CFP: “Cognitive Approaches to Comparative Literature”

“Cognitive Approaches to Comparative Literature” is the first online conference to be hosted on the MLA Commons platform. It will run from April 5-28, 2017. Twelve presentations (3000 words each) will be posted here on April 5th and then will be open for discussion by members of the Commons. The authors are expected to respond to the questions/comments through April 28th. Please submit a 750-word abstract accompanied by a 200-word bio to Lisa Zunshine by September 10, 2016. Particularly welcome are papers theorizing the relationship between the comparative and the cognitive and/or dealing with literatures other than English.