Call for Contributions and Ideas for MLA Volume on Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture

For the MLA Options for Teaching Series, the Publications Committee has approved development of the volume Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, for which the book’s editors, Edvige Giunta and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, are seeking contributions and ideas for practical and theoretical essays. As currently conceived, the volume has seven projected parts: (1) defining the field; (2) literary genres and movements (e.g., fiction, autobiography and memoir, poetry, performance poetry/art, theater, Beat Generation writings, oral histories, avant-garde/experimental literature, political writings); (3) film and popular culture (e.g., television, music); (4) themes and issues; (5) course contexts; (6) institutional issues; (7) resources (e.g., videography, discography, Internet resources). Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged especially for sections 3, 4, 5, and 6. If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please send an essay proposal of from 250 to 500 words, along with a curriculum vitae, as a Word attachment to the two emails provided. Submissions may also be mailed to the address below. Preliminary inquiries, requests for tentative table of contents, comments, suggestions for contributors, and so forth are also welcome. The deadline for submitting ideas and proposals is 1 December 2003.