South Atlantic Modern Language Association
November 2-4, 2018
Birmingham, Alabama
The Hemingway Society Session
THINGS FALL APART: ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND THE GREAT WAR
On November 11, 1918, the Great War finally ended.
Deadline for Submission of Proposals: September 30, 2018
Deadline for Accepted Papers: January 31, 2019
Contact Email: Cam Cobb (cobbcam@uwindsor.ca), Marc Dudley (mkdudley@ncsu.edu)
The Teaching Hemingway series presents collections of essays, each focusing on a certain topic that illuminates Hemingway’s work both in terms of scholarship and pedagogy. The books in the series are of interest to educators and students in secondary and private schools and at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Those who contribute to books are often teacher-scholars who have used Hemingway's work in domestic, international, and other settings.
In this CFP, we invite interested teacher-scholars to contribute to what will be a lively, innovative collection, entitled Teaching Hemingway and Film. Our goal in developing this volume is to delve into Hemingway’s work – particularly the teaching of his work – in a fresh way—one that relates his craft to (and sometimes through) film.
The Michigan Hemingway Society seeks applications for the Bill and Donna Cóte Scholarship for the current calendar year. Open to high school students, undergraduate students, and graduate students with an interest in the Michigan influence on the life and works of Ernest Hemingway.
The scholarship provides free registration, hotel room and most meals at the annual October conference of the Michigan Hemingway Society. To apply, the student should submit a cover letter containing name, address, academic affiliation; a short essay explaining why he or she would like to attend the conference; and a letter of recommendation from his or her instructor of literature. These may all be submitted electronically prior to September 1 to info@michiganhemingwaysociety.org
For further information including details about this year's conference see www.MichiganHemingwaySociety.org.
Hemingway’s life and work were profoundly informed by war. As a young man, he was wounded in World War I, and he experienced the Spanish Civil War and World War II as a war correspondent. In some ways, one might even claim that war is Hemingway’s main subject. As the world memorializes the centenary of World War I, now is an appropriate time to look closely at the effects of war on Hemingway. Paper topics for this session may include but are not limited to: war as portrayed through Hemingway’s fiction and/or nonfiction; the effects of war on Hemingway’s characters; war trauma in Hemingway; Hemingway’s actions in war; war-wounds; other war writers and Hemingway; influences on Hemingway’s war perspectives; Hemingway’s war correspondence.
N.B.: MLA 2018 precedes the 18th International Ernest Hemingway Conference in Paris, July 22-28, 2018, and occurs during a year of remembrance for the Centenary of the end of World War I.
Please submit your 250-word abstracts and CV by March 5, 2017 to Matthew Nickel at mattcnickel@gmail.com.
By 1 June 2017, please send a title and 250-word abstract to John Fenstermaker, Florida State University, jfenstermaker@fsu.edu.