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MLA NEWS DIGEST • 16 OCTOBER 2024
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PUBLICATIONS SPOTLIGHT
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Gender Justice and Contemporary Asian Literatures
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This casebook investigates how diverse writers from across Asia and their diasporas have engaged with the struggle for gender justice.
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LEARN MORE
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Join to get 30% off MLA titles.
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Join Our Upcoming Webinar on AI Literacy
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Join our free webinar on 20 November at 2:00 p.m. EST. Speakers will consider what literacies students and teachers need to develop in the face of generative AI technologies and how best to develop these literacies. Learn more and register now.
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Professional Development at #mla25
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Visit the Professional Development Hub page to learn about some of the career-related events at the 2025 convention, featuring sessions on getting published, graduate student labor advocacy, enrollment challenges, and more.
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Propose a Special Feature for PMLA
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Each fall, the PMLA Editorial Board welcomes proposals for clusters of essays on a topic of wide interest. Learn more and submit a proposal by 15 November.
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Last Chance to Apply for Travel Grant
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Don’t miss the upcoming 1 November deadline to apply for financial assistance to help defray the cost of attending the 2025 convention in January. Apply now.
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RESOURCE OF THE MONTH
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In tribute to the late Fredric Jameson, who was awarded the MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement, we’re sharing the May 2022 PMLA special feature on Jameson’s groundbreaking work. The twelve essays are available to all through Cambridge Core.
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Abstracts: Special issue on consent and English studies pedagogy, due 25 Oct.
Papers: Special issue on the aesthetics and the ethics of the toxic, due 1 Nov.
Submissions: Edited volume on feminism, American politics, and pop culture, due 15 Nov.
Proposals: Conference on vegan literary studies, due 15 Nov.
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Papers: Conference on the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, due 15 Nov.
Submissions: Special issue on the concept of magic, due 1 Dec.
Proposals: Special issue on the environment and Caribbean literature, due 1 Dec.
Abstracts: Special issue on energy and decolonial theory, due 1 Dec.
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