New MLA Structure: “Medical Humanities” Group Proposed

The MLA is considering a new structure among its divisions/groups, with “Medical Humanities” proposed as a new group. Please take a few minutes to weigh in on this proposal. There’s already a lively debate about “Medical Humanities” (with suggestions for…

CFP: Fashionable Diseases

Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Society, ca. 1660-1832 Call For Papers An International Interdisciplinary Conference, Newcastle and Northumbria Universities, 3rd – 5th July 2014 Between 1660 and 1832 books such as Cheyne’s English Malady and Adair’s Essays on Fashionable Diseases created…

CFP: Alcott & Whitman (Am Lit Assoc)

American Literature Association, 25th Annual Conference, May 22 – 25, 2014, Washington DC CALL FOR PAPERS: JOINTLY SPONSORED BY THE LOUISA MAY ALCOTT SOCIETY AND THE WALT WHITMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATON “I Want Something to Do”: Alcott, Whitman, and Nursing in…

CFP: Disability & Graphic Lit

We invite proposals for chapters in a volume on disability and graphic literature for the new Literary Disability series from Palgrave Macmillan edited by David Bolt, Elizabeth Donaldson, and Julia Miele Rodas. Feats of Clay: Disability and Graphic Narrative will…

Kienle Symposium — Medical Humanities: Clinical & Pedagogical Perspectives

Kienle Symposium — Medical Humanities: Clinical & Pedagogical Perspectives May 25–30, 2014 Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA (Home of the first humanities department in a U.S. medical school) http://www2.med.psu.edu/humanities/kienle-symposium/ The purpose of this Symposium is to provide a practical experience and pedagogical strategies…

Special Issue Proposals: J Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies Proposals for special issues: If you are interested in guest editing a special issue of JLCDS, please send a proposal on or before January 10, 2014. Your proposal should consist of a title, a 500-700…

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