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ACLA Conferences and Calls for Papers Listings

The ACLA maintains a listing of conferences and calls for papers, aside from the ACLA's Annual Meeting. Please email the ACLA to post conference information.

The ACLA also has links to other conference lists. This list is not meant to be exhaustive. Please email the ACLA with information and addresses of other websites that list conferences or calls for papers related to comparative literature.

June 2010

The Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland, will host a three week summer seminar, “Re-mapping the Renaissance: Exchange between Early Modern Islam and Europe,” from June 13 - July 2, 2010 for college and university teachers funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Selected scholars will explore the ways in which the European Renaissance was shaped by interaction between Europe and the rest of the world, in particular, the world of Islam. Participants will enjoy lectures, seminar discussions, and visits to the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art, both in Washington DC. For additional information, please visit our website or contact the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at crbs@umd.edu.

The graduate student conference "Undoing Eros: Love and Sexuality in Russian Culture," hosted by Princeton University, will be held October 22-23, 2010. The conference will examine the different ways in which Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals have critically re-imagined the terms of love. We encourage participants to investigate how love has been problematized, disassembled and reinvented in a wide variety of contexts, including (but not limited to): sexuality, birth and reproduction, representations of the body (from the sacred body to erotica), love in theology, family relationships (marriage and kinship), and social norms (and their transgression). Please submit abstracts (500 words or less) to jlwtwo@princeton.edu by June 14, 2010. In addition, please include a cover sheet including a brief bio, departmental affiliation, name, email, and the title of your proposed paper. All conference participants will have travel expenses reimbursed from the conference budget, and lodging will be provided for the nights of the 22nd and 23rd.

The Making of the Humanities, Second International Conference on the History of the Humanities will be held October 21-23, 2010 at University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Topics include all aspects of the history of philology, linguistics, rhetoric, musicology, literary theory, historiography, art history, archeology and other humanities disciplines, with an emphasis on their interrelations. Please submit abstracts in 400 words to HistoryHumanities@gmail.com by June 15, 2010.

The 1st International Conference "Landscapes of the Self: Identity, Discourse, Representation," will be held at the University of Evora, Portugal, November 24-26, 2010. The conference aims to discuss the tangled web of critical positions regarding the study of autobiographical documents which has, over decades, opened debates about the autobiographical act, as well as about the range, structure, and essential features of the autobiography. Please send abstracts of 300 words to Ana Clara Birrento at birrento@uevora.pt, Maria Helena Saianda at mhrs@uevora.pt, and Olga Goncalves at obg@uevora.pt by June 15, 2010.

"Graphic Engagement: The Politics of Comics and Animation," a conference hosted by the Purdue Comparative Literature Program, will be held at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana on September 2-4, 2010. The conference committee welcomes papers that explore the ways in which comics and film animation engage us politically and profoundly influence the way we define gender, race, religion, class, and nationhood. “Political” can be defined broadly, relating not only to affairs of state, but also the praxis of visual narrative and ways it affects individual identity and community dynamics. Please send abstracts (250 words) and a brief author biography to graphic.engagement@gmail.com “Graphic Engagement Conference 2010” in the subject heading.

"Crime Across Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference" will be held at the University of Leeds September 9-10, 2010. This conference seeks to examine how discourses of crime and criminality are produced in a global context that extends well beyond the cloisters of Orwell’s English middle class. Please send abstracts (300 words) to the conference organisers, Mandala White, Lucy Evans, Isabelle de le Court and Anna Woodhouse (University of Leeds), at crimeacrosscultures@googlemail.com along with a brief biographical statement (100 words) by June 25, 2010.

"Collecting from the Margins: Collecting in Latin American Literature and Culture," welcomes submissions that address various aspects of the subject of collecting in Latin America. Articles may address literary, cinematic, or historical cases, from colonial times to the present. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Please email proposals (300-500 words) and a brief biography by June 30, 2010 to Maria M. Andrade at maandrad@uniandes.edu.co.

"Between Utopia and Dystopia: The Afterlives of Empire," the annual Conference of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, will be held November 19-20, 2010, at the Institut Francais, London. Please send abstracts in English or French in 250-300 words and 50-100 words of bio-bibliography to Georgia Collins at sfpsconference@googlemail.com by June 30, 2010. Papers can be in either French or English.

The American Studies Association of Turkey, invites proposals that consider the art of language as a cultural expression, broadly conceived. We particularly encourage abstracts which incorporate transdisciplinary explorations of the subject, and welcome submissions from any branch of American Studies. The time allowance for all presentations is 20 minutes. An additional 10 minutes will be provided for discussion. Proposals for papers, panels, performances, exhibits, and other modes of creative expression should be sent to Tanfer Emin Tunc asat2007@gmail.com and should consist of a 250-300 word abstract in English, as well as a 1­2 paragraph biographical description for each participant. Deadline for submission of proposals is June 30, 2010. More information will be posted on our website as it becomes available.

July 2010

The Organization of Graduate Students in Comparative Literature (OGSCL) is welcoming papers for an interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on October 9-10, 2010. The 2010 Crossroads Conference envisions a dialogue on the extraordinary outcomes of cultural encounters arising through translations, collaborations, adaptations, and syntheses. Please e-mail abstracts (250 words) or any questions regarding the conference to crossroads@complit.umass.edu by July 1, 2010.

"Currents of the Imagination: Circumnavigating the Literary Globe," the 36th Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference, will be held at Louisiana State University October 21-23, 2010. Please submit your one-page abstracts and proposals to John Pizer at pizerj@lsu.edu by July 1, 2010.

"WORD / IMAGE / CULTURE," the 25th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of West Georgia, will be held on the University of West Georgia campus in Carrollton, Georgia November 11-13, 2010. The conference committee welcomes submissions in all areas of the humanities,including foreign languages and literatures, English, creative writing, linguistics, cultural studies, the visual arts, theatre, music, philosophy and history.  Papers, proposed performances, art installations or screenings may be submitted by scholars, writers, artists or performers and may be in English, French, German or Spanish. Conference participants will be encouraged to expand and revise their papers for submission to a special issue of JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts. Please submit panel and paper proposals to Dr. Lynn Anderson at landerso@westga.edu by July 15, 2010.

The International Shaw Society, is sponsoring two Shaw Symposiums in 2010, one in Canada. The first symposium will be held on July 23-25 at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario and second symposium will be held on October 22-23 in Chicago with the ShawChicago Theater Co. Please send questions to ISS Webmaster, Professor Richard Dietrich, at dietrich@cas.usf.edu or to the ISS President, Professor Leonard Conolly, at lconolly@trentu.ca.

"Diasporas and Globalization," at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is a Summer Program in Portuguese July 7 - August 6, 2010. The program's theme is "What is a diaspora?" For more information please visit our website or contact us at verao@umassd.edu.

"Intimacy: Technologies of Feeling and Fantasy" is the Seventh Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature at UT Austin. The theme springs from a meditation on the intimacy engendered by the porous border and the particularly intimate relationship of Texas with Mexico. This notion of a division or difference as the condition for intimacy pervades theories of human relation from Freud’s “narcissism,” Lacan's "extimacy," and Jean-Luc Nancy’s “inoperative community” to Derrida’s “hospitality.” Please submit your abstract (150-250 words) in an email (no attachments) to intimacyconference2010@gmail.com along with a brief biographical statement (max. 250 words) that can be used to introduce you. The deadline for submitting an abstract is July 15, 2010.

"Women and Popular Culture," will be held October 21-23, 2010 at South Carolina State University. Please send abstract by July 15, 2010 Susan Isabel Stein at sstein@scsu.edu and Angela Shaw-Thornburg at ashawth@scsu.edu.

"Found in Translation", is an international conference on translation and multiculturalism jointly organized by the University of Malaya's Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics and the Malaysian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (MACLALS). The conference will take place at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, July 23-25, 2010.

August 2010

A workshop on "Philosophy and Kafka" will be held at the 12th international conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas) at Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey on August 2-6, 2010. The theme of the conference is “THOUGHT IN SCIENCE AND FICTION.” Possible concerns of the workshop include, but are not confined to, the following: Kafka-commentaries (Adorno, Benjamin, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Agamben, Arendt, Anders, Blanchot, Bataille, Cixous); examination of Kafka's writings from a specific philosophical perspective; relationship of Kafka's stories and novels with more obviously philosophical aspects of his Nachlass, diaries, and letters; “philosophical” affinities or divergences between Kafka's writings and writings by other figures in literature; philosophical themes in Kafka's literature.

The XIXth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) will be held August 15-21, 2010, at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea.

Joy and Laughter in the 18th Century, a conference for students and ISECS members will be held on August 26, 2010 in connection with ISECS' Annual Meeting on August 25-28, 2010 at Syddansk Universitet, Kolding, Denmark.

"Mimesis, Ethics and Style", hosted by the Department of Finnish Language and Literature, University of Helsinki, Finland, will be held August 25- 27, 2010. The conference aims to bring together the interconnected though often separately studied questions of style and mimesis and open up a new kind of discussion not only on the relationship between style and representation but also on the ways literary texts engage ethics and ideology.

"Role of Translation in Nation Building, Nationalism, and Supranationalism" The conference aims to bring together the interconnected though often separately studied questions of style and mimesis and open up a new kind of discussion not only on the relationship between style and representation but also on the ways literary texts engage ethics and ideology.New Delhi, December 16-19, 2010. Jointly organized by Indian Translators Association and Linguaindia Foundation. Organizing Committee invites papers on the aforementioned themes. Abstract (400 words) should be submitted by August 30, 2010. While submitting your abstract kindly mention Title of your Paper and also attach your brief profile along with your contact details and e-mail ID. Please send your abstract, paper and queries to ITAINDIA Secretariat at info@itaindia.org Or Call at: +91-11-26291676 / 41675530 Mobile: +91-9911162461/ +91-9810268481 Web: www.itaindia.org by the Department of Finnish Language and Literature, University of Helsinki, Finland, will be held August 25- 27, 2010.

September 2010

“Literatur als Wagnis/Literature as a Risk”, an international, interdisciplinary conference organized by Monika Schmitz-Emans (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany), will be held at Villa Vigoni (Loveno, Italy) October 3-7, 2011. The range of topics signified by the terms “Risiko” (risk) and “Wagnis” (venture) is relevant on an interdisciplinary level. The symposion shall mainly deal with the perspectives of literary theory and literary history that take their approaches from what has been said so far. Besides contributions from the fields of general literary studies and comparative literature, contributions from national philologies (especially German, Roman, English-American and Slavonic Studies) are welcome. We would also like to include interdisciplinary approaches from fields such as mathematics, sociology, economics, and anthropology. Abstracts (500 words) should be sent to monika.schmitz-emans@rub.de by September 1, 2010.

Inquire, a new peer-reviewed international journal of Comparative Literature to be published online by the graduate students of the Program of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta beginning January 2011, is now accepting graduate student submissions for the first issue, titled Bold Inquiry: New Directions in Comparative Literature. Editors are looking for essays that clearly strive to reconsider traditional topics in new ways or to take up less canonical forms, genres, and methodologies. To submit a piece of original work not submitted elsewhere, please send complete essays in English (5,000-7,000 words including bibliography and endnotes), MLA format, .doc (if possible), 12-pt font, double-spaced throughout; please include a separate cover sheet with name, institutional affiliation, email, an abstract (200 words), and a short biography (100 words). Submissions and queries should be sent to inquire@ualberta.ca by September 10, 2010.

Second International Graduate Conference in Frankfurt/Main will be held September 30-October 2, 2010. The graduate conference “Emerging Forms of Sociality” will seek to explore understandings of what sociality is, what it was and what it could be in the future. Sociality will be examined from a diverse range of disciplinary approaches and critical perspectives.

Interfictions Zero Interfictions Zero is an online virtual anthology. A Table of Contents will list seminal, previously published pieces of interstitial writing (hyperlinked where possible) alongside original essays reflecting on those focus pieces. The goal of Interfictions Zero is to begin to create a historical context for how interstitial writing affects the growth and development of various literary genres. We're seeking original essays that examine seminal works of interstitial writing. The essays can be formal academic articles or more informal meditations on the text of your choosing. Our submission period will close September 15. Electronic submissions only. Overseas submissions are welcome. Send your essays as Word or .rtf attachments to interfictions@interstitialarts.org. You will hear from us after October 25, 2010.

Critical Language Studies: Focusing on Identity The International Society for Language Studies will hold its 2011 Conference June 23-25, 2011 at the Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino in Aruba. The theme of the conference will be “Critical Language Studies: Focusing on Identity.” Paper and poster session proposal submission will open on April 1, 2010, and conclude on September 1, 2010. Submissions will not be accepted after the September 1 deadline. Notification of proposal acceptance and rejection will be sent in October, 2010. All presenters who have not registered for the conference by November 1st, 2010, will be removed from the program. Selected conference papers will be published by ISLS in the Readings in Language Studies Series in 2012. http://www.isls-inc.org/conference.htm

October 2010

"Europe in its Own Eyes / Europe in the Eyes of the Other", a three-day international conference on representations of European identity, will be held October 1-3, 2010, at the University of Guelph, Ontario. The conference is intended to be as wide-ranging as possible in addressing the manner in which European identity has been and continues to be represented, including European self-representations as well representations by others, whether 'internal' or 'external' to the entity that is Europe.

4th International Symposium -“Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism” will be held on October 6-8, 2010. The core topic of the symposium will be “The Epoch of Classical Realism: 19th-century Cultural and Literary Tendencies”. Working languages of the Symposium are Georgian, English and Russian.

"The Many Faces of Culture", the 2010 South Dakota World Language Conference, will be held at South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota October 8-9, 2010. The conference serves to present best practices on classroom teaching and to provide attendees with new ideas for use in their own classrooms. Our two day breakout session format offers an array of choices and language specific sessions and discussions.

Baku Slavic University co-jointly with Azerbaijan Comparative Literature Association will host an interdisciplinary conference, Comparative Literature: Archetypes in Literatures in Cultures, to be held at the Baku Slavic University on October 22-23, 2010. The conference is the part of project on criteria of national culture and literature.  Creation of the new countries assumes strengthening of consciousness of national identity, definition of national attribution of literary and cultural facts. Among them is circulation of the same motives, situation, the same symbols, plots. Working languages of the conference are Azerbaijani, Russian and English.

"Sustainable Asia: Challenges and Opportunities," 9th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference will be held October 22-23, 2010 at Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania.

The International Conference "Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel,", organised by Amaltea: Journal of Myth Criticism, the Contemporary Myth Anthropology Research Project Amaltea; and the UCM-CAM Research Group ACIS: Research in Myth Criticism, will be held March 9-11, 2011 at the Faculty of Languages, Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain. Those wishing to present a paper at thecConference should fill out the pre-registration form (available at http://www.ucm.es/info/amaltea/docsweb/ficha.doc) and send it to mguirao@cesfelipesegundo.com by October 30, 2010.

452ºF, the Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature is a digital project born to encourage a multidisciplinary dialogue between new and established voices in the field of literary studies. We will be receiving articles for our third issue until October 31, 2010. This issue will be dedicated to exploring the relationship between Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. To consult our journal please visit our website or contact revista@452f.com.

"Globalizing Eurasia? Impacts on the Region and the World", What factors affect Eurasia and its relationship with the world? The conceptual frameworks associated with globalization invite questions concerning the importance of social and cultural place, the definitions of geographic and conceptual regions, and the nature of national economic institutions, environmental issues, and political identities. To what extent can the conceptual frameworks of globalization enhance our understanding of Eurasia? How can the varied and complex experiences of Eurasia challenge and expand our understanding of globalization? This dissertation development workshop will convene junior scholars interested in these questions for an intensive workshop led by a group of interdisciplinary senior scholars. The workshop will bring together PhD candidates from across the social science disciplines. We welcome work ranging from interpretive categories (e.g., empire, state, ethnicity, modernity or authoritarianism) to transnational processes (for example, development, trade, migration, health, terrorism, languages or Diasporas). For additional details please contact program staff at eurasia@ssrc.org

Intimacy: Technologies of Feeling and Fantasy, The theme of the Seventh Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature at UT Austin springs from a meditation on the intimacy engendered by the porous border and the particularly intimate relationship of Texas with Mexico. This notion of a division or difference as the condition for intimacy pervades theories of human relation from Freud’s “narcissism,” Lacan's "extimacy" and Jean-Luc Nancy’s “inoperative community” to Derrida’s “hospitality.” Submit your abstract of 150-250 words in an email (no attachments) to intimacyconference2010@gmail.com along with a brief biographical statement (max. 250 words) that can be used to introduce you. Please put ABSTRACT: INTIMACY 2010 in the header of your email.

November 2010

The first bi-annual conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies, Transnational Americas: Difference, Belonging, Identitarian Spaces, will be held at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) November 11-13, 2010. With a focus on past and present transnational developments in the Americas, this conference seeks to conceive of the New World beyond the scope of nation states--relationally and transnationally.

"The Wounded Body in Literature", an international conference on Comparative Literature, will be held November 20, 2010 at Soochow University (Waishuanghsi Campus), Taipei, Taiwan. For more information please email liaowei@scu.edu.tw.

"Wild Things: Animals and the Animalistic in Literature, Film, and Art", How does animal representation differ between various literatures, mythologies, arts and cultures? Why does the animalistic have an enduring fascination across the ages? How is the wild, the feral and/or the instinctual used or manipulated in narrative? How might it be productive to address animals or the animalistic within the context of modern society? These are some of the questions that will be posed at the second annual conference organized by Comparative Literature graduate students at the University of Georgia. We are currently considering all abstracts having to do with the broader topic of animals and the animalistic and invite graduate students and faculty from all institutions to submit their proposals of 300 words or less. The conference will be held on Saturday, November 13, 2010 at the University of Georgia. Please submit all abstracts by Monday, August 2, 2010.

"J?l Jad?d Graduate Conference in Arabic Studies", The University of Texas’ Department of and Center for Middle Eastern Studies, are pleased to announce that they will host the J?l Jad?d Conference, a graduate student conference in Arabic Literature and Linguistics, to be held at the University of Texas – Austin, February 18-20, 2011. jiljadidconf@gmail.com.

December 2010

Inter-Asian Connections II: Singapore, a 3-day thematic workshop, will be held at the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (the Organizers) December 8-10, 2010. The conference will host concurrent workshops, coordinated by individual directors and showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and related disciplines. Workshops will focus on themes of particular relevance to Asia, reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from the Middle East through Eurasia and South Asia, to East Asia.

“Literary Journalism: Theoria, Poiesis and Praxis” The International Association for Literary Journalism Studies invites submissions of original research papers, abstracts for research in progress and proposals for panels on Literary Journalism for the IALJS annual convention on 12-14 May 2011. The conference will be held at the Département des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication (SIC) at Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium.

January 2011

"Worldwide Naturalism in Literature and Film", a conference jointly sponsored by The AIZEN® (Association Internationale Zola et Naturalisme) and Pusan National University ( South Korea), will be held at The Department of English Language Education, College of Education, and Pusan National University Film Institute, PUSAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Pusan, South Korea October 6-8, 2011. We invite proposals for original papers, panels of three or four, and special sessions. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. Professors, scholars, instructors, and doctoral candidates from the disciplines of naturalist literature and film are encouraged to submit proposals for twenty-minute presentations. Abstracts and papers in English or French are welcome. Please submit proposals of panels/sessions and/or papers with an abbreviated C.V. and a short biography to Dr. Anna Gural-Migdal at aguralm@ualberta.ca by January 31, 2011.

November 2010

"Rome Prize 2011" The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the Rome Prize competition. One of the leading overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities, the Academy offers up to thirty fellowships for periods ranging from six months to two years.Rome Prize winners reside at the Academy’s eleven-acre center in Rome and receive room and board, a study or studio, and a stipend. Stipends for six-month fellowships are $13,000 and stipends for eleven-month fellowships are $30,000.

Competition Deadline: 1 November 2010
Extended Deadline: 15 November 2010

For further information, or to apply, visit the Academy’s website at www.aarome.org or contact the American Academy in Rome, 7 East 60 Street, New York, NY 10022, Att: Programs.
212-751-7200 ext. 47
info@aarome.org.

March 2011

"Nostos: War, the Odyssey, and Narratives of Return" The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the Rome Prize competition. One of the leading overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities, the Academy offers up to thirty fellowships for periods ranging from six months to two years.Rome Prize winners reside at the Academy’s eleven-acre center in Rome and receive room and board, a study or studio, and a stipend. Stipends for six-month fellowships are $13,000 and stipends for eleven-month fellowships are $30,000.

"War, The Odyssey, and Narratives of Return" March 23-27, 2011, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. We invite a broad range of interdisciplinary papers to explore historically, philosophically, politically, and psychologically topics including but not limited to the following. What is the significance of the Odyssey today? What did it mean in archaic Greece? What does the tradition surrounding it say about the changing meaning of the concepts and practices of war, of the journey, of return, and of home? Do we ever really come home? How does homecoming have the potential to both harm and heal? What is the place of the unheimlich in the all too familiar? Abstracts for twenty minute papers should be sent to frankj@mailbox.sc.edu by October 1, 2010. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words long. Panel proposals of 750 words are due by the same date. Panels should include three papers and a respondent. This conference is sponsored by the Thirteenth Annual University of South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference, the Classics in Contemporary Perspectives Initiative, the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Department of Political Science, and associated Departments and Programs.

May 2011

"Time's Excesses in Music, Literature, and Art" We invite a broad range of interdisciplinary papers to explore historically, philosophically, politically, and psychologically topics including but not limited to the following. What is the significance of the Odyssey today? What did it mean in archaic Greece? What does the tradition surrounding it say about the changing meaning of the concepts and practices of war, of the journey, of return, and of home? Do we ever really come home? How does homecoming have the potential to both harm and heal? What is the place of the unheimlich in the all too familiar? Abstracts for twenty minute papers should be sent to frankj@mailbox.sc.edu by October 1, 2010. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words long. Panel proposals of 750 words are due by the same date. Panels should include three papers and a respondent.

GENERAL CALLS FOR PAPERS

Intertexts, a journal of comparative and theoretical reflection, publishes articles that employ innovative approaches to explore relations between literary and other texts, be they literary, historical, theoretical, philosophical, or social. In particular, the editors are looking for work which engages issues on a sufficiently theoretical or comparative level to interest people in a variety of disciplines. Hybrid methodologies that combine elements from a range of disciplines are encouraged. For more information and for submission details, please visit the journal's website at http://www.intertexts.org/id2.html.

Symposium, a quarterly journal in modern foreign literatures, welcomes contributions pertinent to modern languages and literatures. Research on authors, themes, periods, genres, works, and theory, often through comparative studies, is regularly featured. For more information and for submission details, please send an email to sym@heldref.org.

Inquire, a new peer-reviewed international journal of Comparative Literature to be published online by the graduate students of the Program of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta beginning January 2011, aims to build upon the successes of Comparative Literature as a multifaceted discipline that emphasizes the study of minor literatures and languages, translation, and literary theory by providing the space for informed discussion and creative research by graduate students.

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