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Nicky Agate deposited The Syllabus as Scholarship in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoOne of a series of blog posts reflecting on #HumetricsHSS, the work of the Humane Metrics for the Humanities team at the Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute in 2016.
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Gillian Dooley started the topic Immortal Austen – a conference in Australia, 13-16 July 2017 in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers
Immortal Austen
An International Conference
Hosted by the School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University At Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 13-16 July 2017
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Devoney Looser (Arizona State)
Prof Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford)
Assoc. Prof Clara Tuite (Melbourne)
When Jane Austen…[Read more] -
James Mulholland started the topic MLA Ballot 2016 in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Everyone,
Now that the ballot is open for the MLA nominations, I thought I’d introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me already and have a sense of who I am. My name is James Mulholland and I’ve been nominated to serve on this forum’s executive committee.
I am an Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University and…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in THE TRADGEY OF MARIAM" in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGiving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions again…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in THE TRADGEY OF MARIAM" in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGiving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions again…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble" in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoShakespeare’s MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play’s violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble" in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoShakespeare’s MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play’s violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP for 18th-Century Camp! (special issue Aphra Behn Online) in the discussion
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP for 18th-Century Camp! (special issue Aphra Behn Online)
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard University
In Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic pheno…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP: 18th-Century Camp! (Special Issue Aphra Behn Online) in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP Aphra Behn Online Special Issue: 18th-Century Camp!
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard UniversityIn Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.” Fo…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP Aphra Behn Online Special Issue in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSpecial Issue Overview & CFP for 18th-Century Camp!
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard UniversityIn Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.” For…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited L’urlo. Del furor destructor a la afirmación de sí in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe “Urlo”. From the deconstructive rage/fury to the ‘yes’ assertion.
In this article we offer a series of tableaux belonging to contemporary Romance literatures written by women, through a focus on a common feature which is that of the “urlo” (scream). Based on a selection of works mainly Italian, but also taken from other literatures of the Rom…[Read more] -
Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic Candidate Intro LLC 18th-19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum Exec Committee in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
The MLA has suggested that candidates for forum executive committees post an introduction. I am a professor of Spanish at Texas State University, where I also teach in the Honors College and coordinate the Honors Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. I am Secretary/Treasurer of the Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century…[Read more]
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Laura R. Braunstein deposited Approximating the University: The Information Literacy Practices of Novice Researchers in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn a seminal essay, David Bartholomae asserts that novice writers need to “invent the university by assembling and mimicking its language.” Instructors and librarians who work with beginning academic writers confirm Bartholomae’s assertion. Our research asks how, precisely, novice writer-researchers go about inventing the university before they…[Read more]
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Myrto Drizou started the topic CFP- Volume on Edith Wharton (Critical Insights-Salem Press) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers
Critical Insights
Edith Wharton
Please see below the call for essays for a forthcoming volume on Edith Wharton. The volume is part of the series Critical Insights (Salem Press) and will appear in fall 2017. More information can be found here:http://www.salempress.com/critical_insights.html
Following the guidelines for the…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Oct Meeting NYC Chapter of The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe New York City Chapter
of
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
presents:
ROYA BIGGIE
“Inter-Elemental Sympathies and
Cross-Species Compassion:
Caring for the Hybrid Body in Titus Andronicus”
ROYA BIGGIE, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, is also a PhD Candidate in English at the Gradu…[Read more] -
Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Issue Hispanic Journal "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano" in the discussion
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSPECIAL ISSUE OF HISPANIC JOURNAL
“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”
Este número especial de Hispanic Journal propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los ensayos selecc…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Call for Papers "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano" in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”
Este número especial de Hispanic Journal se propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los ensayos selecc…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Challenges and Rewards for Digital Humanities in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe English Department at U.C. Berkeley has developed two multimedia humanities websites at “Shakespeare’s Staging” and “Milton Revealed,” illustrating classic rewards and problems in digital humanities programs. Users are uniformly positive about the simple, selective, and fully organized structure. Visits are numerous, averaging 200-400 p…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commmons in the discussion
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoOur pardon for the omission of areas such as bordering Windsor, Canada, and Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico, both known as Rust Belts bordering our US RB. You are most welcome. We have revised our welcome message to reflect this change.
Also, we are seeking people who wish to host a Rust Belt Literature panel for the next MLA national convention.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Teaching Rust Belt Literature in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. Consider offering an MLA panel on RBL.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United…[Read more]
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