We invite papers for our 2024 MLA Convention session examining Lessing’s critiques of colonialism and/or neocolonialism, especially in conversation with post-colonial African women writers from Aidoo, Gordimer, Dangarembga, and Vera to Gappah, Bulawayo, and Mbue. 250-word abstracts and brief bio requested.

With its massive world, open-ended quests, and near-limitless options for customization, Elden Ring––the most critically acclaimed video game of 2022––is designed to be replayed. But it is also a text that demands to be reread. Whether we study its environmental storytelling or the lore in item descriptions, the game’s fragmented narrative fuels exegeses that resemble the long history of Biblical interpretation, midcentury criticism of modernist enigmas like Ulysses, and hermeneutic fandoms surrounding popular culture like Twin Peaks. Its spatiotemporally disjunctive universe frustrates efforts to interpret its world “realistically” and prompts one to place it in dialogue with theories of unconventional space and time.

Digital Rhetoric and Borders: Human Mobility Between Mexico and the United States

Editors: Dr. Rubria Rocha de Luna, Dr. Paloma Vargas Montes and Dr. Maricruz Castro Ricalde

With the support of the Tecnólogico de Monterrey Research Dean's Office, we are pleased to invite proposals for chapters of previously unpublished and original work to be included in Digital Rhetoric and Borders: Human Mobility Between Mexico and the United States, to be published by a high impact Scopus publisher in 2024.