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Kathryn J. McKnight posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoWill there be a CFP for MLA 2019 for Medical Humanities & Health Sciences?
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the “From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective” in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhy We Read Fiction focuses on one of the most exciting areas of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson’s Clarissa, Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf’s…[Read more]
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Rebecca Garden deposited Class and Ethnicity in the Global Market for Organs: The Case of Korean Cinema in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhile organ transplantation has been established in the medical imagination since the 1960s, this technology is currently undergoing a popular re-imagination in the era of global capitalism. As transplantation procedures have become routine in medical centers in non-Western and developing nations, and as organ sales and transplant tourism become…[Read more]
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Sarah E. Chinn deposited Queer Feelings/Feeling Queer: A Conversation with Heather Love about Politics. Teaching, and the “Dark, Tender Thrills” of Affect in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoConversation with Heather Love about queerness and affect.
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Brandon Walsh deposited Introduction to Text Analysis: A Coursebook in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis workbook provides a brief introduction to digital text analysis through a series of three-part units. Each unit introduces students to a concept, a tool for or method of digital text analysis, and a series of exercises for practicing the new skills. In some cases, studies of particular projects are presented instead of tools in the third…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 2: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis Theory Palette revision layers in 12 theoretical approaches; it also problematizes the perceiving-subject through a stylized human palette. The thought and speech bubbles gesture toward the problems of apperception and expression after René Magritte’s “Le fils de l’homme” (The Son of Man 1928-29) and “La Trahison des Images” (The Treachery…[Read more]
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
Crisis, Science, and Mexican Texts
Sunday, January 7
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, HiltonProgram arranged by the forums LLC Mexican and TC Science and Literature
1. “From Translation to Discovery: The Emergence of Early Modern Sciences and New Spain’s Cultural Borders,” Jaime Marroquin, Western Oregon Univers…[Read more]
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
S. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction
Friday, January 5
1:45–3:00 p.m., Bowery, SheratonPresiding: Anne Stiles, St. Louis University
1. “Medical Eclecticism in the Fiction of Silas Weir Mitchell,” Kristine L. Swenson, Missouri University of Science and Technology
2. “Fractional Phantoms: Gothic Bodies in S. Weir Mitchell’…[Read more]
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives
Friday, January 5
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, HiltonPresiding: Allison Carruth, UCLA
1. “The Dark Green: Plants, Cli- Fi, and the Anthropocene,”Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University
2. “Cloud Extinction and Speculative Climate Change in Mexican…[Read more]
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Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]
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Caren Irr deposited Climate Fiction in English in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. “cli-fi”) in English. Written with an international readership in mind.
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Hi Kathryn,
We will have at least two — one on digital health humanities, and one on graphic medicine. I’m pasting in a draft of the graphic medicine one below. We would love to encourage forum members to collaborate and propose multiple health humanities themed panels.
Erin Lamb
Short Version for MLA Website (limited to 35 words)
Graphic…[Read more]