Calls for Papers - Discussion Groups

Age Studies

Gendered Age & Authority in Popular Media
Collaborative session on shifting popular-media representations of women across the age spectrum in ... See more
Posted 16 February 2013

Vulnerable Times in Academic Life
Senior faculty are viewed as invulnerable, deadwood, on twilight cruises, or sage scholars/mentors. ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Anglo-Irish Literature

Transatlantic Ireland
Proposals (250 words) are invited on the transatlantic in any period(s) of Irish literature; ... See more
Posted 8 February 2013

Arthurian Literature

Continental Arthur
Seeking papers discussing the role of Arthurian motives in literature on the continent, especially ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Navigating Arthurian Waterways: Of Literary Lakes, Rivers, and Oceans
The Arthurian Literature Discussion Group seeks papers that explore the significance of water ... See more
Posted 12 January 2013

Bibliography and Textual Studies

Destruction and Revitalization
We seek proposals for papers that involve questions of textual and cultural destruction and ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

Early American Networks of Writing and the Politics of Writing Instruction
Seeking new research on the politics of early American rhetoric and writing instruction networks. ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

Canadian Literature in English

Indigeneity and Diaspora: Exploring Intersections Through Canadian Literature
How has Canadian literature refracted questions of alliance and difference between Indigenous and ... See more
Posted 4 November 2012

Catalan Language and Literature

Representing Passion Narratives in Medieval Iberian Languages: Mirroring or Conflicting Versions of Affective Piety?
Papers devoted to the cross-disciplinary and cross-linguistic study of Iberian Passion texts. A ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

The Vulnerability of Catalan Studies as a Discipline
Papers that analyze challenges that Catalan Studies as a professional discipline has experienced ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

Celtic Languages and Literatures

Explorations in Celtic Languages and Literatures
Any aspect of Celtic languages, literatures, or cultures - including history, archaeology, ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Comics and Graphic Narratives

Collaboration in Comics
The verbal-visual form of comics offers unique opportunities for collaboration. We invite critical ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

Fine Arts and Comics
Papers on the historical relationship, and interconnection between the form of comics and the art ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

Transnational Comics
Comics have long been the visual and textual testament to global interaction. We invite papers that ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

Computer Studies in Language and Literature

DH from the Ground Up
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Posted 20 February 2013

Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production

Cuba on Stage
We seek papers on any facet of Cuban or Cuban Diaspora theater or other performing arts and its ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013

Folklore and Literature

Singing Out in the American Literary Experience
Proposals are sought concerning the use of folk song (blues, jazz, country, etc.) within American ... See more
Posted 8 February 2013

General Linguistics

Linguistics Applied to Teach and Learn Middle-Eastern or Eastern Mediterranean Languages
Paper proposals sought showing linguistics applied for teaching and learning a Middle-Eastern or ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013

Germanic Philology

Germanic Linguistics and Philology
Papers addressing any aspect of Germanic Linguistics and Philology. All presenters must be ... See more
Posted , last updated 27 February 2013

Hebrew Literature

Gender in Hebrew Literature and Culture
This panel invites papers on Israeli texts in order to understand gender politics, including queer ... See more
Posted 25 February 2013

Hungarian Literature

Hungarian Film at Home and Beyond
We invite presentation proposals (250 words) discussing any aspects of Hungarian film, acting, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Literature and the Arts
We invite comparative presentation proposals (250 words) exploring interconnections between ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

World Travelers: Travel Writing in Hungary and Beyond
We invite presentation proposals (250 words) exploring Hungarian travel writing; travel writing ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society

Women's Education in Third World Countries
Literary, legal, political, economic or social implications of and current theories and ... See more
Posted 15 January 2013

Italian American Literature

Comparative Mediterranean American Literatures
Papers on works by Americans of Mediterranean origins (Anatolian, Levantine, Maghrebi, Southern ... See more
Posted 14 January 2013

My Place or Yours: The Geographies of Italian American Literature
Roundtable on Italian American literature as situated in urban, suburban, rural spaces; ... See more
Posted 9 January 2013

Jewish American Literature

Digital Jews: Literature, Apps, Internet Mediations, Archiving
Roundtable exploring the impact of digital media on Jewish American writing, writers, and ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

Jewish American or Jewish Americas?
Papers examining/expanding the location of “America” in Jewish American literary study to include ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013, last updated 11 February 2013

Jewish Monsters
Notions of monstrosity or the monstrous in Jewish tradition and in representations of Jews. ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Jewish Cultural Studies

Jewish Monsters
Notions of monstrosity or the monstrous in Jewish tradition and in representations of Jews. ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Zionisms Past, Present, and Future
The Zionist imagination in global literatures and cultures. Potential topics: pre- or proto-Zionist ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Law as Literature

Criminal Justice and the Literary Imagination
Connections between criminal justice and imaginative writing. How do texts represent, affirm, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Media, Justice and Revolution in the Middle East
How are media being used in the contemporary Middle East to challenge unjust governance and ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

Old English Law and Literature
How do these fields illuminate social and political developments, or conceptions of self and the ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures

Meeting Where Students Are: Faculty-Library Collaborations and Undergraduate Research
Seeking best-practices, methods, activities or lessons-learned using research as a medium for ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English

Multiethnic Texts in Translation
Theoretical/pedagogical approaches to the role of translation in multiethnic/multilingual studies. ... See more
Posted 4 January 2013

Lusophone Literatures and Cultures outside Portugal and Brazil

A Tribute to Russell Hamilton
Panel discussion of the latest developments in the field. Papers circulated before the convention; ... See more
Posted 2 January 2013, last updated 9 January 2013

Media and Literature

Literary Social Media, Past and Present
Relationships between social media (broadly conceived) and literary history, including networks of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 12 March 2013

Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies

Disability Discourses in Latin America: Academy and Activism
Roundtable exploring current issues and discourses in disability studies in LA. 6-7 minute position ... See more
Posted 13 January 2013

The Legacies of Carlos Fuentes: A Roundtable Discussion
This round table seeks to explore the literary, cultural and political significance of Carlos ... See more
Posted 13 January 2013

Mexican Studies and the Return of the PRI: A roundtable
Seven-minute position papers concerning the impact on our methodologies and paradigms of the PRI’s ... See more
Posted 13 January 2013

Netherlandic Language and Literature

Language and Culture of the Low Countries
Open topic on the language/culture of the Low Countries. Presentations treating the presidential ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Opera as a Literary and Dramatic Form

Opera and Antiquity
Monteverdi, Gluck, early Mozart, Rossini, Strauss, Schoenberg, Henze, Glass... Papers on the ... See more
Posted 31 January 2013

Part-Time Faculty Members

Defining the Moment, Defining the Momentum
Perspectives on the language used to describe employment status. Short, focused presentations that ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

Present-Day English Language

Dialects of English Worldwide
The Discussion Group on Present-Day English seeks proposals on English language topics including: ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Provençal Language and Literature

Translating the Troubadours
From early French ‘adaptations’ to Pound, one of the modes of reception of troubadour poetry has ... See more
Posted 9 January 2013

Puerto Rican Literature and Culture

Puerto Rican Crime Narratives
We seek papers examining any aspect of Puerto Rican crime narratives (noir, hard-boiled, true ... See more
Posted 10 February 2013

Romance Literary Relations

Untranslatability
How do writers, intellectuals, or artists advocate or refute the untranslatability of a word, idea, ... See more
Posted 27 January 2013

Romanian Studies

East European Women's Tales of Relocation
Recent changes in narrative patterns in oral/written/visual, conventional/unconventional ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

Literature and the Arts
We invite comparative presentation proposals exploring interconnections between literature, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 31 March 2013

State-Sponsored Voyeurism and Surveillance
Panel/roundtable seeks to investigate approaches to secret police surveillance and/or informant ... See more
Posted 14 January 2013

Scandinavian Languages and Literatures

Invisible Violences in the North
How does the prominence of violence in Nordic literature, film, and society challenge the Nordic ... See more
Posted 16 January 2013

Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature

New Approaches to Science Fiction Criticism
This panel will explore intersections between science fiction criticism and emergent realisms in ... See more
Posted 15 January 2013

Scottish Literature

Independent Thinking: Scotland's Inscription of Separation
Does possible independence inflect—or open a space for—literature? Discussion group welcomes ... See more
Posted 11 December 2012

Sephardic Studies

The Sephardic Memoir
How have Sephardic authors used the memoir to interpret their lives and the world around them? How ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Slavic Literatures and Cultures

Soviet Cinema and Western Film Theory
This panel examines how Soviet films influenced film theory philosophy in the West, and how those ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013

WWI and the Poetics of Slavic Memory
The significance of the outbreak of WWI cannot be overestimated. This panel confronts the variety ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013

South Asian Languages and Literatures

Everyday Unrecognized Sexual Violence in South Asia
We invite critiques on representations of sexual violence against marginalized groups in South ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

The Sacred and the Sexual in South Asian Literature
Interrogations of gender and the construction of sexuality in relation to diverse religious ... See more
Posted 1 February 2013

South Asian Diasporas beyond the US
Presenters will explore the intersections, parallels, and tensions between South Asian and other ... See more
Posted 1 February 2013

Southern Literature

Southern Childhoods
The Southern Literature Discussion Group is organizing a panel on representations of southern ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013

Translation

Technologies of Translation
We seek presentations that introduce experiments in the Digital Humanities relying on translation: ... See more
Posted 21 January 2013

Thinking Fanlation
Papers that explore the theoretical or political ramifications of fanlation, scanlation, ... See more
Posted 17 January 2013

Travel Literature

Travel Literature and the Environment
19th- to 21st-century travel literature and representations of the physical environment; the ... See more
Posted 20 January 2013

The Two-Year College

21st Century Pedagogies
Brief presentations that explore alternative teaching approaches, innovative pedagogy, and English ... See more
Posted 17 January 2013

Teaching Sustainability
Presentations that explore the teaching of sustainability in English and Foreign Languages, ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

West Asian Languages and Literatures

Apocalyptic Voices in West Asian Culture
This panel tracks apocalyptic narratives of West Asian intellectuals as they confronted modernity ... See more
Posted 6 February 2013

Language, Colonialism, and the State in Nineteenth Century Southwest Asia
Resistance, co-optation or disciplining? How does language act under the violence of colonialism ... See more
Posted 6 February 2013

The Revolution's Memory
We welcome proposals that consider how memoirs write and form narratives about contemporary ... See more
Posted 6 February 2013

Yiddish Literature

Yiddish Connections
We seek papers connecting Yiddish with other cultures, literatures, or traditions through acts of ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

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