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Northeast Modern Language Association 2011 Annual Convention New Brunswick, NJ April 7-10 CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS Convenient by train to Newark Airport and New York City, Rutgers University is welcoming NeMLA to this beautiful university town. NeMLA’s annual convention features more than 350 sessions, representing all subject areas of the modern languages and literatures, covering a broad spectrum of scholarship and advancing innovative approaches to teaching. NeMLA and Rutgers University are working together to bring top scholars as speakers and to create special events for the 2011 Convention, drawing on the rich resources of the area. The Convention will be kicked off with a reading by New Jersey poets at the Zimmerli Art Museum on Thursday evening. NeMLA is a member-driven convention, accepting session proposals (panel, roundtable, creative session, seminar) in the following areas: American / Anglophone / British / Canadian / Comparative Languages Composition / Cultural Studies and Film / French and Francophone German / LGBTQ / Italian / Pedagogy / Portuguese Professional / Spanish / Russian / Eastern European Theory and Literary Criticism / Transnational Studies Women's Studies / World Literatures (non-Western European language) Please help NeMLA extend the conversation in these areas. To propose and chair a session, submit a panel proposal online at by April 22 at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2011/proposal_form.htm 2010 membership is required to propose a session; proposers will be notified of Board approval of sessions in early May. The full Call for Papers will be available online in June. The abstract deadline for most sessions will be September 30, 2010. The convention will be held at the Hyatt New Brunswick. Birgit Tautz Associate Professor of German, Chair Department of German Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME 04101 001.207.798.7079