Folks; check out this CFP for a new MLA volume on teaching satire.  I know
one of the editors, Evan Davis, who is very interested in adding a chapter
to the volume on Mark Twain.

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Though the deadline for proposals is July 1, we can extend it if anyone
needs a few more weeks.

This is the CFP:

Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching
series entitled *Teaching Modern British and American Satire* to be edited
by Evan Davis (Hampden-Sydney College) and Nicholas D. Nace (Binghamton
University, SUNY). The aim of this collection of essays is to gather in one
volume a variety of resources for the teaching of satire and satirical
texts in order to assist teachers across a variety of different educational
levels and settings.

As part of the MLA Options for Teaching series, the collection solicits
essays that reflect general classroom approaches to the subject, however
conceived, rather than those that focus exclusively on the challenges of
teaching certain individual texts. Essays may be transhistorical or period
specific to reflect the courses in which certain approaches have been
successful. Given the scale and range of the satire, essays may address
strategies for teaching Anglophone satire from the early modern period to
the present. Essays on both British and American satire pedagogy are
encouraged, as are those covering any and all genres or mediums of satire.
The guidelines for the MLA’s Options for Teaching series can be found at
http://www.mla.org/pub_guidelines_oft

To focus contribution, the volume is currently divided into six sections:
Satiric Traditions: Theory and History; Satiric Techniques; Genre and Mode;
Race and Gender; Satire and Media; and Satire and Audience. Innovative
essays falling outside these sections are also welcome.

If you are interested in contributing an essay of 3,000 words, please
submit an abstract of approximately 500 words in which you describe your
approach or topic and explain its potential benefit for students and
instructors alike. Note that if you plan to quote from student writing in
your essay, you must obtain written permission from your students to do so.
A submitted essay should not have been previously published. Abstracts and
CVs should be sent to the volume editors by 1 July 2014. Shortly
thereafter, the editors will post abstracts on the MLA Commons for further
comment and discussion, with the goal of finalizing the selection of essays
by the end of the summer. We also encourage contributors to visit the
Commons early in the process as they develop their ideas. Please send
e-mail submissions to Evan Davis and Nicholas Nace at
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Teaching Satire.”


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Prof. Harold K. Bush
Professor of English
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