Dear All, please consider submitting an abstract for the panel "Il carcere come spazio letterario" that will be held during the next NeMLA Annual Convention - April 12-15, 2018 Pittsburgh, PA The aim of this panel is to explore the idea of prison as a literary space.

Call for Papers

                                                                                                                Deconstructing Islamophobia Conference

September 16 and 17, 2017

At Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green OH

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract for a 15-minute paper, musical performance, short film, or creative presentation by July 15, 2017 at:

https://bgsu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eL1sAdYvJO1CsjH

NEMLA 2018,

April 12-15, 2018- Pittsburg, PA

            Panel title : “Representing ‘Frenchness’ in Anglophone TV Series, Cinema, Songs and Literature"

Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP), a peer-reviewed open source online journal, is accepting articles for our Winter 2018 issue, How Do We Survey. We are interested in articles by instructors and their experiences in teaching the American literature survey course in all its permutations. How are the classics and contemporary American authors balanced in surveys? What are the difficulties? The benefits? Any issue pertaining to teaching American literature is welcome, from assignment creation, gender issues, difficulties with translations, to first-hand accounts of both successes and failures.

In 2018, Laurence Sterne’s _A Sentimental Journey through France and

Italy_, the author’s ‘work of redemption,’ will have been

entertaining, touching and outraging readers for 250 years. To mark

the sestercentennial anniversary of its publication and Laurence

Sterne’s death, we are pleased to issue a call for proposals for

contributions to an essay collection, _‘A Legacy to the World’:

New Approaches to Laurence Sterne’s ‘A Sentimental Journey’ and

other Works_. We are particularly interested in new explorations of

affect, culture, gender, class, religion and nation, and in studies of

connections between _A Sentimental Journey_ and other works by Sterne

This panel examines the active participation of women in the public dialogue through the prism of their periodical publications. The rise of the periodical press has been recognized as a key factor in the formation of the public sphere in the nineteenth century (Habermas 1962). Studies of twentieth-century editorship, however, tend to take the institutionalization of editorship for granted. Male editors are often known by name, and they are studied in the light of their impact on the socio-political landscape of their time. Historically, however, editorship (and women’s editorship in particular) was often anonymous or pseudonymous and even explicitly staged as performance.

Fostering Global Competence: Teaching Language and Culture Through Film

Abstract:

The session aims to reimagine the fundamental pedagogical role of foreign language and culture courses in the college curriculum in the era of globalization. Providing students with cultural experience is the objective and challenge in beginners’ language and culture courses. Films can provide the narrative of our fast-changing time, allowing reflection on global issues as well as cultural values. This session will explore whether it is possible to add relevant content to our instruction to help students reflect on the global era.