Call For PapersYoung Adult (YA) Literature has always featured a variety of sub-genres working in conjunction with familiar tropes (beauty, sexuality, identity, etc.). In the last decade, there has been a steady rise in popularity of the dystopia sub-genre (e.g., Divergent, The Hunger ...
Call For Papers Papers invited for a roundtable at NeMLA Convention, 2016 UNSUNG HEROINES OF BRITISH LITERATURE How many of us remember Helen Burns or Biddy? Helen fades beside Jane Eyre; Estella, despite her cruel whimsicality, steals the limelight and leaves Biddy in a growing shadow. With ...
I invite papers that examine how 20th and 21st-century literary and cultural narratives in America engage with structures of feeling and theories of affect. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - National bodies/ communities as “structures of feeling” (see, Raymond Williams’ ...
In April 2015, NeMLA will meet in Toronto, Ontario for its annual convention. Every year, this event affords NeMLA's principal opportunity to carry on a tradition of research dissemination and pedagogical exchange in language and literature. The convention will include roundtable and caucus meeting...
Call For PapersIn his lifetime, Nietzsche referred to over 150 nineteenth-century writers in both his published writings and Nachlaß. Nietzsche’s use of nineteenth-century fiction and poetry ranges from somewhat nonchalant to extremely systematic. Indeed, the cornerstone of his “Advent of ...
Call For Papers The instructor of record for a college course is the sole person responsible for crafting the course syllabus, creating assignments, and evaluating students, yet collaboration is present in all aspects of our teaching. We encourage our students to work with us and with one another...
“edutainment” or, as the motto of *Highlights for Children* calls it, “Fun with a purpose.” This panel is open to explorations of particular mechanisms, contents, and contexts of periodical pedagogy past and present, including examinations of child-readers’ participation in, subversion ...
Call For Papers In a society where urban life recreates otherness, dissolves geographical and social borders, creates transnational spaces and crafts new identities, how do Latinos and Hispanic immigrants of various Latin American regions living in cities in the US (re)build the local and global ...