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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP: Shaw in New York (October 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoShaw in New York (October 16-19, 2015)
Sponsored by Fordham University at Lincoln Center, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and The International Shaw Society
Paper proposal deadline: July 1
The conference organizers invite papers focused on any aspect of Bernard Shaw’s relationship to New York: productions…[Read more]
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Patrick Walsh started the topic CFP: Urban Drama, Urban Theater (NEASECS Conference Panel, Oct. 8-10, 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS)
Annual Conference 2015 “Texts and the City”
Hosted by Trinity College
Hartford, CT, USA, October 8-10, 2015Panel: Urban Drama, Urban Theater
In the thought and literature of the eighteenth century, the theater often features as a distinctly urban space, one…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoGay black representations of the phallus subvert recognizable images of the gay/black phallus, and they draw on a tradition, however brief, of writers who have also possessed and spoken from the gay/black phallus. In thus circumventing symbolic castration,
Saint’s progeny effectively engage in a tentative yet decidedly agentive elaboration of gay…[Read more] -
Doug Steward deposited THE ILLUSIONS OF PHALLIC AGENCY Invisible Man, Totem and Taboo, and the Santa Claus Surprise in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoFor the narrator of Invisible Man, the abjection of women and homosexuals operates at first as a discursive strategy for making the black male’s position more subjectively endurable, but the narrator must eventually confront this discursive strategy as an illusion of hetero-phallic agency, since he continually fails to acquire the sorts of i…[Read more]
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: Elizabeth Keckley Reader in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoProposals are invited for A Determined Life: The Elizabeth Keckley Reader edited by Sheila Smith McKoy. The reader seeks to present a comprehensive view of Keckley’s remarkable life. Much like Keckley herself, the reader will be multi-faceted in its approach, examining her life through a variety of lenses. We are seeking essays, drama, fi…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoPlease attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, for your classes. Help your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future.
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoToni Morrison CFP
We are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher started the topic CFP: MLA 2016 Austin: Word Books and Material Culture in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWord Books and Material Culture
Sponsored by the new Theory and Method forum Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography (formerly known as the Lexicography Discussion Group).
ABCs, dictionaries, spellers, synonymies, thesauruses: what is the life of a word book? What stories do word books tell? Please submit 250 word abstracts by the deadline.…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley replied to the topic CFP for MLA16: Bernard Shaw and New Media, 1879-2015 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoRe: “Shaw and New Media” CFP:
Paper proposals are due by March 15 to jennifer-buckley@uiowa.edu.
(Apologies for multiple posts — a result of MLA Commons site time-outs.)
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Andres Perez-Simon started the topic CFP: “The modernist 'mysterium'" (MSA, Nov 19-22 2015, Boston) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago<div>CFP: “The modernist ‘mysterium’, between allegorical drama and revolutionary politics”</div>
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Modernist Studies Association Conference
November 19-22, 2015
Boston, MA
In The Death of Character (1996), Elinor Fuchs conceptualizes the “mysterium” as a modernist theatrical practice with a strong didactic orientation that adapts the exposit…[Read more] -
Jody Enders started the topic Joint CFP from Law as Literature Discussion/Drama Forum in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Drama Division is equally pleased to post this call for papers for a proposed cosponsored Panel with our colleagues in the Law as Literature Discussion Group. A more complete version, authored by Alex Feldmann, follows the short description below. We look forward to hearing from you and to seeing you in Austin.
(up)Staging…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic CFP: Evolution, Ethics & Tragedy (Kent State Humanities Conference, July 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCall for Papers
Panel Topic: Evolution, Ethics, and TragedyConference:
Why the Humanities: Answers from Cognitive and Neuroscience
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
July 9-12, 2015
http://www.kent.edu/cas/why-humanitiesContact Person for this Panel:
David Palmer
Humanities Department
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
dpalmer@maritime.eduI am…[Read more]
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Jody Enders started the topic Divisional Call for Papers, Austin 2016 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Colleagues,
The Division (soon to be “Forum”) on Drama and Performance is pleased post below a lengthier description of our plans for Austin, 2016.
On behalf of Brian Herrera, Eng-Beng Lim, Nadia Ellis, and Shane Vogel, we are very much looking forward to your queries and proposals,
Jody Enders, Chair (2016)
What are the lim…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP for MLA16: Bernard Shaw and New Media, 1879-2015 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 11 years agoIn mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP for MLA16: Bernard Shaw and New Media, 1879-2015 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 11 years agoIn mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic Sustainability and Population in American Literary History in the forum
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoSpecial Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying ecocritical topics, demography in literature, race, reproduction, or other American literary topics. Papers on Jefferson, Malthus, Delany and black nationalism, and eugenics and conservation are some of the t…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic Sustainability and Population in American Literary History in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoSpecial Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying nineteenth-century American literature. The panel is on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in 116 VCC West. More information about the panelists and papers can be found at ht…[Read more]
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Lexicography on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoAbstracts for MLA2015, session 356: Teaching with the OED
Friday, 9 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 111, VCC West
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Lexicography
Presiding: Lisa Berglund, Buffalo State Coll., State Univ. of New York
Speakers: Kate Levin, Barnard Coll.; Elizabeth Dyrud Lyman, Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville; J. Lawrence M…[Read more] -
Koritha Mitchell started the topic Mentoring at Midcareer in the forum
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoMentoring isn’t just for students. Great advice from Joycelyn Moody. Let’s keep the conversation going at #MLA15! http://bit.ly/1wPU6y9
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