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Stephen Guy-Bray started the topic workshops of Lyly's Galatea in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months ago<div class=””>We invite scholars to participate in exploring John Lyly’s <i class=””>Galatea at the Jerwood Space this August. The award-winning theatre maker Emma Frankland and Andy Kesson will be working with a company of performers, exploring the play’s representations of non-normative sexuality and its concluding investment in transge…[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
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the Sexuality Studies Group:
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 comics of Aliso…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
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 comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exa…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell uploaded the file: CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection, DEADLINE 12/1/16) to
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAbstracts are sought for an edited collection on the comics of Alison Bechdel for the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists series at UP of Mississippi. Interdisciplinary approaches welcome; deadline 12/1/16
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Julian Grajewski deposited the coming heath death of the science fiction universe – against heteronomy in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agodiscussion of the may 2004 issue of pmla that treated science fiction as a scholarly genre. my question was, instead of writing strung-out, dystopian lit, why not ask what will be the level of consciousness of an individual human biped in a galactic economy of quadrilions and quintillions of people, each utilizing near- infinity numbers of…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis essay maps out a six-year literary transformation of Paris noir from 1957 to 1963 that overlaps with the Algerian war for independence from France (1954–1962). In this journey that transits from Parisian utopianism to postcolonial criticism, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin’s love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner S…[Read more]
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Laura Green deposited Hall of Mirrors: Radclyffe Hall's *The Well of Loneliness* and Modernist Fictions of Identity in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoVirginia Woolf’s well known distaste for the generic and aesthetic instability of Radclyffe Hall’s novel The Well of Loneliness (1928) finds echoes in more recent responses, even as the novel remains an anchor of a lesbian literary canon. I demonstrate that Hall’s novel does indeed exhibit generic and psychological instability, as a Victo…[Read more]
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThe 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 Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Af. Am. Interrogations of American National Narratives in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAfrican American Interrogations of American National Narratives: how do African American texts (e.g. Morrison’s Playing in the Dark, Paradise, or A Mercy) question the stability of American mythologies? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to thabiti@wsu.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Nat Turner: From Confessions to Film in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoNat Turner: From Confessions to Film: How do various media re-imagine black rebellion/revolt as related to the 1831 “Confessions,” Styron’s 1967 novel, and/or Nate Parker’s film “Birth of a Nation”? 250-word abstracts, CV to miriam-thaggert@uiowa.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Contemporary African American Theatre in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoContemporary African American Theatre: what critical conversations and new directions must emerge to sustain the vitality of African American theatre and performance and our understanding of its role in society? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to d_williams@howard.edu by March 25.
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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP for MLA: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:
Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern
Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic REMINDER: CFPs for MLA Session-The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agohttps://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=6828
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of racism and eth…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic Announcing the American Literature Society in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAnnouncing the American Literature Society
On behalf of the Advisory Board, I am pleased to announce the American Literature Society, a professional organization of scholars devoted to the preservation, study and recognition of American literature and culture. Formerly known as the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MELUS CFP – 21st Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMELUS Call for Papers
Special Issue: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures(A commemorative special issue in honor of MELUS Emeritus Editor Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.)
Guest Editors: A Yęmisi Jimoh and Angelo Robinson
Deadline for submission: 31 August 2016
Anticipated publication: 2018
With more than a decade and a half…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Alien Lines in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAlien Lines: Science Fiction Comics
The medium of comics—often dominated by genres bound to contemporary concerns or enduring conventions—remains marginal in the study of science fiction. Likewise, the oldest questions driving science fiction scholarship—identity and difference, self and other, chance and futurity—have not been central to comics…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Adaptation in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDrawing the Line: Comics and Adaptation
While comics adaptations have frequently been derided for “dumbing down” great works of literature through adaptation, recent movie adaptations of comics have conquered the box office and brought new attention to the medium. These intriguing developments beg the questions—How might comics be trans…[Read more]
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