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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years agoGraduate-level syllabus for a seminar in the Department of English. Neither “history of the book” nor “media studies,” this course sits somewhere in-between combining the ethos of a makerspace with the hands-on resources of a letterpress and book arts studio.
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Whitney Sperrazza deposited Patterns of Violence: Critical Making and the She/Her/Hers of Early Modern Poetry in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoShort paper presented for MLA 2019 Session 417 – “Critical Computation: What’s Next?”
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Rosemary G. Feal started the topic Achy Obejas at the MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGoing to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ for bios.
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic CFP : Women and Language in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHello all, here’s a CFP that may be of interest. I assume W&L must be interested in eco approaches, since the editor asked us to post. Had to edit submission requirements. Cheers.
Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic CFP : Women and Language in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHello all, here’s a CFP that may be of interest:
Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language…[Read more]
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Matthew Omelsky deposited Knowledge in the Age of Climate Change in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoAn introduction to the January 2017 special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly, “Climate Change and the Production of Knowledge.”
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Ben Doyle started the topic *New Environmental Humanities publishing list* in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago*NEW HUMANITIES PROGRAMME AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES LIST: CALL FOR PROPOSALS! *Emerald Publishing (2018 IPG Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year) is pleased to announce investment in a new Humanities book programme. Our commitment to interdisciplinary research means that we are moving into the Humanities for the first time, building…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Future Past (GSA 2019, Environmental Studies Network) in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGerman Studies Association
Oct. 3-6, 2019 – Portland, Oregon
“Future Past”
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Network
Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2019
The Environmental Studies Network invites submissions for a series of panels for the GSA 2019, taking place October 3-6, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
We invite submissions for a series of pan…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Future Past (GSA 2019, Environmental Studies Network) in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGerman Studies Association
Oct. 3-6, 2019 – Portland, Oregon“Future Past”
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Network
Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2019
The Environmental Studies Network invites submissions for a series of panels for the GSA 2019, taking place October 3-6, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
We invite submissions for a series of pan…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic MLA 2020 CfP: Vegetal Imaginations: Plants in German Literature and Culture in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoVegetal Imaginations: Plants in German Literature and Culture
This panel will explore the role of plants in the German literary and cultural imagination, with a special focus on questions of gender, sexuality, and ecofeminism.
Please send 300-word abstracts and a short bio or CV by 1 March 2019 to Joela Jacobs (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu) and…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
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Nicole Dib started the topic American Literature Association 2019 – Postwar Area Literature Group CFP in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoMemoir and Recovery Narratives, 1945-1980
American Literature Association 2019 – Boston, May 23-26 / Postwar Area Literature Group
Memoirs and autobiographies; lost and found objects, persons, and selfhoods in literatures of the postwar period. Abstracts by January 15 to foertsch@unt.edu
Samples and Fragments, 1945-1980
American Li…[Read more]
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Katherine Hummel started the topic "Resisting Otherwise" CFP: Guaranteed Panel for ASLE, June 26-30, 2019, Davis CA in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoResisting Otherwise: Mobilizing Submerged Perspectives in Global Social Ecologies (Guaranteed Panel for ASLE, June 26-30, 2019, Davis CA)
Ends on December 15, 2018
Organizers: Katherine Hummel (hummel@umich.edu) and Constanza Contreras (cbcontre@umich.edu), University of Michigan
Planned Format: Roundtable (5-6 Presenters)
For decades, i…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic Reminder: CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTo TC Women’s and Gender Studies…
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, v…[Read more]
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