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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Call for panelists, "Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air" (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
Please consider proposing a paper to the MLA 2020 Panel, “Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air.”
A range of classification schemes proliferated in the long eighteenth century, from casta classifications in the Americas (Carrera, Imagining Identity) to racial, national, and moral classifications of human beings in Europe (Kant, Obs…[Read more]
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Kristin Bluemel deposited Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Allison Margaret Bigelow replied to the topic Mentoring Opportunities: Professional Development with CLCS 18th C. Forum in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoUpdate: we’ve started a googlesheet to sign up. Please feel free to enter your information here, either to volunteer to mentor or to be matched with a mentor:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_zAqjmkOkgqqF7P0u0R35JFSb2ue1qh-F3LHkutGlc/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks!
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Mentoring Opportunities: Professional Development with CLCS 18th C. Forum in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
The MLA is looking for ways to improve year-round engagement in the forums, and it has identified professional development as a critical area of need for many of our members. If you would be willing to mentor another member of the CLCS 18th-C. forum, please reply to this post here or email Allison Bigelow at…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic CFP : Women and Language in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHello all, here’s a CFP that may be of interest. I assume W&L must be interested in eco approaches, since the editor asked us to post. Had to edit submission requirements. Cheers.
Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic CFP : Women and Language in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHello all, here’s a CFP that may be of interest:
Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language…[Read more]
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Matthew Omelsky deposited Knowledge in the Age of Climate Change in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoAn introduction to the January 2017 special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly, “Climate Change and the Production of Knowledge.”
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Laura L. Runge started the topic Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century in the discussion
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoMLA 2019 LLC Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
Sunday January 6, 2019: 10:15-11:30 AM, Randolph 2 (Hyatt Regency Chicago)
Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century
Session Chair: Laura L. Runge, University of South Florida
“Before We Were Normal: Disability and Aesthetics in the Early Eighteenth C…[Read more]
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Ben Doyle started the topic *New Environmental Humanities publishing list* in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago*NEW HUMANITIES PROGRAMME AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES LIST: CALL FOR PROPOSALS! *Emerald Publishing (2018 IPG Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year) is pleased to announce investment in a new Humanities book programme. Our commitment to interdisciplinary research means that we are moving into the Humanities for the first time, building…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Future Past (GSA 2019, Environmental Studies Network) in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGerman Studies Association
Oct. 3-6, 2019 – Portland, Oregon
“Future Past”
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Network
Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2019
The Environmental Studies Network invites submissions for a series of panels for the GSA 2019, taking place October 3-6, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
We invite submissions for a series of pan…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Future Past (GSA 2019, Environmental Studies Network) in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGerman Studies Association
Oct. 3-6, 2019 – Portland, Oregon“Future Past”
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Network
Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2019
The Environmental Studies Network invites submissions for a series of panels for the GSA 2019, taking place October 3-6, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
We invite submissions for a series of pan…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic MLA 2020 CfP: Vegetal Imaginations: Plants in German Literature and Culture in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoVegetal Imaginations: Plants in German Literature and Culture
This panel will explore the role of plants in the German literary and cultural imagination, with a special focus on questions of gender, sexuality, and ecofeminism.
Please send 300-word abstracts and a short bio or CV by 1 March 2019 to Joela Jacobs (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu) and…[Read more]
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Katherine Hummel started the topic "Resisting Otherwise" CFP: Guaranteed Panel for ASLE, June 26-30, 2019, Davis CA in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoResisting Otherwise: Mobilizing Submerged Perspectives in Global Social Ecologies (Guaranteed Panel for ASLE, June 26-30, 2019, Davis CA)
Ends on December 15, 2018
Organizers: Katherine Hummel (hummel@umich.edu) and Constanza Contreras (cbcontre@umich.edu), University of Michigan
Planned Format: Roundtable (5-6 Presenters)
For decades, i…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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