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Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic MLA 2024 Global Anglophone Forum CFP (deadline today) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDigitality, Postcoloniality, Globality (sponsored by CLCS Global Anglophone Forum) Deadline today!
This panel considers how digital technologies intersect with categories of knowledge, namely postcoloniality and globality. Possible topics: conceptions of digitality from the Global South, decolonizing DH, born-digital/post-digital literature and…[Read more] -
andré carrington started the topic CFP for 2024: Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoPutting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia
Guaranteed session for MLA 2024 sponsored by Forum MS Sound, in collaboration with Forum African American Literature, Language, and Culture
Philly Soul, with its roots in the Black performance traditions of gospel, funk, and rhythm & blues, transformed popular music in the 1970s. How have…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic MLA 2024 GA Forum CFP (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDigitality, Postcoloniality, Globality (sponsored by CLCS Global Anglophone Forum) Deadline today!
This panel considers how digital technologies intersect with categories of knowledge, namely postcoloniality and globality. Possible topics: conceptions of digitality from the Global South, decolonizing DH, born-digital/post-digital literature and…[Read more] -
Graham Jensen started the topic Last chance! Send us your MLA 2024 proposals on CanLit and TV/film! in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoNOTE: There are just two days left before the March 15 deadline!
Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity,…[Read more]
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Jonathan Hiller started the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Philadelpia: 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian Literature in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC 17th, 18th, and 19th Century Italian Forum is pleased to invite submissions for two guaranteed panels and one non-guaranteed roundtable for the 2024 MLA Conference (Philadelphia, Jan. 4–7).
The deadline to send your abstracts to the panel organizers is March 22, 2023.Thank you for considering and we hope to see you in P…[Read more]
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Tracy Rutler posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCFP: 2024 MLA in Philadelphia
There is still time to submit a proposal for these three panels organized by the LLC 18th-century France (including one non-guaranteed panel co-organized with LLC 17th-century France)!
France in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
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Laura Helton started the topic MLA 2024 CFP: Bibliography and Scholarly Editing in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Forum on Bibliography and Scholarly Editing invites proposals for two sessions:
Intention
Authorial intention has long been rejected as a viable constraint upon literary interpretation, but to what extent is it still operative in textual scholarship? Seeking 250-word abstracts on textual theory, collaboration, coercion, publishing, and…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] -
Andrea R. Malone replied to the topic CFP for MLA Convention 2024 in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoTo clarify, this session is sponsored by the Libraries and Research forum.
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.
The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).
This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Bridges within the Arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoTracing the collaboration between Dylan and Scorsese from the 1960s on to the Netflix original ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ (2019), this article argues that the mutual respect of the two artists rests on a shared contestation of borders between fact and fiction. In the spirit of romanticism, both Dylan and…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Narrator, Silenced Victim in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAlthough the systematic eviction of Palestinians from their homeland has been recorded at length since the establishment of the state of Israel in 948, the documentation has namely concerned itself with urban centers or villages. Expulsion and removal of marginalized communities, namely the Bedouins’, from their ancestral encampments or homes h…[Read more]
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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David Alff started the topic CFP MLA 24 — New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIt has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]
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Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoI am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on “Political Oratory and African American Literature.” Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse. Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.
Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]
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David Alff started the topic CFP MLA 2024 — Comparative Media Histories in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoRecent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen an interest in non-print media, queer and trans book history, speculative archives, and critical making, among other approaches. This panel seeks con…[Read more]
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Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: CanLit Adapts/Adapting Canadian Literature in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity, “Canadianness,” pedagogy, and production from critics and…[Read more]
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