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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFor anyone interested, there is now an MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group (easier to use / access than the MLA forum site I think). You can sign on at http://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick deposited Syllabus for Digital Divides: Race, Class, and Gender in the Age of the Internet in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoSyllabus for an upper-level English seminar at SUNY Cortland | Is Google racist? Is Wikipedia sexist? In this course, we will critically reflect on the digital tools and platforms that mediate so much of our daily lives. More specifically, we will explore how digital technologies can reproduce and challenge conditions of racial, class, and gender…[Read more]
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Jessie M. Labov started the topic MLA 2021 Collaborative Session: Academic Autonomy in Illiberal Times in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWe are looking for one more panelist in this session being proposed for next year’s MLA. It would be a collaboration between the Hungarian and Slavic/EE fora. Titls/short abstracts to Jessie Labov (jlabov@ceu.edu) by April 5th.
Academic Autonomy in Illiberal Times: Although the right to academic freedom faces challenges all over the world, the…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Unworking Milton: Steps to a georgics of the mind in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoTraditionally read as a poem about laboring subjects who gain power through abstract and abstracting forms of bodily discipline, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) more compellingly foregrounds the erotics of the Garden as a space where humans and nonhumans intra-act materially and sexually. Following Christopher Hill, who long ago pointed t…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Tempestuous Life: Ralegh’s Ocean in Ruins in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoTurning to Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana (1596) and The History of the World (1614), I reframe such biopolitical factors as Ralegh’s “dissability” around a concept that has less to do with human world-making and more to do with the “states of exception” (Giorgio Agamben) under which inhuman agencies come to matter for world history (of…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett deposited RECording the End time in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Film in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoApocalyptic themes handled by Spanish directors of the current century, including Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, David and Álex Pastor, Álex de la Iglesia, Juan Antonio Bayona, Jorge Torregrossa, and Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas, and F. Javier Gutiérrez.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Object-Oriented Disability: The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThough the verbal icon has a long and robust multisensory history extending beyond Milton, my goal here is to challenge ableist readings of Milton’s poetry by linking his poetic ekphrasis to the politics and aesthetics of disability.
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Nature’s Queer Negativity: Between Barad and Deleuze in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis essay offers a critique of the vitalist turn in queer and ecological theory, here represented by the work of Karen Barad. Whereas Barad advances an image of life geared towards meaningful connection with others, human and nonhuman, Deleuze advances an a-signifying ontology of self-dismissal. The point of this essay isn’t to separate their t…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies to Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U (ljt233@nyu.edu ) Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 2 April 2020. (C…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Survival Strategies in the Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWhat can we learn from indigenous and Black strategies for survival in the Americas, as we face the enduring legacies of capitalist settler colonialism? Please send a 200-word abstract and a brief biographical statement to Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) Please share broadly. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 3 April 2020
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic Standing for Election of Executive Committee of CLCS Hemispheric American in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWe invite you to stand for election to our Executive Committee — come guide our group in upcoming years! Note that you are only allowed to serve on one executive committee at a time. If you are interested, please email Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) as soon as possible. Thank you!
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Shawn Casey started the topic Extension: Centering Student Expertise MLA 2021 CFP – Deadline March 18 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoAt least one member of the forum has asked for an extension of our CFP. It seems the least we can do, given the circumstances. MLA has not extended the deadline to submit panels, however, so we still need proposals this week, by end of day Wednesday the 18th if possible. Please email with any concerns: scasey5@cscc.edu.
This week I return to…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic CLCS Medieval Cfps – MLA Toronto in 2021 – deadline 3/15 in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoDeadline tomorrow!
Two CFPs for MLA 2021 in Toronto, sponsored by the CLCS Medieval ForumAbstracts by March 15th
ObjectsHow do objects circulating within and around premodern literary texts reframe or intervene in traditional (national or imperial) literary histories or unearth new “global” literary histories? 250-word abstracts to Shirin Kha…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP – Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (6/1/20) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe peer-reviewed and open access Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now accepting submissions for its upcoming General Issue with a Forum on Data and Computational Pedagogy edited by Gregory Palermo (Northeastern University) & Brandon Walsh (University of Virginia Library) with the collaboration of Kelly Hammond (CUNY Graduate C…[Read more]
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Shawn Casey started the topic MLA 2021: Centering Student Expertise proposals due 15 March 2020 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago“How do collaborative teaching and learning, alternative assessments, corequisites, and other classroom strategies reject the deficit model and center student experience? A panel on practical approaches for dismantling hierarchies in English.”
250-word proposals may be submitted directly to Shawn Casey scasey5@cscc.edu by 15 March 2020.
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic Paradigms of Difference: Modern Languages+Digital Humanities in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis is the third session organized by the Forum in Digital Humanities (DH) dealing with the intersections of Modern Languages (ML) and DH. In both 2019 and 2020, the discussions have focused on the contributions that ML makes to DH, and on the way both fields intersect critically. Building up on these discussions, for 2021, we’re hoping to a…[Read more]
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