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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Interfacing Shakespeare Onscreen,” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface (2023), ed. Clifford Werier and Paul Budra, pp. 332-344 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe screen as an interface immerses audiences in an alternate universe. As a result, that interface seems transparent. Through analyses of performances that call attention to filmic genres, such as Edgar Wright’s parody film, Hot Fuzz (2007), and the Wooster Group’s multimedia production, Hamlet (2007), as well as (meta)theatrical operations on…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoAbstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.
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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
GS Drama and Performance 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 “Uncomfortable Bedfellows: Shakespeare and Global Studies”, Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 40 (2022) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoAbstract in English :::
Shakespeare adaptations share an intimate relation with global studies, because Shakespeare – as a cultural institution – registers a broad spectrum of practices that generate productive dialogues with world cultures.
Global studies enables us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare’s works. This…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Transgender Theory and Global Shakespeare,” Performing Shakespearean Appropriations Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet, ed. Darlena Ciraulo, Matthew Kozusko, Robert Sawyer (Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2022), 161-176 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoEven though Shakespeare’s plays were initially performed by all-male casts, they were designed to appeal to diverse audiences. Many modern adaptations reimagine those plays as expressions of gender nonconformity. Over the past decades, prominent films and theater works have fostered new public conversations about the politics of appropriating g…[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
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 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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Esha Sil started the topic ‘Creole Indias, Creolising Pondicherry’: New Article in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoDear all
It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of the article, ‘Creole Indias, Creolising Pondicherry’, authored by Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir (Department of English, King’s College, London). The essay develops her theory of littoral enclaves, archipelagic theory, and creolisation in India, via Pondicherry, and has a…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoJohannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]
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Esha Sil started the topic Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture 2022: Paul Gilroy in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThe School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA) is delighted to announce that this year’s Annual Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Paul Gilroy.
Date: Thursday 9th June 2022Time: 17:30-19:00, followed by a drinks reception
Location: Lecture Theatre 1
Paul was the recipient of the 2019 H…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare: International Films, Television, and Theatre, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin and Victoria Bladen (Palgrave, 2022) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s plays and motifs have been appropriated in fragmentary forms on screen since motion pictures were invented in 1893. Allusions to Shakespeare haunt our contemporary culture in a myriad of ways, whether through brief references or sustained intertextual engagements. ::::: This collection of essays extends beyond a US-UK axis to bring t…[Read more]
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Cheryl Farris-Clayton deposited On Dickinson in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoEssay on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her impact upon literature. This essay celebrates her global reach from within societal spheres of gender. “Emily Dickinson transformed the genre of poetry from the academic salon styled idealism to the personal poignant voice of reality from the poet’s point of view.”
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Kristin E. Pitt started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor, Queer and Sexuality Studies, UW-Milwaukee in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoWomen’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in Queer and Sexuality Studies for 2022-2023. Must be able to teach Queer Theory and Feminist Theory courses. Apply by April 10, 2022 to ensure consideration. https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/33994
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Lisa A. Freeman started the topic CFP Drama and Performance Forum and Sound Studies Joint Session in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Sounds of Humor
The Drama and Performance Forum and the Sound Studies Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) announce a co-sponsored session entitled “The Sounds of Humor” to be held at the MLA Convention in San Francisco, CA from January 5-8, 2023. What does humor sound like? Sounds tend to play an important role in performances inte…[Read more]
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Lisa A. Freeman started the topic CFP Drama and Performance Forum in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Drama and Performance Forum solicits paper proposals for two guaranteed sessions at MLA 2023 in San Francisco:
Humor and Humorlessness before 1900 From the medieval period to the nineteenth century the concept of humor shifted from an aspect of human physiology, to the eccentric qualities of individuals or comic characters, to a mode of…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: US Literatures and Psychoanalysis (MLA 2023) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat does psychoanalysis do for theory, criticism, and scholarship in US literatures today? Conversely, how do US literatures intervene on psychoanalysis?
The MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature has noted extraordinary scholarly interest in these questions recently. We therefore invite a…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic 2021 ATHE Outstanding Book Awards: nomination deadline 1 February in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease consider nominating outstanding authors, scholars, educators, leaders, playwrights, artists, and editors for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s prestigious awards.
Please visit ATHE’s website for submission information and other details (under the “awards” drop-down tab).
The deadline for nominations is February 1.
We a…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El mito del pluricentrismo desde le realidad de la traducción in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe present work analyzes the application of the pluricentric interpretation
to the Spanish language from the repercussion that this current may have
to correctly interpret the complex reality of Spanish in the United States. The
concept of pluricentrism is not innocent, it tries to favor certain political and
economic interests and it can…[Read more] -
David Palmer started the topic MLA Session on Teaching Drama and the Humanities in Undergraduate Education in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Eugene O’Neill Society has organized a virtual MLA 2022 round-table session (#216V, Friday morning, January 7, 10:15 – 11:30) on the challenges of teaching drama both in theatre courses and in broader undergraduate surveys of literature. The discussion will expand to include ideas about the role of the humanities amid the increasingly car…[Read more]
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