Please consider submitting a proposal – soon! – for my proposed special session for MLA 2020 (the presidential theme is”Being Human”), on the literature in the history of education:
Teaching Humanity? The Cultural Work of Literature Instruction in the United States
Seeking papers that illuminate the cultural work of literature instruction, focused on individual works and/or theoretical or pedagogical trends, from the Progressive Era through the present. Please send 250-word abstracts and short CVs. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 18 March 2019 Andrew Newman, Stony Brook U, SU of New York (andrew.newman@stonybrook.edu )