Below, please find the CFP for the 44th Annual Northeast MLA (NeMLA) convention. (CAAS has a long history of association with NeMLA: our current president was the American Lit director a few years past, and current VP and incoming president, Jennifer Harris, is also the incoming American Lit director!) Northeast Modern Language Association 44th Annual Convention March 21-24, 2013 in… Read more →
The Department of English Language and Literature, St. Thomas University, invites applications for an entry-level, tenure-track appointment, at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July 1, 2012, pending budgetary approval. St. Thomas University is an undergraduate, liberal arts institution whose roots are in the faith and tradition of the Roman Catholic Church. With a full-time enrolment of 2,500, its… Read more →
Hi everyone, I hope you are all still working off the excitement and energy of CAAS 2011, because we’d like to present the Call for Papers for CAAS 2012! Next year’s conference will take place in Toronto, Ontario, co-hosted York University and the Centre for the Study of the United States, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto . … Read more →
Well, my cunning plan to offer a live blog, twitter-feed, radio broadcast, and 3D-film of the conference was something less than a stunning success. I blame it on all of the fascinating papers, the stimulating plenaries … and the dance party. So, I thought I would blog a quick post-conference note to make up for it. I saw too many… Read more →
Hi all, Jason here. I’m hoping live blog some of the CAAS 2011 conference (Twitter: #CAAS11), but I can’t promise a whole lot because I will be busy, well, conferencing. But, if you, dear reader, are blogging your conference experience and would like some reposting or links to appear here, please just let me know. OK, my flight is… Read more →
Hello everyone, It is with great pleasure that I announce this year’s winners for the Robert K. Martin Book Prize and the Ernest Redekop Essay Prize. This is the inaugural year for these annual prizes, and we’ve started them with a stellar group of winners and honourable mentions, and I hope you’ll join with me in congratulating them all. Keep… Read more →
Update (12 Sept 5:16 p.m.): new program has been posted, with Banquet and Dance Party added! You can find a link to the preliminary conference program on our main site, www.american-studies.ca. Please note that some changes are still possible. (Also, we should note there were some technical problems with the conference website, but these have been fixed. Over the coming… Read more →
UPDATE: Online hotel booking now available: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/caacs2011. Book directly through this link to receive the CAAS conference discount at the Chateau Laurier. The deadline for booking with the conference rate is October 15. The website for the 2011 CAAS-sponsored conference, “The Aesthetics of Renewal,” is now live: http://aestheticsofrenewal.ca. On the website, you will find information about the plenary speakers, the… Read more →
Joint Session Association for Canadian College and University Teachers of English/ Canadian Association for American Studies: American Literature’s New Frontiers Organizer: Jennifer Harris (Mount Allison University) As Frederick Jackson Turner noted in 1893, the concept of frontiers has been central to American historic, geographic, and literary expressions. Turner’s “Frontier Thesis” has long been central to American Studies. Those frontiers might… Read more →
Drama and Theatre of the Americas Tenure-Track Position – Assistant Professor Department of English, McGill University The Department of English at McGill University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin 1 August 2012 in Drama and Theatre of the Americas. A secondary emphasis on theatrical performance practice is desirable. The successful candidate will… Read more →