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NeMLA 2019 – The Coming-of-age Genre in the Arabic Novel

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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 […]

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CFP – Net Neutrality and Digital Media/Scholarship – MediaCommons Field Guide

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Each month, the MediaCommons Field Guide hosts a different conversation in Media Studies, Digital Humanities, and Culture Studies asking contributors to connect their interests or research to a core conceptual question. The editors are seeking contributors to shape new and intriguing conversations for the October issue on net neutrality and digital publishing/access, asking: What effects

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CFP: Child-Animal Relationships in Comics: Historical and Transcultural Perspectives

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Many of the most well-known comics protagonists have pets or animal friends, loyal sidekicks in their daily lives and adventures: Charlie Brown has Snoopy, his independent, precocious dog, Calvin has Hobbes, a stuffed tiger acquiring life through the boy’s imagination, Beano‘s Dennis the Menace eventually acquired an equally destructive canine companion called Gnasher, Tintin (successfully

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CFP: Transnational America: Transpacific Overtures, The Black Atlantic, and Dynamics of Settler Colonialism

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The American Studies Association (ASA) and the Japanese Association for American Studies (JAAS), with support from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUFSC), have announced a competition open to ASA members (U.S. citizens). The organizers plan to select two ASA delegates (pending funding) for participation in the annual JAAS conference to be held in late May-early

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CFP: Bodies/Borders in Jewish Women’s Comics

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Scholarship and publications on Jewish women and comics have grown considerably over the last five years. Studies such as the Eisner Award-winning Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews (Lightman 2014), How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses? (Oksman 2016) and our own special issue on  “Contemporary Comics by Jewish Women”

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