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Sue Rowe Doe deposited Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty Members: Strategies for Establishing Due Process in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis presentation explored the implications of constraints on due process and academic freedom in light of contingent faculty hiring.
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Shazia Rahman deposited Rachna Mara’s Cosmopolitan (Yet Partial) Feminisms in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis article shows how Rachna Mara’s collection of short stories Of Customs and Excise puts forth a cosmopolitan feminism that reveals the losses and gains of diaspora in an arena of partiality and relationality.
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Shazia Sadaf deposited Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Dying Men in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoDaniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is reflection of Pakistani masculinity in a metamorphosed state. A disturbingly masculine vocabulary frames the appearance and actions of the female characters. In contrast, the speech and thought of the male characters is minified in words of loss and regret. Their material ambitions and the r…[Read more]
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Madelyn Detloff started the topic Join our Roundtable on Gender and (anti)Social Media at MLA 16 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoJoin us for our roundtable discussion on Gender and (anti)Social Media on January 8, 2016 from 1:45–3:00 p.m. Central Time (2:45 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time).
If you are at the MLA convention, join us live in room 203, JW Marriott hotel. You can join us online via live tweet at #mla16genderandmedia or via the comments stream at
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Nicky Agate started the topic Commons literary trivia quiz at the Convention in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists that utilize messianism in their narratives to negotiate ambivalence about Zionism. Studying novels from the mid-1980’s to 2013, I look at the triangular relationship between Jewish American identification, the Holocaust, and Israel, to explore major topics in contemporary J…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic 817. Is the Short Story Queer? in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoAbstracts, and the short stories that will be discussed, at Special Session (roundtable) 817, “Is the Short Story Queer,” have been posted to an MLA Commons site:
https://session817.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
Please join us on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1:45-3:00 p.m., in 9B, Austin Convention Center.
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic St. John's University-New York: MLA: English in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agohttps://apply.interfolio.com/32882
We invite applications for an advanced to senior professor of English with research specialization in any area of writing, rhetoric, or pedagogy studies. Applications with junior academic standing will also be considered. The position combines joining the faculty of our dynamic MA- and PhD- granting graduate…[Read more]
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Anna M. Klobucka started the topic Call for submissions: Journal of Feminist Scholarship in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research. The journal can be found at http://www.jfsonline.org/.
The editors of JFS invite submissions on a…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic CFP: (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)
De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer
Colloque international
84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir
Université du Québec à Montréal
11, 12, 13 mai 2016
En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysis…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Open Rank English Job at St. John's University in the discussion
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Gender and Teaching Jewish American Literature in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMLA Call For Proposals:
Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature
Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic Candidate Statement: Women in the Profession in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored and excited to have been nominated for the special delegate position of “Women in the Profession”. Since entering the job market four years ago I have consistently experienced and witnessed the corporatization of our profession. This is especially concerning for women and other minority groups, as we tend to be in the majority in the…[Read more]
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Marilyn Edelstein started the topic Candidate statement for exec. comm. for this forum on Women's and Gender Studies in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored to have been nominated for the executive committee for the Forum on Women’s and Gender Studies, given my lifelong commitment to these areas of scholarship and teaching. I’ve published on such feminist theorists as bell hooks and Julia Kristeva, and regularly teach courses on Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory and on Women and Lit…[Read more]
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Majda R. Atieh deposited The Revelation of the Veiled in Toni Morrison's Paradise: The Whirling Dervishes in the Harem of the Convent in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMuslim women’s perspective on liberatory Islamic orality (or empowerment via the oral traditions within Islam) is vastly accentuated in Fatema Mernissi’s and Leila Ahmed’s examinations of the harem structure. These harem narratives celebrate Sufism, a mystical Islamic theosophy that foregrounds orality and invites a constant search toward divine…[Read more]
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Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic ESSE 2016: cfp in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago13th ESSE CONFERENCE
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016.
CFP: SEMINAR ON “GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE”
Conveners: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (U of Huelva, Spain, picuder@dfing.uhu.es)
Cinta Ramblado-Minero (U of Limerick, Ireland, cinta.ramblado@ul.ie)
One of the characteristics of postmodernity is the glob…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CfP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the proposed ACLA seminar below:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mi…[Read more]
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Martha Nell Smith started the topic Queer Panels, GLQ Caucus & Reception for MLA 2016 in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCheck out and join us for these exciting sessions and at the GLQ Caucus & Reception!!!
Thursday, 7 January
Queer Proximities 1:45–3:00 p.m. – Selected for inclusion in the Presidential Theme, “Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, Future”
Friday, 8 January
Vaqueeras/os 10:15–11:30 a.m.
Saturday, 9 January
Queer Crips ac…[Read more]
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