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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Transgender Theory and Global Shakespeare,” Performing Shakespearean Appropriations Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet, ed. Darlena Ciraulo, Matthew Kozusko, Robert Sawyer (Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2022), 161-176 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoEven though Shakespeare’s plays were initially performed by all-male casts, they were designed to appeal to diverse audiences. Many modern adaptations reimagine those plays as expressions of gender nonconformity. Over the past decades, prominent films and theater works have fostered new public conversations about the politics of appropriating g…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television,” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19.1 (March 2022): 167-180. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism, this article analyzes the manifestation of the ideas of yellow peril and yel…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited La figura del renegado en el teatro de Cervantes in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoOn the renegades in Cervantes’s Captivity plays
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoJohannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]
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Mary Kate Donovan started the topic TRECE Symposium 2022 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoCFP – TRECE Symposium 2022 to be held in person at Northwestern University, September 29 – October 1. Proposals for papers are due July 15, 2022 to ColectivoTRECE@outlook.com. Please see attached document for more details.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare: International Films, Television, and Theatre, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin and Victoria Bladen (Palgrave, 2022) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s plays and motifs have been appropriated in fragmentary forms on screen since motion pictures were invented in 1893. Allusions to Shakespeare haunt our contemporary culture in a myriad of ways, whether through brief references or sustained intertextual engagements. ::::: This collection of essays extends beyond a US-UK axis to bring t…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited “Sacrificio, forza e debolezza ne La peste di Camus” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoIn this essay we reinterpret Camus’s novel The Plague in light of the urgency of history, that with Covid 19 pandemia made us face a real pestilence, thus allowing us to read reality and fiction as even. Our rereading relativizes the traditional allegoric interpretation of critics, while at the same time it widens its perspectives. It is in fact i…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Ana I Simón-Alegre started the topic Call for Papers-Feministas Unidas-MLA in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers MLA 2023-Feministas Unidas -Sesión Garantizada-, March 25, 2022. Transatlantic Dissidences from Tierra del Fuego to the Pyrenees. Interdisciplinary panel exploring dissidences and/or disruptions in the global Transatlantic (gender, sexualities, race, ethnicity, cultural, literary, economic, visual, etc.). Submit 150-word abstract…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic Friendly reminder MLA 2023 abstracts due March 15 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe Power of Ridicule in Spanish and Iberian Political Satire of the 18th and 19th CenturiesWe invite 250-word abstracts that explore satire’s function as preserver of the established order; or that question whether it conserves important structures while allowing the collective a therapeutic release of tension. Is satire inherently…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic Friendly reminder 2023 MLA abstracts due March 15th. in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoDissent and Dissension in Spanish and Iberian Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual TextsWe invite abstracts that explore dissent & dissension at the micro/macro levels. Examples include actors, artists, artisans, craftsmen, writers who pushed back against decrees & social norms while expressing dissent or dissension. 250-word…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Latest Issue of “Decimonónica” in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that the latest issue of the online journal Decimonónica (Revista de producción cultural hispánica) has just been released. The five essays comprising this issue (19.1 – Winter 2022) as well as all previous issues are available for free at the journal’s website: http://www.decimononica.org/
Saludos,
Luis
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Carmela Mattza started the topic Dateline extended: Working Conditions of Performance: Staging Early Modern Plays in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama via email on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO
CALL FOR PAPERS
Working Conditions of Performance: Staging Early Modern Plays (This would be a Presidential Theme session, also not guaranteed)
This panel seeks contributions that explore the precarious working conditions under which theater practitioners develop their work. What conditions do companies face…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic Deadline extended – The Comedia Connection: England and Spain in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama via email on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed)
This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study…[Read more]
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Stephen E. Lewis deposited “Philosopher d’une manière ‘mariale’: Alentour du verset: Petite phénoménologie des Mystères de Marie-Aimée Manchon” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoA review article focused on phenomenological method and Christian thought in Marie-Aimée Manchon’s book _Alentour du verses: Petite phénoménologie des Mystère_ (Ad Solem, 2019).
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Carmela Mattza started the topic Dateline extended! in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO
CALL FOR PAPERSThe Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed)
This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study of…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Redesigning Modernities in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza replied to the topic MLA 2023 Forum on 16th-and 17th c. Drama CFP in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMLA 2023 Forum on 16th-and 17th c. Drama CFP
1. Classical Theatre in Today’s Higher EducationThis panel explores the role(s) that higher education has played in the preservation, promotion and innovation of teaching and performing the Comedia. Innovative approaches to teaching, adaptation, translation, staging, and outreach are welcome.
2. C…[Read more]
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