Tag: sport literature

The Program Committee of the Sport Literature Association invites proposals for individual papers and/or complete sessions related to the literature of sport.

The 31st Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association College of the Rockies, Cranbrook, British Columbia, June 25-28, 2014 Proceedings edited by Cory Willard. Published by kind permission of SLA, through Dr. Joyce Duncan. Wednesday, June 25 Welcoming remarks: Darrell Bethune, Dean of University Studies SESSION I: SPORT AND POPULAR CULTURE Chair: Richard Crepeau Tim Morris (University of Texas at Arlington)  Sport in The Walking Dead The epic comic-book series The Walking Dead,...

WHERE? Freie Universität Berlin, Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature WHEN? July 4-5, 2014 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 15, 2014 ORGANIZATION: Julia Dettke, M.A. (Berlin) and Elisabeth Heyne, M.A. (Münster) All play moves and has its being within a play-ground marked off beforehand either materially or ideally, deliberately or as a matter of course. The arena, the card-table, the magic circle, the...

By kind permission of Dr. Joyce Duncan, editor of the Sport Literature Association (SLA) journal Aethlon, we are able to publish the proceedings from the 2013 SLA conference in Monmouth, NJ, June 26-29, edited by Kyle Belanger and Jeremy Larance.

The 31st Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association will be held Wednesday, June 25 through Saturday, June 28, 2014, at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook, British Columbia. The Program Committee of the Sport Literature Association invites proposals for individual papers and/or complete sessions related to the literature of sport. Scholarly and critical submissions for the conference should...

Special Issue: Sport, Literature, Society: Historical Perspectives Articles  Preface: Context, Continuity, Commentaries, Challenges J.A. Mangan Pages: 1647-1652 DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2012.714922 Prologue Alexis Tadié Pages: 1653-1656 DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2012.714923 The Athletic Body in Classical Athens: Literary and Historical Perspectives Zinon Papakonstantinou Pages: 1657-1668 DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2012.714929 Tumultuous Text: The Imagining of Australia Through Literature, Sport and Nationalism from Colonies to the Federation Peter Horton Pages: 1669-1686 DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2012.714930 Cultures of the Body in Colonial Bengal: The Career of Gobor Guha Abhijit Gupta Pages: 1687-1700 DOI:...

The 50th episode of the New Books in Sports podcast is now online.  The episode features an interview with Laurent Dubois on his book Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (University of California Press, 2011). New Books in Sports is aimed at fans who are looking for a sports talk program that won't give them a headache. Online since spring...