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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Mindreading and Social Status in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoWould you like to get better at mindreading (i.e., at inferring people’s beliefs, desires, and intentions, based on their behavior)? As it turns out, all you would have to do is lower your relative social status. Studies have shown that people in weaker social positions engage in more active and perceptive mindreading than do people in stronger s…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agohttps://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/african-american/
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: 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.…[Read more]
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Albertine Fox deposited The end but not the end: twist, revolt, survive in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoA write-up of my contribution to a roundtable panel that took place at King’s College London on 26th September 2019 to celebrate the English translation of Chantal Akerman’s My Mother Laughs. The speakers were Ros Murray (KCL), Jenny Chamarette (QMUL), Albertine Fox (Bristol), Frances Morgan (author of the Afterword, My Mother Laughs), Sarah Shi…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 Pandemic, GW Today, April 20, 2020 in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoAsian Americans have been spat on, verbally assaulted and physically attacked in more than a thousand race-related incidents in the United States as a result of fear evoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Alice Joubin, professor of English and international affairs, women’s studies and East Asian languages and cultures, provided a historical c…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 Pandemic, GW Today, April 20, 2020 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoAsian Americans have been spat on, verbally assaulted and physically attacked in more than a thousand race-related incidents in the United States as a result of fear evoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Alice Joubin, professor of English and international affairs, women’s studies and East Asian languages and cultures, provided a historical c…[Read more]
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Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo started the topic In Memoriam: African American Literary and Scholarly Greats in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoSubmit 300-word abstracts for an In Memoriam Panel celebrating and critically engaging with the works and legacies of recently departed writers and scholars to jervette@gmail.com by April 6.
LLC African American Forum
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Elizabeth Scarlett deposited RECording the End time in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Film in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoApocalyptic themes handled by Spanish directors of the current century, including Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, David and Álex Pastor, Álex de la Iglesia, Juan Antonio Bayona, Jorge Torregrossa, and Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas, and F. Javier Gutiérrez.
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Kerry Manzo started the topic CFP MLA 2021 Trans Persistence in South Asia and Beyond in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoLiterary and cultural engagements with trans* bodies, politics, and assembly in literature of South Asia, its Diaspora, comparative, or transnational framework. 250 word abstract to Kerry.manzo@purchase.edu by March 20.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 20 March 2020 Kerry Manzo, Purchase C, SU of New York (kerry.manzo@purchase.edu )
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoGlobal Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2020 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presidential Theme: “Persistence”
The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2020 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presidential Theme: “Persistence”
The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presidential Theme: “Persistence”
The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the “moder…[Read more]
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Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai started the topic CFP: The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
“Capital,” Marx tells us, “is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks;” for a ce…[Read more]
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Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai started the topic CFP: The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
“Capital,” Marx tells us, “is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks;” for a ce…[Read more]
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