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Kathleen Woodward deposited Reading Affect in Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDesigned as a short introduction to academic literary studies of affect, Reading Affect in Literary Studies is a one-credit graduate seminar, offered in Spring 2014, that was framed by the question of how we might rethink our practice as scholars of literature to take our scholarship to publics beyond the academy. Readings included work by Rita…[Read more]
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Kathleen Woodward deposited Reading Affect in Literary Studies in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDesigned as a short introduction to academic literary studies of affect, Reading Affect in Literary Studies is a one-credit graduate seminar, offered in Spring 2014, that was framed by the question of how we might rethink our practice as scholars of literature to take our scholarship to publics beyond the academy. Readings included work by Rita…[Read more]
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Loren Kruger deposited Chicago / Johannesburg in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJohannesburg, Chicago of South Africa
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Steven G. Kellman deposited "Alien autographs: how translators make their marks" in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoLike other forms of treachery, translation can be either concealed or exposed. Though most literary translators work in the dark and some embrace invisibility as an ideal, all translations can be situated along the continuum of illusionist-anti-illusionist or domesticating-foreignizing. A variety of paratexts lay bare the devices of translation.…[Read more]
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Stephanie Rountree started the topic CPF: Region and National Technologies in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers for a prospective panel at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature’s Biennial Conference in Boston, March 10-12, 2016
“Region and National Technologies”
Pursuant to SSSL’s conference theme “The South in the North,” this panel welcomes proposals for papers that consider the formation and/or manifestation of region in…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Swanstrom started the topic CFP "Small Screen Fictions" in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoParadoxa, Issue in Preparation
Volume 29, “Small Screen Fictions”
Anticipated publication date: December, 2017
Editors:
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales)
Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland)
Lisa Swanstrom (Florida-Atlantic, Boca Raton, Florida, USA)In the last few decades, digital technologies have dram…[Read more]
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Linda M. Willem started the topic John Kronik Travel Grant in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoJohn Kronik Award: $1,000 Research and Travel Grant for Graduate Students, awarded by the International Association of Galdós Scholars.
Prerequisites:
Candidate must be a member of the International Association of Galdós Scholars.
The research project must either be on Galdós, or have a component focused on his work.
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic ESSE 2016: cfp in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago13th ESSE CONFERENCE
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016.
CFP: SEMINAR ON “GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE”
Conveners: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (U of Huelva, Spain, picuder@dfing.uhu.es)
Cinta Ramblado-Minero (U of Limerick, Ireland, cinta.ramblado@ul.ie)
One of the characteristics of postmodernity is the glob…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: Between the Public and its Privates (MLA Subconference) in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Public and its Privates
Submission deadline: October 16, 2015
Submit to: mlasubconference@gmail.comBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books
January 6-7, 2016
Location: Studium Art Space
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: The Public and its Privates in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum BooksJanuary 6-7, 2016 (FREE)
Location: Studium Art Space (FREE)
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702As the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic CFP: (ACLA 2016) Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the 2016 ACLA proposed seminar:
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance
http://www.acla.org/seminar/what%E2%80%99s-love-got-do-it-theory-desire-and-performance
Organizer: Yomaira Figueroa, Michigan State University
Co-Organizer: Carolyn Ureña, Rutgers University
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Alan Lopez deposited "Kindred Spirits: Fanon's Postcolonialism" in the group
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis essay concerns the significance of phenomenology in Frantz Fanon’s thought and its influence on the autobiographic and ethnographic contours of his study, Black Skin, White Masks. Of note is Fanon’s movement between metaphor and phenomenology, especially as concerns figures of the hand and the body, and how his narratological treatment of…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Kindred Spirits: Fanon's Postcolonialism" in the group
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis essay concerns the significance of phenomenology in Frantz Fanon’s thought and its influence on the autobiographic and ethnographic contours of his study, Black Skin, White Masks. Of note is Fanon’s movement between metaphor and phenomenology, especially as concerns figures of the hand and the body, and how his narratological treatment of…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CfP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the proposed ACLA seminar below:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mi…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CFP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions to our upcoming ACLA seminar:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mikhail…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CFP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoDear all,
Please consider submitting to our ACLA seminar on the intersection of life writing and the city:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: World Novels and 21st-Century Media (ACLA 2016, abstracts due Sept 23) in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions to the “World Novels and 21st Century Media” seminar at ACLA 2016. Please find the CFP reproduced below; it’s also available through this link: http://www.acla.org/seminar/world-novels-and-21st-century-media. Abstracts are due by September 23, 12am PST, and must be submitted through the ACLA online portal at…[Read more]
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Carol DeBoer-Langworthy started the topic Last Call: CFP for Lifewriting & Islam in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoFor Volume 5, Lifewriting Annual seeks critical and scholarly essays and reviews for a special section dedicated to lifewriting as it intersects with Islam across time and the world. We seek submissions that engage with representations of Islam and Islamic culture in/through biography, autobiography, essays, memoirs, journals, diaries, and letters…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Modern Language Association (MLA) and the Columbia University Libraries / Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) have been working together on a prototyped user interface that connects a library-quality repository system (Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange, or CORE, modeled on Columbia’s Academic Com…[Read more]
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited The Interstitial Body and Moral Formation:Third-Culture Displacement and Subject Formation in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago.Using the concept of “third culture” from social theory, this article examines Charles Kingsley’s use of displacement in his children’s book The Water Babies (1863). In trying to portray the site of moral formation, Kingsley displaces his central character Tom – the new, interstitial “third culture” subject. Through Tom’s displacement, Kingsle…[Read more]
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