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Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2018 in New York
(technical difficulties prevented me this year from posting the GS Prose Fiction panels before MLA; apologies!)
GS Prose Fiction held two panels: Fictionality in a Post-Fact World & Infrastructure
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George Phillips deposited CFP: Global Modernisms and the Graphic in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDouglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s field-defining article, “The New Modernist Studies,” turns ten in 2018. Despite the fact that the article takes up new media as a key topic-and although it was published just after ground-breaking work in the “visual turn” of literary studies by Mary Lou Emery (Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature,…[Read more]
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Kent Cartwright deposited Humanist Reading and Interpretation in Early Elizabethan Morality Drama in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoThis essay argues that humanist reading practices, methods of analysis, and aesthetics transformed traditional morality drama in the 1560s and 1570s in a way that accounts for the form’s resurgence. The essay looks closely at Ulpian Fulwell’s “Like Will to Like” (1568), William Wager’s “The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art” (1569) and…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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David Palmer created the doc New Anthology on Tragedy in Modern American Drama in the group
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Sally Chivers posted an update in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP–Putting it into Words: Age, Language, and Expression: We invite abstracts for a guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago proposed by the TC Age Studies forum. There are situations throughout the life course that are beyond words, yet authors must put them into words. We invite papers that draw on age studies scholarship to explore…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak posted an update in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago as part of the TC Age Studies Forum. This panel solicits papers that address the intersections of age and masculinity in literature or film. Papers might consider the following questions: How do modalities such as time and space change as men grow older? How does…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Comparative Cultural Studies Conference, Budapest Hungary,29-31 August 2018 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe comparative studies journals Comparative Literature Studies (Penn State University), Neohelicon (Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary), and Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (East China Normal University, Shanghai), with support of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, will sponsor an international conference in Budapest, Hungary, from 29-31 Augu…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago to be proposed jointly by the GS Drama & Performance and TC Age Studies forums. Responding to the growing interest in age/aging among theatre and performance scholars, the panel seeks papers examining any aspect of the life course from childhood to old age, in…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago to be proposed jointly by the GS Drama & Performance and TC Age Studies forums. Responding to the growing interest in age/aging among theatre and performance scholars, the panel seeks papers examining any aspect of the life course from childhood to old age, in…[Read more]
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Claire Nettleton posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Viral Culture: How CRISPR Genome Editing and the Microbiome are Reshaping Humanity and the Humanities. This will be a daylong, interdisciplinary symposium at Pomona College in Claremont, California on April 27th, 2018 on the relationship between biotechnology (CRISPR, interventions into microbiome and the history of medical innovation) and…[Read more]
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Andrea Charise posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoHello everyone,
Here’s the CFP for the MLA forum “Medical Humanities and Health Studies” (guaranteed panel for MLA 2019). Please consider submitting or spreading the word:
Health Humanities and Digital Life
Short (10-15min) papers for guaranteed roundtable on health / illness / medicine / wellbeing and the digital realm. Diverse…[Read more] -
Kathryn J. McKnight posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoWill there be a CFP for MLA 2019 for Medical Humanities & Health Sciences?
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Hi Kathryn,
We will have at least two — one on digital health humanities, and one on graphic medicine. I’m pasting in a draft of the graphic medicine one below. We would love to encourage forum members to collaborate and propose multiple health humanities themed panels.
Erin Lamb
Short Version for MLA Website (limited to 35 words)
Graphic…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited FROM EYEWITNESS NARRATIVES TO RETELLINGS AND LITERARY ADAPTATIONS: THE RUSSIAN TIME OF TROUBLES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe article focuses on the adaptation strategies used by Lope de Vega in his play El Gran Duque de Moscovia y emperador perseguido (1617). This tragedy, built on material acquired from travelogues, represents the first depiction of the Russian Time of Troubles in fiction. In it, one can follow Lope de Vega’s shift from preserving the factual d…[Read more]
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