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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Carla Sassi started the topic CFP: Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Lit in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWe invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2018.
The detailed CFP and further Special Issue…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on "Environment, Ecology, Clim in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWe invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2018.
The detailed CFP and further Special Issue…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature”
We invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript sub…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Lisa Zunshine deposited Bakhtin, Theory of Mind, and Pedagogy: Cognitive Construction of Social Class in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis essay brings together cognitive literary theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic imagination to illuminate the construction of social class in the eighteenth-century novel. It offers a close reading of selected passages from Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778), made possible by combining Bakhtinian and cognitive poetics. It also dis…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan uploaded the file: Ethnolinguistic Prelude to Gary, IN, "Land of Rust Belt Romance and Adventure" to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThese previews are to contextualize the Calumet region of NW Indiana. These trips will include coffee hours at local Calumet Region libraries to call for fiction short stories by people who grew in steel mill / industrial towns across the US. I am limited to covering NW Indiana, but our dostribution list includes people from PA, OH, and other states.
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Joseph Campana posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCall for postdocs
Rice University, 2018-19: “Waste Histories and Futures.”
http://hrc.rice.edu/node/709
Deadline: Friday, December 1, 2017Rice University’s Humanities Research Center will host the seminar “Waste: Histories and Futures” in 2018-19, co-organized by Joseph Campana (English), Cymene Howe (Anthropology), and Dominic Boyer…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers
Living Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms
ACLA Seminar, 3/29-4/1, 2018 at UCLAThis American Comparative Literature Association seminar invites papers addressing life forms that have been largely neglected by the nonhuman turn, in its more immediate focus on animals, objects, and environmental forces or…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945 (essays examining the topic from the perspective of gender and sexuality would be most welcome)deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited The Speculative Situation in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.
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Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo started the topic CFP: ACLA 2018. Topographies of narrative empathy: the social and the cognitive in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn recent times, empathy has occupied a privileged status in cross-disciplinary research on human behavior and social interaction. Cognitivists have identified empathy as a key emotion that explains why humans behave pro-socially. There is now evidence to suggest empathy as not only a key ingredient of altruism and cooperation, but also a…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIs the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]
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Heike Bauer deposited The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThe book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world’s first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense…[Read more]
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André Carrington deposited Mike Brown’s Body: New Materialism and Black Form in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA contribution to the Editors’ Forum on Queer Form, edited by Kadji Amin, Roy Pérez, and Amber Musser, for ASAP/Journal.
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAs the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines Flight on April 9th, 2017 by Chicago security police who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth. Some media have treated this as a horror perpetrated by a single airline that bullies passengers, or by a business model…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAs the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines Flight on April 9th, 2017 by Chicago security police who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth. Some media have treated this as a horror perpetrated by a single airline that bullies passengers, or by a business model…[Read more]
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