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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoSalaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]
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Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP Conference: USES OF MODERNISM (Ghent, Belgium – 20-22 September 2023) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.
CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023
The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award (Nominations Due 3.15.2023) in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear Colleagues,
The faculty of English at Idaho State University invites nominations for the fifth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2021 and 2022 are due March 15, 2023. For more information…[Read more]
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Michaela Hulstyn started the topic CFP MLA 2024: Vital Signs: Thinking and Feeling Sustenance and Survival in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Cognitive and Affect Studies forum invites papers that discuss vital signs in literature for a guaranteed session at the 2024 MLA. Please submit a 250-word abstract and short bio to mhulstyn@stanford.edu by 15 March.
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Ellen Spolsky replied to the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies via email on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoSome of you may also be interested in the *on line* Special Session
629 *Cognition,
Law, and Literature *Sunday 8 January 10:15 AM-11:30 AMhttps://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Session/14222
Presider
– SSimon Stern
<https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Person/5709>
– U of TorontoPresentations…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAll: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAll: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Cognitive and Affect Studies-sponsored Sessions at MLA2023 in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoI hope everyone will attend our forum’s sponsored sessions this year at MLA2023! Here is a convenient link to all three in the convention program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Symposium/2149
We have three very different sessions this year. First up, on Thursday, is a face-to-face session exploring neurodiverse modes of literary…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Cognitive and Affect Studies-sponsored Sessions at MLA2023 in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoI hope our forum members will consider attending our sponsored sessions at this year’s MLA convention, and help out our work by letting others who will be in attendance know about them!
* Attention, Please! Thu 5:15-6:30, Moscone West – this face to face session examines attention from neurodiverse perspectives, including neuroqueer, ADHD, and…[Read more]
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Jessica DeSpain started the topic TM Teaching of Literature Forum Delegate in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAs the convention approaches, the Teaching of Literature Forum is seeking a new delegate. If you would like to participate or if you have any suggestions for someone who would be a good fit, please share them here. If you have questions, you can share them here or email me at jdespai@siue.edu.
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Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoVirginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article traces the developme…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more] -
Molly D. Appel deposited Syllabus for Digital Humanities and Early Latinx Literatures in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoLatinx/o/a writing has existed long before 20th century state policies and publishing markets created the category we recognize today as “Latino/a literature.” This course will focus on the literary and cultural production of writers from the era of initial colonization through Latin American independence and the 19th century actions fueled by the…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThe Research Society for Victorian Periodicals should work to protect multiple runs of actual Victorian periodicals, which are potentially at risk in “collective collections” organized by academic libraries.
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Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoAbstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.
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Mirosław Miernik started the topic CFP: Volume on Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo), “Hadrian the Seventh” in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoWe are seeking submissions for an upcoming volume on the work of Frederick Rolfe, also known as Baron Corvo, with particular emphasis placed on his novel Hadrian the Seventh. The book will be published by Lexington Books in 2024. The chapters should be around 7,500 words. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- The politics…
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Cheryl Farris-Clayton deposited On Dickinson in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoEssay on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her impact upon literature. This essay celebrates her global reach from within societal spheres of gender. “Emily Dickinson transformed the genre of poetry from the academic salon styled idealism to the personal poignant voice of reality from the poet’s point of view.”
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