Comparative Literature and Culture Studies (20th–21st Century)
Modern Language Association Conference, January 7-10 Los Angeles
Electronic Roundtable (8 participants)

Mediated Futures: Technology, Transformation, and the Literary-Cultural Field

This electronic roundtable invites short, exploratory interventions on the t…[Read more]

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

This special issue seeks to honor and amplify the voices of women who have resisted, challenged, and redefined societal norms—both histori…[Read more]

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]

MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession

Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session

NB: Session Information Follows. The mentoring session will continue informally following the roundtable via happy hour. Location: Ernst Café (600 S. Peters St.; across the street from the Hilton R…[Read more]

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

Anthony's post articulates both the urgency and necessity of undoing institutional complicity with genocide.

There is a shameful history of silence on campuses during the birth of fascism a century ago, and given the evident re-birth of fascism (at home and abroad) these days, it is quite clear…[Read more]

Thank you for your replies. Yes, the resolution tries to distinguish scholars from the institutions that employ them but this is--and has for years been called out as--disingenuous. If your university went under, where would that leave you--or the student body, or the service workers, or the community? And yes,…[Read more]

Thank you for this comment. It's important to be very clear about this: this resolution does NOT propose to punish individual scholars for the policies of their institutions. The 2005 BDS call issued by 170 Palestinian civil society organizations explicitly calls for a boycott of Israeli academic INSTITUTIONS, NOT individual…[Read more]

Submitted by Anthony Alessandrini (Kingsborough Community Coll., NY)

Whereas, international law experts, including UN officials, describe the Israeli war on Gaza as a genocide;

Whereas, human rights organizations and the International Court of Justice have determined that Israel is maintaining a system of…[Read more]

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: h…[Read more]

Title:  Helen Barolini’s Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women at Forty

This panel celebrates one of the seminal classics of Italian American literature on the advent of its fortieth anniversary. Helen Barolini’s 1985 anthology marked a fundam…[Read more]

Title: (In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies

MLA Description: Examines Morrison’s assertion that “Invisible ink is what lies under, between, outside the lines, hidden until the right reader discovers it,” then can only Italian Americans be the “right…[Read more]