SAH Commons | Mary K. Ramsey | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/marykramsey/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Mary K. Ramsey is a member. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:09:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 91441a91bdeed2f844dfbb5fd6e185de Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP - MLA Convention 2027 in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-mla-convention-2027-2/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:04:03 -0400 Language Ideologies and the Discursive Construction of Emancipatory Narratives
We invite 250-word abstracts of interdisciplinary contributions that examine how language ideologies and practices, historically and in digital contexts, mediate power, shape public perception, and negotiate responsibility within social, political, and pedagogical…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4c43b60f345186a9d99f144ab505952 Janine M. Utell started the topic Webinar of Interest: Commonsense Strategies for Publishing While Teaching in the forum HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/webinar-of-interest-commonsense-strategies-for-publishing-while-teaching/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:42:15 -0500 Check out this upcoming free webinar!
Commonsense Strategies for Publishing while Teaching
24 March 2026 | 4:00–5:00 p.m. ET

This webinar, on writing and publishing, is designed for faculty members at access-oriented institutions, especially community colleges. Speakers will share strategies for identifying writing opportunities, bringing tog…[Read more]

]]> 0 834164ebffdea594bbe6c18bd750b9dd Ruen-chuan Ma started the topic Middle English Forum MLA 2027 Call-for-Papers in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/middle-english-forum-mla-2027-call-for-papers/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:30:27 -0500 The Middle English LLC executive committee invites submissions (due Monday, March 23, 2026) for the following sessions at MLA 2027 (Jan 7-10) in Los Angeles:

Centering New Discoveries
This roundtable invites short presentations (~8 minutes) centering under-discussed or unusual Middle English texts and texts relevant to research in Middle English.…[Read more]

]]> 0 034611601fb5c4ba4267565f42616c4a Janice McGregor started the topic Call for Papers: MLA 2027 for Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2027-for-forum-on-second-language-teaching-and-learning/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:22:19 -0500 Sessions Organized by the MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching & Learning (SLTL)
2027 Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
January 7-10, 2027 in Los Angeles, CA

The MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching & Learning (SLTL) invites submissions for two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions at the 2027 MLA annual convention.…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb21278e78fea4dd03300ec625d6211f Ingrid Nelson started the topic MLA 2027 Chaucer Forum panels in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/mla-2027-chaucer-forum-panels/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:15:34 -0500 Dear Chaucerians,

Please consider submitting to one of the Chaucer Forum panels for MLA 2027, which will be held Jan. 7-10 in Los Angeles. (Apologies for cross-posting!)
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]]> 0 114ee83fce11a8960ee323c26b63d5cb Jack Dudley started the topic Black Studies and Spirituality (MLA 2027) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/black-studies-and-spirituality-mla-2027/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:29:22 -0500 Black Studies and Spirituality

This guaranteed online session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention invites papers on literary production and culture that occurs at the intersections of Black Studies and spirituality. How have texts by Black writers imagined, challenged, and embraced traditional, new, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c220504c8692d6573fd0571e7c8052e1 Ruen-chuan Ma started the topic Call for Candidates: Delegate to the MLA Assembly (2028-30) in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/call-for-candidates-delegate-to-the-mla-assembly-2028-30/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:16:05 -0500 The Executive Committee of the Middle English Forum welcomes nominations (including self-nominations) to serve as the forum delegate and represent the Forum at the MLA Delegate Assembly. Our forum will hold an election for its next delegate in Fall 2026, and an outline of delegate responsibilities can be found here. The delegate would serve a term…[Read more]

]]> 0 18eddb608fffee862a75ea355d51f8f0 William Viestenz started the topic City of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith (MLA 2027) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/city-of-angels-migration-encounter-and-new-forms-of-faith-mla-2027/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:22:51 -0500 For this guaranteed session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention, we invite papers focusing on literatures of migration and spirituality. Given the convention’s location in Los Angeles, we especially welcome proposals that consider authors and texts with connections to LA and the city as a site of contact, d…[Read more]

]]> 0 e16ff38350b1015ec0ce696065f49325 Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic MLA TC Religion and Literature Executive Self-Nominations Invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-tc-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:45:37 -0500 The executive committee of TC Religion and Literature invites self-nominations for a five-year term on the executive committee beginning January 2027. Here’s a clarifying paragraph from the MLA:

 Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. Members may suggest new committee members by writing or typing in the na…

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]]> 0 a7618d7673b64bb343616bf526a8ad72 Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941340/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:47:48 -0500 CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. Special Issue of Hispanófila.
Edited by: Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College) and Adam Cohn (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Proposals due March 6, 2026

]]> 0 7b0660bb35f2fc30297271a787bcf503 Jennifer A. Lorden started the topic Inviting Nominations for the Old English Forum Executive Committee! in the forum LLC Old English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/old-english/forum/topic/inviting-nominations-for-the-old-english-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:26:02 -0500 The Old English Forum Executive Committee invites nominations (self-nominations encouraged!) for a new member to be appointed to the Committee. The new member will serve a five-year term on the Old English Forum Executive Committee, from Jan. 2027-Jan. 2032. The Forum Committee organizes annual sponsored panels at MLA, participates in Forum and…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ad17d03574041682cf2793f5dfa08c6 Shannon Kelley replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/?view=all#post-1040696 Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:56:02 -0500 Hi, Lamees, we have two positions: a 2-year replacement who would be Secretary and then Chair, and a 3-year position. This person would observe for a year and then rotate into the Secretary and Chair positions. We organize two guaranteed panels each year at MLA. Attendance at the conference is required to share the work of supporting our speakers.…[Read more]

]]> 0 84647b979af966f891706a04e75bf9cd Moumin Quazi replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040694 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:02:55 -0500 I’d be more than happy to serve, Shannon. My paper (presented Thursday in a virtual session, #63) was a pedagogically-based essay. I’m a 28-year member of the MLA. My email is quazi@tarleton.edu. My cv is attached.

Cheers,
Moumin

]]> 0 bcebea8ea62870f4c9fbc10a9d58ce3f Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040693 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:46:43 -0500 I’d be honored and delighted to join the committee; I’ve emailed you, too, Shannon, with my CV. I’d be glad to provide anything else to support candidacy.

]]> 0 144e4c8c3fb181d1a29a5971eeee5140 Lamees Fadl replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040692 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:46:16 -0500 Hi Shannon,Would you please share more information? The term, the duties…etc
Thank you, Lamees 

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On Saturday, January 10, 2026, 1:35 PM, Shannon Kelley <noreply@hcommons.org> wrote:

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]]> 0 8c26b802a3e503a3f685ee274416b788 Shannon Kelley started the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:31:23 -0500 The Teaching of Literature Forum needs one replacement committee member and one new committee member. This is an excellent opportunity for junior or senior faculty to serve at a national level. Please email me with any questions: skelley@fairfield.edu.  — Shannon Kelley, Chair, The Teaching of Literature Forum

]]> 1 cf74cccf006facb88bedf383107ea832 Randall Gess started the topic MLA 2026 Session: Romance Linguistics in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/mla-2026-session-romance-linguistics-3/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:00:41 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics welcomes you to our session at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We hope to see you on Friday, January 9th at 5:15 @ MTCC – 205A
Presentations
 The Curious Case of Interconsonantal S in Old French , Francisco Antonio…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce6cb19cda7028716dd9ddca95f0ff87 Domna C. Stanton replied to the topic 2026 LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/2026-lsl-forum-on-romance-linguistics/#post-1040637 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:57:41 -0500 Thanks so much for writing But I am not able To attend the conventionGood luck at the conventionBest ds

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]]> 0 198c11ce77d0fac244c3b6b94d78d95a Randall Gess started the topic 2026 LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/2026-lsl-forum-on-romance-linguistics/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:54:59 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics welcomes you to our session at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We hope to see you on Friday, January 9th at 5:15 @ MTCC – 205A
Presentations
 The Curious Case of Interconsonantal S in Old French , Francisco Antonio…[Read more]

]]> 0 fce5b7c06e2e4c0676bc1b64a2fab4a1 Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum-6/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:07:38 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning cordially invites you to our three (3) sessions at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We look forward to seeing you and to your participation!
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314 – Reimagining Learning and Teaching with Studen…[Read more]

]]> 0 449434bee3550586b44084517f90aa5e Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum-3/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:11:49 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning cordially invites you to our three (3) sessions at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We look forward to seeing you and to your participation!

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314 – Reimagining Learning and Teaching with Stu…[Read more]

]]> 0 4dfa1b4f28f04e52917d77088d2d5c38 Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:01:27 -0500 The Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning cordially invites you to our three (3) sessions at the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We look forward to seeing you and to your participation!

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314 – Reimagining Learning and Teaching with Student…[Read more]

]]> 0 d69bfcf2d744701bfacd2e6cf104e2dc Shakil Rabbi started the topic Abstract for Translingual Rhetorics and the Language Movement in Bangladesh in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/abstract-for-translingual-rhetorics-and-the-language-movement-in-bangladesh/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:54:13 -0500 This presentation explores the role of Language Movement in the formation of the Bangladeshi national identity. Analyzing the translingual negotiations between diverse language ideologies I argue that these interactions laid the groundwork for a distinct national consciousness. Rather than viewing language and nationalism as fixed categories, this…[Read more]

]]> 0 80c221f457103f995092339003cc52ed Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms abstract in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/family-resemblances-between-world-languages-and-nationalisms-abstract-2/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:15:41 -0500 Posting at Shakil’s request–here is my abstract for the panel:

<u>Language and Identity in the Sinitic Empire of Letters</u>

For centuries prior to the advent of modern nationalism, Chinese literature had already been constructed by scholars into a common heritage and united civilizational tradition; with modern Chinese nationalism, this…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb8d10444be5cd39fe31df04f28e584e Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms abstract in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/family-resemblances-between-world-languages-and-nationalisms-abstract/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:13:18 -0500 At Shakil’s request to mention our panel here, I thought I would post a copy of my abstract for our MLA panel on Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms.  The panel is scheduled for Saturday January 10 8:30-9:45 in MTCC-707.

 

<u>Language and Identity in the Sinitic Empire of Letters</u>

For centuries prior to the advent…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9dc5d30abd20173f796e3ca138791ff Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP - Openness in Language Education in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/cfp-openness-in-language-education-3/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:37:47 -0500 📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review

I’m happy to share that The EUROCALL Review is launching a new thematic issue on:
👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”.

This issue focuses on the role and impact of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in language education worldwi…[Read more]

]]> 0 895c3dd6571a8af9459c5806c4ee68a8 Nattie Golubov uploaded the file: CFP Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2025-2025 to TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1924521/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:30:00 -0400 The first election of Donald Trump sparked a series of “Rogue” romance anthologies that framed love as resistance, and the romance genre as progressive and inclusive. Looking back after a decade, how has the genre registered and responded to ongoing political contexts–in the United States and elsewhere–of political radicalization, xenophobia,…[Read more]

]]> 0 67d51d9face4d40029856fc7fe1fcbe8 Heng Du started the topic Respondent/panelist for guaranteed panel on premodern temporality (MLA26) in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/respondent-panelist-for-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-mla26/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:10:54 -0400 We are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. I included below a draft of its description, which can be further tailored according to your interests/suggestions:

<b>Natural Time and Human Narratives: Competing Temporal Orders in the Premodern World</b><b></b>

As a comparative study of…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1710a5c1c5f873429e0d70337b99b99 Heng Du started the topic MLA2026 Guaranteed panel on premodern temporality in search of respondent/panel in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla2026-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-in-search-of-respondent-panel/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:36:53 -0400 We are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. All three papers so far deal with temporality in the religious context, and we will probably highlight this dimension in the finalized panel description. I included below a draft that can be further tailored according to your…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d562ab73002b6b5c3b686bf474fbdf7 Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-6/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:17:32 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11. Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

How do linguistic features passed…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f70c112050a2dd780080a49d81e5deb Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-5/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:15:00 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11. Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

How do linguistic features passed…[Read more]

]]> 0 5aa77399e5c07eb50329f24ddad6d61e Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-2/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:04:37 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11. Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

How do linguistic features passed…[Read more]

]]> 0 82a9b03f6b6fddb6f20ca6965a96954c Lee B. Abraham started the topic Call for Papers: MLA 2026 for Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2026-for-forum-on-second-language-teaching-and-learning-2/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:22:29 -0400 Call for Papers
Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 8-11, 2026, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 0 2660c2c2242df3d80ac42860ffbe65c3 Lee B. Abraham started the topic Call for Papers: MLA 2026 - Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2026-forum-on-second-language-teaching-and-learning-2/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:16:06 -0400 Call for Papers
Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 8-11, 2026, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 0 824aacc4a6b3121c5e73b6177ac5ecc7 Ruen-chuan Ma started the topic CFPs for MLA 2026 Middle English Forum sessions in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2026-middle-english-forum-sessions/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:19:31 -0400 The Middle English LLC executive committee invites your submissions (due Friday, March 21, 2025) for the following sessions at MLA 2026 (Jan 8-11) in Toronto:

The Premodern Anthropocene (sponsored session)
The Middle English Forum proposes a panel considering human impacts upon the natural world in Medieval English literature. Potential topics…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9842911203212376a9c4714702b8a5c Lauren Rocha replied to the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/#post-1039578 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:11:03 -0500 Disability, Belonging, and Family

This session seeks abstracts that address how disability and the concept of family encompass different experiences across relationships, communities, and texts. These proposals can either draw from lived experiences or address portrayals of disability in families in literature, TV shows, film, and other content.…[Read more]

]]> 0 0cbf8a76aa8752e25099af14ea0c572e Mary Hayes started the topic MLA 2026 panels; Linguistics and Literature forum in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2026-panels-linguistics-and-literature-forum/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:12:12 -0500 The Linguistics and Literature forum (D036) is sponsoring two panels at MLA 2026.
Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation
MDM encompasses various genres of post-factual literature­ – deepfakes, inauthentic soundbytes, recontextualized signs – rife in 21st-century public truth claims. What work does MDM pose for linguists and literary scho…[Read more]

]]> 0 e33eaa34a4b23138a6533d58ad5c0c2c Elizabeth Weixel started the topic CFP: Faces: Resemblances and Otherness in Global Literature in the forum HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/cfp-faces-resemblances-and-otherness-in-global-literature/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:10:55 -0500 An object of curiosity and desire, the face has also been subject to symbolic and real violence. This panel seeks papers discussing the presentation of the face and facelessness in Global literature.

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Send 200-word abstracts and presenter bio to Umar Shehzad, University of Edinburgh…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd6b052d42829edf69a3ca6560be055e Elizabeth Weixel started the topic CFP: Precarity and Protest: What Can I Actually Do? in the forum HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/cfp-precarity-and-protest-what-can-i-actually-do-2/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:04:18 -0500 Seeking 200-word abstracts and presenter bios for practical strategies in teaching, activism, and research for a roundtable discussion on making marginalized voices heard, especially within the confines of contingency, institutional policy, and current political climate

Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025
Send abstracts and bios to:…[Read more]

]]> 0 209b5ed37e685333516a2bf3e34c36a0 Junting Huang replied to the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/#post-1039555 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:39:24 -0500 Impairment Theory

This session invites proposals that explore personal and phenomenological accounts of impairment—not merely as a physical condition of illness or disability but as an embodied experience that generates cultural, social, and political insights.

While disability studies have long critiqued the social structures that create d…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ae82909a48f8ff04b3cca46f1b5e6bd Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-3/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:24:03 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7da316a141a2bc02639058e70f13a92 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:16:01 -0500 Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge of sustained scholarly interest in the area. Biographies, autobiographies, letters, and diaries from…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2baccb0f0531fdcbe119a1ff9a5b4a8 Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-15/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:43:51 -0500 (Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities (Online)
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases, and ethical implications. Send 30…[Read more]

]]> 0 01a68f0c095b1312bf4581a4abf45e54 Ingrid Nelson started the topic MLA 2026: LLC Chaucer panels in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/mla-2026-llc-chaucer-panels/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:37:48 -0500 Here are the short and long CFPs for the 2026 MLA. (Deadlines: 10 March & 15 March). Please consider submitting a proposal!

  1. Chaucerian Attention Economies

 

Format: Roundtable

Short CFP

Attention, distraction, slow studies, post-critique, media/immediacy/immediation, idleness, perception, cognition, and/or sensology in Chaucer and…[Read more]

]]> 0 6676123f4cef90a92bbfdd8a8c425306 Terry Callaghan started the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:08:13 -0500 MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession: Calls for Papers
Impairment Theory
Papers exploring personal and/or phenomenological accounts of impairment—not as physical conditions of illness or disability but as embodied experiences that generate cultural, social, and political insights for scholarship. Submit a 250-word abstract by the d…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b99c09da9a6a7494fe191ed7fc2a0af Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-14/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:33:36 -0500 (Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases, and ethical implications. Send 300…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b86b0335629a13c5d77407cda471e6b Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-3/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:48:46 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

Date: September 29 – October 2, 2025

Deadline for submissions: March 10, 2025

Location: Wuppertal, Germany

Subject Field: Narratology

Since Roland Barthes’ formula “international, transhistorical, transcultural, narration is there, like life i…[Read more]

]]> 0 acb76370ab72d18339c580c8e87aa82a Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-2/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:45:48 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

September 29 – October 2, 2025, Wuppertal, Germany

 

In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is…[Read more]

]]> 0 3caf98fe3af4b0f34ce3d7bb50dc294e Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:41:11 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 – October 2, 2025

In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is ded…[Read more]

]]> 0 568bcbd9f2ec0d59aaa2fc1014633108 Sarah Sprouse started the topic CLCS Arthurian's CFPs for MLA 2026 in the forum CLCS Arthurian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/arthurian/forum/topic/clcs-arthurians-cfps-for-mla-2026/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:42:42 -0500 Good morning All! Please consider submitting a proposal for one of our two sessions for next year. As usual, proposals should be submitted via the MLA’s confex system. If you have questions, please feel free to e-mail me: ssprouse@wtamu.edu

 

Approaches to Teaching Arthurian Literature: Roundtable

To celebrate the forthcoming MLA volume, Approac…[Read more]

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