Calls for Papers - MLA Committees

Advisory Committee on the _MLA International Bibliography_

The 21st-Century Library: Discovery Services vs. Subject Specialists
This panel considers the role of the literature subject specialist in an era which appears to ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Committee on Community Colleges

Technology and Teaching Vulnerable Languages in Vulnerable Times
How technology creates new possibilities for teaching Native American, Native Latin American, ... See more
Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 12 February 2013

Upstream Both Ways: Aligning Community Colleges and Four-Year Institutions
Expectations, successes, and challenges in the preparation, upward passage, and persistence of ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013

Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession

Off the Tenure Track, On Our Radar
Practices to improve the professional lives and working conditions of non-tenure-track faculty ... See more
Posted 21 September 2012

Write on Your Own Time: Scholarship and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Managing expectations for scholarly and professional activity by non-tenure-track faculty members. ... See more
Posted 21 September 2012

Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession

The Dis(embodied) Scholar: Access in Theory and Practice
Roundtable session on embodiment and the shifting role of identity discourse within disability ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013, last updated 30 January 2013

Illness and Disability Memoir as Embodied Knowledge
Life writing about illness/disability as a form of theoretical knowledge. New ways of conceiving ... See more
Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 8 February 2013

Committee on Information Technology

Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Candidate Case Studies
Electronic roundtable session. Candidates will share experiences with submitting digital ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013

Committee on Scholarly Editions

The Data is the Scholarship
How can data models represent theories of scholarly textual editing? Where in the data does textual ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

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

Global Ed?
Position papers on impact of global education. Considerations may include relations among ... See more
Posted 24 September 2012

Transnational Indigeneities against the Law
Position papers on racial profiling, settler colonialism, and indigenous politics in Canadian and ... See more
Posted 24 September 2012

Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession

Rethinking the Seminar Paper
How can we reconsider the graduate seminar paper’s purpose, potential forms, and usefulness to ... See more
Posted 10 December 2012

Time to Degree
Papers theorizing and analyzing how pressure to decrease time to degree (often without reducing ... See more
Posted 26 November 2012, last updated 27 November 2012

Publications Committee

Theatre and Performance in the Age of Dryden
Current scholarship on any aspect of this topic will be considered. Abstracts of 250 words. by 4 ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

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