Statement from #AmericanComparativeLiteratureAssociation (#ACLA) about #WVU and #Gee's atrocious elimination of #faculty and #opportunity, esp. in #languages: "To eradicate
the prospect of learning a language at a public university is to preempt access to
the worlds it opens for our students."

RT @ncecire
Some members of the wonderful #ACLA, which will be putting on some sessions on union organizing on Friday, have asked me how they can support the #ucuRISING strike action that is ongoing this week. https://www.acla.org/program-guide#/otherevents/friday

Just a heads up for #LitStudies and #scifi studies people who, like me, end up missing #CfP deadlines.

#ASA 2023 (Montreal) submissions are open all of January.

#MELUS 2023 (Indianapolis) is taking abstracts until January 10th.

#MLA 2024 (Philadelphia): call for papers for seminars can be posted from now through February. And paper abstracts are submitted in March (I believe).

The Utopian Studies Society (#USS) call usually runs through mid-May. Also keeping my eyes open for the NYC #CityTech Science Fiction conference (which I've sadly missed so far) and #ICFA.

I'm taking a time-out from #ACLA. A reproductive rights seminar the year that Roe is repealed is apparently not CompLit enough? Let me hold my peace before I re-litigate long-standing disciplinary gripes.

#LitStudies #Academia #sfstudies @litstudies

The "Bodily Autonomy and Reproduction in Speculative Fiction" seminar proposed by @jessecohn and me was rejected from #ACLA 2023. Very confusing. I really hope there are many other seminars engaging with reproductive rights and the consequences of the Dobbs decision for literary & cultural studies. #AcademicMastodon #LitStudies #scifi #dystopianfiction @litstudies

The "Bodily Autonomy and Reproduction in Speculative Fiction" seminar proposed by @jessecohn and I was rejected from #ACLA 2023. Very confusing. I really hope there are many other seminars engaging with reproductive rights and the consequences of the Dobbs decision for literary & cultural studies. #AcademicMastodon #LitStudies #scifi #dystopianfiction @litstudies

#FollowFriday folks: I am a scholar activist, written books on Classical Chinese #Poetry, #AsianAmerican studies, #Ethics #literature #HumanRights. Blogs on #Jacobin #Truthout #AlJazeera. Book at #Haymarket. #Palestine. See profile for website, blogs, podcast. Former president #ACLA