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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Infinite Summer: Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network in the group
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis chapter explores the Infinite Summer reading project, in which a group of bloggers read and discussed David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in dialogue with one another and with a wide readership, arguing that such social reading projects present the potential for developing crucial kinds of ethical human connection (of which the novel depicts…[Read more]
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Michael Lackey started the topic CFP for book about Styron's Nat Turner Novel in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoRevisiting William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner:
Fifty Years Later
Editor: Michael Lackey
The University of Virginia Press has expressed interest in publishing a collection of essays commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner, which was published in 1967. So that the boo…[Read more] -
Patricia Oman started the topic CFP: "The Midwestern Moment: Essays in Early 20th c. Midwestern Regionalism" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoHastings College Press welcomes proposals for chapters for an edited volume focused on Midwestern regionalism during the first half of the twentieth century. The volume is tentatively entitled “The Midwestern Moment: Essays in Early-Twentieth Century Midwestern Regionalism.” Midwestern regionalism includes writers, artists, publishers, int…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoGay black representations of the phallus subvert recognizable images of the gay/black phallus, and they draw on a tradition, however brief, of writers who have also possessed and spoken from the gay/black phallus. In thus circumventing symbolic castration,
Saint’s progeny effectively engage in a tentative yet decidedly agentive elaboration of gay…[Read more] -
Dennis Looney deposited "What Should You Expect from the MLA Job Interview? And What Do Your Interviewers Expect from You? in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoShort piece on the structure of the typical academic job interview in languages and literatures.
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Dennis Looney deposited "Some of My Best Friends Are Foreign Language Teachers" in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoShort reflection on the marginalization of foreign language departments and teachers on the typical college campus (written in 2001).
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Doug Steward deposited THE ILLUSIONS OF PHALLIC AGENCY Invisible Man, Totem and Taboo, and the Santa Claus Surprise in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoFor the narrator of Invisible Man, the abjection of women and homosexuals operates at first as a discursive strategy for making the black male’s position more subjectively endurable, but the narrator must eventually confront this discursive strategy as an illusion of hetero-phallic agency, since he continually fails to acquire the sorts of i…[Read more]
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: Elizabeth Keckley Reader in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoProposals are invited for A Determined Life: The Elizabeth Keckley Reader edited by Sheila Smith McKoy. The reader seeks to present a comprehensive view of Keckley’s remarkable life. Much like Keckley herself, the reader will be multi-faceted in its approach, examining her life through a variety of lenses. We are seeking essays, drama, fi…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoPlease attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, for your classes. Help your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future.
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Ratan Bhattacharjee replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoDear Ms Miriam Gogol Greetings . I feel honoured to have got your invitation To write an article for your forthcoming book. I would love to contribute one article on Dreiser. As a member of the International Advisory Board of International Theodore Dreiser Society I would really enjoy the writing. Regards Ratan Bhattacharjee
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Keith Tse started the topic Teaching Chinese language and linguistics in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoI have just started a group on teaching Chinese language and linguistics. If anyone is interested, please join the group and we’ll discuss aspects of our experiences as teachers and students of Chinese. I look forward to hearing from many of you!
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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. Oct. 16 and Sat. Oct. 17, 2015 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme: Conflicts and ResolutionsFeatured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec Foster
Location: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512
We live in a society that has con…[Read more] -
Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoToni Morrison CFP
We are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While…[Read more]
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Lisa A. Seale started the topic CFP: MLA 2016 "Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe Robert Frost Society will be hosting a panel at the 2016 MLA Convention to be held in Austin, TX from January 7th-10th, 2016. In accordance with the announced theme of the meeting, “Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future,” we invite papers that explore the relationship between Frost, the public, and the artistic community of…[Read more]
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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Teaching Memory Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Members of the Teaching as a Profession group,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:
Teaching Memory Studies
Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flash…[Read more]
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and brief CV by 15 March…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic CFP: After Transnational American Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago“After Transnational American Studies” (MLA 2016): What does it mean to come after Transnational American Studies? Papers may consider transnationality, Americanity, globality, planetarity, empire, and/or the anthropocene. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2015 to Abby Goode (abby.l.goode@gmail.com).
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Lisa Stein Haven started the topic MAD Magazine Special Offer AHSA in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago***SPECIAL OFFER***
Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—
“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”
a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time
For new members, or members who were…[Read more]
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