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Martha Nell Smith started the topic 3 CFPs for TC Sexuality Studies Forum MLA 2017!!! in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoQueer Hamilton
Forum: TC Sexuality Studies and GS Drama and Performance
Musical theatre, performance, Broadway, dance, history, cross-periodization, American Revolution, Founding Fathers, colonial, empire, race, ethnicity, Latina/o, African-American, hip-hop, sexuality, gender, Caribbean, immigration. 250 word abstracts, CVs by 15 February…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic 817. Is the Short Story Queer? in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoAbstracts, and the short stories that will be discussed, at Special Session (roundtable) 817, “Is the Short Story Queer,” have been posted to an MLA Commons site:
https://session817.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
Please join us on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1:45-3:00 p.m., in 9B, Austin Convention Center.
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic St. John's University-New York: MLA: English in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agohttps://apply.interfolio.com/32882
We invite applications for an advanced to senior professor of English with research specialization in any area of writing, rhetoric, or pedagogy studies. Applications with junior academic standing will also be considered. The position combines joining the faculty of our dynamic MA- and PhD- granting graduate…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic CFP: (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)
De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer
Colloque international
84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir
Université du Québec à Montréal
11, 12, 13 mai 2016
En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysis…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Open Rank English Job at St. John's University in the discussion
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
Estimados colegas:
El nuevo número de la revista Caracteres, vol.4 n. 2, ya está disponible tanto a través de la web como mediante descarga (en PDF): http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n2noviembre2015/ Este número incluye un monográfico coordinado por María Ángeles Grande t…[Read more]
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Vicky Unruh deposited Unpacking the Libraries of Post-Soviet Cuba in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoBeginning with the renowned “Words to Intellectuals” (1961) delivered by Fidel Castro in the José Martí National Library and the creation of a state network of libraries, the library in Cuba was transformed into a cultural sphere saturated with ideological ambiguity. On the one hand, the library embodied the symbolic axis of the literacy campa…[Read more]
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Roland Greene deposited Interamerican Obversals: Haroldo de Campos and Allen Ginsberg Circa 1960 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay compares two mid-twentieth century poets of the Americas, Allen Ginsberg and Haroldo de Campos, in view of how their work circa 1960 intersects despite the differences in their poetics. It introduces the notion of the obversal, or the identity among poems through a common history.
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Hania Nashef deposited Becomings in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago's Blindness in the group
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“Becoming-animal” is a term used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their work, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia which at times can designate a movement towards denigration. With a “becoming,” a threshold is, invariably, crossed and the boundaries that have existed between the animal and the human become blurred. Moreover…[Read more]
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Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited Unwilling Impostors, Willing Victims: Passing in Two Nineteenth-Century Cuban Novels in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoA light-skinned mulata passes for white and begins a romantic relationship that ends tragically, revealing the intransigence of racial barriers; a mother raises her biological daughter as her step-daughter, so that she might adopt a white identity; a multiethnic society is shaken by dreams and anxieties of social mobility: These are some of the…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited 'High-Speed Enlightenment.’ Latin American literature and the new medium of periodicals in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDrawing upon studies of media history and print culture, this article analyzes the relationship among early-nineteenth-century Latin American periodicals, literary institutions, and new experiences of time and history. Framing these periodicals as a new medium which boomed during and immediately after the wars of independence, it underscores their…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited The Reappropriation of Poverty and the Art of “Making Do” in Contemporary Argentine Cultural Productions in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThrough an analysis of two post-crisis films (Estrellas, Federico León
and Marcos Martínez, 2007; El nexo, Sebastián Antico, 2005) shot in
the largest slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this essay sketches the
terms for conceptualizing a cultural dimension of the Global South
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Yolanda M. Martinez-San Miguel started the topic Postdoc in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPostdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Caribbean Studies 2016-2017
Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers, in collaboration with the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, is pleased to announce a one-year competitive postdoctoral fellowship for a humanities or social science scholar pursuing research in Caribbean Studies. Scholars…[Read more]
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Gabriel Rei-Doval started the topic CFP: 2nd North American Symposium of Galician Studies in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago2nd North American Symposium of Galician Studies: Academic Renewal, Artistic Communication and Social Innovation
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
April 20-23, 2016
As a continuation of the first conference organized by the Galician Studies Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in May, 2014, this second meeting at the U…[Read more]
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Martha Nell Smith started the topic Queer Panels, GLQ Caucus & Reception for MLA 2016 in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCheck out and join us for these exciting sessions and at the GLQ Caucus & Reception!!!
Thursday, 7 January
Queer Proximities 1:45–3:00 p.m. – Selected for inclusion in the Presidential Theme, “Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, Future”
Friday, 8 January
Vaqueeras/os 10:15–11:30 a.m.
Saturday, 9 January
Queer Crips ac…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Queer Crips across Time, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoSaturday, 9 January
619. Queer Crips across Time
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies
Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.
Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]
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Adam Dexter started the topic CFP: Queer Theory in French in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago47th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
17 March – 20 March 2016SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2015
Although French-language theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Monique Wittig have been fundamental in thinking about queer theory in English, queer theory’s…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP ICLA Congress in Vienna; Committee on Comparative Queer/Gender Studies in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago<u>Call</u> <u>for</u> <u>Abstracts</u>
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts…[Read more]
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Todd W. Reeser started the topic CFP: Doing the Body in the 21st Century, U of Pittsburgh in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoBodies can be collective, material, medicalized, biological, sexual, queer, trans, normative, political, racial, transnational, ecological, historical, useful, global, affective, gendered, disabled, surveilled, controlled, subjected, transformed, enhanced, engineered, empowered, organized, managed, discursive, aesthetic, translated, theorized,…[Read more]
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