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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “English Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory.” GW Today, April 12, 2023 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoWhen ChatGPT was launched, Alexa Alice Joubin realized it was here to stay. She views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use it responsibly, not as a shortcut. “This technology is going to be with us, and students need employable skills in terms of curation, editorial repackaging and prompt engineering,” Joubin said. “They need…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Joubin receives the bell hooks Legacy Award in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAlexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. The award recognizes Joubin’s a…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: USC Teaching-Track Position in EALC in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the East Asian Studies Center in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, invite applications for a full-time teaching-track faculty position in East Asian cultural studies, with a preferred focus on…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks started the topic Deadline extended to Mar 15: CFPs MLA 2024 (Medieval Iberian Studies) in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Medieval Iberian Forum of the MLA announces the following calls for papers for the 2024 MLA Convention (Philadelphia, Jan 4-7). Please note that presenters must be members of the MLA before registering for the conference (but not in order to submit an abstract).
New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person) The LLC Medieval I…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSee attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.
“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores trans…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoStories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[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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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘It was the best butter’: Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years agoSeries of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]
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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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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month 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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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Anti-Asian Racist Misogyny in Science Fiction Films.” The American Mosaic: The Asian American Experience (Bloomsbury ABC-CLIO, 2022). Digital Database in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe depiction of women of East Asian descent in science fiction films reveals how racial hierarchies are mapped onto, and used as justification for, mistreatment of women—and misogynistic prejudices inform racism. Contributing to the patterns that dehumanize Asian women are multiple sci-fi films that feature cyborgs and androids in Asian female b…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoWhat follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe Research Society for Victorian Periodicals should work to protect multiple runs of actual Victorian periodicals, which are potentially at risk in “collective collections” organized by academic libraries.
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoOceans and Empires: Sinophone Crossroads in Global Space and Time
The 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies <https://www.sinophonestudies.org/s3conference>
5/12—5/14/2023
Penn State University
The Sinophone world that is invigorated by “multisensory protests” and “ally-ship” (the focus of the 2021 conference) al…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology, 1987-2007, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Palgrave, 2022) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoShakespeare’s Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, three of the most frequently adapted tragedies, have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China for over two centuries as political theatre, comedic parody, Chinese opera, and avant-garde theatre. Gender roles in the plays take on new meanings when they are e…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television,” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19.1 (March 2022): 167-180. in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThe global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism, this article analyzes the manifestation of the ideas of yellow peril and yel…[Read more]
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