MLA 2009 Cognitive Approaches to Literature CFP:
Visual Performance and Cognition. Papers will use cognitive approaches to understand visual performances—theater, performance art, opera, and intermedial hybrid forms like film, literature, theater—and affiliate activities such as acting, spectating, playwriting.
1‑page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Isabel Jaen-Portillo (jaeni@ wabash .edu)

The 2008 MLA Linguistic Approaches to Literature Sessions
December 27-30, 2008, SanFrancisco

Other New Stuff:

A new book by Dan Strack:
Literature in the Crucible of Translation: A Cognitive Account
Okayama: University Education Press.