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Tiffany Potter started the topic CFP: "Approaches to Teaching Eliza Haywood" (Nov 1) for MLA Volume in the discussion
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCFP: Chapter proposals for the volume on Eliza Haywood in the MLA “Approaches to Teaching” series
Editor, Tiffany Potter (University of British Columbia)
Deadline: November 1 2015 (350 word proposal and short biographical note)
email: TeachingElizaHaywood@gmail.com
(for accepted proposals, completed chapters of 3500-4000 words will be due…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction board elections in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI just wanted to post here to let everyone on this group know that I am running for the MLA Prose Fiction executive committee. One of the basic jobs of this position is choosing topics for the guaranteed MLA panels, and I promise to think broadly and openly about formulating those. (In fact, I think it would be a good idea to solicit suggestions…[Read more]
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Heidi Kaufman started the topic CFP: ACLA Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures
We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: http://www.acla…[Read more]
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Jodi Melamed started the topic Finance Capital and the University in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider attending the following panel sponsored by our division:
Sunday, 10 January
803. Finance Capital and the University
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Presiding: Christopher John Newfield, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
1. “Securitization and University of Finance,” Am…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Interesting project. Is there a deadline for submission of essays?
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Thank you for your question. The deadline is October 31, 2015. We hope that you will send an essay. Best wishes! Janet
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited The correspondence of the arts in a Fin de Siècle Magazine. The “Livre d’Art” at the crossroads of Modernism in the group
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe main topic of this article is the history of a rare and precious French magazine of the late Nineteenth century, in which a vivid and crucial discussion about arts and their inter-relation grew the more and more intense in the short space of four years (1892-1896). The “Livre d’Art” was first conceived as a simple booklet to be distr…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic CFP: Special Issue on Early Film in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoEarly film provides a wealth of information about Victorian performance practices, and Victorian theatre greatly influenced the development of film. Both points have been well documented by David Mayer, among others, as exciting new work continues to demonstrate. But there is much more to be learned and said about the reciprocal relationship b…[Read more]
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Patrick Walsh replied to the topic CFP: Urban Drama, Urban Theater (NEASECS Conference Panel, Oct. 8-10, 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoPlease note: The deadline for submissions to this panel has been extended to June 29, 2015.
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP: Shaw in New York (October 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoShaw in New York (October 16-19, 2015)
Sponsored by Fordham University at Lincoln Center, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and The International Shaw Society
Paper proposal deadline: July 1
The conference organizers invite papers focused on any aspect of Bernard Shaw’s relationship to New York: productions…[Read more]
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Patrick Walsh started the topic CFP: Urban Drama, Urban Theater (NEASECS Conference Panel, Oct. 8-10, 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS)
Annual Conference 2015 “Texts and the City”
Hosted by Trinity College
Hartford, CT, USA, October 8-10, 2015Panel: Urban Drama, Urban Theater
In the thought and literature of the eighteenth century, the theater often features as a distinctly urban space, one…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic CFEssays – MLA Volume on Miguel de Unamuno in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno, which I am editing, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about…[Read more]
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Merle Lyn Bachman started the topic CFP for Yiddish Forum Panel in Austin in the discussion
Yiddish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoYiddish Literature’s Diverse “Publics”
Forum: LLC Yiddish
Translation of Yiddish texts and its effects on Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, on representation of the Jewish past, and construction of new Jewish identities. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2015; Merle Lyn Bachman (mbachman@spalding.edu). -
Jennifer Buckley replied to the topic CFP for MLA16: Bernard Shaw and New Media, 1879-2015 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoRe: “Shaw and New Media” CFP:
Paper proposals are due by March 15 to jennifer-buckley@uiowa.edu.
(Apologies for multiple posts — a result of MLA Commons site time-outs.)
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and brief CV by 15 March…[Read more]
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Andres Perez-Simon started the topic CFP: “The modernist 'mysterium'" (MSA, Nov 19-22 2015, Boston) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago<div>CFP: “The modernist ‘mysterium’, between allegorical drama and revolutionary politics”</div>
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Modernist Studies Association Conference
November 19-22, 2015
Boston, MA
In The Death of Character (1996), Elinor Fuchs conceptualizes the “mysterium” as a modernist theatrical practice with a strong didactic orientation that adapts the exposit…[Read more] - Load More
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