Reminder: Emerging Scholar Award Submissions DUE 11/16/15

Reminder: Emerging Scholar Award Submissions are due Monday, November 16, 2015.

Presenters for the 2016 ANS Conference who are eligible for and interested in applying for the ANS Emerging Scholar Award (ESA), should have received all pertinent information.

Please send submissions to the chair of this year’s ANS-ESA Selection Committee, Lisa Radding: raddinglisa [ @ ] gmail.com.… Read More

ANS Panel on Literary Onomastics at the Modern Language Association Conference, Austin, TX, January 8, 2016

On the 8th of January 2016, the ANS will be hosting a special panel on literary onomastics during the annual conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in Austin, Texas. The title of this year’s panel is “Names in the Literary Workplace”.2000px-Texas_flag_map.svg

Three papers will be presented during this event:

  1. Linguistic Imperialism in Doctor Dolittle (to be presented by Jonathan Rey Lee
  2. Screen Names: Names and the Limits of the Human in Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist (Candace Caraco)
  3. Naming and the Work of Revolution: Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies (Christine De Vinne).

 

The official scientific abstracts for this event can be found here.

The panel will take place from 10:15am to 11:30am, in the Austin Convention Center.