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Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Roundtable: Fictions of Belonging in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoFriday, 10 January 2020
10:15am-11:30am
Sheraton — Willow BSpeakers address theories and histories about modes of belonging in relation to fiction, including blackness, imperial subjects, migrancy and the diaspora, intimate archives, transhistorical and future audiences, queer theory, utopian politics, and…
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A. David Lewis deposited 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference Call for Papers (CFP) in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference
Call for Papers
MARCH 26-28, 2020
[Deadline: January 10, 2020]Graphic Medicine is a genre, a field, a tool, a community, and a cause. It is large enough to accommodate all health and medical experiences, from that of the doctor to that of the patient – from that of a microbe to that of a p…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group
MS Visual Culture on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World” in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIn the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World” in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIn the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]
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Katrina Dunn started the topic Reimagining Theatre Education in the Era of Climate Crisis in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoPlease consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues.
What might we teach Swedish student activist Greta Thunberg if she were to choose post-secondary education in theatre? As she says, she has no reason to fear speaking the truth: what approach to acting and theatre-making might we take with…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP — Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume* The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830* and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.Call for Proposals
*The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830*
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río PiedrasTraditional…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Violence Has Changed Me” Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 494: English Capstone — Comics and Graphic Novels in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis section of 494 provides students with an introduction to the reading, history, and making of comics and graphic novels. Comics have often been associated with popular culture, pulp fiction, and ephemerality. Yet comics merge image and text to create a unique form of sequential art that is becoming ever more visible and influential in our…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Tom White deposited Climate, Power and Possible Futures on the Banks of the Humber Estuary in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoPaper for Session 10-L, Oecologies II: Terraqueous Transformations: Land, Water and Power in Early/Modern Contexts.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Unfurling Unflattening (edited collection) in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoCall for Chapters—Edited Volume
Unfurling Unflattening: Tracing Theoretical, Methodological, and Pedagogical Possibilities
Janine Utell, Widener University, Amanda O. Latz, Ball State University, Andrea Kantrowitz, SUNY at New Paltz, Editors
The publication of Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening (2015) created an unprecedented stir among schol…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Updated CFP for Routlesdge Lit and Class Companion (new passed peer edit stage) in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoDear Literary Criticism Group,
Just an update on our collection of essays, Literature and Class Companion in that series for Routledge. We await word of acceptance, having passed the peer edit.
This is a time of silence and angst so just to let you all know we are hard at this intersectional approach and wishing you all a happy summer.Some of…[Read more]
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Andrew G. Christensen deposited On Being One’s Own Heir: British Portraiture, Metaphysical Inheritance, and The Picture of Dorian Gray in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoMuch scholarship on The Picture of Dorian Gray has focused on its possible textual sources and its place in literary traditions. This article demonstrates that by contextualizing the novel in the history of art and the tradition of British portraiture, we are able to answer significant yet overlooked questions such as why Wilde chose “picture” rat…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited The Afrofuturist Historical Novel in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe recent surge of interest in Afrofuturism has resulted in some groundbreaking work looking at the ways technology and race intersect in film, fashion, music and literature, as is evidenced by the important collection of essays “Afrofuturism 2.0” (2016), edited by Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones. However there has not yet been an aca…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Righting, Riting, and Rewriting the Book of Odes (Shijing): On “Filling out the MIssing Odes” by Shu Xi in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA series of derivative verses from the late-third century has pride of place in one of the foundational collections of Chinese poetry. These verses, “Filling out the Missing Odes” by Shu Xi, can be found at the beginning of the lyric-poetry (shi 詩) section of the Wenxuan. This essay seeks to understand why such blatantly imitative pieces may have…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Ophelia Unbound in Asian Performances.” Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 37 (2019): 1-12 in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAsian directors leverage Shakespeare’s own propensity to undermine dominant ideologies of gender—notably through the Ophelia figure—in their effort to renew Asian performance traditions. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? How does Ophelia become “unbound” through supraling…[Read more]
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