ACLA 2017 Utrecht: NOTE DATE CHANGE (now July 6-9)
As you may know, the ACLA is very excited to be holding its first-ever conference outside of the Americas in 2017: we’ll be heading to Utrecht, in the Netherlands. There’s […]
CFP: Appetites: Discourses of Consumption
20th Annual CLIFF Conference March 10-12, 2016 • Department of Comparative Literature • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Keynote: “A Tale of Deliveries” • Rey Chow, Duke University • Thursday, March 10, 2016 at […]
CFP: Communities: LGBTQI Lives and Voices
CCLA annual meeting May 28-30 • Calgary This panel seeks innovative papers analyzing how the lives and voices of the LGBTQI communities influence our understanding of and experiences of community and literature. On […]
CFP: Vernacular Knowledge in Comparative Contexts
CCLA annual meeting May 28-30 • Calgary The term “vernacular” is a highly unstable term that has been mobilized in many contexts but not always consistently. Scholars refer to vernacular language […]
CFP: Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect
Indigenous, Canadian, and Québécois Writings in the Crossfire of a New Turn Banff Centre, 22-25 September 2016 A Conference Organized by the Canadian Literature Centre at the University of Alberta […]
Assistant Professor–Media Culture and History
The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Media Culture and History, to […]
CFP: AIDS and Memory
Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture Special Issue, AIDS and Memory Ricky Varghese What is called AIDS is, for consciousness and for thought, a necessarily impossible object. – […]
ASAP/8 CFP: Alternatives to the Present
How and to what ends do the contemporary arts conceptualize, represent, and model new spaces and temporalities? In recent years, much has been said about the difficulty of representing new […]
CFP: Letters
Mosaic a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature Call for Submissions Letters Mosaic invites innovative and interdisciplinary submissions for a special issue on the theme of philosophy’s, literature’s, or […]
CFP: Pseudotranslation and Metafictionality/Pseudo-traduction: enjeux métafictionnels
This special issue investigates the autoreflexive and metafictional dimensions of pseudotranslation (original texts that present themselves as translations for a variety of reasons). Based in an aesthetic of imitation, pseudotranslations […]