[Next week
brings a new semester, the last of my 11th year at Fitchburg State
University. So this week has brought a series of spring 2016 preview posts,
this time focused on the texts we’ll be reading in my spring courses. Leading
up to this special weekend post previewing March’s 2016 Northeast MLA
Convention!]
I’ve written
a lot in this space
about the upcoming Northeast
MLA (NeMLA) Convention, which will finally begin two months from Sunday.
The Winter Newsletter, featuring my President’s Letter and tons of info about
the convention, is online here.
If you’re in the
Hartford area, in New England or New York or Pennsylvania, or otherwise close
enough to consider joining us in Hartford from March 17-20, I sure hope you’ll
do so—the auditor
registration rate is pretty reasonable, and if that doesn’t work please email me directly and we’ll see
if we can figure out a way to get you to the convention. And even if you’re not
able to join us, I think the convention’s big themes—public scholarship and the
future of the humanities, education and community, issues of academic labor—are
important enough that you can and should feel free to add your voice through
Twitter (we’re @northeastMLA and
the convention hashtag will be #NeMLA2016), Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/Northeast-Modern-Language-Association-NeMLA-776430012416295/?fref=ts),
or right here in comments!
There’s a lot
more I could add (again) about the convention, from Thursday’s visit to
Hartford schools and opening night reading by Monique Truong through Friday’s presidential
sessions (including one Stephen
Railton discussing public humanities digital projects!) and keynote address
by Jelani Cobb
through Saturday’s presidential sessions (including one Jeffrey
Renye discussing issues of adjunct faculty and academic labor) through
Sunday’s reading by Native American novelist Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel.
And that’d still just be scratching the surface of what we’ve worked so hard
toward for a couple years now and what will make the Hartford Convention so
memorable. So I’ll just say it one more time—join us if you can, and share your
voice and join the community in any case!
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Questions or
ideas for NeMLA 2016? I’d love to hear ‘em!
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