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NeMLA NewsNortheast Modern Language AssociationBoard of Directors, 2020-2021PresidentBrandi So, Touro College and University SystemFirst Vice PresidentBernadette Wegenstein, Johns Hopkins UniversitySecond Vice PresidentJoseph Valente, University at BuffaloBritish and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies DirectorThomas Lynn, Penn State BerksComparative Literature DirectorKatherine Sugg, Central Connecticut State UniversityCreative Writing, Publishing, & Editing DirectorAbby Bardi, Prince George’s Community CollegeCultural Studies and Media Studies DirectorMaria Matz, University of Massachusetts LowellFrench and Francophone Studies DirectorOlivier Le Blond, University of North GeorgiaGerman Studies DirectorCharles Vannette, University of New HampshireItalian Studies DirectorTiziano Cherubini, Baylor UniversityProfessionalization, Composition, and Pedagogy DirectorMaria Plochocki, City University of New YorkNSpanish and Portuguese Studies DirectorVictoria L. Ketz, La Salle UniversityUS and Transnational/Diaspora Studies DirectorBenjamin Railton, Fitchburg State UniversityCAITY Caucus President and RepresentativeFrancisco Delgado, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNYDiversity Caucus PresidentJennifer Mdurvwa, University at BuffaloGraduate Student Caucus RepresentativeDana Gavin, Old Dominion UniversityWomen’s and Gender Studies Caucus Interim RepresentativeSarah Goldbort, University at BuffaloEditor of Modern Language StudiesLaurence Roth, Susquehanna UniversityExecutive DirectorCarine Mardorossian, University at Buffalobuffalo.edu/NeMLAWSummer 20201Past PresidentCarole Salmon, University of Massachusetts LowellContact: support@nemla.orgMore information at buffalo.edu/nemla#NeMLA21President’s Letter: Onward to Philadelphia!To Our Wonderful Members and Organizational Allies,We send you this summer newsletter with oursincere wishes and prayers for the health andsafety of our membership, your loved ones, andeveryone in the world. It is truly a time ofreflection and awakening as we face, individuallyand collectively, the tension of being sociallydistant while maintaining emotional closeness.In this sense, our 52nd Annual Convention in2021 will be an especially poignant and profoundexperience. Indeed, uncertainty has become the new normal, and thus weare moving forward as normal in the face of uncertainty. NeMLA’s 52ndAnnual Convention is slated to take place from March 11 to 14, 2021, andwe hope that by then, we will all be able to participate in our friendlyconvention in beautiful Philadelphia, the “Birthplace of America.”Sponsored by the Romantic Languages Department of the University ofPennsylvania, the convention is planned to take place in the beautifulMarriott Philadelphia Downtown, steps from Independence Hall, theReading Terminal Market, and other countless treasures of history andculture. Circumstances permitting, we look forward to gathering for aconvention that embraces what is most human about the humanities, andis shaped by the generosity and gratitude of sincere, meaningfulexchange. Please make sure you take some time to submit an abstract toone of more than 400 sessions listed in this newsletter for our 52ndAnnual Convention by September 30, and lend your voice to our traditionas an organization that engages, convenes, connects, and creates.I know that our wonderful 2020 Convention in Boston looms large inour memory as one of the last times we enjoyed the rewarding act ofgathering with our friends and colleagues for intellectual, professional,and personal exchange. President Carole Salmon and Executive DirectorCarine Mardorossian (and the many other devoted NeMLA boardmembers, staff, and volunteers) staged a convention that felt nearlyflawless in its balancing of quality sessions, fantastic speakers, uniqueand meaningful professional development opportunities, and thetrademark NeMLA coziness that makes our convention so unique. Wewere all washing our hands vigorously, sanitizing our environments,and sensing but not fully certain that we were on the cusp of a radicalchange in our way of life, and that handshakes, hugs, and hotels wouldbe a necessary sacrifice for our collective well-being. Hence, whileNeMLA Summer Newsletters often highlight the successes of the previousconvention organizers and speakers, my gratitude and applause for our2020 Convention organizers, leaders, and speakers is even more laudatorybecause they offered a truly exceptional and enjoyable convention that isworthy of its spot in our personal histories. We are particularly gratefulfor Boston University’s local sponsorship, and the presence of theiradministration, faculties, and students at the events.EWe are grateful for Boston University’s local sponsorship, and thepresence of their administration, faculties, and students at the events.Dr. Gillian Pierce, Assistant Provost for Academic Assessment; Dr.
Northeast Modern Language Association400 CFPs is included in this newsletter starting on page 12. I hopethat you will use our 52nd Annual Convention theme, “Traditionand Innovation: Changing Worlds Through the Humanities,” as anopportunity to deepen your critical reflection of your field, a way ofconnecting the contexts of a changing world and world-changingwork, and of unifying the scope of your academic interests withyour role as a humanist.Best wishes for your health, peace, and continued solidarity innegotiating the many changes in our world.Brandi SoTouro College and University SystemNeMLA PresidentKarl Kirchwey, Associate Dean of the Faculty/Humanities in theCollege of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Davida Pines, Chair and AssociateProfessor in the Division of Rhetoric; and Boston University’sgraduate representatives Cory Charpentier and Korine Powersmade our membership feel welcome to their city. We are thankfulfor the Area speakers who represented and engaged our diversemembership, as well as to our keynote Dr. Maurice Lee and the“NeMLA Reads Together” renowned author Andre Dubus III. BothLee and Dubus captivated our NeMLA audiences with profound andpersonal discussions. The convention’s topic, “Shaping and SharingIdentities: Spaces, Places, Languages, and Cultures,” was a prescientreminder that honoring and safeguarding the human instinct toconnect is a perennial pursuit for the humanities. This pursuit isdefined by a horizon of idealism that looks different to each one ofus, but one that we are equally called to seek. I am so grateful tohave connected with so many of you in Boston, and I am honoredto continue this search for a more ideal way of connecting in thecoming year.NWe are delighted to continue our affiliation with the University ofBuffalo as the Administrative Host of our Association. Much ofthe success and quality of this organization are owing to the trulyexcellent leadership and contributions of an Executive Director,administrative staff, and graduate fellows supported by UB. Weare proud of our shared progress in raising the visibility of thescholarship of our members, as well as increasing awareness ofthe talented resources among UB’s faculty and staff. Researchopportunities and the production of valuable scholarly work aresome of the fruits of this partnership.buffalo.edu/NeMLAWNeMLA News2There’s no adequate way to thank those crucial staff memberswhose dedication to NeMLA makes the convention possible.The Executive Director Carine Mardorossian, Administrativeand Marketing Coordinator Derek McGrath, Exhibits andProfessionalization Coordinator Claire Sommers, and GraduateAssistant Ashley Byczkowski are just a few of the fantastic teamthat work tirelessly for the Association.September 30 is the deadline to submit abstracts to panels,roundtables, and seminars on a wide range of topics (submit allabstracts online at cfplist.com/nemla). A complete list of more thanTeaching Together While Staying HomeNEMLA TRAINS MEMBERS HOW TO!By late March, faculty around the world were scramblingto master the distance education tools needed to keepour students moving forward while placing much of ourlives on pause.NeMLA President Brandi So gathered with our membersin early April for a series of “NeMLA Keeps Teaching”Workshops: one on active learning and engagement inZoom-enabled classrooms, and two that built up ourmembers skills in Canvas and Blackboard LearningManagement Systems. Educational technology no longercomplements our teaching: it is central to its existence,and we are excited that NeMLA can be part of helpingtrain for it!Learn more about our workshops on Page 5.INSIDE THIS ISSUE2021 Featured Speakers. 352nd Annual Convention. 4A Letter from the Boston Past President. 4Online Seminars and Thanks to Our Staff. 5Awards and Fellowships. 5–7Professionalization Opportunities . 7–8Undergraduate Research Forum.8–9Exhibit at NeMLA.10Workshops.10–11Photo and Drawing Contests.11Calls for Papers.12NeMLA Journals. 34–35Board Openings. 35E
Summer 2020 Pieter M. van HattemPhotographer: Peter Decherney2021 FEATURED SPEAKERSOpening Event: Jed EstyKeynote Event: Jennifer EganThursday, March 11, 7 :00 PMFriday, March 12, 7:00 PMJed Esty is Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the Universityof Pennsylvania. He specializes in 20th-century British, Irish, andpostcolonial literatures, with additional interests in modernism,critical theory, history and theory of the novel, colonial andpostcolonial studies, the Victorian novel, and post-45 US culture.He received his BA from Yale University and his PhD from DukeUniversity. He taught for several years at Harvard University andat the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before joining thefaculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He is the authorof Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fictionof Development (2012) and A Shrinking Island: Modernism andNational Culture in England (2004), and he is currently at work ona new project, Cold War Victorians: How the British ImaginationShaped American Power. With Joe Cleary and Colleen Lye, he iscoeditor of a 2012 special issue of MLQ on the topic of realism inpostcolonial and ethnic US literatures, and with Ania Loomba,Suvir Kaul, Antoinette Burton, and Matti Bunzl, he coeditedPostcolonial Studies and Beyond (2005). Professor Esty has been afellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council ofLearned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.Book signing to followTHE HUMANITIES ON THE ROADWe are delighted to announcethat NeMLA President BrandiSo will serve as our 2021interviewer for our initiative TheHumanities on the Road, featuringinternationally renowned authorsfrom our annual convention’slocal host city. We are pleased towelcome University of Pennsylvania alumna Jennifer Egan as thisyear’s invited speaker!Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short storycollection. Her most recent novel, Manhattan Beach, a New YorkTimes bestseller, was awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal forExcellence in Fiction. Her previous novel, A Visit From the GoonSquad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics CircleAward, and the Los Angeles Times book prize, and was recentlynamed one of the best books of the decade by Time Magazine,Entertainment Weekly, and several others. Also a journalist, she haswritten frequently in the New York Times Magazine—most recentlyabout pregnancy and childbirth among opioid-dependent women.She is President of PEN America.NEMLA READS TOGETHERNeMLA members are encouraged to read ManhattanBeach in preparation for writer Jennifer Egan’skeynote address. Manhattan Beach takes us intoa world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers,bankers, and union men in a dazzling, propulsiveexploration of a transformative moment in thelives and identities of women and men, of Americaand the world. Submit questions in advance to ask the author atsupport@nemla.org or with our mobile app.3
Northeast Modern Language AssociationWELCOME TO PHILADELPHIA!FROM NEMLA’S 2020 BOSTON PRESIDENTCredit: University of PennsylvaniaIt was an honor and a pleasure topreside over NeMLA’s 51st AnnualConvention in Boston, March 5 to 8,2020. Once again, NeMLA was a greatsuccess, and I thank all whoparticipated. In particular, I wouldlike to take a moment tocongratulate and highlight again ourtwo extraordinary keynote speakers.52 Annual ConventionndMarch 11–14 2021, Philadelphia, PALOCAL HOST: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAWith 400 sessions, including dynamic speakers and cultural events, ourannual convention affords NeMLA’s principal opportunity to carry on atradition of lively research and pedagogical exchange in language andliterature. This year’s theme, “Tradition and Innovation: Changing WorldsThrough the Humanities,” asks how evolving traditions in the humanitieshave helped us understand our changing worlds, both real and imaginary.This year’s conference will take place at the Marriott DowntownPhiladelphia, steps from Independence Hall, the Reading TerminalMarket, and other treasures of art, culture, and community. The Marriottis offering a conference rate of 199. Free Wi-Fi in guest rooms is providedto all Bonvoy guests (free membership at marriott.com). Limited on-siteweekend parking is available for 68.60.NDr. Maurice Lee from BostonUniversity enlightened us witha witty, engaging, and thoughtprovoking address titled “TheOffice of Literature,” which spoketo all disciplines in the currentclimate of “crisis” in the humanities,but also left us with hope for thefuture of our profession.The next day, nationally acclaimed writer Andre Dubus III, whoselatest novel Gone So Long was our “NeMLA Reads Together” bookthis year, shared with us his unique lifepath to writing in hisremarkably intimate address “Finding a Life Through Words.”Thank you to Carine Mardorossian, Executive Director of NeMLA,for organizing this event, and to Christina Milletti for interviewingAndre in our ongoing “Humanities on the Road” initiative.Both Dr. Lee and Andre Dubus III’skeynote addresses were incrediblyinspiring for all of us, and I am gratefulto both speakers for their outstandingperformances that touched everyonewho attended and illustrated so wellthis year’s conference theme of “Shapingand Sharing Identities: Space, Places,Languages, and Cultures.”To review and submit to all calls for papers by September 30, 2020, please visitcfplist.com/nemla. For more information, please email support@nemla.org.Travel InformationGROUND TRANSPORTATIONThe Marriott is 10 miles from Philadelphia International Airport.Taxis, rental cars, buses, trolleys, and trains are available to andfrom the Marriott and the airport.DISCOUNTED FLIGHTS WITH NEMLA’S OFFICIAL AIRLINE, AMERICAN AIRLINESAmerican Airlines is pleased to offer a special discount of 5% offpublished fares (excluding basic economy and non-discountable fares)beginning October 29, 2020. For more information, please visitbuffalo.edu/nemla/aa.buffalo.edu/NeMLAWNeMLA News4DISCOUNTED TRAIN TRAVEL WITH AMTRAKAmtrak offers various Every Day Discounts and a generous Amtrak GuestRewards loyalty program for frequent travelers. For more information,please visit buffalo.edu/nemla/amtrak.ROOM AND RIDE SHAREWant to connect with others to share rooms or rides in Philadelphia forNeMLA 2021? Open to all NeMLA convention attendees, please fill out theform at nemlagraduatecaucus.wordpress.com starting Fall 2020 for roomand ride share opportunities.Carole SalmonUniversity of Massachusetts LowellNeMLA Past PresidentWGS CAUCUS ELECTIONEThe Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus encourages all membersto vote for the next Secretary and Board Representative at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z5JBF7C. Candidate statements areavailable at this SurveyMonkey link.It is essential that at least 1/3 of the Caucus membership vote. Ittakes just a few minutes, and your cooperation will ensure a swiftelection process.For more information about officers’ responsibilities and to getinvolved in the Caucus, please visit buffalo.edu/nemla/wgsc.
Summer 2020SEMINARS ABOUT TEACHING ONLINE“Keep Teaching” WorkshopsHosted By Brandi So, Nemla PresidentFrom April 3 to 5, NeMLA PresidentBrandi So hosted a series ofworkshop tutorials: “StudentEngagement in Zoom,” “BestPractices in Canvas LearningManagement System,” and “BestPractices in the BlackboardLearning Management System.”In these workshops held via Zoom, NeMLA members receivedfirsthand advice on how to use instructional technologiesto continue our work as educators. Participants were givenopportunities to meet one another in breakout rooms, practice withannotating, whiteboard writing, polling, and other Zoom tools, andreview sample course designs in Blackboard and Canvas, with tipson how to utilize these tools in the most effective (and efficient) way.Each workshop was followed by a Q&A session for individualizedsuggestions and feedback on their courses from Brandi, who, inaddition to her work as an Americanist, has been teaching online since2009 and works as an instructional designer and in faculty development.Thank you to everyone who joined! These workshops werewarm and personal--another benefit of being part of the NeMLAcommunity! We will be hosting additional online seminars in thefuture, so check your email for more information!THANKS TO OUR STAFF!AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPSBook AwardOur 2020 winner was Amanda R. Waugh Lagji, Pitzer College, forthe manuscript Waiting for Now: Postcolonial Fiction and ColonialTime, and our 2020 honorable mention was Syrrina Ahsan AliHaque, Kinnaird College for Women, for the manuscript Dialogueon Partition: Literature Knows No Borders.NeMLA solicits book-length manuscripts by unpublished authorson American, British, and other modern-language literature andcultural studies or on related areas for its annual book award.The author must be a current member with a demonstratedcommitment to NeMLA (a convention participant, or a member forat least one year in the last five years).The manuscript must be written in English and include an overviewof the proposed book (2–3 single-spaced pages), as well as a roundupof competing books and a brief explanation of the uniqueness of theproposed project. NeMLA will not consider unrevised dissertationsfor this award.The prize includes a 750 cash prize, and NeMLA will assist winnerswith contacting presses about the publication of their manuscripts(at the winner’s discretion). The winners will be announced at theannual business meeting, held the Sunday of NeMLA’s 52nd AnnualConvention in Philadelphia.Email submissions: book.award@nemla.org. More information:buffalo.edu/nemla/bookaward. Deadline: October 15, 2020Summer Research FellowshipThe Board of Directors congratulates the 2020 NeMLA SummerResearch Fellows for the following projects that they are developingwith the support of NeMLA research and travel funding:Alexandra Brown, University of Pennsylvania, “Bit by Byte: The SpeculativeFiction Writers’ Collective of Argentina & Chile”Daniel Davies, University of Pennsylvania, “Theorizing Literary Empire inLes Voeux du Paon (1312) and The Parlement of the Thre Ages (c.1350–90)”Lorena García Barroso, Columbia University, “Language as a Weapon inFranco’s Nation-building Project”Syrrina Haque, University of Lahore, “Narrative Shift from Postcolonial toPost-9/11 in Mehr Nigar Masroor’s Shadows of Time and Omar ShahidHamid’s The Spinner’s Tale”NeMLA is great because its people are!Each year, our graduate assistants, staff,and board members prepare tote bagsfor the annual convention.We also drive, from our host institutionat the University at Buffalo to theconvention site, numerous itemssuch as digital projectors and printedconvention programs.Interested in volunteering for NeMLA? Please email support@nemla.org.Dana Khromov, University of Pennsylvania, “Estou Me Guardando Para oCarnaval Chegar: The Disappearance of Lazer”Valeria Meiller, Georgetown University, “Argentina, Nation of Flesh:Confronting Cattle at the Slaughterhouse (1900–1930)”Jon Najarian, Boston University, “The Intermedial Era: Literary andPictorial Narrative from Modernism to Comics”Seda Öz, University of Delaware, “Politics of Remakes: The Case ofTurkish Cinema”Ana Isabel Simón Alegre, Adelphi University, “Social Activism andFeminism: Editing the Fiction of Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer”Nancy Vera, University of Maryland College Park, “Afro-MexicanLiterature and Culture”5
Northeast Modern Language AssociationNeMLA-University at Buffalo Special Collections FellowshipThe University at Buffalo Library and NeMLA sponsor a short-termvisiting fellowship for research supported by the University’s PoetryCollection and Rare and Special Books Collection. Our 2019 winner wasTaraneh Matloob Haghanikar, University of Northern Iowa.Founded in 1937 by Charles Abbott, University at Buffalo’s PoetryCollection holds one of the world’s largest collections of poetry firsteditions and other titles, little literary magazines, broadsides andanthologies, and more than 150 archives and manuscript collections froma wide range of poets, presses, magazines, and organizations. It holdsthe archives of the Jargon Society as well as large manuscript collectionsby authors like James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas,Wyndham Lewis, Robert Duncan, Theodore Enslin, Helen Adam, andmany more. Founded on the Collection of Thomas B. Lockwood, the Rareand Special Books Collection features literary first editions and finelyprinted books from 1600 to the present.Stipend and length of term: 1,400, one month. Email submissions:ublibraryfellow@nemla.org. Deadline: April 15, 2021ESSAY AWARDSNeMLA awards paper prizes to essays developed from its annualconvention. 2020 prizes were awarded to papers that were presented atthe 2019 Convention.NPostcolonial Studies Essay AwardNeMLA sponsors a special 2021 essay award for a revised paper inPostcolonial Studies presented at the NeMLA Convention in 2019 or 2020.Please email submissions to postcolonial.essay.award@nemla.org. MoreInformation: buffalo.edu/nemla/postcolonialessayDeadline: December 15, 2020Criteria for Essay Award SubmissionsQualifying NeMLA members are invited to submit for the coming roundof Caucus Essay Awards. Essays are to be revised and expanded fromoriginal papers presented at previous conventions. Unrevised paperpresentations are not accepted and will be returned. Submissions shouldbe written in or translated into English. The essay should be original,unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere andmay not be submitted to another contest for the duration of the award’sdeliberation.Unless otherwise indicated, each Essay Award offers a 100 cashprize, and prize-winning essays will automatically be considered forpublication by Modern Language Studies. All essays are subject toMLS’s double-blind review.Essays must be submitted electronically as two separate document filesattached to the email (please refer to the guidelines for each Essay Awardwhether to submit as PDFs or Microsoft Word files): (1) a cover sheetand (2) the submitted essay. The author’s name, address, and academicaffiliation should appear only on the separate cover sheet with the essay’stitle, as submissions undergo blind review; if this information appears inthe submitted essay, the submission will be disqualified. The essay’s titlemust appear on both the separate cover sheet and at the top of the essayitself. Submissions not meeting these criteria may not be considered foran award. Special attention should be paid to the required format. Formore information, please visit buffalo.edu/nemla/essayaward.2020 NeMLA Essay Award WinnersWOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES CAUCUS ESSAY AWARDNancy Vera, University of Maryland College Park, for the essay “Witches& Tricksters: Feminine Forms of Resistance in Afro-Mexican Folklore”POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES ESSAY AWARDNgwaba Ijeoma Ann, Federal University of Oye Ekiti, for the essay “Rewriting the Nation: History and Re-Historicisation in Chinua Achebe’sThere Was a Country and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of aYellow Sun”CAITY CAUCUS ESSAY AWARDCAITY Caucus Essay AwardThe 2021 award is for a paper presented at the 2020 Convention by anindependent scholar or a contingent, adjunct, or two-year college facultymember. Please email revised conference papers to caity@nemla.orgwith “NeMLA CAITY Essay Award Submission” in the subject. Deadline:January 10, 2021buffalo.edu/NeMLAWNeMLA News6Aoise Stratford, Cornell University, for the essay “Abortion, Infanticide,Sterilization and the Monstrous Maternal in Suzan-Lori Parks’s RedLetter Plays”GRADUATE STUDENT CAUCUS ESSAY AWARDW. Danielle Jones, University of Chicago, for the essay “Kindred,Literacy, and the Body as Text”Graduate Student Caucus Essay AwardWomen’s & Gender Studies Caucus Essay AwardNeMLA will award a 2021 prize to the best graduate student paperpresented at any of the sessions of the 2018, 2019, or 2020 Convention.Submissions must be revisions of the original presentation, in MLA style,and between 7,000 and 9,000 words. Please email submissions to gsc@nemla.org with “NeMLA Graduate Student Essay Award Submission” inthe subject and include two PDF attachments: (1) a cover sheet with theapplicant’s name, address, and academic affiliation, and (2) the revisedessay, meeting the criteria above with no identifying information.Deadline: January 15, 2021The NeMLA Women’s & Gender Studies Caucus invites submissions for our2021 award for a paper in English presented at any session of the 2019 or2020 Convention which uses women- and/or gender-centered approaches.The essay may not be submitted to another contest for the duration ofthe award’s deliberation. Please email submissions as attached MicrosoftWord or PDF files to wgsnemla@gmail.com, with “NeMLA WGSC EssayAward Submission” in the subject heading. Deadline: January 15, 2021ENeMLA offers awards to members accepted to present papers at the 52ndAnnual Convention. Applicants are eligible to receive only one of the awardsbelow. More information is available at buffalo.edu/nemla/travelawards.
Summer 2020TRAVEL AWARDSGraduate Student Travel AwardsThe Graduate Student Caucus provides a number of travel awards tograduate students accepted to the 52nd Annual Convention. Emailthe accepted abstract and a 250-word statement of the presentation’srelevance to the field to gsc@nemla.org.Deadline: November 4, 2020Award: 110-400 (depending on quality and number of awardees)More information: buffalo.edu/nemla/gradtravelAntonio Cao Memorial AwardNeMLA sponsors a special graduate student travel award in memory ofAntonio Cao, member of the Department of Romance Languages andLiteratures at Hofstra University, a passionate scholar and invaluable, loyalNeMLA member. Our 2020 winner is Edurne Beltrán de Heredia, ArizonaState University, for the presentation “Identidad híbrida en la narrativade mujeres escritoras hispanas: Marruecos y Guinea Ecuatorial” for theFeministas Unidas session “Fluid Identities in the Globalizing World.”To honor Dr. Cao’s memory and unwavering support of students, our 2021prize will be awarded to a graduate student presenting on any aspect ofSpanish culture or literature at the 52nd Annual Convention. Applicationswill be evaluated on basis of quality of the student’s abstract; relevanceof their topic to Spanish studies; funds available from the student’sinstitution; and travel distance to the Convention.Email applications: cao.travel@nemla.orgDeadline: December 31, 2020More information: buffalo.edu/nemla/caoCAITY Travel AwardCAITY Travel Awards are open to contingent faculty, adjunct instructors,independent scholars, and two-year college faculty accepted to present apaper as part of a traditional panel or seminar at NeMLA’s annual convention.Congratulations to 2020 Boston Convention recipients: Alessandra Aloisi,Silvia Alvarez-Olarra, Katja Anderson, Ayendy Bonifacio, KeridianaChez, Luis Cuesta, Valeria Dani, Misun Dokko, Lisa Dolasinski, OmotayoFakayode, Yolanda Franklin, Maite Garbayo Maeztu, Kristen Gunderson,Rachel Heffner-Burns, Emily Iekel, James Kenward-Abdollahyan,Caroline Laurent, Katja Lindskog, Taraneh Matloob Haghanikar, PeterMcKenna, Alice Morin, Ayesha Muzaffar, Amy Paeth, Sara Parisi, JustynaPoray-Wybranowska, David Price, MennaTullah Reda Atta, EleonoraSartoni, Hannah Schroder, and Stephanie Weber.CAITY Travel Awards are not meant for panel chairs of or for participantsin creative sessions or roundtables. Applicants can expect to hear fromthe Caucus by mid-February.Apply online: buffalo.edu/nemla/caitytravelDeadline: January 6, 2021PROFESSIONALIZATION EVENTSNEMLA’S PUBLISHING MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: OUR THIRD YEARThe year-long Publishing Mentorship Program pairs graduatestudents and early career faculty members with seasoned mentors.At NeMLA, program participants meet in a roundtable to reflecton and assess challenges and successes. To participate in theroundtable, submit your abstract at cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18992by September 30. To participate in the program, please see moreinformation on page 8.WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES MENTORSHIP PROGRAMNeMLA Women’s & Gender Studies Caucus pairs senior faculty mentorswith junior faculty and doctoral students.Mentees: Apply at buffalo.edu/nemla/wgsmentor starting Oct 1Mentors: Email your name, affiliation, and research in
NeMLA members are encouraged to read Manhattan Beach in preparation for writer Jennifer Egan's keynote address. Manhattan Beach takes us into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men in a dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the .
