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Ida Yoshinaga started the topic CFP International Fantastic Division for ICFA #40 (proposals due 10/31) in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoInternational Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #40
March 2019
Orlando, Florida
CFP Deadline 10/31/18
Please join us on <u>March 13-16, 2019</u>, for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) #40 in its theme of “Politics and Conflicts.” We welcome ideas for papers and panels on science fiction, fantasy, fair…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and CultureCo-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
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yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and CultureCo-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited Distinguishing the Comic Book Subgenre of Cancer Narratives in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoAn overview of proposed categories for the growing graphic medicine genre of cancer comics (i.e. cancer narratives in comic book form) and an initial theory on the significant linkage between this illness and particular medium.
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Laurie Ringer deposited “With Teeth:” Beyond Theoretical Violence in Gothic Studies in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article collides St. Apollonia’s medieval passion narratives – manuscript illustrations, church screens, and paintings by Francisco De Zurbarán and Carlo Dolci – with A.L. Kennedy’s contemporary short story “Story of My Life” to find out what happens when we move beyond the theoretical violence imposed by traditional approaches to gothic studies.
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic Readings Journal is looking for a new editor-in-chief in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDear all,
years ago, I started a double-blind peer-reviewed open-access venue. A lot of great people are on board (see “board members”), and I still love the idea of a litcrit journal actual people would read, but http://www.readingsjournal.net hasn’t (yet) achieved the wide circulation I had hoped for. In the meanwhile, I left the academia in favour of…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Resisting the cul-de-sac in Disgrace, Master of Petersburg and Life & Times of Michael K in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSamuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ends in both acts with the two tramps not moving in spite of agreeing that they should leave. Even though Vladimir and Estragon realize the futility of their wait, they remain adamant in the hope that Godot may arrive. Likewise, the Unnamable who cannot go on chooses to go on. What essentially translates in b…[Read more]
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Amy Kahrmann Huseby deposited “Half Poets” and “Whole Democrats”: The Politics of Poetic Aggregation in Aurora Leigh in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoElizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh seeks to redress the divisive work of women’s democratic political representation by way of poetic form to ask whether women must always be regarded as partial citizens. Women are not counted as integral units—ones—politically or culturally. Barrett Browning connects women’s ability to produce writing a…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Dirt and Trash in Romeo and Juliet (Social Stratification) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago‘Dirt’ and ‘Trash’ in Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_:
Update on the rhetoric of social stratification in R&J…Gloria McMillan June 21, 2018
Shakespeare in early modern period of English culture demonstrates how modern exogamy (voluntarily marrying outside your group) rattles the social stratification structure in modern western societi…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Writing History: 19th Century African American Activism in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoOur work in this course will center around two questions. First, what were the material and social conditions for Black men, women, and children living in the territory that would become the United States, from roughly 1750 until on or about 1860? While slavery is likely the first concept that comes to mind, additional concepts such as racism,…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe peer reviewed journal iMex. Interdisciplinary Mexico, ISSN 2193-9756 is currently accepting original, unpublished articles on the subjects of haunting and spectrality in contemporary Mexican cultures for its special issue Spectral Mexico. Original call for papers available here:…[Read more]
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Eric Calderwood started the topic New journal of interest to Global Hispanophone scholars in the discussion
Global Hispanophone via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoDear Global Hispanophone colleagues,
I hope that you’re all having a great summer! I’m writing to let you know
about a new journal that might be of interest to the members of this list.The Argentine writer Santiago De Luca is currently serving as Argentina’s
cultural attaché to Morocco. In that role, he has founded a new journa…[Read more] -
Stephen A. Ross deposited Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel: From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoFrom the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many tribes and subcultures of Britain’s teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of the most important contemporary British wri…[Read more]
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Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWhat is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies? Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019. Panel…[Read more]
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Kevin Potter started the topic CfP Special Issue of Humanities on Postcolonial Literatures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Humanities, Special Issue:
“Disturbances of Home/land in Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures”
Official call for papers page: here
Call for Papers:
In our vision of the home, or of what we associate with home, we tend to conjure up images of comfort, stability, permanence, primacy, and belonging. This image extends bey…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic CfP: International Conference: Migration Studies, Transnational Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCFP: Forms of Migration: An International Conference on Transnational Literature & Innovative Aesthetics
May 2—4, 2019: University of Graz (Graz, Austria)
The Department of American Studies and the Centre for Intermediality Studies at the University of Graz (Graz, Austria), in conjunction with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), announces a call f…[Read more]
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