The Association aims at focusing and promoting literatures, contemporary and modern, of various countries especially literatures in English.

It seeks to explore how world literatures in different times and different spaces endeavor to capture many-sided truths of life and underscore the oneness of multifaceted and varied humanity.

It ever pursues the ideal of world as one family through love, understanding and fellow feeling and brings the critics, writers, scholar and theorists of the world on one platform to apprehend, appreciate and assimilate the literature, literary theory, literary traditions and cultural heritage of their own and others.
 

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I World Conference held in collaboration with
IASCL at the Department of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (Orissa), India, in January 2003 with Prof. Himansu S. Mohapatra, the then HOD of English, as convenor.  The theme of the conference was "Postcolonialism and Fiction in English".

 

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II World Conference held jointly with the annual conference of IASCL at Shivaji Science College Nagpur India in January 2004 was organized by Dr. Rini Dwivedi, Head, Department of Languages.  The theme was "Migrant Voices in Literatures in English".

 

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III World Conference was jointly held with the annual conference of IASCL at the autonomous and highly reputed Madras Christian College, Chennai in December 2004 on the theme, "Environment and Literary Studies".  The conference organized by Prof. Victor S. Frederick and Dr. Nirmal Selvamony was well attended by national and international delegates. The keynote address was delivered by Prof. Scott Slovic, a distinguished professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, U.S.A.



 

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V World Conference of WASLE and XIII All India English Teachers’ Conference of IASCLwas organized by Prof K.T. Sunitha, Professor of English and Director, Centre for Women’s Studies, Mysore University, on the theme, “Women’s Studies and Contemporary Literatures at Mysore University, Mysore(India) on January 3&4,2007. The conference was attended by a large number of delegates from abroad, particularly from Japan, China, Iran , Spain, UK, and delegates from all parts of India. The conference was inaugurated by internationally acclaimed Indian English novelist Githa Hariharan, who also released II volume of WASLE journal Contemporary World Literatures in English. In inaugural address she threw light on gender discrimination against women in literature and society and significant remarks on the plight of women writers especially in English. Prof. Sheobhushan Shukla, President of WASLE and IASCL highlighted women’s contribution in literature, specially contemporary literature and the fast changing status of women in the present day world. Various cultural programmes were also held at the end of academic sessions each day.

There are two different kinds of membership :
 

	Membership of the Association.
	Membership of the Journal.

Membership of the Association
 
           Membership of World Association for Studies in Literatures in English (WASLE) is  open to scholars, critics, theorists and teachers and all those who believe in the promotion  of world literatures written or translated in English as a source of the unity of humanity and  as an instrument of capturing the basic truths of life.  The life membership of the  Association for those from India is Rs. 12000=00 and for foreign members US Dollar 600=00  or equivalent of it in Euro or Pound and can be paid in two instalments.  The life members  are exempted from annual membership and are presented with a copy of the journal only  at the conference.  Only the life members are entitled to become officers of the Association  for a term of 3 years.  The annual membership of the Association is US Dollars 130 or  equivalent of it in Pound or Euro.
 
Life Membership of the Journal
 
           The life membership of the Journal is Rs. 15000=00 for those from the subcontinent  and for all others (foreigners) it is US dollars 750=00 or equivalent of it in Pound or Euro.  It  can be paid in two instalments and foreign members can, with the permission of the  President, make payment in three instalments.  The life members are entitled to free  copies of the publications of the Association to be sent by ordinary post and to hold positions in  the editorial/advisory/managerial board of the Journal for a term of two years and officers of  the Association for a term of 3 years.
 
The Form for Life Membership of both Journal and Association
 
           There is a common form for the life membership/annual membership of the Journal/Association and has to be sent by snail mail. The following information should be provided while opting for the membership :-
 
Name:
Age:
Designation:
Academic Affiliation:
Official Address:
Residential Address
Telephone/mobile No.
Email, if any.
Fax, if any:
Areas of Interest (Literary/ academic and non-academic): 
 
The foreign members are required to send a copy of their passport size photo.

The Mode of Payment for Membership
 
Any kind of membership life membership of the Journal/ Association or annual membership  can be sent through draft issued in favour of "Studies in Contemporary Literature" (the  name of the account) payable at Allahabad University Branch of State Bank of India  (Branch Code 1621) and should be sent to Prof. S.B. Shukla at A-130 Chandrashekhar Azad Nagar, P.O. Cavalry Lines, Allahabad, Pin 211004, India. 
 
Those living outside of India can send the subscription by Cheque or Draft adding US Dollar  25 as collection charges at the address given above.  They can also avail themselves of the  facility of transferring money on line (U.S. Dollars/Pounds/Euros) but must keep the  dispatch details.  The subscription has to be sent to Account No. 10341400224 of State Bank  of India, Allahabad University branch, Allahabad (Code No. 1621) through swift code of S.B.I. Main Branch Allahabad SWIFT BIC SBININBA 344 IFSC:SBIN 000006

WASLE publishes both journals and books.
 
Journal
 
Contemporary World Literatures in English (CWLE) published by World Association for Studies in Literatures in English (WASLE) and edited by Sheobhushan Shukla and Anu Shukla, is a well received and globally acknowledged annual (proposed to be made biannual) journal. 
 
It aims at transcending the frontiers, at postnationalism and promotion of world literatures in English, literary theory and translation studies.  It publishes, after a careful scrutiny, the papers submitted at international conferences of WASLE, papers/articles/creative writing solicited from eminent writers and the papers submitted by the life members of the journal (on priority basis). 
 
The life membership of the journal (CWLE), subject to revision from time to time is $750 (Rs. 15000=00) and can be paid by a bank draft drawn in favour of "Studies in Contemporary Literature" payable at Allahabad (India) The life membership can be paid in two equal  instalments (the President can permit three instalments).  The papers/ articles/ creative writings can be published only when they:
 
Conform to the latest MLA style, contain no printing, stylistic and factual errors and are carefully edited, checked and correctly document, Are submitted with a brief CV and a signed certificate that the paper/ article does not in any way infringe on anybody's copyright and that the total responsibility for the views expressed in the paper is that of the author.
 
Books
 
           The Association also publishes books.  So far the following books have been published: