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Charles Gleek deposited Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson’s Beneath the Roses in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoGregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular artists, including work by Arbus, Eggleson, Friedlander, and Hopper, Crewdson actively seeks to c…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeares in World Markets and Archives: An Introduction to the Special Issue in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoShakespeare is a local force to be reckoned with in the global marketplace and in digital and analog archives of collective memory. With the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 2014 and quatercentenary in 2016, there are several high-profile instances of global Shakespeare being tapped for its market value. The exchange value of…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited A MIXTURE OF PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVITY, OR TRAVELOGUE AS A GENRE in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn the article, we trace some aspects of development of eventivity and narrativity in Medieval and early Modern Era travel literature. Dissecting episodes of Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), A Travel of Anonimous Citizen of Suzdal to The Council of Florence (15th century), Russian Primary Chronicle (12th century), and…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoCall for articles. Spectral Mexico: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-articles-spectral-mexico-3/
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Charles Gleek deposited Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson’s “Beneath the Roses” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular artists, including work by Arbus, Eggleson, Friedlander, and Hopper, Crewdson actively seeks to c…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Fleur Pillager, Midewewinini: Food as the Source of Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoFrom the original paper presentation: In this paper I discuss the figurative language used in Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks with a particular focus on the figures and symbols associated with food and food practices. This paper performs a textual analysis of figurative language and symbols and the themes of food and food practices to reveal the…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the Life Writing Group:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
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Rosanne Kennedy posted an update in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Memory Studies Colleagues,
I’m pleased to have been nominated for the Executive Committee for Memory Studies, and wanted to tell you about my activities. My early work (World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time, ed with Jill Bennett, 2003) stimulated dialogue between postcolonial studies and memory studies. I examined memory and t…[Read more] -
Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945 (essays considering the intersections of visual culture with other fields related to the topic would be most welcome)deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945
deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA citation style, to the guest-editor James W. McM…[Read more] -
Jennifer R. Ballengee posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP: ACLA 2018. Dangerous Passages (Benjamin 1940/2018).
As is well known, Walter Benjamin undertook a dangerous passage over the Pyrenees, a route taken by many refugees hoping to flee Nazi-occupied France. In the spirit of Walter Benjamin — his work and/or his life — this panel examines dangerous passages of all sorts. Papers might consider…[Read more] -
Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo started the topic CFP: ACLA 2018. Topographies of narrative empathy: the social and the cognitive in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn recent times, empathy has occupied a privileged status in cross-disciplinary research on human behavior and social interaction. Cognitivists have identified empathy as a key emotion that explains why humans behave pro-socially. There is now evidence to suggest empathy as not only a key ingredient of altruism and cooperation, but also a…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Principles of Visual Language Syllabus in the group
MS Visual Culture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis course focuses on developing visual language literacy and theoretical frameworks through analyzing and creating a range of narrative media. We will examine a range of visual scholarly and creative works, starting with sequential art and moving into time-based and interactive media.
Students will:
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Heike Bauer deposited The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThe book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world’s first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense…[Read more]
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Tamar Steinitz deposited Back Home: Translation, Conversion and Domestication in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAbstract
The Sudanese-born author Leila Aboulela describes the position of the non-western Anglophone writer as a translator by default, moving ‘back and forth’ between languages and cultures. This essay argues that Aboulela’s novel The Translator (1999) calls into question conceptualizations of translation that grow out of western relig…[Read more] -
André Carrington deposited Mike Brown’s Body: New Materialism and Black Form in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoA contribution to the Editors’ Forum on Queer Form, edited by Kadji Amin, Roy Pérez, and Amber Musser, for ASAP/Journal.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Think the academy has its values & incentives all wrong? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
Are you concerned about the growing reliance on quantitative metrics to evaluate research—and people—in the humanities and social sciences? Do you think that current evaluation practices emphasize quantity over quality, discourage collegiality, ignore inclusivity, and overlook the importance of non-traditional forms of rese…[Read more] -
Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCFP: POSTHUMAN LIVES
Deadline: October 15, 2017
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies seeks original articles for a special issue on “Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web” to be published as volume 34.3, Autumn 2019. A major theorist in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new materialism, science studies, posthumanism, animal stu…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Secret Lives: Hiding, Revealing, Belonging
The International Auto/Biography Association
Biennial World Conference: July 11-14, 2018
Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Co-conveners: Suely Quintana, Alberto Ferreira da Rocha, Junior, and Sergio da Silva Barcellos
The co-…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Special Issue on Trans Narratives
“Trans” has taken on a number of important theoretical and critical meanings inside and outside the academy. A prefix with the sense in the OED of ‘across, through, over, to or on the other side of, beyond, outside of, from one place, person, thing, or state to anoth…[Read more]
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