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Sujata Iyengar deposited Gertrude/Ophelia: Feminist Intermediality, Ekphrasis, and Tenderness in _Hamlet_ in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay argues that feminists can productively use theories of intermediality to consider postmodern representations of Shakespeare’s Ophelia fabricated by women (or by creators self-identified as female, in the case of online avatars), in order to explore the following questions: under what circumstances might we imagine femininity as…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited The Formation of Latin American Nations in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis book brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they “discover” New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European col…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited How Insensitive! in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExploring several key scholarly explorations on the culture of sensibility in the British 18th-century, this article draws attention to what the current manner of accessing the people who invoked and participated in it are deemed to have been like, and to how this has exposed them to being invested in protecting people of, ostensibly actually,…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited Language and Labor in the Digital Humanities in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis presentation addresses the opportunities and challenges of transacting digital humanities collaborative projects from the perspective of a Digital Humanities Research Designer in an academic library. While collaboration is often celebrated as a central to the success of digital humanities projects, I argue that often the language of…[Read more]
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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic 2 additional Panels on Why Theater Matters and Performing Childhood @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoAnd another reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for these two panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]. Panel on childhood is Co-sponsored by GEMELA.
Why Theater Matters: Then and Now
Theater clearly mattered in early modern times as evidenced by the…[Read more]
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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic Panel on Comedia, Disability, Disease @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoJust a reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for this panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]
Building on work in the history of medicine and disability studies, this panel will engage with the following questions: How was disease construed and negotiated in early…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Matricide in the City in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores the invisible man, in Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man,” as borrowing upon associations of patriarchal maleness, in the sense Ann Douglas in her “Terrible Honesty” argues 20s modern’s did, to secure freedom from feelings of entrapment by maternal figures, whose near-proximity to him is expressed in the text as often incestuous, gross;…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited Jurisprudence by Aphorisms: Francis Bacon and the “Uses” of Small Forms in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe belief that Francis Bacon was, from the start, a stalwart defender of royal absolutism has prevailed in scholarship despite occasional comments about Bacon’s pluralist or collaborative legal and political imagination. Building on recent revisionist work, this article questions the standard historiography. It argues that Bacon’s jur…[Read more]
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Luis Restrepo started the topic PROPOSALS FOR MLA 2020 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Early Modern Epic. Imperial, Providential or Otherwise?
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Imperial and Christian by design, the early modern epic nonetheless presents ambivalences, internal fissures and critical appropriations of the genre and its imperial past, allowing multiple nuanced readings. Send 1 page abstract and short bio.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic CFP MLA 2020JOINT SESSION– COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA FORUM AND GLOBAL HISPANOPHON in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]
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Eric Calderwood started the topic CFP: Reel Iberia (March 27-28, 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoDear members of the Global Hispanophone Forum:
I’m writing to let you know about an exciting conference that I’m organizing with my colleague Javier Irigoyen-García. The conference, scheduled for March 2020, will explore film and television representations of Iberian history. We are hoping for a diverse group of papers, covering many geogra…[Read more]
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Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation for the 2020 MLA convention. This panel seeks to explore the effects of translation in the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to…[Read more]
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Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation. This panel seeks to explore the ways in which translation shaped the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to what extent does…[Read more]
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Baltasar Fra-Molinero started the topic CFP Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis session seeks proposals that address the study of the Global Hispanophone as a mode of inquiry thatde-centers national narratives as well as regional ones (Latin America vs Spain) and reviews and critique past and present literary canons. We want to pay close attention to geographic/historical peripheries and cultural practices that challenge…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoAlfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoAlfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2019 MLA Panels in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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David Wacks started the topic CFP MLA 2020 Seattle: New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies in the discussion
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe MLA Forum for Medieval Iberian Literatures, Languages, and Cultures seeks proposals for a session titled “New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies.” We invite abstracts for 15 minute papers featuring new work, issues or approaches in medieval Hispanic or Iberian studies. Deadline for submission of abstracts is March 8, 2019. Please send…[Read more]
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