that explore madness as political , cultural, or aesthetic resistance in women's ... See more
Posted 22 February 2012

Making fun of Academia
Welcomes papers on modern academic satire and campus novels, form Amis and Nabokov to Lodge and ... See more
Posted 18 January 2012

Malthusian Legacies
The *Essay on the Principle of Population* in aesthetic, historical, political, legal, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012, last updated 21 February 2012

Mapping Real-and-Imagined Places
Dickens's London, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha, Tolkien's Middle-earth, Mieville's Bas-Lag ... Essays ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

Mapping Texts and Networks
Papers that consider the uses of spatial or visualization technologies for theoretically or ... See more
Posted 2 February 2012

Marginalización y jerarquía: El conflicto del personaje X en la literatura y el cine latinoamericano
Este panel examinará el tema de la marginalización y el derecho de gentes. Abstracts by 15 March ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Marketing Your PhD in Literature and Languages: Languages for Special Purposes
Accepting papers on adapting to the new market: Languages for special purposes, Translation, ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Marriage and South Asian Publics
Papers on marriage in South Asia as it emerges in public discourses of labor, education, ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

María Zambrano in Dialogue
This panel addresses María Zambrano’s literary, aesthetic, and political thought in real or ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012

Masculinity and Gender Performance in Caribbean Literature
How are masculinity and gender performance represented in Caribbean literature and film? 300-word ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012

Materialism and Positivism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry
Papers addressing entwined yet competing strands of positivism and materialism in ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012

McSweeney's and Contemporary Reading
Open session on McSweeney's's literary output, authors, genres, circulation, and readership and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

The Mechanics of Fictional World-Making
This panel explores the underpinnings of making and experiencing fictional worlds. Topics may ... See more
Posted 28 November 2011

Medical Economics in American Literature
Possible topics include: cost/value of health and illness, impact of disease(s) on economies, ... See more
Posted 1 January 2012, last updated 11 January 2012

Medieval Classicisms
Papers exploring any aspect of the reception, translation, transformation of the classical ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

Militant Materialism: Materialism after “materiality without materialism and even perhaps without matter”
Papers on matter, materiality and materialism. Abstracts on matter, materiality and materialism. by ... See more
Posted 28 January 2012

Milton and Logic
Interpreted broadly and all-inclusively (8-page or 20-min). Please send abstracts or complete ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012

Mind of a Rock: the Persistence of Panpsychism in Philosophical and Literary Approaches to Consciousness
This session invites papers exploring the appeal of panpsychism in literature and philosophy from ... See more
Posted 11 January 2012

Miracles, Demons, and Specters in Early American Literature
Session will explore the miraculous, the diabolical, and the supernatural in early American ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Modern Narratives of the Afterlife
This session invites discussion on how the literally dead continue to operate as active characters, ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

Modernism and Its New Engagements with the “Real” in Contemporary Time
The Session is intended to discuss how the “Real” should be redefined at our moment in history? 300 ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Modernism and the Pastoral
How and why do modernist writers engage pastoral traditions? This panel will take the conversation ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

Modernism and the Senses
This panel will explore the intersection of modernist aesthetics and the human sensorium. Topics ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Modernism's Straw Man: Nineteenth-Century Verse
Pound's insistence on breaking the pentameter hides a complicated history of prosody. We seek ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

More-Than-Words in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography
The multidimensionality of women’s self-representational narratives that employ visual narratives, ... See more
Posted 26 January 2012

Mothers in Theory
Why has the question of the maternal re-emerged with such urgency today? How does it challenge what ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Multimedia and the Teaching of Literature
Papers on the use of web-based multimedia applications for the teaching and learning of literature. ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

Muslim Everyday Life
Fictional depiction of Muslim everyday life as an indeterminate space of negotiation between the ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Narrating Value in the Long Eighteenth Century
How various ways of telling stories about value c. 1660-1830 (e.g., moral philosophy, aesthetics, ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012, last updated 19 February 2012

Narrative Empathy for "the Other"
How do literary texts depict and/or elicit empathy that transgresses categorical lines of ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012

Natural SLA and Representation in Literary Texts
Papers on the representation of natural second language acquisition in literary texts involving ... See more
Posted 29 January 2012

Naturalistic Pedagogical Materials in Second Language Acquisition
This panel explores the benefits of incorporating naturalistic pedagogical materials in the ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

Necessity, Aesthetic Experience, and Modernist Poetics
If we rely on art to give form to new socio-political relations, how does aesthetic experience give ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

Neo-Victorianism and Marginal Voices
How does neo-Victorian literature provide a site for marginal voices to address identity, ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Neoplatonism and Spanish Pastoral Fiction
Invites studies of Spanish pastoral fiction informed by Renaissance Neoplatonism and contemporary ... See more
Posted 18 January 2012

New Approaches to Frank Yerby
Interested in papers that will reintroduce Frank Yerby to a new generation of readers and scholars. ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

New Approaches to Teaching the Surveys
Innovative approaches to teaching British and American literature survey courses. Seeking ... See more
Posted 5 January 2012

New Aurality
Audiobooks, podcasts, itunes university, streaming radio, text to speech software—arguably, the ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012, last updated 14 March 2012

New Auteurism: Independent/International/Digital Cinema
How have changing production/distribution conditions of American independent film, and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

New Directions in Caribbean Enlightenment Studies
Innovative interpretations of the Enlightenment--its manifestations, reverberations and ... See more
Posted 23 February 2012

New Perspectives on German Ecocritical Prose
Exploring works of modern German-language literature from the ecocritical perspective, including ... See more
Posted 11 August 2011

New perspectives on Latin American/Latino literary journalism
Innovative theoretical approaches, transnational, transhistorical, sociological, and ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012

New Perspectives on Paul Laurence Dunbar
This panel invites new scholarship as well as aesthetic reflections by poets and writers who have ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

New World Irishness: the Celtic Survival
This panel seeks papers that investigate the contemporary production and representation of Irish ... See more
Posted 24 January 2012

Nineteenth-Century Classics
investigations of the (aesthetic/poetological) relevance of Greek and Roman classics for ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Non-theistic mysticism, late 1800s-early 1900s
Papers on non-theistic mysticism as an alternative to religious and other discourses of power ... See more
Posted 28 September 2011

Not Twilight: Female Sexuality and Identity in Recent Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy
Fantasy female characters' struggle with being a woman in the 21st Century attracts millions of ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Occupy Reading: Reading, Class, and Democracy-to-Come
Papers on reading, interpretation, and critique. Abstracts by 15 March 2012; Robert Faivre ... See more
Posted 29 January 2012

On the Margins of King Arthur's World
Papers on all aspects of the Arthurian margins, such as lesser-known texts, marginal figures and ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

One Thing Led to Another - Our “AltAC” Jobs
The “Alternative Academic” position/career is becoming more common. We seek contributions ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012, last updated 21 February 2012

Organic Forms
How have poets revised organic metaphors for poetic form since Coleridge? Papers on organic form ... See more
Posted 23 January 2012

Orientation for Crossing Cultural Barriers
This panel seeks papers that explore the development of cultural readiness as advanced-level ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Oscar Wilde in Print and Visual Culture
Papers on Wilde's appearance in print venues, particularly papers investigating Wilde's visual ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Otro(s) Modernismo(s): Silent Voices in Latin American Modernism(s)
Papers addressing the work of unaccounted, misread, or “minor” poets, while interrogating current ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

"Overseas Filipino Workers: Commodified Labor Impinging on the Country's Consciousness."
Papers on literary works by Filipinos dealing with the plight of overseas workers are solicited. ... See more
Posted 22 November 2011

Palestinian Writing in English Translation
Papers on literary and/or social aspects of contemporary writing by Palestinians, primarily in ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

"Payback": The Burden of Debt
With reference to Atwood's "Payback", papers on the theme of debt as it figures in modern ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012

"Payback": The Burden of Debt
With reference to Atwood's "Payback", papers on the theme of debt as it figures in modern ... See more
Posted 5 February 2012

Pedagogical Poetics
Teaching students to read "difficult poems" and better yet, to write them: investigating theories ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

Pedagogy, Literary Texts, and Feminist Praxis
How do literary texts instantiate feminist and/or embodied political awareness in the classroom ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

(Per)forming Women in Early Modern French Theatre
Given interest in staging, stagecraft, and performance studies, how did early modern French actors, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Perspectivizing World Literature
Papers compare glocalized mappings of world literature in central or peripheral literary systems, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Photography and Mourning
Papers on any aspect of the relationship between photography and mourning. Topics may include 9/11, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Picturing the Text
About all aspects of illustrated texts ( title, illustrations, portraits, festivals, emblems). ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012

Pining for Scotland: Arboreal Nation
We welcome proposals about trees and Scotland in literature for this session organised by the ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Place, Memory, and Identity: Franco-Americans in New England
An exploration of Franco-Americans in New England, with a focus on the themes of place, memory and ... See more
Posted 9 December 2011

Planetary Modernisms/Modernities
Has the “transnational turn” in Modernist studies effected a rethinking of Eurocentric models and ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

The Poet-Scholar
While tenure and promotion standards tend to impose a clear division between scholarly and creative ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

Poetic Occupations from the Great Depression to the "Great Recession"
How have poetic forms/movements been shaped by socioeconomic crises? Has today's recession ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

The Poetics of Race
New ways of thinking aesthetics and poetics in Ethnic Studies. Submit on race and its formal, ... See more
Posted 6 December 2011

Poetry of Ecology and Human Rights
This panel will examine both the literary work and the role of poets located at the intersection ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

The Poetry of John Wieners
Seeking papers on any aspect of the work of late Boston poet John Wieners. Abstract, CV by 8 March ... See more
Posted 23 November 2011

Poetry of the Twenty-First Century
Papers about English language poets who came of age in the twenty-first century, from any "school." ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

Poetry on the Spectrum
Invites papers exploring any aspect of recent poetry's affiliation with autism spectrum disorder, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Political SUblime
Inviting papers on political philosophy and literature—how we construe sublime as a purely ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Politics of Comparison in Ethnic Studies
Papers that exemplify or assess the recent comparative turn in ethnic studies: a recovered ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Politics of Form in the Transpacific
Session explores political dimensions of genre and how aesthetics of form are implicated/utilized ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

Politics of Posthumanism
Interrogations of the larger political stakes attending the growing prominence of posthumanist ... See more
Posted 22 January 2012

Portlandia: Literature in the New Northwest
The New Northwest literature is, like the frontier, both anachronistic and futuristic. This panel ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Postcards of the Other: The Colonial Harem and Beyond
Inviting works about representations of the other (in particular colonial and national) in ... See more
Posted 27 September 2011

The Prehistory of Animal Studies
This interdisciplinary panel explores discourses of "the animal" prior to Bentham. How do earlier ... See more
Posted 22 January 2012

PRISON ARCHITECTURE AND SUBALTERNISM
Based on the Benthamite program avoiding Prison “subaltern Tyranny”, speakers must explore Prison ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012

Private and Public in Contemporary American Poetry
The panel will deal with the private and the public in contemporary American poetry by reading it ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Progressive-Era Periodicals and the Rhetoric of Reform
How did ethnic American writers use the periodical as a vehicle for reform at the turn of the ... See more
Posted 14 January 2012, last updated 3 March 2012

The Proscenium and the Political: Beckett’s Theater
Theatrical aspects, performance, staging of Beckett’s plays in relation to contemporary theoretical ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Queer Characters
Papers invited on any aspect of the role and function of queer supporting characters in classic ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Queerness As Form
What are the conceptual advantages and/or disadvantages of identifying queerness with form (e.g., ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Quotation in Modernism
How and why do quotation practices change in modernism? To what literary effect? Panel invites ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Race and Metaphor in 19th/20th Century American Literature and Thought
This session engages the connections between metaphor and race to investigate the relation between ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Race and National Iidentity in the Americas
Race and national identities: Literary and visual expressions from a multidisciplinary perspective. ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Race, Ethnicity and the Digital Humanities
This panel will discuss the politics of race, ethnicity and access within the digital humanities. ... See more
Posted 29 January 2012

Race, Sex, Class, and Bawdy-House Life in 19th-Century America
This panel examines bawdy-house life and customs during an era of increased anxiety over race, sex, ... See more
Posted 23 October 2011, last updated 5 February 2012

Radical Environmentalism and Ecoterrorism in Post-1945 American Literature
This session explores the looming ecological crisis and radical forms of environmental philosophy ... See more
Posted 14 January 2012, last updated 29 February 2012

Ramism in England and Abroad
Papers concerning the political, poetical, or philosophical implications of Ramism are welcomed. ... See more
Posted 24 January 2012

Re-Understanding Comics
This panel considers formalism's place in comics studies in light of the 20th anniversary of Scott ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Reading Anticolonialism
Inviting papers that re-read anticolonial texts as literature and/or political philosophy (e.g. ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

Reading the Black Male
Submissions are invited that explore the state of Black masculinity as represented in contemporary ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Recent Endings
. . . the Cold War, History, the millennium; the novel, print, film, postmodernism. Papers on any ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Reclaiming Certeau
What is Certeau's place in the contemporary theoretical landscape? Papers (for and/or against) on ... See more
Posted 31 January 2012

Religion and Medicine in North American Culture
Seeking explorations of religion and medicine as intersecting, mutually reinforcing, or ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

Remembering or Forgetting the Past in Contemporary Spain
Papers discussing the portrayal of historical memory, amnesia, fear and reconciliation in Spanish ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

The Renaissance Anthropocene: Imagining Life Without Nature in Early Modern Literature
Renaissance ecocriticism, ecology without nature, decay of nature, artificial environments, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

The Renaissance Beloved: Beatrice, Laura, Angelica, Dulcinea, Eve
How does the theologically grounded beloved of the Medieval imagination come to appear an idol or ... See more
Posted 28 January 2012

Representations of decision-making in medieval and early modern French literature
How is decision-making represented and how do these representations relate to larger historical and ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012, last updated 21 February 2012

Representations of Individual Heroism in Popular Revolution
How do writers represent individual heroes in portrayals of popular revolution? What is the impact ... See more
Posted 10 February 2012

Resisting Diagnosis in the Long Eighteenth Century
How did "marginalized bodies" (women, non-white, and/or non-British people) respond to, resist, and ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012, last updated 6 March 2012

Responses to the Baroque in 20th Century Poetry of Spain
This panel will study the Baroque presence in 20th- Century poetry of Spain. Interdisciplinary and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Rethinking the History of Literary Study
What do we (think we) know about the history of literary study, and what remains to be learned? ... See more
Posted 29 November 2011

Rethinking urban prostitutions
New misappropriations of bodies, spaces, and social media in urban centers throughout Latin ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Revisiting Madame Bovary
Papers that explore the influence of Madame Bovary on a twentieth- or twenty-first century novel or ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

Revolutionary Exchanges: Women's Networks
Exchanges between women during the French Revolutionary wars, modes and networks of communication, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Rhetoric of Religious Desire in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Rhetorical articulations of religious desire in texts and images across geographical and political ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Rhetorics of Phobos in Mass Media: Arousing Fear in Spectator-focused Texts
Seeking rhetorical theory and criticism of New Media that primarily appeal to audience's fear ... See more
Posted 23 February 2012, last updated 26 February 2012

Richard Wright Abroad
Wright's association with people abroad affected the shape and meaning of his fiction and ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012

Robin Hood and the Canon
Examines the place and status of the Robin Hood texts and tradition in the canon. 300-word ... See more
Posted 30 January 2012

The Role Of the African 'Nanas' in the Colombian Culture
The nana has had an important in Colombia. A writer from the pacific makes a lecture of their ... See more
Posted 6 November 2011

Romantic Embodiments
This panel will consider aspects of bodies and embodiment in British Romantic literature, including ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Romantic Media Cultures
Short papers for a roundtable of projects addressing questions of mediation, information, ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012, last updated 24 February 2012

Romantic Science
Papers on Romantic-era literature and the sciences, including but not limited to: the science of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012, last updated 22 February 2012

Roy, Djebar, and Postcoloniality
This session welcomes comparative papers on the work of Arundhati Roy and Assia Djebar in the ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012, last updated 18 February 2012

Ruptures in Language
The decade from 9/11 to OWS marks a rupture in the power structure of language. How do we imagine ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Rushdie and Ngugi
The session hopes to continue conversation on the relevance of Salman Rushdie's and Ngugi wa ... See more
Posted 22 January 2012

Russian Modernism and the Problem of Language
Panel invites papers exploring the problem of language as posed and dealt with in Russian Modernist ... See more
Posted 17 January 2012

The Science of Romance pre-1800
Papers invited on literary depictions of the medical aspects of love. 300-word abstract and a short ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Science, Literature, Faith: The Messianic in Contemporary Fiction
An interrogation of the relationship between science and faith in "post-secular" contemporary ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Scriblerians at 300
In 1713, “scribbling friends”--Swift, Pope, Gay, Arbuthnot, St. John, Parnell--pledged themselves ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012, last updated 22 February 2012

Secluded Lives/Visible Bodies: Representations of Zenana Fashion in Film/Literature
Papers invited that explore cinematic or literary depictions of fashion and Muslim women in ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Service Learning and Literary Studies
Service learning enriches and/or transforms the study of literature in the college and university ... See more
Posted 4 January 2012

Sex, Gender, and Desire in Spanish Mass Culture, 1850-1939
How do sex, gender, and desire in the mass culture of Spain (1850 to 1939) mediate broad cultural ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Shakespeare in Translation
Papers that address current issues of translating Shakespeare, foreign Shakespeare, transnational ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Shakespearean Social Work
Submissions welcomed that confront the social and cultural work performed by forms of Shakespearean ... See more
Posted 3 February 2012

Shaw, Beckett, and World Literature
Reading Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett together beyond the Anglo-Irish axis through new ... See more
Posted 8 February 2012

Shifting Relationships between Cultural Production and Politics: A Transatlantic View
We welcome examinations of current dynamics between political, ethical, and aesthetic conventions ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Short Fiction in Short
Considerations of short fiction (tales, sketches, short stories, etc) with a focus on formal ... See more
Posted 21 December 2011

Skepticism in Early Modern England and Abroad
Papers invited that explore the implications of skepticism for seventeenth-century literature, ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

South Asian-izing the Digital Turn in Humanities
How does the digital turn shape contemporary South Asian Studies? Send abstracts to Rahul K. ... See more
Posted 14 February 2012

The Spanish Civil War in the Language Curriculum
Papers sought on teaching the Spanish Civil War in advanced language courses, with emphasis on ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Spanish Demonology and Demonolatry
We invite papers on the study of the Devil in Spain and its territories during the Middle Ages and ... See more
Posted 7 January 2012

Spanish Shakespeares
Papers addressing any aspect of Shakespeare and Spain are encouraged. Please submit a 300 word ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012

Spectral Scotlands
Scotland as the site of multiple hauntings, past and present. Ghosts of cultures, sovereignties, ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

Spirituality in a Postcolonial World
How might the language of spirituality intervene to further the cause of social justice in today's ... See more
Posted 12 February 2012

Stranger Fictions
Comparative approaches on the figure of the stranger/alien (l'étranger) in literature/film: How ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Surrealism and Christianity
Connections between surrealism and Christianity have often focused on the satirical. Papers in ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Teaching in The Shallows
How do arguments in Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Teaching Jane Austen
This roundtable will feature speakers who briefly describe innovative ways to teach--or challenges ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

Teaching Romanticism in the Digital Classroom
AI, avatars, students glued to tiny screens: what pedagogies work for "Walden" in today's ... See more
Posted 15 February 2012

Teaching the Contemporary Arabic Novel in Translation
Teaching Arabic novels to undergraduates; especially works concerned with ethnic diversity in the ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Temporal Forms / Forms of Time
How do literary texts engage their existence in time? What do such engagements say about form? What ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

Tertulias, Journals to La Residencia de Estudiantes: The evolution of the Avant-Garde
Seeks an exploration of the importance of play makers and venues that allowed the Avant-Garde ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Theories and Practices of the Literary Lab
This panel will explore the theoretical, practical, and political implications of the rise of the ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Theorizing Borders
Papers sought interrogating the theoretical usefulness of concepts like "border-crossing," ... See more
Posted 13 February 2012

Theorizing Indigenous Literatures in the Americas
Papers that discuss the theoretical considerations, analytical tools, methods, lenses for working ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Theorizing Linsanity
Critical approaches to the Jeremy Lin phenomenon. Possible topics: ethics, aesthetics, ethnicity, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Theory of “You”
To whom is theory addressed? Papers on the you in “Occupy Wall Street”, Lenin’s “without ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

Thinking the South Atlantic: Africa-Latin America Exchanges
Papers theorizing South-South connections or addressing transnational movements of people, texts, ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Thoughts for American Transcendentalism on War and Death
This panel will address the legacy of American Transcendentalism, especially considering the ... See more
Posted 12 January 2012

To Kill a Mockingjay: The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins’ popular young adult series seemed like a much-needed antithesis to Twilight. This ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012

Tolkien and Alterity
This session in honor of Jane Chance exams the presence and function of alterity in J.R.R. ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Tony Kushner and Adaptation
Tony Kushner’s free dramatic adaptations of plays and novels add new elements to already existing ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Toward Trauma Studies in Contemporary East Asian Literature and Culture
Approaching contemporary East Asian literature and culture through trauma studies with an emphasis ... See more
Posted 23 December 2011

Towards a Speculative Historicism
What might a speculative historicism look like today? In an age of positivist historicism, what ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

Tradition and 19C Lyric Forms
Papers addressing ways nineteenth-century English language poets enlarged upon traditional ... See more
Posted 9 December 2011

TRAFFICKING: BODIES, CARGO, TEXTS
Formal and aesthetic strategies for representing contemporary trafficking in literature and film. ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Tragedy in Asian American Literature
This session examines tragedy/the tragic in Asian American Literature. An employment of theories of ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012

Transatlantic Emergency Exits: Europe and America as safe havens
Explorations of artists and intellectuals who crossed the Atlantic fleeing political, sexual or ... See more
Posted 17 February 2012

Transatlantic Modernism(os)—late 1880s-early 1900s
Transatlantic, Globalization and/or Post-National approaches on Spanish American “Modernismo.” ... See more
Posted 20 October 2011

Transformations and Adaptations. Expanding Approaches to the Critical Analysis of Afro-Latin American Literature through Film
How does film aid in our understanding of Afro-Latin American culture? Please submit a 200 word ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Transformative impulses: subverting silence and dread in Rosario Castellanos’s works
Compelling impulses, strategies of gender and racial empowerment, and the mechanics of potential ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012

Transgressing Discipline in Medieval German Narrative
We invite abstracts concerning the role of non-literary disciplines or spheres of knowledge (e.g. ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Translation, Vulgarization, and the Mediation of Access
Translations and popularizing adaptations that promise "accessibility" to new audiences, but ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Translingual Literatures
This panel explores how languages interact within literary texts. How is translingualism expressed ... See more
Posted 30 August 2011

Transnational Connections: Looking @ Border Crossing prior to 1800
Work on visual/written/oral/aural texts pre-1800 that look beyond the idea of nation-state or ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Tricksters in Western Literature
This session seeks papers concerned with characters of tricksters performing trickery with the use ... See more
Posted 7 February 2012

Under Western Eyes: East Asia in Anglophone Fiction
This session explores contemporary English writing on China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea. ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012

Under Western Eyes: East Asia in Anglophone Fiction
This session explores contemporary English writing on China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea. ... See more
Posted 16 January 2012

Undercover America
This panel will examine the motives, methodology, and genre of U.S. undercover narratives across ... See more
Posted 18 January 2012

Up from Chattels: Blacks & Things
Panel invites papers exploring how representations of black people’s relationships to material ... See more
Posted 20 January 2012, last updated 21 January 2012

Urban Slavery
This panel contests associations of American slavery with rurality and agrarian labor. We seek ... See more
Posted 6 February 2012

Vegetal, Animal, Human: Early Modern Faculty Psychology
Papers on early modern uses of the Aristotelian faculties of the soul as a distributed ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Vernacular Avant Gardes
Avant-garde artists often sought critical alternatives to modernity in folk cultural forms.This ... See more
Posted 21 December 2011

Victorian Oral Culture, c. 1861-1901
The Victorian rise of mass print media runs parallel to persisting cults of presence/orality. ... See more
Posted 6 January 2012

Violence and the Black Child in Post-Civil Rights U.S.A
Will explore creative texts that address public reception, cultural memory, and collective trauma ... See more
Posted 10 February 2012

Violence and Women's Writing in Francophone North Africa
An exploration of the interaction between violence and literary or cinematic production in the work ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Visual Dimensions of Literary Animal Studies
How does literature visualize animals, and with what effects for other media and disciplinary ... See more
Posted 16 February 2012

Wales: On the Margins of England / Britain
Papers analyzing how representations of Wales or the border between Wales and England engender ... See more
Posted 19 December 2011, last updated 20 December 2011

War and British Identities from the 17th to the 19th Centuries
This panel examines how war, in intra-national and global contexts, helped shape British identities ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Watching the World: Early-Modern Spectatorship Beyond Theater
Where observation, knowledge, and spectacle intersect. Perspective on real and imagined sightings ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Weininger, Wittgenstein and the Literary
We welcome papers on any aspect of Otto Weininger's work, and/or Wittgenstein's interpretation ... See more
Posted 25 January 2012

What is Post-AIDS Literature?
Narrating the experience of living with HIV: homosexual, heterosexual, and minority subjectivities. ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

Whatever Happened to Materialist Feminism?
Papers on the contemporary situation of feminism and “new” materialisms. Abstracts by 15 March ... See more
Posted 21 January 2012

What's Love Got to Do With It?: Shakespeare and Ovidian Violence
How do Ovidian paradigms speak to desire, brutality, and gender in Shakespeare's works? 500-word ... See more
Posted 21 November 2011

Wit, Inspiration, and Fancy in Early Modern Poetics
Focusing on these three related terms, this panel considers early modern models for literary ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Women and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century
Papers consider relationships among women, public spaces and institutions, and narrative form in ... See more
Posted 9 February 2012

Women Writers of the Beat Movement
How has the poetry and fiction of Beat women writers contributed to, challenged, or redefined the ... See more
Posted 24 August 2011, last updated 22 January 2012

Women, Naming, and Academia
Papers are invited which explore the ways in which women academics name themselves or are named by ... See more
Posted 27 December 2011

Workshop on Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Literature: A Method
This Workshop on Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Literature aims at discussing the issues on ... See more
Posted 19 February 2012

World Literature and Global Health
This panel examines changing representations of illness in world literature, exploring the ... See more
Posted 1 February 2012

Writing Disability in Children's Literature
The presentation of disability in children's/YA literature; single disability or several; ... See more
Posted 23 February 2012

Writing Post-politics in the Hispanic world
Politics of memory in contemporary Spain and Latin America through the lens of post-politics: ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

Young Adult Literature of the Caribbean
How does the emergence of literature marketed specifically to teens revise or invoke Caribbean ... See more
Posted 18 February 2012

Young Hearts: Plot, Joy, and Accessibility in Early American Novels and Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
Understanding plot-driven contemporary young adult fiction in the context of early American popular ... See more
Posted 20 February 2012

‘Peterloo’ Revisited
Re-examinations of the historical, political, literary significance of the 1819 Manchester ... See more
Posted 28 January 2012

“Irishness” in Irish American Literature
How is “Irishness” represented in Irish immigrant and Irish American literature written before ... See more
Posted 13 January 2012

“Mistreated and Well-treated Foreigners in Renaissance Italy”
15th-16th c. travel literature by or about foreigners in Italy (long/short sojourns/residence). ... See more
Posted 17 December 2011

“Where is Home?”: Fragmented lives, hybridity and the politics of identity in South Asian Muslim Womens' writings
Muslim women's writings' distinctness in diasporic literature. Abstracts of 250 words by 15 March ... See more
Posted 21 February 2012

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