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Steven Schroeder deposited the imperfection of the eye in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoThere is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here and now of the seventy-one poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection is most often Chicago,…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited the imperfection of the eye in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoThere is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here and now of the seventy-one poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection is most often Chicago,…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoIn the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoIn the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic UPDATED UPDATED Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease note new deadline of 2/1 for proposal submissions, with apologies for the confusion!!
The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a…[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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Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic UPDATED Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]
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Jack W. Chen started the topic Executive Forum Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years agoP14 Chinese Forum members, we are in the process of soliciting nominations for the forum executive committee. We are particularly interested in midlevel senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world literary methodologies. Please send all nominations, including…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic 2023 MLA Convention session 377 – Making Sacred, Making Holy in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoIf you are at the Convention in San Francisco, please consider attending the Religion and Literature Forum Session 377 on Friday, 6 January 2023, 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM.
“Making Sacred, Making Holy: The Canonization of People and Texts” in the Marriott Marquis – Sierra Suite H (Level 5)
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Jason Lewallen, U of Dallas
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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 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
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– 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 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 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 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 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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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Local Habitations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shakespeare Bulletin 40.3 (Fall 2022): pp. 417-437. in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe metatheatricality of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has invited recent directors to tell particular kinds of socially progressive stories. This article uses the notion of “social reparation” to theorize remedial uses of Shakespeare in adaptations that give artists and audiences more moral agency. By imagining more inclusive local habitations and s…[Read more]
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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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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German 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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