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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
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 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 “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
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 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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Filippo Gianferrari started the topic CFP: 3 Dante-related Panels at the Next RSA in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoCall for PapersRenaissance Society of America 2023 Annual Convention San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9–11 March Panel Sponsored by the Dante Society of America
Dante’s Echoing Woods in Renaissance Pastoral
During the last year of his life, while working on the final cantos of the Paradiso, Dante penned two Latin eclogues in reply to Giovanni del Virgi…[Read more] -
Filippo Gianferrari started the topic CFP: 3 DSA Sponsored Panels at the Next RSA in the discussion
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoCall for PapersRenaissance Society of America 2023 Annual Convention San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9–11 March Panel Sponsored by the Dante Society of America
Dante’s Echoing Woods in Renaissance Pastoral
During the last year of his life, while working on the final cantos of the Paradiso, Dante penned two Latin eclogues in reply to Giovanni del Virgi…[Read more] -
Minni Sawhney deposited La figura del renegado en el teatro de Cervantes in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoOn the renegades in Cervantes’s Captivity plays
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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
LLC Shakespeare 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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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
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern 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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Anita Savo started the topic CFP for New England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoNew England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies
October 8, 2022
Colby College
Waterville, METhis conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern ecologies and their literary historical representations, as well as their material…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Adapting Digital Resources for Global and Comparative Studies in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature invites submissions for its guaranteed MLA session: “Adapting Digital Resources for Global and Comparative Studies”
The COVID-19 pandemic forced professors to rely on technology to teach online. This session aims to share innovative methodologies used for teaching grad…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic Dateline extended: Working Conditions of Performance: Staging Early Modern Plays in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama via email on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months ago2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO
CALL FOR PAPERS
Working Conditions of Performance: Staging Early Modern Plays (This would be a Presidential Theme session, also not guaranteed)
This panel seeks contributions that explore the precarious working conditions under which theater practitioners develop their work. What conditions do companies face…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic Deadline extended – The Comedia Connection: England and Spain in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama via email on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months ago2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed)
This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic Dateline extended! in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months ago2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO
CALL FOR PAPERSThe Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed)
This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study of…[Read more]
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Sonia Velázquez started the topic CFP : Special Session Spain & England Drama in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed)
This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study of the Spanish Golden Age Comedia & plays by…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza replied to the topic MLA 2023 Forum on 16th-and 17th c. Drama CFP in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMLA 2023 Forum on 16th-and 17th c. Drama CFP
1. Classical Theatre in Today’s Higher EducationThis panel explores the role(s) that higher education has played in the preservation, promotion and innovation of teaching and performing the Comedia. Innovative approaches to teaching, adaptation, translation, staging, and outreach are welcome.
2. C…[Read more]
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John Garrison started the topic CFP MLA 2023: “Race, Gender, & Consent in the Global Early Modern” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoRace, Gender, and Consent in the Global Early Modern
Guaranteed roundtable on race, gender, and consent in the prose, poetry, and drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. How do the intersections of these terms illuminate cultural formations, social privileges, and legal rights? Comparative and transnational perspectives especially welcome. Brief CV…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic MLA 2023 Forum on 16th-and 17th c. Drama CFP in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMLA 2023 Forum on 16th-and 17th c. Drama CFP
1. Classical Theatre in Today’s Higher Education
This panel explores the role(s) that higher education has played in the preservation, promotion and innovation of teaching and performing the Comedia. Innovative approaches to teaching, adaptation, translation, staging, and outreach are welcome.
2. C…[Read more] - Load More
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