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Hannah Swamidoss deposited The Interstitial Body and Moral Formation:Third-Culture Displacement and Subject Formation in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies in the group
Children's Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago.Using the concept of “third culture” from social theory, this article examines Charles Kingsley’s use of displacement in his children’s book The Water Babies (1863). In trying to portray the site of moral formation, Kingsley displaces his central character Tom – the new, interstitial “third culture” subject. Through Tom’s displacement, Kingsle…[Read more]
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited “When I Cannot Still the Longing of My Heart”; Third-Culture Displacement and the Image of the Child in Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey in the group
Children's Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThis article examines Allen Say’s use of cultural displacement in his books Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say is an award-winning, Japanese-American, picture book author and illustrator.
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William J. Spurlin started the topic Call for Abstracts: ICLA Conference 2016 in Vienna; Comparative Gender/Queer in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts relationally rather than…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: Japanese Children's Literature at ChLA in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoChildren’s Literature Association
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Call for Papers:
International Committee Focus Panel Session
Deadline: September 15, 201543rd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference
Hosted by The Ohio State UniversityThe Sheraton Columbus at Capitol Squar…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Call for essays in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Women’s Studies in Language and Literature Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on wo…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar started the topic CFP–Caste and Life Narratives: Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoGuest Editors: Dr. S. Shankar, Department of English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA, and Dr. Charu Gupta, Department of History, University of Delhi, India.
Submit: 400-word abstracts to S. Shankar (subraman@hawaii.edu) and Charu Gupta (charu7@hotmail.com) by September 15, 2015
Life Narratives (biographies, autobiographies, Fa…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic WGSC NeMLA cfp for panels, Hartford, 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers – NeMLA Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus
47th Annual NeMLA Convention
March 17-20, 2016 Hartford, CT
Hosted by the University of Connecticut
Session Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2015
Call for Papers Begins: June 15, 2015
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2015
All submissions are online at: http://www.buffalo.edu/ne…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue in the discussion
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoSpecial Issue for Postcolonial Text
CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia
(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)
In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a forthc…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic Do you teach about aging to undergraduate students? in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoGood morning colleagues,
I am conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or…[Read more] -
Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. Oct. 16 and Sat. Oct. 17, 2015 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme: Conflicts and ResolutionsFeatured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec Foster
Location: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512
We live in a society that has c…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoWe are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While Morrison’s novels examine m…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoFamilial/Communal Structures
Black Motherhood
The Presence of the ancestor
Other Mothering
Collective Memory/Cultural Trauma
Mothering-Controlled Reproduction (racialized maternity)
Language Theory (Julia Kristeva)
Violence
Cultural/Individual Meaning of Motherhood
Relationships between mothers and daughters/sons
Mothers & Sexual…[Read more]
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Kimberly O'Neill started the topic CFP: 20th-21st-Century Hemispheric Literary Studies in the discussion
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoGathering 8-10 emerging and established scholars for 5-minute Ignite talks; share your 20th-21st-c hemispheric project (methods, archives, ideas, issues). 200-word abstract and CV by 20 March 2015; Kimberly O’Neill (Kimberly.O’Neill@quinnipiac.edu).
The purpose of this panel is to offer 20th-century and contemporary hemispheric scholars the o…[Read more]
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