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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP ASLE 2017: Comics, Graphic Novels, and the Environment (June 20-24 2017) in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThis panel for the next ASLE Conference seeks to offer a range of explorations of environmental and ecological themes in comics and graphic novels. Whereas the conference’s “Rust/Resistance” special topic should provide cohesion to the panel, papers that expand the study of comics and graphic novels from any environmental lens are also welco…[Read more]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic Abstracts – Surveillance in Early Modern Culture in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSunday, Jan. 8 – Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Franklin 10, Philadelphia MarriottPresiding: John Slater, U.C. Davis
Abstracts:
“Poetry and Espionage During the Spanish Armada and the Anglo-Spanish War” – Jesus- David Jerez-Gomez, C.S. San Bernardino
This paper will explore how the religious and political tensions originating from the conflict between…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic NeMLA Panel seeking abstracts, deadline 9/30 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoNeMLA Panel: The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The goal of “The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed” panel is to explore the Rocky franchise’s place in illuminating Italian Americans’ anxiety about whiteness in a post-Civil Rights era and black millennials’ continual struggle for autonomy in the post-9/11 twenty-…[Read more]
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Darwin Tsen started the topic CFP Postsocialist Literature and Culture Under Comparative Lenses in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoProposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)Organizer:
Darwin H. Tsen, The Pennsylvania State University
A few nations still claim the socialist mantle today, but their practices paint a different picture. How do we, then, in an age where…[Read more]
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Adam Toth started the topic CFP Race Theory and Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoProposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)Organizers:
Pauline Moret-Jankus, Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena
Adam J. Toth, The Pennsylvania State UniversityRace Theory and Literature Emerging out of the practices of…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion
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Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of lite…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: Crossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide Seminar at ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCrossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide: Modernist Women Writers and Artists beyond Frontiers
A Seminar at ACLA 2017 (6th-9th July, Utrecht)
Organizers: Esther Sánchez-Pardo (esanchez_pardo@filol.ucm.es) & Renee Silverman (silvermr@fiu.edu)
Proposals due Sept. 23, 2016
Apply online: http://www.acla.org/crossing-anglo-hispanic-divide-modernist-women-…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic File deposit: Whiting Rich and Strange in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI am notifying the Race and Ethnicity group that I have deposited a short story titled Whiting Rich and Strange. I have written six stories so far set in the Rust belt, a site of post-colonial activity. In my hometown of East Chicago. one census recorded 82 nationalities. Our part of Indiana is not known to the rest of the US, except as high cr…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Whiting Rich and Strange in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTitle of short story: WHITING RICH AND STRANGE
A story of ethnic people in an oil refinery town in NW Indiana.
Comments are most welcome. This is part of a series of stories based in the industrial part of Chicago’s Indiana suburbs.I am also placing the story in the Shakespeare group because–after all–it is a Romeo and Juliet story.…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Data on Humanities Doctorate Recipients and Faculty Members by Race and Ethnicity in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe members of the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada noted at a recent meeting that they often make generalizations about humanities doctorate recipients and faculty members of color that would benefit from the light that systematic national data might shed on them. This report responds to the…[Read more]
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Carey N. Kasten started the topic CFP: Spectacular Fascism, ACLA in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCFP for Spectacular Fascism Seminar at ACLA in Utrecht, July 2017
Proposals due Sept. 23, 2016
Apply online: http://www.acla.org/spectacular-fascism
This seminar examines the spectacular cultural displays employed by fascist regimes throughout the world to promote their political agendas. These public propaganda spectacles—parades, marches, r…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Digital Cultures & Narrative in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoUndergraduate syllabus for a course combining media studies with creative production practices in digital narratives and culture. Designed for delivery online, with an emphasis on individual projects.
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Karl Steel deposited Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoHere’s a key paragraph:
“This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present day fascinations with the Norse in popular music,…[Read more] -
Maria Lujan Figueredo replied to the topic Call for Papers: Convocatoria Revista de Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoHello,
The proposals should be about a page, including a provisional title, author’s name and institutional affiliation and email address.
The final article, to be submitted by April 31 2017, will be 8,000 – 10,000 words in length, including notes and works cited (MLA style).
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Carlos Abreu Mendoza replied to the topic Call for Papers: Convocatoria Revista de Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoHi, really interesting CFP. What is the page limitation/word count for the proposals?
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Maria Lujan Figueredo replied to the topic Call for Papers: Convocatoria Revista de Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoYes, that is correct, unless it would be in comparative view with an Hispanic author.
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