Kim Singletary

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Poststructuralism: Past, Present, Future Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Faculty of Philosophy March 6-7, 2019. In the 1960s and 1970s, a new approach to doing philosophy arose in France that subsequently came to be labelled ‘poststructuralism.’ Building on the insights of structuralism, a number of thinkers, most of whom rejected the label ‘poststructuralist,’ […]

The 1960s are known as a period of profound economic, social and political turmoil. In Western societies, revolutionary uproars directly impacted the bourgeois ideal of the nuclear family inherited from the 19th century. In this family structure, the head of household is an all-powerful father wielding his authority over wife and children. The male breadwinner–female

The use of Twitter and other Web 2.0 applications as a contemporary practice to write or re-write literary texts is developing participative, multimodal, and co-constructed creations where the roles of authorship and audience become intertwined. This panel aims to investigate the multifaceted aspects of this phenomenon in the Italian and in the international context. Can

Call for proposals for World Literatures panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Washington, DC, March 21-24, 2019 The Coming-of-age Genre in the Arabic Novel Chair: Sally Gomaa, PhD, Salve Regina University The Bildungsroman is a contested genre in the Arabic novel. For example, Frederic Jameson has famously argued that all third-world