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Dennis Looney deposited Science and Literature, Italian Style in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoVersion (BA level) of a course I taught at the University of Pittsburgh over several iterations between 1995 and 2006. Team taught in 2006 with Peter Machamer, professor in HPS at Pitt.
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Guojun Wang started the topic Candidate Statement in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the Ming-Qing Forum,
My name is Guojun Wang. I am an assistant professor of Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University; and I am running for the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese group Executive Committee. Below is a brief introduction about myself and my participation in the Ming/Qing group.
- My Research
I specialize in late imperial…[Read more]
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Yuanfei Wang started the topic Candidate Statement: 2018 MLA Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Forum,
I am honored to be nominated as a candidate of the executive committee of the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Forum in 2018. My name is Yuanfei Wang, an assistant professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Georgia. I obtained my Ph.D degree from the department of East Asian…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and CultureCo-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Classical Studies and Modern Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited Lyricism, the Veneration of Feeling, and Narrative Techniques in the Poetry Talks of the Southern Society in the group
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper examines the voluminous “poetry talks” (shihua) written by Southern Society (Nanshe) members and focuses on two tendencies in these discourses: The general cult of sentimentality and the narrative strategy on women’s poetry. These poetic discourses succeeded the language of traditional literary criticism, but also exhibited ideals of th…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited Lyricism, the Veneration of Feeling, and Narrative Techniques in the Poetry Talks of the Southern Society in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper examines the voluminous “poetry talks” (shihua) written by Southern Society (Nanshe) members and focuses on two tendencies in these discourses: The general cult of sentimentality and the narrative strategy on women’s poetry. These poetic discourses succeeded the language of traditional literary criticism, but also exhibited ideals of th…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited From Poetic Revolution to the Southern Society: The Birth of Classicist Poetry in Modern China in the group
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper examines the birth of classicist poetry by paying attention to the Southern Society’s (Nanshe) diachronic succession of the late Qing Poetic Revolution. It provides a careful analysis on the novelty of Huang Zunxian’s poetry and shows how the Southern Society transformed Huang’s Europeanized innovation into something that was roote…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited From Poetic Revolution to the Southern Society: The Birth of Classicist Poetry in Modern China in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper examines the birth of classicist poetry by paying attention to the Southern Society’s (Nanshe) diachronic succession of the late Qing Poetic Revolution. It provides a careful analysis on the novelty of Huang Zunxian’s poetry and shows how the Southern Society transformed Huang’s Europeanized innovation into something that was roote…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited “‘To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores’: Shakespeare in the World.” The Score : An Insider’s Guide to the Performing Arts (New York: Lincoln Center, June 28, 2018) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn the centuries since William Shakespeare’s death, numerous stage and, more recently, film and television adaptations of his work have emerged to inspire, comfort, and provoke audiences in far-flung corners of the globe. As early as 1619, for example, Hamlet was performed in colonial Indonesia to entertain European expatriates. In 1845, U.S. Army…[Read more]
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Benjamin Ridgway started the topic 2019 MLA Panel: Transitions in Early and Medieval Chinese Literary History in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please find the details for an upcoming session at the 2019 MLA conference sponsored by the “Pre-14<sup>th</sup> century Chinese literature” forum. We look forward to seeing you there!
Panel Title: Transitions in Early and Medieval Chinese Literary History
Keywords: Early China, Medieval China, textual tra…[Read more]
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Xiaowen Xu started the topic 2019 MLA Panel: Teaching Classical Chinese in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoDear Friends,
Please find the following details for your information. We look forward to your participation!
Panel Title: Teaching Classical Chinese as Cultural, Philosophical, and Literary Texts
Keywords: classical Chinese poetry, pedagogy, translation, reception, text selection
Sponsoring Entity: LLC Pre-14th-Century…[Read more] -
Geraldine Fiss started the topic CFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms
MLA 2019 LLC East Asian Forum Session Call for Papers
MLA 2019 Convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
Modern and contemporary East Asian women writers, poets and filmmakers contribute in unique and significant ways to cultural change, while both embodying and transcending feminist concerns. Many women…[Read more]
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Geraldine Fiss posted an update in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms
MLA 2019 LLC East Asian Forum Session Call for Papers
MLA 2019 Convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019Modern and contemporary East Asian women writers, poets and filmmakers contribute in unique and significant ways to cultural change, while both embodying and transcending feminist concerns. Many women…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 (Chicago) Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum (please excuse the cross-forum advertising):
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The…[Read more]
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Jonathan Abel posted an update in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP:
Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in East Asian LiteratureA Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
How have Asian digital networks (e.g. Line, Weibo, and KakaoTalk) impacted the circulation of poetry and prose? And do these new literary transactions correlate with heightened…[Read more]
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