CFP Adapting Middle English Literature (3/17/2023; MLA 2024 Philadelphia 1/4-7/2024)

Adapting Middle English Literature

deadline for submissions:
March 17, 2023

full name / name of organization:
MLA Middle English Forum

contact email:
snakley@sjny.edu


source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/02/08/adapting-middle-english-literature


Please send 250-word abstracts for roundtable presentations to be delivered at the 2024 MLA National Convention in Philadephia, PA (Jan 4-7, 2024) to Susie Nakley, snakley@sjny.edu and Ruen-chuan Ma, RMa@uvu.edu by March 17, 2023.





This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of teaching medieval literature and bringing it into contemporary public consumption. How do writers, playwrights, and directors produce new afterlives for Middle English literature as part of their projects, whether by reimagining medieval styles and genres in contemporary contexts, re-centering and valorizing the experiences of marginalized groups, or generating cultural commentary?



Recent adaptations produced in response to Middle English and other medieval literatures showcase a rich range of creative possibilities: Carol Ann Duffy’s Everyman, David Herd’s Refugee Tales, Robert Gluck's Margery Kempe, Lauren Groff’s Matrix, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody, Derek Jarman's The Garden, David Lowery's Green Knight, Alex Myers's Story of Silence, Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, Zadie Smith’s Wife of Willesden, etc. These adaptations can help us rethink the interplay of critical methodologies and creative commentary in studying and teaching the past, especially since adaptations allow a wider range of audiences to identify with recurring themes in Middle English and other medieval literature and culture. What important generic, political or other differences do we see among the various adaptations, inspirations, translations and other contemporary medievalisms? What is at stake in taking or leaving old art as we make new meaning in the realm of arts and humanities now?





Last updated February 10, 2023

CFP MLA 2024: Transtemporal Methodologies in the Study of Late Medieval English Literature (3/17/2023; MLA 2021)

MLA 2024: Transtemporal Methodologies in the Study of Late Medieval English Literature

deadline for submissions:
March 17, 2023

full name / name of organization:
MLA Middle English Forum

contact email:
meyerlee@aya.yale.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/02/04/mla-2024-transtemporal-methodologies-in-the-study-of-late-medieval-english-literature

Several recent, celebrated studies of late medieval English literature present their anchoring motivations as including one or more twenty-first century activist concerns – for example, scholarship that considers Chaucer and rape culture, examines the medieval roots or affinities of contemporary white supremacy, thinks ecocritically about the medieval beyond-human, juxtaposes medieval political events with modern ones, etc. Methodologically, such studies have involved explicit interleaving of analysis of late medieval English literary texts with considerations of texts, events, or discourses of the present. This session is interested in how such methods might be theorized, systematized, or otherwise conceptually grounded – how we might explain what we are doing when we pursue such projects. Topics to consider include the relation between these methods of interleaving or juxtaposition and various historicisms of the 80s and 90s, the problem of historical alterity, the question of the value that late medieval English literature holds for present-day activism, the bearing of diachronic aesthetic theories such as Bakhtin’s or Benjamin’s, etc.



Please send paper proposals to Bobby Meyer-Lee, meyerlee@aya.yale.edu, and Claire Waters, cmwaters@ucdavis.edu, by 17 March 2023.



Last updated February 10, 2023

Coming Soon: Teaching the Global Middle Ages

Just announced by the MLA:

Teaching the Global Middle Ages

More at https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Options-for-Teaching/Teaching-the-Global-Middle-Ages.

EditorGeraldine Heng

Published: Fall 2022
Options for Teaching
ISBN: 9781603295178 (Paperback)
ISBN: 9781603295161 (Hardcover)

Description


Although globalism may seem like a modern phenomenon, people of the premodern world were also interconnected, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past.

The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of medicine into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, and the Malay Annals, and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.

Opportunity: 2022 MLA Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy (3/25/2022)

Another great opportunity to share:

2022 MLA Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy

Source: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/2022-MLA-Institutes-on-Reading-and-Writing-Pedagogy




Through the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the MLA hosts regional summer institutes to strengthen the teaching of English at access-oriented institutions (AOIs)—community colleges and other colleges that prioritize access over selectivity in admissions. Between 2019 and 2022, the association will have organized eight regional summer institutes for those who teach at AOIs and those who would like to make their teaching careers at them.

We invite applications for the 2022 regional institutes from doctoral students in English and related fields and from part-time and full-time instructors at access-oriented institutions.

Housing and meal expenses for the institute will be covered, and participants will receive a $2,500 stipend for their participation. Completion of the institute will qualify the participant to receive the MLA Certificate in Reading-Writing Pedagogy at Access-Oriented Institutions.



Institute Locations and Dates

University of Missouri, St. Louis: 6–10 June 2022

California State University, Los Angeles: 26–30 June 2022

Princeton University: 11–15 July 2022



Purposes and Outcomes of Participation

The institutes

• provide new and future faculty members with an understanding of the needs and circumstances of students at AOIs, who are primarily first-generation collegegoers, Pell Grant recipients, and students of color;
• provide new and future faculty members with intensive training in pedagogical theory and practices for the teaching of writing and reading together to improve writing instruction at AOIs and to nurture the study of the humanities in vocationally oriented educational settings;
• develop strategies for locally sustaining the collaborations started by the institutes; and
• renew conversation in the profession about relationships among literature, composition, and the humanities and build stronger connections between introductory writing courses and upper-level humanities courses.

Criteria for Application

Applications for participation in the regional institutes will be accepted from doctoral students in English and related fields and from part-time and full-time instructors at access-oriented institutions, especially community colleges, within the area of the host institution.

Applications must be submitted through Interfolio by 25 March and should include

1. Letter of application that speaks to your interest in and commitment to collaborative inquiry and how this institute will address your goals for professional development as a teacher of the humanities
2. CV
3. Two reference letters that speak to your commitment to the humanities and your teaching at an access-oriented institution
4. Statement of teaching philosophy (up to 500 words)

We provide the following questions for you to use if they are helpful to you:

• What are the key dilemmas that you have faced in teaching students to read and write in your courses? How have you attempted to address them?
• What essential questions about the teaching of reading and writing continue to shape your approach to teaching, and how might they be related to issues of access in higher education?
• What scholarship in literary and writing studies informs your teaching and your community work?
• How would you like this institute to help you address current issues of access on your campus in reading/writing pedagogy for the humanities?

Apply now

Opportunity: MLA Bibliography Fellowship (3/15/2022)

Sorry for the late post on this. It might be a good opportunity.

Apply for an MLA Bibliography Fellowship by 15 March 2022

Posted 13 January 2022 by Benjamin Schacht

Source: https://news.mla.hcommons.org/2022/01/13/apply-for-an-mla-bibliography-fellowship-by-15-march-2022/

The MLA International Bibliography is accepting applications for three-year field-bibliography fellowships. MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and indexing information for citations in the bibliography. Open to all MLA members, including graduate students, the 2022 fellowships will run from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025.

Field bibliographers perform a valuable service for the profession and receive institutional recognition while deepening their knowledge of the field as well as their research skills. The MLA provides materials and training and waives registration fees for fellows attending training sessions at the MLA convention. On completion of the fellowship, fellows receive a $500 stipend and a certificate at the convention awards ceremony.

For more information and to submit an application, visit the MLA Bibliography Fellowships page. Applications are due 15 March 2022.