Entries from May 2009

May 26, 2009

Submit your work for the RES Essay Prize

The editors of The Review of English Studies invite contributions to the RES Essay Prize on any topic of English literature or the English language from medieval times to the twentieth century. The winner will receive:

Publication of the winning essay in The Review of English Studies
A cash prize of £250
£250 worth of OUP books
A [...]

May 21, 2009

T.S. Eliot International Summer School, June 27 – July 4, 2009

Director: Professor Ronald Schuchard (Emory University).
Executive Director: Dr Wim Van Mierlo (University of London).
The Summer School will bring together some of the most distinguished scholars of T.S. Eliot and Modern Literature, including Jewel Spears Brooker (Eckerd College), Robert Crawford (St Andrews), Anthony Cuda (North Carolina), Denis Donoghue (New York), Mark Ford (London), Jennifer Formichelli (Boston), [...]

May 20, 2009

2009 ALSC Conference Call for Papers

The ALSC Conference Program Committee invites proposals for papers and presentations to be considered for the 2009 conference at the Westin Tabor Center Hotel in Denver, October 9-11. Descriptions of each panel and seminar topic appear below, along with e-mail addresses and other contact information for submissions. Please bear in mind that there will be [...]

May 19, 2009

LITERARY MATTERS 2.1 Released

The Winter-Spring issue of Literary Matters: The Newsletter of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics has been released. It features a report on the 2008 Annual Conference, Calls for Papers for the 2009 conference, and a wonderful essay by David Rothman on our late colleague, Susan Bullock, that not only commemorates Susan but also [...]

May 7, 2009

Sandra Stotsky Featured on NY Times Blog

As reported earlier in the ALSC blog, ALSC Councillor Sandra Stotsky is bringing her decades of education reform to a new ALSC-funded study on high school literature curricula. The study will gather information on English programs in US high schools, exploring whether or not current programs of study challenge students and adequately prepare them for [...]