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We are saddened to announce that long-time PAMLA member, retired Western Washington University Professor of English and past chair of the Western English Department, and former PAMLA President, Kathleen F. Lundeen, has died. Kathy was a kind and generous friend to many at PAMLA and at Western Washington University, and will be remembered for her

Dear PAMLA Friends and Members, In order to protect our members during the current pandemic, the PAMLA Board has voted to postpone the PAMLA conference until the fall of 2021. This was not an easy decision to make, but the health and safety of our members is the most important thing. As a result, we

Dear PAMLA Friends and Members, We hope you, your loved ones, and your students and colleagues are well! During these strange days, we want you to know that we are working to keep PAMLA healthy and moving forward, and that we are looking at all sorts of possibilities for our future. Given concerns about the

Our 2020 PAMLA Conference (Thursday, November 12 through Sunday, November 15) is being hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and held at the classic, recently renovated Sahara Las Vegas Hotel. Las Vegas in general, and the Sahara in particular, provide us with the perfect conference site: Lovely Temperate Weather in November A Vibrant, Exciting City

  The PAMLA community would like to congratulate all our election winners for their new 2020 posts! We’d also like to thank all of our members who participated in the election including our nominees, Nomination Committee, and of course, our voters! We’d also like to give a round of applause to the 2019 PAMLA Executive

PAMLA 2020 LAS VEGAS: “CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION” (Thursday, November 12 – Sunday, November 15, 2020) We are still accepting late special session proposals. So please propose your special sessions to pamla.ballastacademic.com as soon as possible. Please take a look at the bottom of this page* for a list of General/Standing Sessions, and be

Students and faculty of our host universities, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego State University, University of San Diego, and Palomar College, get free admission to this year’s PAMLA Conference Nov. 14-17 at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside hotel (those on the conference program, however, still need to pay). So, if you’d like to join

Do you have a child you are bringing to the PAMLA 2019 Conference in San Diego? If so, they are welcome to join you at panels and events. And some of our PAMLA panels and events are great for kids. For example, feel free to bring your children (and other guests) with you to Thursday’s

PAMLA Presents: A Trip to Chicano Park (Barrios Logan) San Diego, CA Please join us for a tour of and lecture about Chicano Park. There will be a complimentary bus from the Wyndham San Diego Bayside to Chicano Park, leaving the Wyndham on Sunday, November 17 at 11:40 am, 12:10 pm, and 12:35 pm, and

2019 Pacific Coast Philology Outstanding Article Award On behalf of PAMLA’s Pacific Coast Philology Award Committee, we are honored to inform our community that there were two winners of PAMLA’s Pacific Coast Philology Outstanding Article Award for 2019: Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod’s “Mutiny on the Sofa: Historical Patterns of Patriarchy and Family Structure in American Science

18 Unsolicited Pieces of Advice for NovicePAMLA Conference Attendees/Presenters  Go to other folks’ sessions, and during the Q&A at the end, ask a real, thoughtful question or two (don’t make a speech disguised as a question). Doing so will be good for you, and good for the presenter and the entire session. Good listeners and

Don’t miss out on PAMLA’s inaugural T-Shirt for the 2019 conference: The Kelvinhall Clown! This one-of-a-kind design was illustrated by world-renowned Glaswegian comic book artist Frank Quitely to correspond with the PAMLA conference theme, “Send In the Clowns!” We are so honored and excited to share Frank Quitely’s original artwork on our PAMLA 2019 conference

The time has come for our annual PAMLA elections for new officers of our Executive Committee. If you are current with your PAMLA membership, you should have received an emailed ballot (it will say “Survey,” but click on it–it is your ballot) to vote for new officers. Your PAMLA Executive Committee is the body that

Five PAMLA Warm Up Acts When: Thursday, Nov. 14, 11:20 AM – 12:50 PM Come join us for one of our five fantastic Warm Up sessions that we are premiering on the first day of the conference! All are welcome to these free sessions, but please sign up for them at our Registration and Membership

PAMLA Welcome Event: Send in the Clowns When: Thursday, Nov. 14, 1:00 PM – 2:10 PM Where: Pacific D Ballroom This fascinating “PAMLA Welcome Event: Send in the Clowns” is the opening event of the 2019 PAMLA conference, so do not miss it! Our welcome event presenters will speak on the PAMLA 2019 special theme,

The English and Modern Languages Department at California State Polytechnic University Pomona invites applications for a tenure-track appointment beginning in the academic year 2020-2021. Applications for the position of Assistant Professor for the English and Modern LanguagesDepartment with specialization in border/cultural rhetorics and a strong interest in the history andtheory of rhetoric are invited. Duties

Congratulations to PAMLA member, Professor of Education at Brock University, and the author of The Children’s Book Business: Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century, Lissa Paul, on the publication of Eliza Fenwick: Early Modern Feminist (University of Delaware Press, 2019). The book traces the life of Eliza Fenwick, an extraordinary woman who paved her own

PAMLA is excited to announce a special PAMLA 2019 event that comic book and visual culture scholars and fans alike will love: Creating the Joker: Frank Quitely In Conversation with Laurence Grove and Charles Hatfield! This rousing Q&A between famed Glaswegian comic book artist, Frank Quitely, and renowned text-image studies experts Dr. Laurence Grove and

The English & Modern Languages Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Spanish, specialization open, with a focus in Spanish writing or translation. Appointment begins in the 2020-2021 academic year. In addition to specialized writing courses and/or translation courses, the successful candidate will teach literature, culture, linguistics, or Spanish language courses, depending

Our 2019 Conference Schedule is now available: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Webforms/Schedule.aspx If you are joining us for the 2019 PAMLA conference, November 14-17, 2019, at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside, please do explore the Conference Schedule. You can search for yourself by typing your name into the search tool. Or search for your colleagues by typing in your university’s name.

Please join us for the 2019 PAMLA Presidential Address and Luncheon on Friday, November 15, beginning at 11:45 am. 2019 PAMLA President Dr. Stanley Orr will be delivering an address titled “‘A Clown’s Nightmare of a Masquerade Ball’: John Kneubuhl’s The Moon and I.” The Presidential Address Luncheon, which does involve an additional expense, is

Please join us for a refreshing beverage (wine or beer), light snacks, and our brief PAMLA General Membership Meeting (Wine & Cheese Reception) on Saturday, November 16, at 4:45 pm, to be immediately followed by the exciting “Saturday PAMLA Forum: See You in the Funny Papers,” featuring two leading humor scholars, Dr. Laurence Grove (University of Glasgow)

We are saddened to announce that dedicated PAMLA member Eugene W. Saxe (Gene) died on July 12, 2019. Gene was active in PAMLA, having presided for a number of years over the Shakespeare sessions at the annual conference. A gentleman scholar and a lover of Shakespeare and the theater, Gene fought for faculty rights, having

Please join us for the 2019 PAMLA Plenary Address and Luncheon on Saturday, November 16, beginning at 11:45 am. Our Plenary speaker, Dr. Paul Alonso, will be delivering an address titled “Clowns and Court Jesters as Political Communicators: Mexican Brozo and Other TV Satirists in the Americas.” The Plenary Address Luncheon, which does involve an

Call for Submissions to “Actors, Stages, Worlds”: Special Issue of Pacific Coast Philology We seek essays that explore from any perspective acting as art and metaphor, theories of role play and theatricality, conceptions of the world stage and the public audience. Possible approaches might include: styles of acting across time and mediums; naturalist or anti-realist techniques

PAMLA’s New Membership & Conference Payment System We have been building a new system for membership and conference payments/registration, luncheon reservations, and donations to our Scholarship Funds. Thank you for your patience while we have been putting the finishing touches on it. Well, now you can go to https://pamla.ballastacademic.com to join or re-join PAMLA and also pay

Pacific Coast Philology Call-For-Papers Pacific Coast Philology, the scholarly, peer-reviewed journal of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), the west coast affiliate of the MLA, is looking for papers. We publish two volumes of the journal annually, one a general issue and one a special issue on a specific topic. Published in the

PAMLA Conference and Registration Committee Are you interested in getting involved with PAMLA, but are unsure how? Do you have students, friends, or colleagues that are itching to be a part of the PAMLA community? Would you like to have a chance to give back to your community, meet new friends, and get a free

Are you looking forward to joining us in lovely San Diego, California in November for the 2019 PAMLA Conference? Then please take a look at our approved sessions to decide what session or sessions to propose an abstract to. You may now View the 2019 PAMLA Conference Call for Papers List with over 165 approved sessions, and

Did you miss the March 16th deadline for special session proposals for the 2019 PAMLA Conference? Well, you are in luck! We are excited to announce that PAMLA is extending the deadline for special session proposals for the November 14-17, 2019 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, in San Diego. Our new special session

French Lecturer Positions at Santa Clara University  Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer, French (Two-Year Appointment): Poste de 2 ans:  https://jobs.scu.edu/postings/8360Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer, French & Francophone Studies (One-Year Appointment) Poste d’un an:  https://jobs.scu.edu/postings/8343   If you have questions about either of these positions, please contact the chair, Jimia Boutouba:  [email protected]

Congratulations to PAMLA member Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga for his recent University of Arizona Press publication, Yaqui Indigeneity: Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity. Dr. Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga is a teacher and scholar of Spanish language and Mexican and Chicana/o literatures and cultures. Born in Navojoa, Sonora, Dr. Tumbaga was raised in the Imperial Valley, California.

We are excited to announce that PAMLA.org is in the process of migrating all of our conference materials and digital tools for organising sessions over to a brand spanking new site! It has been quite a long time in the making, but we are sure that this new site will make it easier for our

PAMLA’s 2019 Conference Theme: “Send in the Clowns” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association2019 Conference: San Diego, CaliforniaConference Theme: Send In the Clowns We live in a time of great contentiousness, an age in which opposing social and political factions appear to share little with respect to art and culture much less ideology. One archetype

We wish to thank all of our fine nominees for agreeing to run for PAMLA office. And congratulations to the following new PAMLA Executive Committee members who were elected: Jeremiah “Jem” Axelrod, PAMLA 2nd Vice President Marta Albalá-Pelegrin, PAMLA Executive Committee Brigitte Prutti, PAMLA Executive Committee Emily “Emma” Butler-Probst, Graduate Student Representative Jeremiah “Jem” Axelrod is

On behalf of PAMLA’s Pacific Coast Philology Award Committee, we are honored to inform our community that Alix Mazuet’s essay, “The French Revolution and the Dismantlement of the Old Regime’s Private Libraries,” published in Pacific Coast Philology (Vol. 52, No. 2, 2017) has been chosen as the winner of PAMLA’s  inaugural Pacific Coast Philology Outstanding

18 Unsolicited Pieces of Advice for NovicePAMLA Conference Attendees/Presenters  Go to other folks’ sessions, and during the Q&A at the end, ask a real, thoughtful question or two (don’t make a speech disguised as a question). Doing so will be good for you, and good for the presenter and the entire session. Good listeners and

PAMLA General Session: Creative Writers Spotlight Friday, November 9, 2018 WWU, Performing Arts Center Mainstage 9:15 am – 11:00 am (with book signing to follow) Please join us for the opening event of the 2018 PAMLA Conference!The PAMLA General Session: Creative Writers Spotlight is a special event welcoming everyone to the conference and introducing four

2018 PAMLA Election The PAMLA 2018 Election ballot will be emailed soon to all members who are current in dues for the 2018 calendar year. Voting must be completed by midnight, October 30, 2018. If you were expecting a ballot but do not receive an email by October 20, please contact [email protected]. The time has come

PAMLA Forum: Acting, Roles, Stages Please join us for our annual PAMLA Forum, always a highlight of our conference, beginning immediately after a brief PAMLA General Membership Meeting (on Saturday, November 10, at 4:50 pm). At the PAMLA General Membership Meeting find out who has been elected to the PAMLA board, where next year’s PAMLA conference will

“Politics and Conflicts”: Some Global Accents A Call for Papers & Panels by the International Fantastic Division of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts for the  International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #40 March 13-16, 2019 Orlando, Florida CFP Deadline 10/31/18  Through Oct. 31, 2018, the International Fantastic Division of

PAMLA 2018 Conference Transportation and Shuttle Information Transportation to Western Washington University/Four Points by Sheraton Bellingham/Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Bellingham You may fly directly to the Bellingham Airport (or indirectly–we’ve seen roundtrips in the neighborhood of $400), or fly into Sea-Tac (Seattle-Tacoma International Airport) and then rent a car or take a Bellair Shuttle (be sure to make

Job Announcement: California State University, Fresno, Assistant Professor of FrenchDepartment of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Duties include teaching beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses in the French language, as well as French and Francophone literatures and cultures; developing and enhancing appropriate curricular offerings; supervising and assisting student research; maintaining a productive research agenda, including

PAMLA Saturday Night Live As part of our 2018 Conference, PAMLA is sponsoring a three-part event on Saturday night, November 10, in downtown Bellingham. Do please join us for some of the wonderful cultural and entertainment opportunities Bellingham has to offer as you mix and mingle with your fellow PAMLA Conference attendees. There will be

2018 PAMLA Conference Luncheons and Addresses Please join us for one or both of our PAMLA Luncheons. They do cost a bit extra, but are some of the most memorable and useful events at the conference. You can join us for a lovely luncheon and the Friday Presidential Address and/or Saturday Plenary Address by making

Call for Article Proposals PAMLA’s respected journal, published by Penn State University Presss, Pacific Coast Philology, publishes peer-reviewed essays of interest to scholars in the classical and modern languages, literatures, and cultures. Essays may be submitted any time throughout the year, but are in particular desired this fall. Please consider proposing an essay to Pacific Coast Philology.

Students presenting at this year’s PAMLA Conference on a topic in the field of German Studies have a new funding opportunity. Please encourage them to apply for the PAMLA German Studies Grant on the PAMLA website. Applications are due on September 10th, 2018. As a reminder: PAMLA German Studies Grant for Graduate Students The PAMLA

Did you miss the initial PAMLA paper proposal deadline? Did you get brain-lock and neglect to propose a paper for PAMLA 2018? Are you a tad blue, perhaps even a deep blue-purple-despondent, as a result? Well, do we have GOOD news for you! We have now entered the “Sudden Death, First Come, First Served Extended

Conference Hotel Information and Rate We have two conference hotels: the lovely, new, full service Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Bellingham (about a 15 minute drive from the Western Washington University conference site) and the full-service Four Points by Sheraton Bellingham, a thirty-minute walk from the conference registration desk at Western Washington University (516 High St., Bellingham,

We are saddened to announce that long-time PAMLA member, Mills College Professor of Spanish and co-chair of the Spanish program, and former PAMLA President, Hector Mario Cavallari, died on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2016. Cavallari was a kind and generous friend to many at PAMLA and at Mills College. He came to Mills in the fall

Please join us for the 2018 PAMLA Conference, to be held over the November 9-11 weekend, at lovely Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. With over 125 approved sessions, please join us for this scholarly conference devoted to the advancement and sharing of knowledge of ancient and modern languages, literatures, media, and cultures. To propose

PAMLA is proud to have so many scholars from outside the United States as members. Many of our long-time members teach abroad. Many more teach in the U.S. but were born abroad.   As an association we are committed to supporting and welcoming our foreign and immigrant colleagues no matter where they are located, believing

Congratulations to PAMLA member Amanda Weldy Boyd for her recent Anthem Press publication, Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography. You can see more information about the book here: http://www.anthempress.com/staging-memory-and-materiality-in-eighteenth-century-theatrical-biography Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas

Pacific Coast Philology, the scholarly journal of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), invites members of PAMLA who have published books in 2016, 2017, or books that will be published in 2018, to bring their publications to the book review editor’s attention. Please send information about your new books to the PCP book

Call for Contributions to a Special Issue of Pacific Coast Philology Editor: Andrea Gogröf (Western Washington University) Theme: Ways of Seeing: Visuality, Visibility, and Vision Papers are welcome on topics related to this theme, ranging from such issues as the connection of sight to understanding and knowledge; traditional and new models of vision and ways

Welcome to the 2018 PAMLA Year! We hope that you will consider joining or rejoining PAMLA for 2018 (should you do so, your membership will expire on December 31, 2018, no matter when in 2018 you join). Membership in PAMLA will entitle you to two issues of our terrific scholarly journal, Pacific Coast Philology, as well

We solicit proposals for special sessions for the 2018 PAMLA Conference at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, over the November 9-11 weekend. The theme for the 116th Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will be “Acting, Roles, Stages.” Special session proposals are welcome on any areas or topics not covered by

Assistant Professor of Hispanic PoetryDepartment of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures California State University, Fresno Duties include teaching upper-division and graduate courses in Spanish and Spanish-American poetry from the Middle Ages through the contemporary period, developing and enhancing appropriate curricular offerings, conducting research in area of specialization, mentoring students, participating in department, college, and

We hope you are joining us for the 2017 PAMLA Conference at Chaminade University of Honolulu, starting Friday morning, November 10, and continuing on until Sunday afternoon, November 12. The entire conference–all of our conference rooms–will be located at Chaminade University, so you shouldn’t get lost. Chaminade University’s entrance is located at: 3140 Waialae Ave, Honolulu,

18 Unsolicited Pieces of Advice for Novice (And Not-So-Novice) PAMLA Conference Attendees/Presenters  Go to other folks’ sessions, and ask a real, thoughtful question (don’t make a speech disguised as a question). Doing so will be good for you, and good for the presenter and the entire session. Good listeners and thoughtful and polite questioners help

2017 PAMLA Conference Special Events At this year’s PAMLA, we are holding a number of special conference events sure to be truly memorable. Please join us at these events, and invite your friends and colleagues to do so as well. They are free, and all are welcome. One of this year’s not-to-miss special events is

2017 PAMLA Election   The PAMLA 2017 Election ballot will be emailed soon to all members who are current in dues for the 2017 calendar year. Voting must be completed by midnight, November 5, 2017. If you were expecting a ballot but did not receive an email, please contact [email protected] time has come for PAMLA elections

2017 PAMLA Conference Special Address Luncheons We will be having a number of very special events at the upcoming PAMLA conference at Chaminade University of Honolulu, including two terrific luncheons and addresses, and a Forum that is sure to be fascinating. The two luncheons do involve an extra fee ($22 for each), but the addresses

The English & Foreign Languages Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona seeks a tenure-track position Assistant Professor to begin fall 2018 in Hemispheric American literature (20th/21st C. preferable), with demonstrated interest in Chicano/a or Latino/a literature. The successful candidate will teach courses in the English B.A. and M.A. programs and have additional abilities in literary theory, specifically

If you are planning on joining us for the 2017 PAMLA Conference in Hawaii, here is some important information to keep in mind: The conference site is Chaminade University of Honolulu. There will be complimentary bus service between Chaminade University and the official PAMLA hotel, the Ala Moana, throughout the conference weekend. The conference will

2017 PAMLA Conference “Sudden Death Overtime” Proposal Period: Sessions will close when filled While most of our sessions for the 2017 PAMLA Conference in Hawaii are now closed, some remain open for submissions (until they find that one or two proposals they are in need of). For example, as of today, these sessions still are

2017 PAMLA Conference Extended Paper Proposal List: Deadline, Monday, June 26 While some of our sessions are now closed to submissions, many others remain open. Click on the link below to go to the CFP page so as to find sessions that are still in search of paper proposals. Sessions may be added to this

If you are joining us for the 2017 PAMLA conference at Chaminade University of Honolulu (November 10-12, 2017), please make your hotel reservation early at the PAMLA conference hotel: the Ala Moana Hotel. We are very pleased to offer a special PAMLA Conference Hotel Rate at the lovely Ala Moana Hotel, in Honolulu. The Ala

Gendered Ecologies and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Jillmarie Murphy and Dewey W. Hall, Editors Union College and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Call for Papers Deadline: August 31, 2017 If ecology is without nature, as Timothy Morton provocatively argued in 2007, then one may wonder of ecology without the feminine as a corollary. For nature, much

Our CFP list of approved sessions and online paper proposal system are now open. The 2017 PAMLA Conference is being held over the November 10-12 weekend, at the lovely Chaminade University of Honolulu, with complimentary bus transportation to and from our official PAMLA Conference hotel, the Ala Moana Resort. Please click here for more information and to

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of longtime PAMLA member Mark Bundy. Bundy, a lecturer in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at Univeristy of California, Riverside, brought insight, energy and joy to each and every PAMLA session that he attended, chaired, and presided over. Mark Bundy graduated from California State

Please join us November 10– 12, 2017 For the 115th Annual PAMLA Conference At Chaminade University of Honolulu And the Ala Moana Hotel  Check pamla.org regularly for more details about the conference  Special Session proposals for 2017’s PAMLA Conference in Hawaii are due to PAMLA’s 2017 First Vice-President Katherine Kinney (University of California, Riverside), by

California State University, Fresno Assistant Professor of Spanish—Specialist in Translation and Interpreting Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Duties include teaching lower/upper-division and graduate courses in Translation and Interpreting, developing and enhancing appropriate curricular offerings, leading the development of a certificate program in Translation and Interpreting for the legal and medical fields, conducting

ANNOUNCEMENT  LECTURER UNIVERSITY WRITING PROGRAM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE Lecturer Recruitment for Winter and Spring Quarters, 2017 The University Writing Program at the University of California, Riverside, is seeking applicants for Lecturer positions this Winter and Spring Quarters, for part-time and full-time assignments in Freshman Composition and/or Entry-Level Writing classes, including ESL.  An M.A. and

PAMLA Conference AV and Parking and Directions, Oh My! The 2016 PAMLA Conference will be held entirely at the Westin Pasadena: Westin Pasadena191 N Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101(626) 792-2727 Members may obtain a name badge and printed copy of the conference program at the conference registration table located in the Santa Rosa Foyer

18 Unsolicited Pieces of Advice for Novice PAMLA Conference Attendees/Presenters  Go to other folks’ sessions, and ask a real, thoughtful question or two (don’t make a speech disguised as a question). Doing so will be good for you, and good for the presenter and the entire session. Good listeners and thoughtful and polite questioners make a

We wish to thank all of our fine nominees for running for PAMLA office. And congratulations to the following new PAMLA Executive Committee members who were elected: Stanley Orr, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu, PAMLA 2nd Vice President Karin Bauer, McGill University, PAMLA Executive Committee Andrew Howe, La Sierra University, PAMLA Executive Committee Raymond Hong Jig

Pacific Coast Philology Call for Submissions “Post-Family Studies” We are interested in papers that rethink the family in new ways, or explore new familial, para-familial, or post-familial structures, possibly by denaturalizing, deconstructing, de-idealizing, or reconceiving the family. Papers that explore new, transformational, or transnormative “families,” or post-familial or post-kinship family-like relations in literature, film, or culture

PAMLA Forum: The Future of Studies and Research in the Humanities This year’s PAMLA Conference Forum, to be held on Saturday, November 12 in the Madera room of the Pasadena Westin from 5:10-6:40 pm, will explore the future of and research in the Humanities. In the wake of continuing emphasis on the sciences in our

Job Announcement: California State University, Fresno Assistant Professor of German and Ethnic Humanities Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Duties include teaching all levels of undergraduate classes in German, including Humanities, Folklore, or Jewish Studies; developing and enhancing appropriate curricular offerings, supervising students, maintaining a productive research agenda, including peer-reviewed publications, presentations, and

On Friday, November 11, 2016, as a part of our PAMLA Conference at the Westin Pasadena, we will be holding a very special Creative Artist Spotlight event from 5-6 pm in the Madera room at the Westin Pasadena. The event is titled “Straight Out of … Venice, Korea Town, Leimert Park, East Hollywood, and Downtown

2016 PAMLA Conference Special Address Luncheons We will be having a number of very special events at the upcoming PAMLA conference at the Westin Pasadena, including two terrific luncheons and addresses, and a Forum that is sure to be fascinating. The two luncheons do involve an extra fee. Go here to make luncheon reservations: https://www.pamla.org/2016/registration-info

NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER Residential Fellowships 2017-18 The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or one-semester residencies. Fellowship applicants must have a PhD or equivalent scholarly credentials. Mid-career as well as senior scholars from all areas of the humanities are welcome; emerging scholars with a strong record of peer-reviewed work are also invited to apply.

2016 PAMLA Conference Extra-Extended Paper Proposal List: August 5 or When Session Fills, Whichever Comes First  The following sessions are still in search of paper proposals. This is a first come, first filled extension. You have until August 5, or when the session is filled, whichever comes first, to propose to any of these sessions.

2016 PAMLA Conference Extended Paper Proposal List: Friday, July 1 Deadline The following sessions are still in search of paper proposals. Sessions may be added to this list over the next few weeks, so do check back regularly. You have until July 1 to propose to any of these sessions. Go here to submit a

2016 PAMLA Conference Hotel Information The 2016 PAMLA Conference will be held entirely at the Westin Pasadena, in sunny Pasadena, California. We’ve worked out a wonderful PAMLA rate, but rooms may run out. So, please make your hotel reservations soon, and please be sure to cancel your reservations early, should you not be able to

Pacific Coast Philology Call for Submissions “Post-Family Studies” We are interested in papers that rethink the family in new ways, or explore new familial, para-familial, or post-familial structures, possibly by denaturalizing, deconstructing, de-idealizing, or reconceiving the family. Papers that explore new, transformational, or transnormative “families,” or post-familial or post-kinship family-like relations in literature, film, or

We are proud that our CFP page and Online Paper Proposal system is now up online. You may propose a paper to one of our more than 120 approved 2016 PAMLA Conference sessions: PAMLA CFP and Online Proposal Submission Page You may propose more than one paper to more than one approved session online, but

Exciting Publishing Opportunities with Pacific Coast Philology! Pacific Coast Philology, the journal of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, publishes peer-reviewed essays of interest to scholars in the classical and modern languages, literatures, and cultures.  We publish two annual issues. The regular issue contains articles (5000-8000 words) and book reviews. The next regular issue will

The 2016 PAMLA Membership System is Up and Ready for You How to Join If you’ve been eagerly waiting to join or rejoin PAMLA for the 2016 calendar year, our Eventbrite/Paypal online payment system is now ready for your use. You can also pay via a mail-in option, but the online system is the preferred

CALL FOR PAPERS: An International Conference of the Chinese Historical Society of America “This Land Is Our Land”: Chinese Pluralities Through the Americas Conference Dates: October 6–8, 2017 Location: Hilton San Francisco750 Kearny Street (Financial District)San Francisco, CA 94108 Principal organizer: Jonathan H. X. Lee, Asian American Studies, San Francisco State UniversityContact: conference2017 at chsa.org Conference Info Among

Call for PAMLA 2016 Special Session Proposals: “Archives, Libraries, Properties” (Deadline January 15, 2016) The theme for PAMLA 2016, the 114th Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, to be held on November 11-13, 2016 in Pasadena, California, will be “Archives, Libraries, Properties.” Proposals for special sessions are welcomed on any areas or topics

Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference Honolulu, HI May 27-28, 2016 Chaminade University of Honolulu   We are pleased to invite panel and/or individual paper proposals for the 8th Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference. All topics and proposals are welcome, particularly those treating cultural production within and/or about the Oceanic region.   Abstracts and Proposals for

2015 PAMLA Conference Room and AV Information The full 2015 PAMLA Conference schedule, with all rooms assigned, is now available online: https://www.pamla.org/2015/schedule. If you could check to see where your session or sessions are, that would be a great help. Also, if you could plan ahead when it comes to AV for your session, and

This year’s PAMLA Conference Forum, to be held on Saturday, November 7, in the Hilton Portland’s Parlors room (on the Ballroom Level), from 5:20-7 pm, will feature, together on stage for the first time, two of the Pacific region’s most influential intellectual and creative figures, Fred Moten and David James. The Forum, entitled “Blur and

15 Unsolicited Pieces of Advice for Novice PAMLA Conference Attendees/Presenters Go to other folks’ sessions, and ask a real question or two (don’t make a speech disguised as a question). Doing so will be good for you, and good for the presenter and the entire session. Good listeners and thoughtful and polite questioners make a

The PAMLA 2015 Election ballot will be emailed on October 14 to all members who are current in dues for the 2015 calendar year.  Voting must be completed by midnight, November 1, 2015.  If you were expecting a ballot but did not receive an email, please contact [email protected]. The time has come for the 2015 PAMLA

CALL FOR PAPERS First Congress of LALISA: Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies Association of the Pacific Northwest  New Temporal Regimes in Literature, History, and the Social Sciences  April  8 & 9, 2016 / Reed College / Portland, Oregon REGISTER FOR THE CONGRESS AND SUBMIT INDIVIDUAL PAPERS AND PANELS, BY JANUARY 18, 2016 AT WWW.REED.EDU/LALISA In

We will be hosting two lovely and fascinating luncheons at the 2015 PAMLA Conference: the Friday, November 6th Presidential Address Luncheon, featuring PAMLA President Heidi Schlipphacke, and the Saturday, November 7th Plenary Address Luncheon, featuring Plenary Speaker, Kara Keeling (both luncheons will be located at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower). The luncheons do cost

Our 2015 PAMLA Conference will be held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, November 6-8, 2015, at two lovely three-star hotels right in downtown Portland: The Hilton Portland & Executive Tower The Portland Marriott City Center Sessions will be located in these two hotels, which are approximately a five minute walk apart. We have therefore arranged

Congratulations to PAMLA member Janet Boyd for the publication of her 2014 co-edited essay collection on Gertrude Stein: Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein. Co-edited by Janet Boyd and Sharon J. Kirsch, with essays by Adam Frank, E.L. McCallum, Jody Cardinal, Kristin Bergen, former PAMLA President Steven Gould Axelrod, Linda Voris, Nancy

May 15 was the deadline for submitting proposals for the 2015 PAMLA annual meeting.  Most sessions are now “closed” and you will not be able to submit using the online proposal form.  Some sessions will be re-opening with an extended deadline of June 10.  Please consult the Session Topics List to see the latest list of

Congratulations to PAMLA member, Kristine Miller, Professor of English at Utah State University, who has recently published a new edited collection, Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11: The Wrong Side of Paradise (Palgrave, 2014). Looking back on more than a decade of the US-run and UK-supported “war on terror”, this volume examines how transatlantic literature and culture

We are pleased to announce that the CFP page, with almost 150 approved sessions listed, and the online paper proposals submissions system, are up and running. Please consider proposing a paper for the 2015 PAMLA conference in Portland: https://www.pamla.org/2015 If you could, also help us to spread the word about the many exciting sessions for this

Congratulations to PAMLA member, Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt, for her publication of Embracing Differences: Transnational Cultural Flows between Japan and the United States (2013, Transcript and Columbia UP). The omnipresence and popularity of American consumer products in Japan have triggered an avalanche of writing shedding light on different aspects of this cross-cultural relationship. Cultural interactions are often accompanied by

Congratulations to PAMLA member Živilė Gimbutas, who has published Artistic Individuality, A Study of Selected Artist Novels ca. 1910-2010 (Bloomington, In:  Xlibris, 2013).  Artistic Individuality discusses autobiographical fiction by Willa Cather and James Joyce, semi-autobiographical fiction by Dodie Smith and Virginia Woolf, and fictional biographies by M. Allen Cunningham, W. Somerset Maugham, and John Updike, featuring the

CALL FOR ESSAY SUBMISSIONS  “Familiar Spirits”  SPECIAL ISSUE OF PACIFIC COAST PHILOLOGY  JOURNAL OF THE PACIFIC ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (PAMLA)  Pacific Coast Philology invites submissions for a 2015 Special Issue that addresses the theme “Familiar Spirits.” We anticipate rich and vibrant arguments that defamiliarize the known and draw near the mysterious. Possible foci

We have extended the deadline for proposals for special sessions for the 2015 PAMLA Conference in Portland, Oregon (to be held at Portland State University and the Hilton Portland on Friday, November 6 – Sunday, November 8, 2015). You now have until midnight on Thursday, January 15, 2015, to send in your proposal to PAMLA

Here are the results of the PAMLA 2014 elections: Second Vice-PresidentAndrea Gogröf, Western Washington University Executive CommitteeJane J. Lee, California State University, Dominguez HillsLysa Rivera, Western Washington University Graduate Student RepresentativeSarah Whitcomb Lozier, University of California, Riverside   Thank you to our outgoing president, Cheryl Edelson (Chaminade University), our outgoing executive committee members, Emily Taylor

California State University, Fresno Assistant Professor of Spanish, Mexican Literature Specialist Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Duties include teaching graduate and undergraduate classes in Spanish, developing courses and conducting research in area of specialization, mentoring students, and participating in department, college, and university committees. Required qualifications: 1) Native or near-native ability in

The PAMLA 2014 Election ballot will be emailed on October 6 to all members who are current in dues for the 2014 calendar year.  Voting must be completed by midnight, October 20, 2014.  If you were expecting a ballot but did not receive an email, please contact [email protected]. Your PAMLA Executive Committee is the body that

Students and faculty of sponsoring institutions may attend PAMLA 2014 for free, as long as they are not presenting or chairing a session.  Sponsoring institutions include: University of California, Riverside La Sierra University Riverside City College California Baptist University California State University, San Bernardino Chaffey College Conference presenters and chairs must pay membership and conference

We’ve added information about keynote speakers and special events at the upcoming conference in Riverside.  Speakers include Cheryl Edelson (Chaminade University of Honolulu), Juan Delgado and Thomas McGovern (California State University, San Bernandino), David Skal (film historian), Imke Meyer (University of Illinois at Chicago), Kate Thomas (Bryn Mawr College), and Sangita Gopal (University of Oregon).

Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice  Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23- 27, 2015
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE (INCLUDING SUBMISSIONS PAGE) WILL BE LIVE IN SEPTEMBER, 2014: www.uidaho.edu/asle In Notes from Underground (1864), Dostoyevsky explores relations between modernity and its discontents

A tentative schedule for the 2014 PAMLA conference is now available: Tentative 2014 Schedule.  The schedule is still subject to change. Please review the schedule and inform Craig Svonkin ([email protected]) of any changes, including cancellations and changes to paper titles or abstracts.  Check that you are not scheduled to present a paper and chair a

We’ve arranged for a block of rooms at the Riverside Marriott at the Convention Center and the nearby Mission Inn at extremely competitive rates ($109 a night plus tax at the Marriott; $135 a night plus tax at the historic Mission Inn).  Please see the Accommodations page for information about how to make your reservations

If you are a graduate student enrolled in an M.A., M.F.A., or Ph.D. program, you may apply for a scholarship to defray the cost of participating in the 2014 conference.  Applications are due by August 1.  See Graduate Student Scholarships for more info.

We are pleased to announce that PAMLA’s new online registration system is now available.  The system is powered by Eventbrite and Paypal, bringing our members ease of use and a secure way to pay their dues and conference fees.  You can also use the online form to purchase seats at the conference luncheons or donate

Conference participants were originally asked to pay their membership dues by June 15.  Due to the delays in establishing our new online registration system, we have extended the deadline to July 1.  We have high hopes that the new online form will be available by the end of the week.

The proposal submission form for most PAMLA 2014 sessions closed on May 16.  Over 40 topic areas extended their deadlines to May 31.  All Session Topics are now closed. If you submitted a proposal, you should be hearing from the Presiding Officer by June 15 about the status of your proposal. Late Proposals If your paper was

Third Symposium on Asians in the AmericasOctober 1-3, 2014Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick) This symposium aims to explore the multifaceted lives and representations of Asians in the Americas, past and present, and their intersections with borders, race, gender, nationality, geopolitical power, homeland, identity, and culture. We emphasize the presence of Asians

Approximately forty approved sessions are still in search of high quality paper proposals.  So, if you are interested in attending the 2014 PAMLA Conference, but you missed the original deadline, take a look at one of these open sessions and propose a paper by Saturday, May 31 at midnight at the latest (in other words,

May 15 was the deadline for submitting proposals for the 2014 PAMLA annual meeting.  Most sessions are now “closed” and you will not be able to submit using the online proposal form.  Some sessions will be re-opening with an extended deadline of May 31.  Please consult the Session Topics List to see the latest list of

Jens Rieckmann, Professor Emeritus of German at the University of California, Irvine died on December 8, 2013. He was only 69 years old—too young to pass away and to leave behind his beloved partner of 43 years, David Perkins; his many friends; his books; and his home with its well-stocked kitchen and its beautifully tended

Gunter H. Hertling, Professor Emeritus of Germanics and well-known scholar of 19th-Century German Literature, died on Sunday, January 19, 2014. Professor Hertling grew up in Germany, where he received his secondary education. In 1948, he came to the United States. After a few years in Pasadena, he sought his undergraduate degree at UC-Berkeley where he

Due date: 30 June 2014. Thursday 13 November-Sunday 16 November 2014 at the Karl Anatol Center, California State University, Long Beach.  Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) remains a fascinating, ambivalent, and polarizing figure some 200 years after his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. From the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, responses of authors and artists ranged from

English Professor Brought New Insights to Shakespeare’s Plays CRESTLINE, California — Carol Downey, 63, of Crestline, CA, died March 18, 2014, at Mountains Community Hospital in Lake Arrowhead, California, after a long illness. Carol was born in New York City on March 28, 1950, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Langrock of New

A list of approved session topics  for PAMLA 2014 has been posted and our online submission system is now open.  All paper proposals for General and Special Sessions must be submitted via the online system by May 15, 2014 for inclusion in the conference program.

A list of approved sessions for the 112th PAMLA conference to be held in Riverside, California, from Oct. 31-Nov. 2 is now available: PAMLA 2014 Topic Areas. 

If you are planning on attending this year’s MLA convention in Chicago, please join us for a regional MLA cash bar on Saturday, January 11, from 8:45 – 10 pm, in the Addison Room of the Chicago Marriott.  It would be lovely to see you there! Cash Bar Arranged by SAMLA, NEMLA, and PAMLA Saturday, 11 January, 8:45–10:00

Deadline for submission: January 15th, 2014 “I Will Be Myself”: Identity in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Media and Culture is a one-day conference showcasing graduate student research that explores, questions, and analyzes the issues surrounding identity in various elements of children’s and young adult literature. You are invited to submit an academic paper proposal or a creative

The 2014 PAMLA Conference in Riverside, California (Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2014) will encounter the theme “Familiar Spirits.” We invite participants to consider papers and sessions on magic, conjuring, spirits, hauntings, Spiritualism, and manifestations as well as presentations that treat the familiar, familial, and the commonplace in relation to the paranormal, strange, and uncanny. We anticipate

Next year’s conference will take place at the Riverside Convention Center in California, October 31-November 2, 2014.  Special Session proposals for the 2014 conference are due to PAMLA’s 2014 First Vice-President Heidi Schlipphacke (University of Illinois, Chicago), by December 15, 2013:  [email protected].  Please send Professor Schlipphacke your name, affiliation, preferred email address, and a session

Congratulations to the winners of the PAMLA 2013 Elections.  We welcome John Ganim (University of California, Riverside) as our second vice president, and Catherine Cucinella (California State University, San Marcos) and Richard Hishmeh (Palomar College) as Executive Committee members.  The PAMLA Executive Committee appointed John Schwetman (University of Minnesota, Duluth) to the new position of

Help us improve future conferences by sharing your feedback about the recent conference in San Diego at the Bahia Resort: www.pamla.org/2013/feedback

The PAMLA 2013 Election ballot will be emailed on October 14 to all members who are current in dues for the 2013 calendar year.  Voting must be completed by midnight, October 25, 2013.  If you were expecting a ballot but did not receive an email, please contact [email protected]. Your PAMLA Executive Committee is the body that

Mexican Literature Assistant Professor Teach upper-division and graduate courses in Mexican literature and culture. All courses will be taught in Spanish. Courses may also include Advanced Conversation, Advanced Composition, Advanced Grammar, survey literature courses, Spanish-American literature, and colonial literature. Tenure-track at California State University, Fresno.   Submit materials by 11/15/13. Visit http://apptrkr.com/396938 for more information.

Pacific Coast Philology Call for Submissions Special Issue: “Migration, Immigration, and Movement in Literature, Film, and Cultures” How do writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists portray experiences related to migration, immigration, and movement? What reasons do their works offer for why people migrate, immigrate, or move from place to place? What particular rewards and challenges do writers, filmmakers, musicians, and

Visiting Assistant Professor, Early/Nineteenth-Century American Literature DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGESCalifornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona3801 West Temple AvenuePomona, CA   91768  The Department of English and Foreign Languages invites applications and nominations for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (one-year, non-renewable term). Further interest or experience in one or

Sadly, PAMLA has lost another longstanding, active member: Hans Wagener, Professor of German at UCLA. Hans was PAMLA President from 1990-1991 and a frequent presenter and presiding officer at PAMLA conferences. In his presidential speech at the PAMLA conference in Las Vegas in 1991, entitled “Winning the Jackpot: German Writers Who Made It Big” (published

Call for Papers: Romantic Connections NASSR Supernumerary Conference, University of Tokyo We invite proposals for a major international Romanticism Conference, to be held at the University of Tokyo on June 13–15, 2014. This unique event will bring together four scholarly societies from three continents: it is a supernumerary conference of the North American Society for

We are pleased to invite panel and/or individual paper proposals for the 7th Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference (Chaminade University of Honolulu, Hawaii, May 23-24, 2014).   All topics and proposals are welcome, particularly those treating cultural productions within and/or about the Oceanic region.    Abstracts/Proposals for individual papers or 3-4 paper panels are due September

Jerome Loston has produced two videos about the 110th annual conference that was held in Seattle in October 2012.  You can view them on YouTube: Moments from PAMLA 2012  PAMLA 2012 Presidential Address

We are proud to announce that the Creative Artist Spotlight Speakers for this year’s PAMLA Conference, at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego (November 1-3, 2013), will be the celebrated poets Rae Armantrout and Marilyn Chin.  Armantrout and Chin will read from their poetry and discuss their work with PAMLA members on Friday evening,

Close to fifty sessions for PAMLA 2013 have extended their deadlines to May 12.  Please see Session Topics for a list of open sessions and submit your proposal using the Online Submission Form.  Submit early to avoid last-minute technical snafus!

UPDATE: The online registration form for the 2013 membership year and the 2013 annual conference is temporarily unavailable.  Please use the mail-in registration form until further notice. Join or renew your membership today!  All conference participants must be current on their dues in addition to paying the conference registration fee.  For rates see the Dues

The entire PAMLA 2013 conference will be held at the lovely Bahia Resort, on Mission Bay, in San Diego, California. We have arranged for enough rooms at the Bahia for all of our conference attendees at a very competitive rate ($129 a night plus tax), but it is possible that we could run out of rooms. So, we

The CFP for PAMLA 2013, taking place November 1-3 at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego, California, is now available. See the list of session topics Submit a proposal using the online form

COLOR IN ANCIENT DRAMA IN PERFORMANCE Sponsored by the APA Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance Organizer: Timothy Wutrich, Case Western Reserve University http://www.apaclassics.org/index.php/annual_meeting/145th_annual_meeting… This panel invites papers on the topic of color, in every sense, in the performance of ancient drama. Papers should address the element of color in productions of ancient Greek and

Dear PAMLA Members, It is with great sadness and shock that I am writing this message to inform you of the sudden death of Wolfgang Nehring.  Wolfgang has been a long-time, highly engaged PAMLA member.  He served as President from 2002-03 and was on the Executive Committee for many years.   He was a mentor

IX ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF INDIAN SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH [ISTR] (In association with International Federation for Theatre Research) Hosted by Budge Budge Institute of Technology (BBIT), Kolkata Theatre Festivals of India: Local v/s Global Scenario 2-4 March 2013 Call for the Papers We live in a world that is changing rapidly. How can we make

CALL FOR PAPERS 23rd Annual Conference Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Colorado Springs, CO July 28-30, 2013 The Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies will be holding its 23rd annual conference Sunday, July 28, through Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at the University of Colorado- Colorado Springs. We invite papers on crypto-Judaism from any discipline (e.g., anthropology, history, sociology,

We are seeking one or two grad student volunteers to help us with managing the PAMLA website and e-communications.  This might be a good opportunity for someone interested in digital media, or considering alternative careers in administration or non-profit work.  To start with duties would be simple, like adding people to listservs, posting announcements on

Our next PAMLA Conference will be held on Friday November 1-Sunday November 3, 2013 at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego, California. The conference site is lovely, and San Diego usually has great weather at that time. We are right on Mission Bay–you can walk out of your hotel room and be on the

These proposed changes to the PAMLA Constitution and Standard Operating Procedures will be discussed and voted on at the PAMLA 2012 General Membership meeting on Saturday, October 20, 2012, at 5:00pm in the Pigott Auditorium.  All PAMLA members who wish to discuss the suggested changes and to vote on them should attend. View the constitution

The conference program is now available as PDF in addition to the online format.  All participants will receive a printed copy when they check-in at the conference.  Please continue to report cancellations to Craig Svonkin at [email protected].  We will update the online program and distribute an addendum with last-minute changes at the conference.

The PAMLA 2012 Election ballot will be emailed on September 25 to all members who are current in dues for the 2012 calendar year.  Voting must be completed by midnight, October 10, 2012.  If you were expecting a ballot but did not receive an email, please contact [email protected]. Your PAMLA Executive Committee is the body that

PAMLA will inaugrate the Creative Artist Spotlight, a new conference feature, with the very talented and inspiring author, Sandra Cisneros.  On Friday, October 19, from 6:30-7:30pm, she  will speak about her work at Seattle University.  From 7:30-8:30pm, Cisneros will sign books and there will be a light refreshment reception for PAMLA members and university community.  Read more about

Make your reservations now to guarantee your special PAMLA rate at one of our official PAMLA confernence hotels.  Rooms are running out at our PAMLA-negotiated rates, so you may end up paying much more if you don’t make your reservation right away. Learn about our wonderful accommodation options at www.pamla.org/2012/accommodations

The Third Global Conference on Genocide (Genocide: Knowing the Past, Safeguarding the Future) Sponsored by the International Network of Genocide Scholars Hosted at San Francisco State University, June 28 to July 1, 2012.  For the conference program and information on transportation and lodging, please see the conference website: http://www.sfsu.edu/~german/?q=3rd-global-conference-genocide   Questions may be directed to

The following sessions have extended their deadline to May 15, 2012.  To submit a paper proposal to one of these sessions, please visit www.pamla.org/2012 : African Migration to Spain Alfred Hitchcock’s Films Allegory Asian Literature Beatles as Literature Beowulf and Related Topics Building Communities through Food: From Culinary Impact of Immigrant Communities to Social Media

The host of our 2010 PAMLA Conference, Chaminade University of Honolulu, is also hosting a conference in about a month and a half, on May 25-26, 2012, with the keynote speaker being Lois-Ann Yamanaka. If you’d like to visit Hawaii for a warm and intimate conference, you still have a few days to propose a

We are proud to announce some of our special events for this year’s PAMLA conference, to be held on Friday, October 19 through Sunday, October 21, at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel and Seattle University (our sessions on Friday will be held at the Renaissance Hotel; Saturday’s and Sunday’s session will be at Seattle University). First,

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) reports on the PAMLA 2011 conference in the Winter 2012 issue of their newsletter.  Kevin Hutchings and Jessica Carey, University of Northern British Columbia, summarize the two ecocriticism panels and other talks on environmental topics.  They conclude that “All in all, the 2011 PAMLA conference

PAMLA members are invited to read the statement from the President and the Executive Committee regarding Central Washington University’s plan to eliminate its German program: Letter to Dean Marji Morgan, College of Arts and Humanities, Central Washington University Additional letters and materials in support of language and literature programs may be found in the Advocacy

The PAMLA 2012 website, and the online proposal submission form, are now available.  There are over 120 approved session topics for this year’s conference, to be held October 19-21 at Seattle University.  All proposals must be submitted online through the PAMLA 2012 website by midnight, April 22, 2012.  Presiding Officers will inform submitters whether their papers

You may now join PAMLA or renew your membership for the 2012 calendar year.  You can also register for the 2012 conference at Seattle University.  Participation in the conference requires payment of both membership dues and the conference registration fee.  Like last year, you have the option of paying a combined membership/conference fee immediately, so

If you haven’t already done so, please consider submitting a proposal for a special session at the 2012 PAMLA conference, which will be held October 19-21, 2012 at Seattle University. We have extended the deadline for proposing a special session until Friday, December 23rd. To propose a special session, please send a 40 to 50

PAMLA 2011 is now in the history books.  Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts about this year’s conference and help us make next year even better by taking the PAMLA 2011 Feedback Survey.

PAMLA graduate students are invited to gather at the Orchard Restaurant & Lounge at the Doubletree Claremont on Saturday, November 5, from 8:30-10:30pm.  It will be an informal opportunity to meet one another, discuss the first day of the conference, and socialize.  Light appetizers will be provided, as well as a cash bar.  

The PAMLA 2011 Election ballot has been emailed to all members who are current in dues for the 2011 calendar year.  Voting must be completed by midnight, October 31, 2011.  If you were expecting a ballot but did not receive an email, please contact [email protected]. In November, the terms of two of our Executive Committee

The Department of English and Foreign Languages at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, invites applications and nominations for the position of Assistant Professor of 20th/21st-Century American Literature (background in African American or Chicano Literature preferred). Further interest or experience in one or several of the following – teacher preparation, creative writing, and earlier periods of

At the 2011 PAMLA Conference to be held at Scripps College, we have two wonderful speakers delivering our Presidential and Plenary Addresses (at our Saturday and Sunday luncheons respectively).  These luncheons do involve an additional cost, and in order to attend them you must register ahead of time.  You may pay/register for one or both

SCRIPPS COLLEGE, CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA  VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN FRENCH Scripps College, a women’s liberal arts college with a strong interdisciplinary tradition, invites applications for an emergency replacement hire for a one-year, full-time, non-renewable position in French at the Visiting Assistant Professor level.  Courses to be taught include four language courses, one section of Advanced French, and

Congratulations to Heather Wozniak, PAMLA’s wonderful webmaster.  Heather has moved up to Washington to work in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington.  There, she’ll use her technical knowledge and Ph.D. in English to develop a new content management framework and improve the web presence for all the Humanities departments at the University

A tentative draft of the 2011 PAMLA conference schedule is now available at www.pamla.org/2011/schedule .  Presiding Officers and Session Chairs should review their session information and send any corrections to Craig Svonkin at [email protected] by August 31, 2011. Conference participants are reminded to pay their membership dues if they haven’t already and to register for

For the best rates, remember to book your rooms at our official conference hotels, the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel in Pomona or the Doubletree Hotel Claremont. See Accommodations on the 2011 conference site.

The dates have been set for PAMLA annual meetings in 2012 and 2013.  We will be expanding the conference to a three-day format, Friday-Sunday.  The 110th annual conference will take place October 19-21, 2012, at Seattle University in Seattle, Washington.  The 111th annual conference will take place November 1-3, 2013, at the Riverside Convention Center

Members may now register for the 2011 annual meeting, taking place November 5-6 at Scripps College in Claremont, California.  PAMLA membership fees are due by May 1 and conference fees by September 15.  We offer the convenient option of paying your membership and your conference registration fees at the same time.  Register now using Acteva,

We on the PAMLA Executive Committee are very concerned about the current federal budget debates and the possibly serious impact major cuts on education will have on us, our students, and the future of the Humanities in the United States.  So, we would love to encourage all of our members to take a minute to

We are no longer accepting paper proposals for the PAMLA 2011 conference.  The deadline for most topic areas was March 25, and some sessions extended their deadline to April 18.  If you submitted a proposal, you should hear back from the Presiding Officer shortly. If a Presiding Officer has accepted your paper over email, it

The proposal submission form for PAMLA 2011 is now closed.  A limited number of sessions will be extending their deadline to April 18.  Please check the official conference site at www.pamla.org/2011 for an updated list of sessions that are still accepting submissions. Presiding Officers have begun notifying their submitters of acceptance or regrets.  They should

Call for Proposals: “Why Comics Are and Are Not Picture Books” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 5-8 Jan. 2012, Seattle, Washington A proposed panel jointly sponsored by the MLA Children’s Literature Division and the MLA Comics and Graphic Narratives Discussion Group This panel, co-chaired by Craig Svonkin and Charles Hatfield, will explore the possible relationships

Our 109th annual conference will be held November 5 and 6, 2011, at Scripps College in Claremont, California.  The official site for the PAMLA 2011 conference is now available at www.pamla.org/2011.  You’ll find a list of over 100 approved session topics that are seeking submissions, as well as guidelines about how to propose papers and

PAMLA Member Theodore Koulouris has published Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf (Ashgate, January 2011). Ashgate Publishing’s website is here:http://www.ashgatepublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=3140&title_id=9933&edition_id=13043 Taking up Virginia Woolf’s fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores Woolf’s engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon of British Hellenism and her transformation of that multifaceted socio-cultural and political reality into a

Longtime PAMLA member Cheryl Edelson is proud to announce the Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference May 27-28, 2011, Chaminade University of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI Check out the new OPCA blog at: http://oceanicpopularcultureassociation.blogspot.com/ We are pleased to invite panel and/or individual paper proposals for the 5th Annual Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference. All topics and proposals

PAMLA member Adriana Craciun is the Faculty Organizer for the “Inscriptions: The Material Contours of Knowledge” Conference, March 10-11, 2011, at UC Riverside.   Jerome McGann and Adrian Johns are the keynote speakers for the conference, which is free and open to the public.  For more information, see: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/inscriptions.html This conference will explore the material dimensions of inscribed

Longtime PAMLA member and Mills College faculty, Héctor Mario Cavallari, has co-written with his Film Studies colleague, Dr. Ken Burke. “Julio Cortázar and Michelangelo Antonioni: Words, Images, and the Limits of Verbal and Visual Representation,” Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism 6/7 (May 2010): n. pag. Web. http://www.dissidences.org/ To read Héctor’s essay, go here: http://www.dissidences.org/6CortazarAntonioniBurkeCavallari.html

You may now join or rejoin PAMLA for the 2011 year via our online Acteva payment system: https://www.pamla.org/how-join

Thank you to everyone who made our recent conference in Honolulu such a success. As we begin to plan next year’s event, we would like to know what worked well for you and what needs improvement. To that end, we have created an online survey to gather feedback about the conference. Completing the survey will

The National Sporting Library & Museum seeks applications for the John H. Daniels Fellowship, which supports scholars doing research in the area of horse and field sports. Applications must be postmarked no later than February 1, 2011. The John H. Daniels Fellowship supports scholars at the NSL&M for periods of two weeks to one year.

We are hosting our 109th Annual Conference, on Saturday and Sunday, November 5-6, 2011, at Scripps College, Claremont, California (about thirty minutes east of Los Angeles, in the lovely town of Claremont, one of the real jewels of Southern California). Interested parties may propose special sessions on specific topics by December 15, 2010. Special session

We are pleased to announce the results of our 2010 PAMLA elections. The new officers will officially join the PAMLA Executive Committee on November 13 at the conference in Honolulu.  Lorely French (Pacific University) was elected Second Vice-President. Sabine Wilke (University of Washington) will become President, and Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi will become First-Vice President. Damian Bacich

We’ve got a Twitter account!  Follow @PAMLAorg, and use the hash tag #pamla2010 when you tweet about the upcoming conference in Honolulu.

Our outgoing graduate student representative, Lorenzo Giachetti, has organized a casual mixer for PAMLA graduate students during the 2010 conference.  It will take place on Sunday, November 14th, beginning at 7:30pm, at the Doubletree Alana Bistro & Wine Bar. If you are a graduate student, please take a moment to fill out this online survey to

The PAMLA 2010 Election ballot has been emailed to all members who are current in dues for the 2010 calendar year.  Voting must be completed by midnight, October 30, 2010.  If you were expecting a ballot but did not receive an email, please contact [email protected]. In November, the terms of three of our Executive Committee

After years of diligent work and extraordinary service, our Pacific Coast Philology (PCP) co-editors, Lorely French and Pauline Beard, will be retiring from their positions this November.  They will be succeeded by the capable team of Roswitha Burwick, former PAMLA President and Professor of German at Scripps College, and Friederike von Schwerin-High, Assistant Professor of German at Pomona

Dear PAMLA conference presiding officers, chairs, presenters, and attendees,   Thank you all for your patience as we’ve worked to design the 2010 PAMLA conference program so as to meet everyone’s needs. With approximately 135 sessions and five hundred papers on a wide variety of fascinating topics, you simply don’t want to miss this conference.  

If you are looking to do a good deed, think about making a donation (of anything from $5 to $1,000) to PAMLA’s Graduate Student Scholarship Fund. You can easily do so by using our Acteva payment system, and your donation will help a deserving graduate student to attend our annual conference. This year, perhaps because

The 2010 PAMLA Membership Fee and separate Conference Fee are both due by September 15, 2010. Presenters and session chairs who haven’t paid both fees by this date will be removed from the conference program. For more information on the fees and payment options, see PAMLA 2010 Registration.

In 2006, the University of Arizona Press published Because I Don’t Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life, a collection of essays in which Philip Garrison discusses the problematic issue of the Mexican immigrant life in the United States, and more particularly in the Pacific Northwest.  His familiarity with the roots – both historical and

English & Welsh Diaspora: Regional Cultures, Disparate Voices, Remembered Lives April 13-16, 2011, Loughborough University  Keynote and Plenary Speakers: John Barrell, York University, Roger Ebbatson, Lancaster University, Nick Groom, Exeter University, Ronald Hutton, Bristol University, Bridget Keegan, Creighton University, Donna Landry, University of Kent, Ruth Robbins, Leeds Metropolitan University Performers, musicians and artists provisionally booked: JOHN KIRKPATRICK, HUGH LUPTON, CERI

Congratulations to Roswitha Burwick on the publication of her exciting new revisionary fairy tale collection: Merry Sorrows (Un)Happy Endings: Fairy Tales For Our Times (Ed. Roswitha Burwick, et al.) For hundreds of years, from fairy tale to fairy tale, storytellers have told and retold tales that address the dangers and joys of their lives. Many

Congratulations to PAMLA member Catherine Cucinella on the publication of her celebrated new book, Poetics of the Body: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Chin, and Marilyn Hacker (Palgrave, 2010). Poetics of the Body examines representations of the body in the work of four important twentieth-century poets: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn

The editors of Gender and Space in Britain, 1660-1820 seek essays that identify, delineate, and explore new cartographies— geographic and metaphoric—of gender in literature authored by British women between 1660 and 1820.   This collection begins with the historical and theoretical recognition of the ways in which space both constitutes and represents identity. As Henri

Stanley Orr, professor of English at the University of Hawai’i, West O ‘ahu, and longtime PAMLA member and current PAMLA Executive Committee member, has published a ground-breaking new work on American crime fiction and film: Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir Stanley Orr’s Darkly Perfect World offers a large-scale historical nar­rative about the

The online proposal submission form for PAMLA 2010 is now officially closed.  If you submitted a proposal, you should expect to hear from the session’s Presiding Officer very soon.  If you haven’t heard about your proposal’s status, you may inquire directly with the Presiding Officer by using the “contact” link on the Sessions Topic page. Visit

PAMLA recently issued statements in support of threatened language programs at SUNY Albany, Armstrong Atlantic University, and the University of Nevada, Reno.  Read these statements and others under Programs in Peril.

PAMLA members are invited to read the statement from the Vice-President and the Executive Committee regarding Armstrong Atlantic State University’s decision to eliminate its German minor, under the section “Programs in Peril.”

You may now make your hotel reservations for the 2010 PAMLA Conference in Hawaii.   The official conference hotel, the Doubletree Alana Hotel Waikiki, is now sold out, as is the nearby Ilikai Hotel & Suites. Happily, we have contracted for additional rooms at the nearby 3.5 star Ala Moana Hotel (highly rated by Zagat).  Please visit our Accomodations page for

Update: Several sessions have extended their deadlines until May 4, 2010.  It’s not too late to get your proposal in!  See below for a list of open sessions. Deadline: extended to May 4, 2010 (selected sessions only–see below) Our 108th annual conference will take place on November 13 and 14, 2010, at the lovely Chaminade

PAMLA members are invited to read the statement from the President and the Executive Committee regarding the University of Nevada’s tentative decision to eliminate its French, German, and Italian programs, under the section “Programs in Peril.”

The 2010 PAMLA Newsletter is now posted online.  The direct link is: https://www.pamla.org/sites/default/files/february2010.pdf Or a shorter link is: https://www.pamla.org/newsletters For environmental and economic reasons, the PAMLA Board agreed to discontinue mailing a paper copy of the newsletter to our members, posting the Newsletter only online instead.  You can easily open the newsletter, download it, and print out a copy if

PAMLA now has an official page on Facebook.  Become a fan and get connected with other PAMLA members and supporters of literary, linguistic, and cultural studies. PAMLA on Facebook

Dear PAMLA Members,   After years of diligent work and extraordinary service, our Pacific Coast Philology co-editors, Lorely French and Pauline Beard, will be retiring from their position at the end of the 2010 year.  Lorely and Pauline have done a marvelous job of editing Pacific Coast Philology, ensuring that PCP has continued to be the

PAMLA will host its 108th Annual Conference on Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii. We’d love to have you join us, as this is certain to be one of PAMLA’s most beautiful conference sites ever.  Given the large number and wide-variety of fascinating session topics, this is also certain to be one of our most stimulating conferences ever.

PAMLA membership entitles you to receive the annual calls for papers and conference information, our annual e-newsletter, an annual copy of Pacific Coast Philology, the right to post academic announcements of interest on the PAMLA website (by emailing them to the Executive Director), and highly useful professional information. In order to attend PAMLA’s annual conference,

PAMLA Member John Hill has published a new work on Beowulf: The Narrative Pulse of Beowulf: Arrivals and Departures. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008). Mark C. Amodio, Professor of English at Vassar College, writes of the book:  “John M. Hill has long been acknowledged as the leading student of what we may call the sociology of Anglo-Saxon England,

PAMLA member Susan Morgan has two exciting announcements. First, her cultural biography, Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess (University of California Press, 2008), was selected by the American Library Association (ALA) for their list of “The Best of the Best from the University Presses” for 2009. Additionally,

Longtime PAMLA member and former PAMLA president Gunter H. Hertling has published Hard Times: My Youth under National Socialism (and Beyond) 1935-1947. (Haag + Herchen: Frankfurt a.M., 2008; published in English). Professor Emeritus G. H. Hertling was born in 1930 in Pasadena, California of German parents. Their last and final visit back to Germany from California

PAMLA member Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod is proud to announce the recent publication of his book, Inventing Autopia: Dreams  and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles (2009), by the University of California Press. Inventing Autopia explores the profound relationship between imagination and place, visuality and legibility, showing how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions

PAMLA member Kevin Hutchings produced a new monograph, a new co-edited collection, and a new CD in 2009:  Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World, 1770-1850. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. This book highlights significant intersections between Green Romanticism and colonial politics, demonstrating how Romantic-era understandings of animality, climate, and habitat

PAMLA member Frances Smith Foster has three new books to announce.   First, a monograph, “‘Til Death or Distance Do Us Part”: Love and Marriage in African America, from Oxford University Press, 2010. Of this book, Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage, writes, “Foster demolishes stereotypes about the history of love, sexuality,

Emily M. Hinnov has published her first book,  Encountering Choran Community: Literary Modernism, Visual Culture, and Political Aesthetics in the Interwar Years, with Susquehanna University Press (August, 2009). This book identifies and describes modernist “choran community” as a previously understudied key counternarrative to Modernism’s engagement with early twentieth-century master narratives. The author uses the term

PAMLA member Susan Peel recently published “Imagining the Constructed Body: From Statues to Cyborgs,”  in Teaching World Literature.  Ed. David Damrosch.  Options for Teaching Series.  New York: Modern Language Association, 2009.  362-76.  Congratulations to Ellen! 

In 2009 PAMLA member Matthew Warshawsky published “Catholic, Jewish, and Crypto Jewish in the 1600s: The Geographic and Spiritual Peregrinations of Juan Pacheco de León in Spain, Italy and Mexico” in the Journal of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Crypto Jews,volume 1, (March 2009), 100-115; and “Secret Histories Exposed: the Recovery of Crypto-Jewish Identity in Modern

Lila Marz Harper has published an edition of Edwin Abbott’s 1884 Flatland with Broadview Press. This edition provides context for the book’s references to Victorian culture and religion, mathematical history, and the history of philosophy. Details of the contents can be found at:   http://www.broadviewpress.com/product.php?productid=983   “Among the most enduring works of Victorian fiction, Flatland

PAMLA member Alberto Gabriele’s book Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism has just been published to glowing reviews:   http://us.macmillan.com/readingpopularcultureinvictorianprint   Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism is a comprehensive study of the whole run of the monthly periodical Belgravia under the direction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It traces

We now have a master 2009-2010 PAMLA Calendar online, available by clicking on the “Calendar” link on the left side of the PAMLA front-page, or through this link: https://www.pamla.org/2009-2010-calendar Email Executive Director Craig Svonkin with any questions about the calendar: [email protected]

PAMLA will host its 108th Annual Conference on Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii. Please save the date.  This is certain to be one of PAMLA’s most beautiful conference sites ever.   Interested PAMLA members may propose special sessions on specific topics by December 15, 2009.   Special session topics may deal with

Congratulations to Roswitha Burwick (Scripps College) and Jeffrey Gray (Seton Hall University), who were each elected to the Executive Committee for three-year terms (to expire in 2012), and to Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi (Washington State University), who was elected Second Vice-President. Thierry Boucquey (Scripps College) will become President, and Sabine Wilke (University of Washington) will become First

Dear PAMLA Members,  Our final conference schedule and program for the 2009 PAMLA Conference at San Francisco State University is now ready for your viewing-pleasure.  In order to view it, go to www.pamla.org/2009/schedule As you can see from the program, this year’s PAMLA Conference is filled with over one hundred and ten sessions on a

Dear PAMLA Conference Participants, Our tentative PAMLA conference schedule and program is now ready for your viewing-pleasure.  In order to view it, go to www.pamla.org/2009/schedule If you could take a moment to look at your paper or session, I’d love all of your help with proofreading.  Please look here to check the document and make

Dear PAMLA members, Our 2009 PAMLA conference, to be held November 6-7, 2009 at San Francisco State University, is sure to be one of our most exciting and memorable conferences ever, with over a hundred sessions on an amazing array of scholarly topics (the tentative schedule for the conference is now available, so do check

It is once again time to conduct our annual elections for new PAMLA Officers. In November, the terms of two of our Executive Committee members will expire: Andrew Fleck of San Jose State University and Heidi Schlipphacke of Old Dominion University will be stepping down from the Executive Committee. The Nominations Committee would like to

Site visitors will notice that we have added a new section for “Academic Announcments” at www.pamla.org/academic_announcements. PAMLA members are invited to submit academic announcements and CFPs to Craig Svonkin, PAMLA’s Executive Director: [email protected]. Please send potential academic announcements to Craig Svonkin as word document attachments. Announcements will be posted at the discretion of the Executive

PAMLA members are invited to read the statement from the President and the Executive Committee regarding Washington State University’s decision to eliminate its German Program, under the section “Programs in Peril.”

We are pleased to announce the results of our recent special election. The newest member of the PAMLA Executive Committee is Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod, Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Studies, Cultural Studies, and History at Occidental College in California, and an active PAMLA member since 2003. So, congratulations to Jem, who is sure to bring

The deadline has now passed for paper proposals for all sessions at the 2009 PAMLA Conference, to be held November 6-7 at San Francisco State University. This year we introduced a new Online Proposal Submission Form to aid us in organizing the conference program. If your paper has been accepted for a session, but you

The deadline for paper proposals for most of this year’s PAMLA conference sessions has now passed, and so most sessions are now closed. Some specific sessions, however, have extended their proposal deadlines until April 13, 2009. The sessions with extended deadlines are: Bay Area Writers: Beyond the “Beat Thing” Chaucer and Related Topics Classics (Latin)

PAMLA is currently conducting a special election for the empty Executive Committee seat created when Craig Svonkin took on the job of Executive Director. The PAMLA Nominating Committee has nominated two extremely qualified candidates. Members who are current on their dues should check their mailboxes for a message with candidate bios and a link to

The deadline for paper proposals for this year’s PAMLA conference has been extended to March 30th for all sessions. We are extending the deadline in order to allow PAMLA members a bit more time to learn how to use the new online paper submission form (which is, we promise, quite easy to use). Here is

Dear PAMLA Members and Friends, I’m writing to you as PAMLA’s new Executive Director. First, I want to thank PAMLA’s nominating committee, officers, and Executive Committee members for this great honor, and Salah Khan, our out-going Executive Director, for all of his wonderful work on our organization’s behalf and for his kind assistance in guiding

A message from PAMLA’s President: I write with some important news about PAMLA. Professor Salah Khan is stepping down as Executive Director to pursue his scholarly projects. On behalf of the Executive Committee, I thank Salah for his excellent management of the association as well as his inspired leadership. It has been a great pleasure

The Call for Papers for our 2009 annual conference is now available. This year’s conference will be hosted by San Francisco State University on November 6 and 7. Please note that we now offer a new online paper proposal submission process. Complete Call for Papers Online Proposal Submission Form

The February 2009 Newsletter is now available for download from the Newsletters page. Members can expect to receive a hardcopy in the mail in the coming weeks. The newsletter contains the Call for Papers for the annual conference, scheduled this year on November 6 and 7 at San Francisco State University; a note from the

Our 2009 membership is now open and available for all in an updated, very convenient, and time-saving format. Simply visit the Membership page. We are planning an exciting conference this November in San Francisco, California, with a remarkable array of panels, as you will see in the call for papers included in your February Newsletter.

As the holidays approach and in preparation for PAMLA’s Newsletter, the Executive Director would like to solicit any professional news that you might like to share with your colleagues in PAMLA across the US, Canada, and abroad. Typical entries include book and edited volume publications, moves from one institution to another, promotions, notice of new

PCP Special Issue: Violence and Representation Pacific Coast Philology, the journal of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, will publish a special issue on Violence and Representation. We welcome submissions from the various fields of philological and literary study, as well as from related fields such as philosophy, history, and art history. Topics include,

We would like to solicit proposals for the Special Sessions for next year’s conference that will be held Friday and Saturday, November 6 and 7 in San Francisco, CA (exact dates soon to be confirmed). Special Sessions are workshops, seminars, or panels on any topic with a special focus and more specific focus than those

PAMLA members are invited to read the statement from the President and the Executive Committee regarding USC’s decision to terminate its German Department, under the section “Programs in Peril.”