Calls for Papers - MLA Committees
Theatre and Performance in the Age of Dryden
Publications Committee
Current scholarship on any aspect of this topic will be considered. Abstracts of 250 words. by 4 March 2013; Deborah H. Holdstein (dholdstein@colum.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Candidate Case Studies
Committee on Information Technology
Electronic roundtable session. Candidates will share experiences with submitting digital scholarship for tenure and promotion. Digital work samples, framing strategies, evaluation criteria, challenges and recommendations. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Victoria E. Szabo (ves4@duke.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013
The Data is the Scholarship
Committee on Scholarly Editions
How can data models represent theories of scholarly textual editing? Where in the data does textual scholarship inhere? Practical and theoretical explorations invited; see http://scholarlyeditions.commons.mla.org/2013/02/15/convention-2014-call-for-papers/. 250-word proposal by 10 March 2013; Julia H. Flanders (julia_flanders@brown.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
The 21st-Century Library: Discovery Services vs. Subject Specialists
Advisory Committee on the _MLA International Bibliography_
This panel considers the role of the literature subject specialist in an era which appears to promote the use of Google-style one-box-fits-all searches. Abstracts by 1 March 2013; James Raymond Kelly (jrkelly@library.umass.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Technology and Teaching Vulnerable Languages in Vulnerable Times
Committee on Community Colleges
How technology creates new possibilities for teaching Native American, Native Latin American, and/or many other minority languages. Internet, YouTube, distance/learning, MOOCs. Abstracts 250 words by 1 March 2013; Arturo Davila-Sanchez (adavila@peralta.edu)
Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 12 February 2013
Illness and Disability Memoir as Embodied Knowledge
Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Life writing about illness/disability as a form of theoretical knowledge. New ways of conceiving relationship of memoir to embodiment, environment, and community. 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Rachel Adams (rea15@columbia.edu) and Helen Deutsch (hdeutsch@humnet.ucla.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 8 February 2013
Upstream Both Ways: Aligning Community Colleges and Four-Year Institutions
Committee on Community Colleges
Expectations, successes, and challenges in the preparation, upward passage, and persistence of composition, literature, and language students. Abstracts by 1 March 2013; Eric William Devlin (eric.devlin@tccd.edu)
Posted 4 February 2013
The Dis(embodied) Scholar: Access in Theory and Practice
Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Roundtable session on embodiment and the shifting role of identity discourse within disability studies. 250 word abstract by 4 March 2013; Rebecca Terese Sanchez (rsanchez28@fordham.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013, last updated 30 January 2013
Rethinking the Seminar Paper
Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession
How can we reconsider the graduate seminar paper’s purpose, potential forms, and usefulness to students and teachers? 300-word abstracts – bio by 11 March 2013; Alexandra Valint (alexandra.valint@usm.edu) and Atia Sattar (azs183@psu.edu)
Posted 10 December 2012
Time to Degree
Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession
Papers theorizing and analyzing how pressure to decrease time to degree (often without reducing requirements) affects Ph.D. students, scholarship, teaching, the future of the profession. 300-word abstracts – bio by 11 March 2013; Heather Steffen (hsteffen@andrew.cmu.edu)
Posted 26 November 2012, last updated 27 November 2012
Transnational Indigeneities against the Law
Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Position papers on racial profiling, settler colonialism, and indigenous politics in Canadian and US institutions. State regulation and defunding of ethnic studies. Abstracts by 1 March 2013; Cheryl Suzack (cheryl.suzack@utoronto.edu)
Posted 24 September 2012
Global Ed?
Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Position papers on impact of global education. Considerations may include relations among historically underrepresented ethnic groups, the local and the global, and ethnic studies in the face of austerity. Abstracts by 1 March 2013; Sue Kim (sue_kim@uml.edu) and Sharon Holland (Sharon.Holland@duke.edu)
Posted 24 September 2012
Write on Your Own Time: Scholarship and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Managing expectations for scholarly and professional activity by non-tenure-track faculty members. Papers highlighting tensions for faculty members and departments. 300-word abstracts. by 22 February 2013; Karen Madison (kmadison@uark.edu)
Posted 21 September 2012
Off the Tenure Track, On Our Radar
Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Practices to improve the professional lives and working conditions of non-tenure-track faculty members. Reports invited from chairs, tenure-track and non-tenure-track colleagues. 300-word abstracts by 22 February 2013; Karen Madison (kmadison@uark.edu)
Posted 21 September 2012
Publications Committee
Current scholarship on any aspect of this topic will be considered. Abstracts of 250 words. by 4 March 2013; Deborah H. Holdstein (dholdstein@colum.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Candidate Case Studies
Committee on Information Technology
Electronic roundtable session. Candidates will share experiences with submitting digital scholarship for tenure and promotion. Digital work samples, framing strategies, evaluation criteria, challenges and recommendations. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Victoria E. Szabo (ves4@duke.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013
The Data is the Scholarship
Committee on Scholarly Editions
How can data models represent theories of scholarly textual editing? Where in the data does textual scholarship inhere? Practical and theoretical explorations invited; see http://scholarlyeditions.commons.mla.org/2013/02/15/convention-2014-call-for-papers/. 250-word proposal by 10 March 2013; Julia H. Flanders (julia_flanders@brown.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
The 21st-Century Library: Discovery Services vs. Subject Specialists
Advisory Committee on the _MLA International Bibliography_
This panel considers the role of the literature subject specialist in an era which appears to promote the use of Google-style one-box-fits-all searches. Abstracts by 1 March 2013; James Raymond Kelly (jrkelly@library.umass.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Technology and Teaching Vulnerable Languages in Vulnerable Times
Committee on Community Colleges
How technology creates new possibilities for teaching Native American, Native Latin American, and/or many other minority languages. Internet, YouTube, distance/learning, MOOCs. Abstracts 250 words by 1 March 2013; Arturo Davila-Sanchez (adavila@peralta.edu)
Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 12 February 2013
Illness and Disability Memoir as Embodied Knowledge
Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Life writing about illness/disability as a form of theoretical knowledge. New ways of conceiving relationship of memoir to embodiment, environment, and community. 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Rachel Adams (rea15@columbia.edu) and Helen Deutsch (hdeutsch@humnet.ucla.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 8 February 2013
Upstream Both Ways: Aligning Community Colleges and Four-Year Institutions
Committee on Community Colleges
Expectations, successes, and challenges in the preparation, upward passage, and persistence of composition, literature, and language students. Abstracts by 1 March 2013; Eric William Devlin (eric.devlin@tccd.edu)
Posted 4 February 2013
The Dis(embodied) Scholar: Access in Theory and Practice
Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Roundtable session on embodiment and the shifting role of identity discourse within disability studies. 250 word abstract by 4 March 2013; Rebecca Terese Sanchez (rsanchez28@fordham.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013, last updated 30 January 2013
Rethinking the Seminar Paper
Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession
How can we reconsider the graduate seminar paper’s purpose, potential forms, and usefulness to students and teachers? 300-word abstracts – bio by 11 March 2013; Alexandra Valint (alexandra.valint@usm.edu) and Atia Sattar (azs183@psu.edu)
Posted 10 December 2012
Time to Degree
Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession
Papers theorizing and analyzing how pressure to decrease time to degree (often without reducing requirements) affects Ph.D. students, scholarship, teaching, the future of the profession. 300-word abstracts – bio by 11 March 2013; Heather Steffen (hsteffen@andrew.cmu.edu)
Posted 26 November 2012, last updated 27 November 2012
Transnational Indigeneities against the Law
Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Position papers on racial profiling, settler colonialism, and indigenous politics in Canadian and US institutions. State regulation and defunding of ethnic studies. Abstracts by 1 March 2013; Cheryl Suzack (cheryl.suzack@utoronto.edu)
Posted 24 September 2012
Global Ed?
Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Position papers on impact of global education. Considerations may include relations among historically underrepresented ethnic groups, the local and the global, and ethnic studies in the face of austerity. Abstracts by 1 March 2013; Sue Kim (sue_kim@uml.edu) and Sharon Holland (Sharon.Holland@duke.edu)
Posted 24 September 2012
Write on Your Own Time: Scholarship and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Managing expectations for scholarly and professional activity by non-tenure-track faculty members. Papers highlighting tensions for faculty members and departments. 300-word abstracts. by 22 February 2013; Karen Madison (kmadison@uark.edu)
Posted 21 September 2012
Off the Tenure Track, On Our Radar
Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Practices to improve the professional lives and working conditions of non-tenure-track faculty members. Reports invited from chairs, tenure-track and non-tenure-track colleagues. 300-word abstracts by 22 February 2013; Karen Madison (kmadison@uark.edu)
Posted 21 September 2012