Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read. This year's theme is "Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us." It emphasizes the ways that books bring people together and aid the development of empathy and understanding. Award-winning author and outspoken critic of censorship Jason Reynolds is the event's inaugural Honorary Chair.

The 2021 SCMLA Conference will be held in Houston, TX. The conference will be a hybrid in-person and online event. The theme is "Politics of Protest."

The 2021 SCMLA Conference will be held in Houston, TX. The conference will be a hybrid in-person and online event. The theme is "Politics of Protest."

CSECS/SCEDHS & the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS) will have a joint conference. The theme is "Translation and Appropriation in the Long Eighteenth Century."

The 2021 RMMLA Convention (rescheduled from 2020) will take place in Boulder, CO.

Edna O’Brien and the Art of Fiction provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world’s best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. This study considers the pioneering ways O’Brien represents women’s experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death, and her work’s long anticipation of movements such as #metoo.
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