CALL FOR PAPERS OCTOBER 24 – 27, 2013 THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO WATERLOO, ONTARIO Sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies “Total Money Makeover”: Culture and the Economization of Everything (PDF version for printing and distribution) Economic models now occupy a central place in the analysis of American culture. The “hegemony of economic explanations of cultural practices” (Koritz 1999)… Read more →
Call for Papers: Culture and the Canada-U.S.-Border Update! Keynotes for this conference will be Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Guillermo Verdechhia. The “Culture and the Canada-U.S. Border” research network invites proposals for our forthcoming conference “Straddling Boundaries: Hemispherism, Cultural Identity and Indigeneity”, to be held at Algoma University in May 2013. Deadline for abstracts is November 30th. There are… Read more →
Update! The deadline for the joint CAAS / ACCUTE panel “Securing the Nation: The Discourse of American Security” has been extended. Proposals will be accepted until November 9. “Securing the Nation: The Discourse of American Security”: jointly sponsored panel by the Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS) and the Association for Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), to… Read more →
CALL FOR PAPERS Culture and the Canada-U.S. Border Straddling Boundaries: Hemispherism, Cultural Identity, and Indigeneity The Culture and the Canada-US Border (CCUSB) network invites proposals for 20 minute papers, or full panels, for its inaugural conference to be held at Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, from 25th-27th May 2013.
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 →
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 →
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 →
We are pleased to announce the plenary speakers for the 2011 conference, “The Aesthetics of Renewal or ‘Everything Old is New Again,’” sponsored by CAAS and Carleton University: they are Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, and Anthony Stewart. We’re very excited and look forward to some terrific conversations! We are also very pleased to announce that some more space has… Read more →
Revised Call for Proposals Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and the American Literary Canon In an effort to gain broader recognition of country music as a literary genre, we are developing a volume of essays examining country music lyricists’ contributions to the American literary tradition. The book is under contract with Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield). Performers known for… Read more →
American Literary Tourism (Anthology) Literary tourism has a long history in American culture. From visits to the grave of the fictional eighteenth-century Charlotte Temple, to the restoration of Salem’s House of the Seven Gables as a turn of the century settlement house and tourist attraction, to competing twentieth-century Faulkner Festivals, literary tourism has become ingrained in American culture. Its currency… Read more →