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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research.
We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000…[Read more]
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Delia Steverson started the topic MLA 2023 CFP Passages of Water and Labor Cultures of the Coastal South in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoPassages of Water and Labor Cultures of the Coastal South and the Caribbean
In Edwidge Danticat’s short story “Without Inspection,” an undocumented Haitian immigrant, Arnold, dies from unsafe working conditions at a construction site in south Florida. In the news coverage about the event, the construction company and developer release a state…[Read more]
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Delia Steverson started the topic MLA 2023 CFP Disability and Public Health in the U.S. South in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDisability and Public Health in the U.S. South
A key part of colonizing in the U.S. South depended on the rhetoric of health, such as Ponce de Leon’s mythical fountain of youth and nineteenth-century boosterism claiming Florida as the “winter sanitarium of the country” (qtd in Knight 5). The semi-tropical warmth of the South invited justif…[Read more]
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Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Rielle Navitski started the topic Asst. Prof. – African American Theatre and Performance – University of Georgia in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe University of Georgia Department of Theatre and Film Studies and the Institute for African American Studies seek an assistant professor whose scholarly research focuses on African American theatre and performance. Additional areas of specialization might include African American film, performance methods based in Afrocentric…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month 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 authors including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that p…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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Derrick R. Spires started the topic CFP: New Citizenship Studies (special issue of American Literature) in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoGreetings colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting),
Please share the CFP for our co-edited special issue of American Literature: New Citizenship Studies. Essay submissions are due June 9, 2022. See information below and attached. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions.
Thanks,
Carrie Hyde (UCLA) and Derrick R. Spires (Cornell…[Read more] -
Kristin Moriah started the topic Tenure-Track Faculty Assistant Professor, McGill University in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Department of English at McGill University invites applications for a tenure-track position in African-Canadian and/or African-American Literatures. We welcome candidates who specialize in Black diasporic, transnational, and global Black literatures, cultures, and media. We likewise welcome applications from candidates across the full…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoScholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
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Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoPublished in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIsraeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]
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Jen McConnel started the topic Call for papers: please share widely! in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoGuaranteed session at MLA 2022:Where Do We Go From Here? Anti-Racism and the Future of the Profession
This panel explores the ways educators are engaging with anti-racist practices in their language and literature classrooms as we re-envision the future of our profession. We are seeking practical pedagogical experiences and reflections,…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original message. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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