Submissions for 2012 Conference in San Antonio, Texas

November 8-10, 2012

at the historic Sheraton Gunter Hotel

REGULAR/ALLIED SESSIONS
(FOR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS WHO WISH TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT TO ONE OF OUR EXISTING SESSIONS):

Regular and Allied Sessions are managed by a chair and secretary.  The chair selects papers, checks with the Executive Office to ensure that participants are members of South Central MLA, organizes the session, coordinates the session with the South Central MLA Executive Office, introduces session and speakers, moderates the session and encourages discussion.  The secretary collects signatures of session attendees, keeps a record of attendance, files the gathered information to the Executive Office, and substitutes for the chair when the situation requires.  The South Central MLA prohibits chairs of Regular and Allied Sessions from delivering a paper in the session on which they serve; a chair may however present a paper on a different Regular Session or on a Special Session.  Double submissions (submitting two different papers to two different sessions) are permitted, but if both papers are accepted the author must choose only one panel on which to present and notify both chairs of his or her decision.

Regular/Allied Sessions are created after a session chair selects the best papers or abstracts submitted through open competition.  The list of Regular Session Chairs and their email addresses will be listed in the SCMLA Winter Newsletter and in the link below.  To see a list of the Regular and Allied Sessions that SCMLA offers, please scroll down.

UPDATED 3-15-2012:  Regular/Allied Sessions Calls for Papers Click Here
Regular/Allied Session Chair Form for Final Program Copy Click Here

SPECIAL SESSIONS (FOR MEMBERS WHO WISH TO ORGANIZE A PANEL NOT REPRESENTED IN OUR REGULAR AND ALLIED SESSIONS)

Each member may propose only one Special Session per year. The organizer is responsible for recruiting two to four panelists (including the organizer, if he/she presents) and filling out the paperwork below. Organizers and presenters must be current South Central MLA members. For Special Sessions, chairs and organizers may also deliver papers in their own sessions.  Special Sessions will be refereed by the South Central MLA Program Committee. Organizers are encouraged to include presenters of varying rank and university affiliations to diversify the session.  Members may not deliver more than one paper at the conference.

UPDATED 2-15-2012 Special Sessions Calls for Papers CLICK HERE

Call for 2012 Special Sessions Form (for proposers) CLICK HERE to author a Call for Papers to be included in Newsletter

Special Session Proposal Form (for organizers) CLICK HERE once you have a group of panelists and are ready to submit a Special Session Proposal for evaluation by the Program Committee

DEADLINES

November 30, 2011
Deadline for receipt of Special Session Calls for Papers for the Winter 2011/2012 Newsletter.

Deadline for return of Regular/Allied Session Information Sheet for San Antonio 2012

March 15, 2012
Priority deadline for SCMLA Office receipt of Final Proposals for Special Sessions for San Antonio 2012

March 30, 2012
Proposers of Special Sessions for San Antonio 2012 will be notified
Deadline for submission of Papers/Abstracts for San Antonio 2012 to Regular/Allied Session Chairs

April 30, 2012
Deadline for SCMLA Office receipt of Final Program copy for Regular/Allied Sessions
Deadline for requesting LCD projector and screen for all San Antonio 2012 sessions

May 31, 2012
Deadline for San Antonio 2012 conference participants to become members of SCMLA

August 31, 2012
Deadline for registration for San Antonio 2012 conference

ALLIED AND REGULAR SESSIONS FOR SAN ANTONIO 2012
ALLIED SESSIONS
ASOCIACIÓN DE LITERATURA FEMENINA HISPÁNICA
CONFERENCE ON CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE
THE EUDORA WELTY SOCIETY
FLANNERY O’CONNOR SOCIETY
INTERNATIONAL COURTLY LITERATURE SOCIETY
SOCIETY FOR CRITICAL EXCHANGE
SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
WOMEN IN FRENCH
REGULAR SESSIONS
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
AMERICAN LITERATURE I: LITERATURE BEFORE 1900
AMERICAN LITERATURE II: LITERATURE AFTER 1900
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
ARABIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE
AUSTRALASIAN LITERATURE AND FILM
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES
CREATIVE NONFICTION
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
ENGLISH I: OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ENGLISH II: RENAISSANCE LITERATURE EXCLUDING DRAMA
ENGLISH III: RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
ENGLISH IV: NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
ENGLISH V: TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
ENGLISH VI: GENERAL LINGUISTICS
FILM
FOLKLORE
FRENCH I: LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE TO 1600
FRENCH II: LITERATURE, 1600–1850
FRENCH III: LITERATURE AFTER 1850
FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION
GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
GENDER AND RACE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE
GERMAN I: LINGUISTICS, LITERATURE AND CULTURE BEFORE 1700
GERMAN II: LITERATURE AND CULTURE FROM 1700 TO 1890
GERMAN III: LITERATURE AND CULTURE FROM 1890 TO PRESENT
GERMAN WOMEN WRITERS
GOTHIC
HISPANIC LITERATURE WRITTEN IN THE UNITED STATES
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES
IRISH LITERATURE
ITALIAN LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND LINGUISTICS
LITERATURE AND POLITICS
LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY
LUSO-AFRO-BRAZILIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
MODERN DRAMA
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
PERSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
REGIONAL FICTION WRITERS
REGIONAL POETS GROUP
RENAISSANCE DRAMA
RHETORIC
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND METHODOLOGY
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY LITERATURE
SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
SHORT FICTION: THEORY AND CRITICISM
SLAVIC AND EASTERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
SOUTH CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF DEPARTMENTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND DEPARTMENTS OF ENGLISH
SOUTHERN LITERATURE
SOUTHWESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE
SPANISH I: LITERATURE BEFORE 1700
SPANISH II: LITERATURE AFTER 1700
SPANISH III: SPANISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1945
SPANISH IV: SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE AFTER 1945
SPANISH V: LINGUISTICS
TECHNICAL WRITING
WAR, LITERATURE & THE ARTS
WOMEN OF COLOR
WOMEN’S CAUCUS OF THE SCMLA