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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFamily and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics
Call for Articles, Interviews, and Comics
Even though family relationships are at the heart of many graphic narratives, particularly relationships between parents and children (one can think of examples like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman’s Maus), few s…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: College Teaching (with) Unflattening (edited volume) in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoUnfurling Unflattening: Tracing Pedagogical Possibilities within Higher Education (Round Two)
Link here: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/09/08/unfurling-unflattening-tracing-pedagogical-possibilities-within-higher-educationdeadline for submissions: October 30, 2020
full name / name of organization: Janine Utell
contact em…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited CFP – Graphic Medicine at PCA 2021 in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoIn conjunction with the Popular Culture Association (PCA) holding their 2021 conference in Boston, contributors and attendees of the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Virtual Summit are proposing a slate of programming that now is welcoming additional participants.
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Kate Pond started the topic seeking participants for my thesis project in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoI’m attempting to collect a number of micro-stories in order to deconstruct them by their morphological functions and rebuild one story from the crowd-sourced content. I am hopeful for a diverse representation, but looking for more voices. I would really appreciate if you have 30 minutes or so, that you help contribute to my…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine Quantified: An Annotated Bibliography in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA challenge for Graphic Medicine is its being juxtaposed alongside biomedical and scientific fields of work that operate largely in the realm of statistics and quantifiable analytics. Often, the scholarship in Graphic Medicine comes without numbers. It is anecdotal, experiential, aesthetic/literary, or theoretical, customarily, and only…[Read more]
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Rahul K Gairola deposited Digital hijras: Intersex/ tions of Postcolonial and Queer Digital Humanities in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoPlease see abstract.
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Adrian Versteegh replied to the topic Delegate Assembly Nominees Sought! in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoHi Jeffrey—I’d be happy to volunteer. I’m a member and I attend every year. Just let me know what you need.
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic Delegate Assembly Nominees Sought! in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoHi Folks–want to get more involved in the MLA Gothic Studies forum? We need to submit to MLA a short list of nominees (2 or 3 people) to attend the delegate assembly meeting at the annual convention. So the person needs to be a member of MLA (or willing to become one!) who plans to attend the convention at least twice in the next 3 years. Please…[Read more]
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP: Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoFamily and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics
Call for Articles, Interviews, and Comics
Even though family relationships are at the heart of many graphic narratives, particularly relationships between parents and children (one can think of examples like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman’s Maus), few s…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agohttps://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/african-american/
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: 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.…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare P…[Read more] -
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFor anyone interested, there is now an MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group (easier to use / access than the MLA forum site I think). You can sign on at http://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies
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Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo started the topic In Memoriam: African American Literary and Scholarly Greats in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoSubmit 300-word abstracts for an In Memoriam Panel celebrating and critically engaging with the works and legacies of recently departed writers and scholars to jervette@gmail.com by April 6.
LLC African American Forum
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Jervette Ward replied to the topic MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>LLC African American Forum</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers for MLA 2021 in Toronto</p>
Theories of Black Women Intellectualism in the Nineteenth Century
Inviting talks on diverse iterations of intellectual thought amongst C19th Black women thinkers; Intellectual productions beyond the usual…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFPs — MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>LLC African American Forum</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers for MLA 2021 in Toronto</p>
Theories of Black Women Intellectualism in the Nineteenth Century
Inviting talks on diverse iterations of intellectual thought amongst C19th Black women thinkers; Intellectual productions beyond the usual…[Read more]
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Anita Harris Satkunananthan deposited Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]
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