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Radovan Škultéty started the topic CFP (MLA 2019 Chicago): Reinterpreting Nonsense in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis is a call for papers for a special session at the annual MLA convention to take place in Chicago, Jan 3 – 6, 2019.
We live in the internet era with its mirrored online reality where (almost) everything seems quantifiable, searchable and generally predictable. Our minds are trained to apply logic and reason to analyze the world and organize…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago to be proposed jointly by the GS Drama & Performance and TC Age Studies forums. Responding to the growing interest in age/aging among theatre and performance scholars, the panel seeks papers examining any aspect of the life course from childhood to old age, in…[Read more]
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Claire Nettleton posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Viral Culture: How CRISPR Genome Editing and the Microbiome are Reshaping Humanity and the Humanities. This will be a daylong, interdisciplinary symposium at Pomona College in Claremont, California on April 27th, 2018 on the relationship between biotechnology (CRISPR, interventions into microbiome and the history of medical innovation) and…[Read more]
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Andrea Charise posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoHello everyone,
Here’s the CFP for the MLA forum “Medical Humanities and Health Studies” (guaranteed panel for MLA 2019). Please consider submitting or spreading the word:
Health Humanities and Digital Life
Short (10-15min) papers for guaranteed roundtable on health / illness / medicine / wellbeing and the digital realm. Diverse…[Read more] -
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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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]
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Carolyn McCue Goffman deposited Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis presentation explores ethical dilemmas for graduate school educators in programs that prepare M.A. students to teach English in community colleges. Such graduate programs attract students and produce strong, enthusiastic teachers, and university administrators value the programs because they draw tuition; however, the job prospects for…[Read more]
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Shawna Ross deposited Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe Manifesto of Modern Digital Humanities is an avant-garde statement regarding digital methodologies used by scholars of modernist literature and culture. Its experimental format uses handwritten HTML to mimic the typographical qualities of modernist literary manifestoes.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel in the group
TM Literary Criticism 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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Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoFeminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]
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Gulsah Gocmen deposited The Garip (Strange) Movement: A Poetic Return to “Naturality” or a Deep Ecological Reappraisal of “Nature”? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn 1941, Orhan Veli Kanik, Melih Cevdet Anday, and Oktay Rifat Horozcu, published a poetic manifesto, called Garip (or Strange), that heralded a new period in modern Turkish poetry, known as “The Garip Movement.” In the manifesto, Kanik, Anday, and Rifat declared a total aesthetic break from the conventions of the classical Ottoman poetry, and cha…[Read more]
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