Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements July 19, 2010
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments;and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ______________________________________________________________ Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:56:02 -0400 From: Josh Lambert <[email protected]> Subject:CFP (deadline extended to 10/15): The Future of Jewish American Literary Studies. Call for Papers (deadline extended to 10/15): The Future of Jewish American Literary Studies A special Issue of MELUS (Multi-Ethic Literature of the United States): Guest Editors: Lori Harrison-Kahan and Josh Lambert Addressing questions raised by the 2009 MLA roundtable "Does the English Department Have a Jewish Problem?,"this special issue of MELUS will survey the current state of Jewish American literary scholarship and explore new directions for the future of the field. The issue aims to highlight innovative approaches that will reinvigorate and redefine the study of Jews and Jewishness in American literature and to examine challenges posed by Jewish literature to the disciplinary and theoretical paradigms of American and ethnic literature. We invite a broad range of contributions, but topics of particular interest are listed below. We are particularly seeking additional essays that deal with American Yiddish and Hebrew texts. - Pedagogical approaches to integrating Jewish literature into multi-ethnic literature curriculum - New opportunities for the study of Jewish literature created by recent critical approaches such as whiteness, transnational, comparative ethnic, and multilingual studies, and book history - Moving beyond equations of Jewishness with whiteness (e.g., essays on American Jews of color, Sephardic Jews, and non-Jewish ethnic writers whose work addresses Jewishness) - Gender, sexuality, and queer identity (e.g., essays on underrepresented women, gay, and lesbian writers) - Aesthetic contributions of Jewish writers to the development of American literature - Texts written, in whole or in part, in languages other than English, such as Yiddish and Hebrew - Studies in genres other than prose fiction, including poetry, autobiography, drama, criticism, children's and young adult literature, graphic narratives Completed papers in MLA format should be between 7000-9000 words, including notes and works cited. Queries concerning possible submissions are welcome. Please send essays as e-mail attachments to Lori Harrison-Kahan ([email protected]). The author's name should not appear on the manuscript, but should be included on a separate title or cover sheet, which should also contain complete mailing and e-mail addresses. Deadline for submission: October 15, 2010 ______________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: [email protected] (IMPORTANT! in the subject line write "Mendele Personal") Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e. inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: [email protected] IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: [email protected] Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ To read issues of Mendele not yet archived on the website (see above), or to join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
