Albertine Fox
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Enrique Fernandez started the topic Designing a database for visula artists and for scholars in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI am developing an online database of the visual culture of the Spanish masterpiece Celestina (1499). At the moment, everything is in Spanish, but a programmer is helping me to develop the English version (we are using Omeka). I am trying to strike a balance between scholarly thoroughness and accessibility for the average users since there are…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic American Documentary Poetics CFP in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAmerican Documentary Poetics
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MACall for papers on any topic related to American docupoetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including photos a…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPoéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies, and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: On Sappho's Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoOn Sappho’s Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
International Conference, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain,
April 25-27, 2017
https://onsapphoswebsite.wordpress.com/
EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 30, 2016
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions for This Forum's Fall 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMS Screen Arts and Culture will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in an election that is scheduled for the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making n…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions Needed for Next Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWhen it meets during the upcoming convention in Philadelphia, this forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for the fall 2017 election of a new forum representative in the Delegate Assembly. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has b…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoA reminder to scholars of literature and visual arts/comics scholars:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the c…[Read more]
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Carmen Lopez deposited Water and Liminality in Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters of the Dust in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines the influence and effects of water in post-colonial African American women of the Gullah and Gee-Chee cultures from the sea islands of Georgia and south Carolina, reviewing the ecological theory of phenotypes establishing the eco-boundaries of the resulting pure-selves through the examination of one film and a novel: Julie…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller replied to the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. October 16 and Sat. October 17, 2015 in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Nicky Agate,
Thank you for your help with publicizing this conference! Best wishes! Janet
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Call for papers in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017). Aula lírica is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays, notes, and reviews, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, on all periods, movements, and app…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Dysfunctional Utopia: Emily Dickinson and the "Good Death" in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper will be presented at the upcoming South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference Nov.3-6 in Jacksonville, FL. The research is a part of my thesis project that will be completed in spring 2017.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAnxieties abound regarding the ostensible obsolescence of the book. Exploring whether the book is in fact becoming obsolete — and what it might mean if it were — requires thinking distinctly about the specific material form of the book (the codex) and about the content that it has long carried. If the form were to change — becoming digital, for i…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Simply Reproducing Reality – Brecht, Benjamin, and Renger-Patzsch on Photography in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article reads Albert Renger-Patzsch’s photographic theory and practice in the context of Benjamin’s and Brecht’s dismissals of his work in order to recover the paradoxical interplay between documentation and perceptual training central to debates about photography as a specifically modern medium during the 1920s. I argue that, rather than…[Read more]
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Margaret C. Flinn started the topic New M.A. Program in Film Studies in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Ohio State University Master of Arts in Film Studies
The Ohio State University announces a new Master of Arts degree in Film Studies. Film Studies at Ohio State (https://film-studies.osu.edu) is a multicultural, international, and interdisciplinary program, which approaches cinema as both art and as international social practice. The M.A.…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited L’urlo. Del furor destructor a la afirmación de sí in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French 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] -
Donna Kornhaber started the topic CFP: The Films of Wes Anderson in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe Films of Wes Anderson
A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)
Wes Anderson is among the most recognized and recognizable writer-directors working today: the recipient of six Academy Award nominations, the subject of countless magazine profiles, the topic of several recent books, and the object of an…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Appel de communications Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling Colloque international in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoAppel de communications
Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling
Colloque international
Université de Toronto, Canada
24–26 mai 2017
L’affect est avant tout, dans l’ordre du corps, un phénomène physique et psychique, à la fois en-deçà et au-delà de la représentation, qui mobilise l’expérience concrète de soi, celle de l’autre et celle du monde. En t…[Read more]
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