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RESOURCES Visit the Modern Language Association webpage for information about job postings, the annual conference, and PMLA. The Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania manages an extensive list of calls for papers in literature and the humanities. You can search their archives or sign up to be included on the CFP mailing list. For news about colleges and universities in the U.S. and academic job openings, visit the Chronicle of Higher Education. Their site is a subscription based service, so while we've included the link here for convenience, you'll need a password to proceed. Established in 1992, the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia Library maintains an archive of over 70,000 online texts and downloadable e-books. FIELD-SPECIFIC ORGANIZATIONS AT UCLA: For an up-to-date schedule of group (and EGU) events, visit the Calendar. The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) promotes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of the period from Late Antiquity to the middle of the seventeenth century, not only to understand life as it was lived, enjoyed, and suffered, but also to gain insight into how our modern civilization emerged from those times. Through its activities and programs, the Center assists scholars, students, and the larger community to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural, social, political, and religious issues that are rooted in the deep past yet continue to resonate in our contemporary world. Each year, the Center sponsors and co-sponsors lectures, seminars, and conferences and hosts visiting professors, post-doctoral scholars, and other visiting researchers. A widely respected journal, Viator, is edited and published annually by CMRS, as is a graduate-student journal, Comitatus. For more information, please contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu. The Southern California Eighteenth Century Group provides a forum for students interested in 18th-century literature, history, politics, social issues, etc. to meet each other and learn about new scholarship, exchange information and research techniques, discuss each other's work, and interact with local faculty and authors. The group meets approximately once a quarter at a member's house to discuss a precirculated paper on a topic germane to the eighteenth-century; its approach is interdisciplinary and it is open to any and all interested. The SCECG is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and hosted by the UCLA English Department. Please contact Wendy Belcher for more information. The Romantic Studies Group meets quarterly to hear and respond to a paper presented by an invited speaker, usually faculty from a university in the Southern California area (though in the past, speakers have included faculty from other parts of the country and abroad). An abiding interest in Romanticism guides but does not limit a range of topics that crosses historical, national and generic boundaries. To be added to the RSG mailing list, or for more information, contact Professor Anne Mellor. The Nineteenth Century Group is an interdisciplinary colloquium for the study of British literature and culture broadly and openly defined, including trans-Atlantic exchanges, empire and colonial spaces, and more. Despite our name we welcome work of interest concerned with the late eighteenth century and the Edwardian period. The 19thc Group holds meetings each quarter in which graduate students and faculty share works in progress, discuss recent developments and research, and hear papers presented by visiting scholars. For more information, please contact Matt Dubord. The UCLA Americanist Research Colloquium (ARC) meets three to four times a quarter, providing graduate students, faculty, and invited guests with an opportunity to share their works-in-progress. For more information, or to subscribe to our mailing list, please contact Professor Chris Looby. The Systems Theory Group is an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty dedicated to the discussion of critical texts and group members' work. Founded in January 2003, the systems group meets monthly throughout the academic year. Past readings have included the works of Niklas Luhmann, Pierre Bourdieu, Jurgen Habermas, Kate Hayles, and Villem Flusser. The group has also hosted guest speakers, including William Rasch of Indiana University's German department, and Dario Nardi of UCLA's Human Complex Systems. Please email Kate Marshall for more information or to be added to the group's email list. Founded in the winter of 2004, the GRS working group brings together graduate students and professors in the English Department whose work engages with the intersections among gender, race, and sexuality. Past sessions have included discussions of books or articles from these fields and presentations of members' works-in-progress. We typically meet once or twice a quarter. To join the grs listserv please e-mail Sam See . The Transatlantic Reading Group dedicates itself to the field of transatlantic literary study, broadly conceived: we have read some of the field's founding texts (by Paul Gilroy, Joseph Roach, David Armitage), theoretical texts relevant to the question of nationalism, recently published articles, and works in progress by group members. The group focuses primarily on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. For more information, please contact Joe Rezek. |
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