Three great ways to get connected to NeMLA in the years to come.
1)
Run for the Board: The role
in which I joined NeMLA’s
Executive Board, 2nd Vice President, is elected annually, and I’d
be happy to talk about it if you’re interested (it’s a four-year commitment
that ends with a year as president). But we also have four other Board positions
we’ll be electing this fall: Anglophone Literatures; Comparative Languages and
Theory; Culture and Media Studies; and a new position, Member at Large for
Professional Development (with a preference for a contingent or adjunct faculty
member). If you want to hear more about, or self-nominate for, any of those, email me!
2)
Join Us in Toronto: The 2015 Conference will be held the first weekend in
May in Toronto, and the deadline for abstract proposals will be September 30th,
2014. As always, there’s an incredibly diverse and inspiring collection of
sessions on the CFP, and I’m sure you’ll be able to find something that speaks
to your work and interests. So submit, and hopefully we’ll see you in Toronto
next May!
3) Help Me Plan Hartford: My
conference as president will be the 2016 conference, which will be held in
Hartford, Connecticut. I’ve written before about some of my
central goals for that conference, and I’m very excited to be working with faculty
and administrators at the University of Connecticut, the University of
Hartford, and Trinity College, as well as staff at organizations like the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.
But I can’t emphasize enough how much I want the conference planning, like the
conference itself, to be communal and crowd-sourced. So please let me know,
here in comments or by email,
if you have ideas and thoughts on how a conference like this can be as
successful and meaningful as possible. Thanks!
Next series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Questions or thoughts about these upcoming events? Lemme know!
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