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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]
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Maria Lujan Figueredo replied to the topic News to share? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello,
Thank you for this message. I recently won an award and I would like to have this news shared with other MLA members in the Commons Newsletter to be included in the September issue!
Professor Maria Figueredo wins 2016 President’s University-Wide Teaching Award
(Full-Time Faculty Category)
This prestigious award is an important recognit…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic Deadline Approaching: Gender & the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Sept. 1 deadline for the Studies in the Novel special issue, “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupation of the American West” is approaching. Full CFP and submission guidelines below.
Call for Papers: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a s…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited The Blotted Line | An Interview with Alexa Huang in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn Interview with Alexa Huang, George Washington University | The Blotted Line
“I am proud to have answered my calling to tell stories and to show others how to listen for silenced voices. Story-telling makes us human because it…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Global Women's Conference: Understanding and Preventing Violence in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoChristopher Newport University
College of Arts and Humanities
Call for Papers
Global Status of Women and Girls:
“Understanding, Defining, and Preventing Violence”
March 24-26, 2017
to be held at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to foster inquiries into the complex and mul…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited El dantisme de Manuel de Montoliu in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoIn the year 1903 Manuel de Montoliu published the first Catalan version, in prose and poetry, of “La Vida Nova”, which meant an important stage within the history of pre-Raphaelitism and modernism in Catalonia. In this article the first Dantesque influences in the poetic production of the translator will be detected, the stage of preparation and…[Read more]
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Alison Booth deposited Responsible Parties in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoFor an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]
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Laura C. Mandell started the topic Curious about Digital Humanities? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoOur Digital Humanities Center at Texas A&M, the IDHMC, is offering an introductory course — four one-hour sessions; participation online. Here follows the flyer we sent out–please pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
P4H: What is Digital Humanities?
An official course in the Programming 4 Humanists SeriesBeginning Friday, Au…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoOf interest to the group for interdisciplinary approaches to culture and society:
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 criti…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThe 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 comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new examinations of her entire body…[Read more]
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Anna M. Klobucka started the topic Call for submissions for the Journal of Feminist Scholarship in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThe Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research. The journal can be found at http://www.jfsonline.org/.
The editors of JFS invite submissions on a…[Read more]
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Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for ACL(x) '16: Extra-Disciplinarity Due date 30 June in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoWhat if disciplines were organized differently — or didn’t exist at all? Or existed, but none of us “belonged” to one? What if literary scholars were to go about interdisciplinary work the way scientists do, building large teams from distinct disciplines to produce work with many co-authors? How do other disciplines reach their audiences? What…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Call for proposals, for a new series from Medieval Institute Publications to
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoLate Tudor and Stuart Drama:
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Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic Call for Assistant Editors: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCALL FOR
ASSISTANT EDITORS (2017 & 2018)APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 20 NOVEMBER 2016
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the cultures of cities and blending humanities and social science approaches to the urban phenomenon. The journal publishes research articles (subject to peer review) of…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoMarie Darrieussecq’s Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel’s “bad” language is a foil for Darrieussecq’s larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural StudiesMay 6-7, 2016
McMaster Innovation Park
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the…[Read more]
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Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoYou might be interested in my recent book, *Art and Adaptation*, which presents a comprehensive survey and discussion of the dominant ideas by leading thinkers on why we make art. Approaches that examine the evolution of art behavior embrace natural selection, sexual selection, social selection, and cognition. Plenty of more information at my…[Read more]
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic CFP Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCall for Proposals
Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production
The editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexu…[Read more] - Load More
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