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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Gained, Lost, Missed, Ignored: Vernacular Scientific Translations from Agricola’s Germany to Herbert Hoover’s California in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoFor the past twenty years, scholars of world and global history and literature have shown that the early modern world was a complex, entangled place. And yet, by emphasizing connection, such work at times overlooks the many separations that drove the engines of global early modernity: transoceanic slave trades, tribute labor, and the economic…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to ask for your help in spreading the word about a search for an Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas, to be a joint appointment in the Carter G. Woodson Department of African American and African Studies and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University…[Read more]
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Sarah Benharrech started the topic Nominee Statement for Forum Election (CLCS 18th-Century) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHello, my name is Sarah Benharrech and I would be deeply honored to be elected officer of the MLA 18th-c. Comparative Forum (CLCS 18th-Century).
Stemming from previous work on the morphology of characters in drama and novels in light of contemporary debates on taxonomy in eighteenth-century France, my current research focuses on enmeshments of…[Read more]
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Sarah Benharrech started the topic Call for abstracts: ASECS panel on Knowledge and Practices in the 18th Century in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoDear Colleagues,
If you are planning to attend ASECS annual meeting in Baltimore next Spring, please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel, the deadline has been extended to October 8th.
124. Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in the Eighteenth Century
This panel seeks to interrogate literary, cultural, and pictorial…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoScholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more] -
Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoPublished in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Special Issue of Eighteenth Century Studies: Indigeneity in the Long 18th C. in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE
Eighteenth-Century StudiesSpecial Issue on Indigeneity
In Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (2016), the historian Coll Thrush repositions England’s capital not only as a city where decisions were made to dispossess Indigenous peoples, but also as a space that…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoPosting to CLCS 18th c. at the request of Leland G. Spencer, editor
Call for Papers
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Jen McConnel started the topic Call for papers: please share widely! in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoGuaranteed session at MLA 2022:Where Do We Go From Here? Anti-Racism and the Future of the Profession
This panel explores the ways educators are engaging with anti-racist practices in their language and literature classrooms as we re-envision the future of our profession. We are seeking practical pedagogical experiences and reflections,…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original message. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Territoriality, Language, and Power in the 18th-19th c. Iberian World (MLA 2022 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
If you’re thinking of attending MLA 2022, please consider applying for this panel and/or spreading the word to interested colleagues. Thanks!
Nobel Prize winner and 20th-century poet Czeslaw Milosz famously wrote that “language is the only homeland.” In the 18th-19th century Iberian world, a world made by European imp…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years agoBirds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Ethnohistory Submissions — Primary Sources for Research, Teaching, Activism in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Submissions – Ethnohistorical Primary Documents (from Rob Schwaller)
The global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has dramatically affected academic research and publication. As many professional ethnohistorians struggle to meet the challenges of online teaching and face severely limited research opportunities, the editors of Ethnohistory…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Textual Scholarship 2021 conference "Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions" in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats.
The Society hopes to attract participation in this conference from…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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