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Practical Matters
UCSB Essentials:
Below please find a few essential links to the online resources provided to graduate students regarding issues of life at UCSB
Professional Affiliations:
Please find below a list of professional societies organized by centuries. These sites contain instructions on how to join, or how to be informed about upcoming conferences and calls for papers. Graduate students should start getting involved with professional societies and submitting proposals for conference papers once they have reached the stage of their Field Examination. For sites containing general information about scholarly activities in the field of French literary studies, please click here ( links on French studies across centuries and genres).
General Associations:
- MLA: Modern Language Association of America
Email: membership@mla.org
- AATF: American Association of Teachers of French
- H-France & French Historical Studies
H-France is affiliated with the Society for French Historical Studies. H-France's discussion list provides an electronic forum covering all aspects of the history and culture of the Francophone world. The H-France Website offers a repository of resources and links which historians and students of French history and culture may find useful.
- ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association.
The American Comparative Literature Association, founded in 1960, is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work involves several literatures and cultures as well as the premises of cross-cultural literary study itself. In its largest sense, comparative literature promotes the study of intercultural relations that cross national boundaries, multicultural relations within a particular society, and the interactions between literature and other forms of human activity, including the arts, the sciences, philosophy, and cultural artifacts of all kinds.
- IAPL: The International Association for Philosophy and Literature
The International Association for Philosophy and Literature is dedicated to the exchange of ideas and scholarly research within the humanities. Founded to provide a context for the interplay of Philosophy, Literary Theory, and Cultural / Textual Studies, the Association brings together scholars from the full range of disciplines concerned with philosophical, historical, critical, and theoretical issues.
Middle Ages and Renaissance Studies
Seventeenth-Century French Studies
- Web17
A wealth of information about the French seventeenth century. Site managed by Roger Duchêne, professor emeritus at Université de Provence
- FR-17 listserv.
This e-mail distribution list is used for general discussion about the seventeenth century. Most calls for papers are posted there as well.
Eighteenth-Century and Enlightenment Studies
Nineteenth-Century Studies (for more resources on research in this field, click here)
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Nineteenth-Century French Studies is an independent journal published twice a year in two double issues. The pages of NCFS provide scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings and become better acquainted with professional developments in nineteenth-century French studies. Students and scholars of nineteenth-century French life and literature who are interested in becoming reviewers for the journal are invited to write the editor outlining their specific fields of interest.
- Société des Etudes romantiques et dix-neuviémistes
Paris-based Society for Romanticist and Nineteenth-Century Studies (literature, arts, human and social sciences)
Contact Catherine Nesci for subscribing as a member from the USA
- Nineteenth Century Studies Association:
All members of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association ( automatically receive the association’s two publications.Nineteenth Century Studies (edited by David C. Hanson), an annual interdisciplinary journal that began publication in 1987. In addition, NCSA publishes an annual newsletter that features recent publications, upcoming events, news about research projects and opportunities.
- North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism was founded in 1991 at The University of Western Ontario. NASSR was established as a forum for the discussion of a wide variety of theoretical approaches to Romantic works of all genres and disciplines and of subjects relevant to the international and interdisciplinary study of Romanticism.
- International Conference on Romanticism (ICR):
The International Conference on Romanticism was formally founded in 1991 after many years of discussion. The society was founded by a group of scholars from America and abroad and was incorporated as a non-profit scholarly entity in 1993. The ICR is a learned society that seeks to promote, maintain, and improve teaching, research, and related endeavors in the field of Romanticism studies, and to facilitate communication among scholars and teachers through annual meetings and publications.
- George Sand Association
Francophone Studies
The principal organization for francophonists is the Conseil International d'Études francophones (CIÉF), which organizes an annual convention and publishes the bi-annual review, Études francophones. CIÉF awards a prize for the best graduate student paper given at the CIÉF convention. This site gives information about membership and many useful links to sites, programs and listserves focused on the francophone world. It also includes session information and calls for papers for the annual convention.
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