From m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca Thu Oct 2 20:20:54 2008 From: m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca (Melba Cuddy-Keane) Date: Thu Oct 2 20:18:51 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] More Rooms at Loews Vanderbilt Message-ID: <01c901c924ed$e6cd67c0$6401a8c0@Melba3> Greetings all: we have secured more rooms from the main conference hotel, L= oews Vanderbilt, at the conference rate of $175. All lodging information is= on the conference website: www.vanderbilt.edu/msax Please note as well that the early registration deadline for the conference= has passed. If you have not yet registered, you will need to do so to get = conference rates at the hotels. Thanks, Mark Wollaeger Paul Young MSAX Organizers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/pipermail/msa-members/attachments/20081002/= fc2af21a/attachment.htm From jpriquel at bu.edu Mon Oct 6 00:19:37 2008 From: jpriquel at bu.edu (John Paul Riquelme) Date: Fri Oct 10 11:19:52 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] Paul K. Saint-Amour at the Modernism Seminar, Harvard Humanities Center, Tuesday 14 October 2008 Message-ID: <343F18E4-4A9E-4EC3-B480-ED55092B654D@bu.edu> Dear Colleagues, The second fall session of the Modernism Seminar at the Harvard = Humanities Center is coming up next week. Please join us if you're in = the area to hear our colleague: Paul K. Saint-Amour (University of Pennsylvania) "Total War, Modernism, and Encyclopedic Form" Tuesday, October 14th, 6:00 pm, 133 Barker Center, Harvard University. Professor Saint-Amour, who teaches in the English Department at Penn = writes on Victorian and modernist literature, with special interests = in the novel, law, trauma, and visual culture studies. His The = Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination (2003) = won the MLA Prize for a First Book. The International James Joyce = Foundation has published on line a detailed FAQ, =93James Joyce: = Copyright, Fair Use, and Permissions,=94 prepared by a fact-finding = panel chaired by Saint-Amour to study the permissions history and = criteria of the Estate of James Joyce and the general problem of = scholarly fair use. His essays have appeared in Comparative = Literatures Studies, Diacritics, James Joyce Quarterly, Modernism/ = Modernity, Nineteenth-Century Studies, and a special =93Counterfactuals=94 = issue of Representations, which he co-edited. His most recently = published piece, on total war and Gothic temporality (concerning = Wilkie Collins, Conrad, and Woolf) appears in Gothic and Modernism = (2008), a collection edited by one of the co-chairs. His current work = in progress includes an edited volume, Modernism and Copyright, and a = book-length study, Archive, Bomb, Civilian: Modernism in the Shadow of = Total War. We hope you'll be able to make the event, which includes discussion = after the talk. There is free parking at the Broadway Garage, on = Felton between Broadway and Cambridge Street. Just tell the attendant = that you're participating in an event at the HHC. Later in the academic year, we welcome these colleagues as speakers: Kristina Wilson, Clark University (Tues., 9 December) In the Spring: Paul Armstrong (Brown University), Laura Frost (The = New School), and more (probably a session featuring graduate students=97 = we=92re still working on it). Details about the Center, including a calendar of events, are = available at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/. Best wishes, Peter Nohrnberg, Harvard University, nohrnber@fas.harvard.edu John Paul Riquelme, Boston University, jpriquel@bu.edu, http://people.bu.ed= u/jpriquel/ Co-Chairs, Modernism Seminar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/pipermail/msa-members/attachments/20081006/= 374d63fb/attachment.htm From detlofmm at muohio.edu Wed Oct 8 21:51:04 2008 From: detlofmm at muohio.edu (Detloff, Madelyn M. Dr.) Date: Tue Oct 21 08:58:35 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] Open Rank Position -- American Modernism Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please note and circulate the following job posting. Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the position or the department. Best, Madelyn Madelyn Detloff Director, Women's Studies Program Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 126 Mac Millan Hall (513) 529-5330 (513) 529-4616 detlofmm@muohio.edu Miami University, English Dept., 356 Bachelor Hall, Oxford, OH 45056 http://www.units.muohio.edu/english/ American Modernism (open rank) Assistant, associate, or full professor in North American literature and culture from 1900-1950. A focus on U.S. modernist fiction is especially desirable. Ph.D. required by date of appointment. Appointees at the assistant professor level must demonstrate clear potential for scholarly excellence and a commitment to teaching excellence at all levels, including first-year seminars, undergraduate courses for majors, and graduate seminars for M.A. and Ph.D. students. Associate and full professor appointees must also have a significant record of publication, teaching, and institutional service appropriate to the level of appointment. Responsibilities include teaching first-year writing and undergraduate and graduate courses in American modernism (1900-1950); research in this area; service to the institution and profession. Send letter of application and c.v. to J. Kerry Powell, Chair, Department of English, 356 Bachelor Hall, Miami Univ., Oxford, OH 45056. Contact phone is 513-529-5221. Screening of applications begins by October 31, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Miami is an EOE/AA employer with smoke-free campuses offering benefits to same-sex domestic partners. Information about the English department can be found at http://www.units.muohio.edu/english. See http://www.muohio.edu/liviing_at_miami/oxandbeyond for information about the Oxford-Cincinnati area. 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All registration information is on this confe= rence page: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/msax/Registration.html#Dates Monday is also that crucial date when we place our catering orders, so it's= the date by which we need to know if you'll attend the MSA Society lunch. = It's only $10, and now I will tell you the very special reason to come. We= will be announcing the co-winners of our 2008 book prize. They come from t= wo different continents (neither of which is North America) and both will a= ttend and speak at the lunch. We may also offer a prize for guessing who t= hey are :) We hope that you ordered your lunch at the time you registered. But if you= didn't and you'd like to join us (100+ are currently going to attend), ple= ase email Amanda Hagood at msax@vanderbilt.edu and let her know you'll pay = for your lunch at the registration desk. Looking forward to seeing you very soon! Melba Cuddy-Keane MSA President, 2008-09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/pipermail/msa-members/attachments/20081024/= b1ca8f5c/attachment.htm From dchinit at luc.edu Sat Oct 25 16:13:56 2008 From: dchinit at luc.edu (David Chinitz) Date: Sat Oct 25 16:14:15 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] CFP: T. S. Eliot at American Literature Association Message-ID: <490337B50200006900122284@gwiaweb.it.luc.edu> The T. S. Eliot Society will sponsor two ninety-minute sessions at the 2009 Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 21?24, at the Westin Copley Place Hotel in Boston. Please send proposals or abstracts (up to 250 words), along with a curriculum vitae, electronically to professor Lee Oser (leeoser@holycross.edu). Submissions must be received no later than January 15, 2008. Information on the ALA and the 2009 meeting is available at http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2. From m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca Mon Oct 27 13:45:19 2008 From: m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca (Melba Cuddy-Keane) Date: Mon Oct 27 13:45:25 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] FREE ADMISSION to the Frist Art Gallery in Nashville Message-ID: <017101c9385b$c8209e10$6401a8c0@Melba3> Dear Colleagues, The Frist Center for the Arts, a non-profit art-exhibition center in downtown Nashville, has generously offered to admit MSA conference participants at no charge during the conference (11/13-11/16). All you need do to gain admission is show your MSA badge at the ticket desk. Of special interest to MSA members: a traveling exhibition entitled "The Best of Photography and Film from the George Eastman House Collection." This exhibit, curated by the Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, includes archival photographic prints by 19th and 20th century artists (Brady, Stieglitz, Hine, Lange, Weston, Wegman) and several looped films including THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and THE LOST WORLD (the first feature-length film to incorporate the stop-motion animation of Willis O'Brien, later of KING KONG fame). For more information, go to: http://fristcenter.org/site/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?cid=3D542 The Frist Center is located at 919 Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203, 1.2 miles up the street from the conference hotel (West End Avenue merges into Broadway as you head northeast). Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 10:00 a.m.=AD5:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday: 10:00 a.m.=AD9:00 p.m. Saturday: 10:00 a.m.=AD5:30 p.m. Sunday: 1:00=AD5:30 p.m. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me at the email address below. Looking forward to hosting you in Nashville in just a few weeks! Sincerely, Paul Young MSA X Co-organizer ______________________________ o o o o o o o o o o Paul Young Associate Professor of English Director, Program in Film Studies Vanderbilt University Box 1654, Station B Nashville, TN 37235 615.322.2327 [NOTE NEW NUMBER] paul.d.young@vanderbilt.edu http://www.vanderbilt.edu/english/paul_young THE CINEMA DREAMS ITS RIVALS (Minnesota 2006): http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/Y/young_cinema.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/pipermail/msa-members/attachments/20081027/= b89f2d96/attachment.htm From m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca Wed Oct 29 09:50:19 2008 From: m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca (Melba Cuddy-Keane) Date: Wed Oct 29 09:50:23 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] membership and MLA Message-ID: <00d901c939cd$49871c00$6401a8c0@Melba3> Dear colleagues, First, may I remind all continuing members of MSA that their membership due= s for 2008-09 came due on Oct. 1 (remember that this time round you are pay= ing for 3/4 of a year, until the end of next June). May I ask (beg) you to= update your membership if you haven't already done so, so that we can have= a reliable budget report to discuss at our Board meeting in Nashville? Man= y thanks! Secondly, I'd like to draw your attention to the new MSA/MLA webpage on the= MSA site. This page will list upcoming MSA sponsored sessions at the MLA,= and it will maintain an on-going log. Also, abstracts are now available f= or the panel session on Saturday, 27 December 5:15=966:30 p.m., on Race, M= odernism, and Transnationalisms. Linking to web-abstracts is a wonderful n= ew feature, listed in the MLA programme as well, enabling people to make mo= re informed choices about which sessions to attend, and also allowing those= unable to be at the conference to at least peek in and see what's going on= . Do take a moment to preview the exciting papers that will be presented a= t this, our first, MSA-sponsored MLA session. http://msa.press.jhu.edu/msamla.html warm regards, Melba Cuddy-Keane MSA President, 2007-08 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/pipermail/msa-members/attachments/20081029/= 7d436e90/attachment.htm