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Robert J. Hudson started the topic Reminder: 16th-Century French–LLC for MLA 2022 Washington, DC (Due: 15 March) in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago1. Current Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature invites proposals for 18-minute papers on any aspect of sixteenth-century French literature and culture to be delivered at the MLA in Washington, D.C., 6–9 January 2022. We will consider s…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago*Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Familiar Ambiguity: The Value of the Humanities in a Globalized World,” Signal House 10 (March 2021) in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe world needs good question askers as much as it needs good problem solvers. Before solving problems, we need to first identify the problems. Great stories are often strangers at home. The best of them defamiliarize banal experiences and everyday utterances while offering something recognizable through a new language and form.…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations,” Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSince the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Resistance Literature and Occupied Palestine in Cold War Beirut in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFREE ACCESS: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0377919X.2020.1855933
For the last decade of his life, the Palestinian intellectual, author, and editor Ghassan Kanafani (d. 1972) was deeply immersed in theorizing, lecturing, and publishing on Palestinian resistance literature from Beirut. A refugee of the 1948 war, Kanafani presented…[Read more] -
Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFour themes distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theaters from works in other parts of the world: Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle; Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities in film and touring productions; and multilingual, disability, and racial…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare: A Critical Introduction.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin, Ema Vyroubalova, Elizabeth Pentland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse in London in 1599. Performances of Shakespeare not only create channels between geographic spaces but also connect different time periods. Divided into two major sections, Shakespeare and World Cultures and Shakespeare and Genres, the…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: “Democracy and the US Latinx Novel” in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago“Democracy and the US Latinx Novel”
Call for Papers
LLC Latina and Latino ForumRecent events have demonstrated the simultaneous vulnerability and resiliency of democratic projects, and of our cultural frameworks for imagining the norms and processes of those institutions.
This collaborative panel seeks presentations that address…[Read more]
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Jean-Claude Carron started the topic Sixteenth-Century French Poetry Auction in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoOffrez-vous, entre autres, l’édition originale de la Défense ou les Oeuvres des Dames des Roches, de la collection Barbier-Mueller à Genève. Voir cette information parue dans Le Temps:
“… Si Les Hymnes ne constituent pas la plus importante des pièces proposées, ce recueil de Pierre de Ronsard était pour Barbier-Mueller l’un des plus beaux ouv…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic CFPs: 16th-Century French–LLC for MLA 2022 Washington, DC (Due: 15 March) in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months ago1. Current Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies
The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature invites proposals for 18-minute papers on any aspect of sixteenth-century French literature and culture to be delivered at the MLA in Washington, D.C., 6–9 January 2022. We will consider s…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic CFPs: 16th-Century French–LLC for MLA 2022 Washington, DC (Due: 15 March) in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months ago1. Current Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies
The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature invites proposals for 18-minute papers on any aspect of sixteenth-century French literature and culture to be delivered at the MLA in Washington, D.C., 6–9 January 2022. We will consider s…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoA brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
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Toby Wikström started the topic Calls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years agoCalls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022
How the French 17th Century Invented (or Not)… What ideas, practices, forms, or genres can be ascribed to 17th-century France and what should be reconsidered in light of a different temporality or geographic origin? Send 300-word proposals to harrisod@grinnell.edu by…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Calls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022 in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years agoCalls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022
How the French 17th Century Invented (or Not)… What ideas, practices, forms, or genres can be ascribed to 17th-century France and what should be reconsidered in light of a different temporality or geographic origin? Send 300-word proposals to harrisod@grinnell.edu by…[Read more]
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Briana Martino deposited And None of it Fits Inside Panels: Graphic Silence in Graphic Medicine in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoLightning Talk from Session 393: Keywords and Keyimages in Graphic Medicine
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Kim Adams started the topic High Theory Happy Hour in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoHigh Theory is a podcast that asks simple questions about difficult concepts.
We invite you to a happy hour this evening to gossip about the conference and plan how critical theory can save (or destroy) the world.Join us any time between 7 and 8pm at https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93233776393
Please visit our website, hightheory.net to learn more…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!
548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean, and…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight: Join us for joyful conversation in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Good afternoon. We are so excited that this evening we are holding the annual multi-forum reception. It will be held via zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m. We hope that you might write to your forum list-serves and/or post to your H-Commons page a reminder of the event. It is listed as event 548 in the MLA Meetings Calendar. Elena M…[Read more]
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Kim Adams deposited High Theory Podcast Invitation 2 in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoWe are hosting a happy hour to celebrate our podcast “High Theory” in conjunction with the MLA conference.
We cannot buy you a drink, but we will charm you on Zoom with silly games like theory Pictionary.
Please join us on Saturday, January 9, any time between 7 and 8 pm EST.
RSVP to info@hightheory.net or visit http://www.hightheory.net to learn…[Read more] - Load More
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