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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Forum CFP's for 2017 MLA Convention in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoLatina/o Indigenous Pacific
Intersections of Latina/o and Indigenous production and identity within, around and through the Pacific Rim. Conversations, re-imaginings and re-formations across shared and divergent spaces and histories. Abstract and CV by March 11.
Anna Nogar (anogar@unm.edu) and Ruby Tapia (rtapia@umich.edu)
Writing (…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoA video essay about title sequences from films by Alfred Hitchcock and David Fincher. An exploration of motion graphic design from analog to digital.
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Kyle Pivetti started the topic CFP: Alternate Histories, Alternate Memories (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Memory Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoIn examples like Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle or Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, we can see the alternate history genre imagine a multitude of possible pasts, both national and individual. It is those possibilities that lead critics to investigate the constructedness of history and notions of past and future. This pro…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic LLA Italian American CFPs for MLA 2017 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoPlease see below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
DigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People
The Italian American Literature Forum is seeking panelists to present transmedia perspectives and projects (oral histories, photos, artifacts, home movies etc.) on the Italian…[Read more] -
Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Re-visioning Romantic-Era Gothicism: An Introduction to Key Works and Themes in the Study of H.P. Lovecraft in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoHoward Phillips Lovecraft was an author, letter writer and poet who lived between 1890 and 1937. His works blend science fiction with Gothic themes. Lovecraft was, by the majority of accounts (including his own), a bad writer. He was also an outspoken racist for the majority of his life to a degree which makes much of his work, to a modern reader,…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP ASA 2016: Home Screens in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP for American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 17-20, Denver, CO
Home Screens: Digitizing Belonging and Place in American Studies
This panel seeks contributors who have been involved with a digital project that preserves, recreates, or generates notions of “home” in the American context. In keeping with the conference theme, Home/Not H…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoArgues that the documentary Paper Clips exemplifies the ways in which Holocaust education can unwittingly foster competing victimization narratives between blacks and Jews, sanitize both European and U.S. history, and serve subtle
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Tsitsi Jaji started the topic CFP: The Performance of Pan-Africanism (Conference on Cultural Festivals) in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Performance of Pan-Africanism:
from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals
International Conference
20-22 October, 2016
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University
Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane B…[Read more]
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Maria DiFrancesco started the topic Summer Fellowship Opportunity: NeMLA in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe NeMLA Summer Fellowship Program Summer fellowships up to $1,500 are intended to defray the cost of traveling incurred by researchers in pursuing their work-in-progress over the summer. Fellowships primarily support untenured junior faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars. All applicants will be notified before the convention.…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Pedagogical / Research Items of Interest? in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester, and happy holidays! I wanted to alert you to the research papers, book chapters, annotated bibliographies, and pedagogical materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members using CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read you…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Extended Deadline for 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoExtended Deadline!
Call for Papers
The 21st Summer Meeting
of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
June 2-5, 2016
The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
During an extended period of self-imposed isolation following his graduation from Bowdoin, Hawthorne embarked on a tour of New England and the Hudson Valley. In 1832, he visited Burlington,…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic CFP w/ extended deadline for Hawthorne ALA panels in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago*Extended Deadlines!*
Calls for Papers: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Sessions, American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016.
“Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood”
Proposals for papers on the topic of “Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood” are sought for a Nathaniel Hawthorne Society session at the American Literature Associat…[Read more]
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
Dear colleagues,
The new issue of Caracteres, vol. 4 n. 2, is now available both in our website and as a downloadable PDF file: http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n1mayo2015/ In this issue you will find a monograph coordinated by María Ángeles Grande entitled “Wolds under…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited Rethinking the Dissertation: Opportunities Created by Emerging Technologies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis is a position paper for an upcoming workshop convened by the Council of Graduate Schools on rethinking the dissertation. In it, I reflect on what new technologies enable us to do with this critical milestone in graduate study. My main argument is that while the affordances of specific technologies can be exciting, more important is the shift…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited Digital Blake 2.0 in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoIn an essay entitled “Digital Blake,” J. Hillis-Miller (2006) asks a question which dominates discussions of William Blake’s relationship to New Media: “[w]ould Blake have approved of the William Blake Archive?” (p29). The Archive has itself been the focus of enormous theoretical reflection. The “Articles about the Archive” section on the Archive…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro replied to the topic Executive Committee Candidate Bios in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAs many of you know, nominations for the Modern Language Association Executive Council are anonymous, so I was honored to be asked to run as one of the graduate student candidates. The current council told me that my nomination was accepted based on my status as a graduate student, my experience as a part-time faculty member at a wide range of…[Read more]
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