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Benita Sampedro posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 (guaranteed) Session: Teaching the Global Hispanophone
(Roundtable)Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: for instance, curricula structured according to mid-twentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; issues of language; or difficulties in securing copies of texts. How have you met these…[Read more]
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Mahan Ellison posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoExtended deadline for the Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association.
Call for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (LHCALA)
In line with the theme proposed for the 44th annual meeting of the African Literature Association in 2018, “The Environments of African Literature”, the Lus…[Read more]
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Edgar Illas replied to the topic Call for Papers, Catalan Forum: MLA 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago- Session Title: Catalan Culture and the State
Session Organizer: Edgar Illas
Correlations between Catalan cultural products and the form of the State in modernity and globalization. Abstracts by 15 March 2018; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu).
Modern Catalan culture has been extensively studied in terms of nation building. This focus has ec…[Read more]
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Edgar Illas started the topic Call for Papers, Catalan Forum: MLA 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCatalan Culture and the State
Forum: LLC Catalan Studies
Correlations between Catalan cultural products and the form of the State in modernity and globalization. Abstracts by 15 March 2018; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu). -
Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoWould anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a Romantic? — If a deeper reading of F.K. is of interest, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange such a session.
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoCFP MLA 2019
Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
We seek paper proposals for a special session “Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore nar…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoCFP MLA 2019
Textual Trans Actions: Queering Kinship
We seek paper proposals for a special session at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore trans actions/transactions in kinning narratives and/or other representations in any mode (including the visual) or genre. These include…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited FROM EYEWITNESS NARRATIVES TO RETELLINGS AND LITERARY ADAPTATIONS: THE RUSSIAN TIME OF TROUBLES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe article focuses on the adaptation strategies used by Lope de Vega in his play El Gran Duque de Moscovia y emperador perseguido (1617). This tragedy, built on material acquired from travelogues, represents the first depiction of the Russian Time of Troubles in fiction. In it, one can follow Lope de Vega’s shift from preserving the factual d…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited FROM EYEWITNESS NARRATIVES TO RETELLINGS AND LITERARY ADAPTATIONS: THE RUSSIAN TIME OF TROUBLES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe article focuses on the adaptation strategies used by Lope de Vega in his play El Gran Duque de Moscovia y emperador perseguido (1617). This tragedy, built on material acquired from travelogues, represents the first depiction of the Russian Time of Troubles in fiction. In it, one can follow Lope de Vega’s shift from preserving the factual d…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic The Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur is now online! in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAnnouncement on behalf of Dr. Ute Dettmar:
The inaugural issue of the new Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society (GKJF)) is now online, It succeeds the print annual journal Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (1995-2015) in a fundamentally revised form. As…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAnnouncement on behalf of Dr. Ute Dettmar:
The inaugural issue of the new Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society (GKJF)) is now online, It succeeds the print annual journal Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (1995-2015) in a fundamentally revised form. As…[Read more]
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Levente T. Szabó deposited À la recherche… de l’editeur perdu. Brassai Sámuel and the first international journal of comparative literary studies in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe first international journal of comparative literary studies, entitled Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum (1877-1888), was published in Kolozsvár/Cluj/Klausenburg (in former Hungary, today in Romania). The research on the pioneering multilingual journal usually foregrounds only one of the editors, Hugo von Meltzl, the young university…[Read more]
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Jan Christopher Susina posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoInformation on the Business Meeting of the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum at 2018 MLA Conference
The meeting will be held Friday, January 5, from 1:45 to 3 pm in Madison 4 at the Sheraton New York Times Square.
The open meeting will begin shortly after Session 298 is completed. The assigned room for the business meeting is snug, but…[Read more]
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Jan Christopher Susina posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoChildren’s and Young Adult Literature Sessions at the 2018 MLA Conference
18: Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist Children’s Literature
Thursday, January 04, 2018, 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM. Hilton: Clinton
PresiderPhilip Nel, Kansas State U
PresentationsAgents of Change: Pupils, Parents, and Publishers Moving toward Enlightenment in Denma…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal – Latinx Literature & Politics Issue – Extended Deadline: Dec 15 in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoChiricú Journal announces a deadline extension for submissions for our upcoming issue on Latinx literature and politics. Submissions by December 15 to chiricu.indiana.edu For questions, contact chiricu@indiana.edu
Chiricú Journal is a new, cutting-edge, peer-reviewed journal in Latinx studies launched by the Indiana University Press in Fall 201…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear members of the Psychology,Psychoanalysis, and Literature group, you may be interested in the following call for papers.
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic…[Read more]
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Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]
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