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Laurie Ringer deposited Entangled States: Putting Affect Theory into Play with Nnedi Okorafor and Ann Leckie in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWhatever your theory and whatever your fandom, you don’t have to abandon it to do affect theory. This is because affect theory isn’t about telling you which side to pick in an agonistic contest; it’s about finding out what a body can do as it moves with other bodies in entangled states, whether or not we notice them. Affect theory offers more…[Read more]
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Laurence Hooper deposited Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]
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Carlo M. Bajetta deposited Elizabeth I ‘in Sight and View of all the World’: An Unpublished Spanish Letter in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago(Ver 2.1.) To be printed in Queens on Stage. Female Sovereignty, Power, and Sexuality in Early Modern English Theatre ed. Bianca Del Villano e Tommaso Continisio (Rome: Aracne). – comments welcome!
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Mahan Ellison uploaded the file: Congreso AMEII 2019 Formulario de inscripción to
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCongreso AMEII 2019 Formulario de inscripción
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Mahan Ellison uploaded the file: I Congreso de la Asociación Marroquí de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos 2019 to
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoLa Asociación Marroquí de Estudios Ibéricos e ibreoamericanos tiene el honor de enviarles la convocatoria oficial de su Primer Congreso Internacional que tendrá lugar en Agadir, los días 18, 19 y 20 de abril de 2019, sobre el tema: “Las literaturas africanas en lenguas ibéricas (1956-2018)”. Aprovechando esta ocasión, les invita para partic…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci deposited Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice. Courtney Quaintance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x + 260 pp. $70. in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI review Quaintance’s study of homosocial culture in Renaissance Venice. I analyze the issues of gender, sexual violence, and humor discussed in the book.
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Mary Gallucci deposited The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Catherine Fletcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxvii + 308 pp. $29.95. in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAs the first biography in English of Alessandro de’ Medici, this important book raises questions about how historical narratives are constructed and how race has evolved into a critical, if contested, category.
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThe Global Far North: Arctic Literatures
The Global South has challenged Eurocentric narratives; what of the Global (Extreme) North? Colonial encounters; environmental extremes; imperial and indigenous literatures in the Arctic.
200-word abstract and CV or brief bio to Rebecca Stanton (rjs19@columbia.edu) by March 18.(Sponsored by LLC…[Read more]
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Carlo M. Bajetta deposited Elizabeth I’s Italian letters in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoFactsheet for “Elizabeth I’s Italian Letters” (Palgrave US, 2017)
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Luis Restrepo started the topic MLA 2019 CFP for Round Table “Humanism, Coloniality, and Imperial Reason" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTraditionally seen as a foundational movement for free inquiry, rationality, individual freedom, and moral development originated in Europe, humanism emerged in a wider geopolitical framework including the Iberian imperial expansion in Africa, America, and Asia. This roundtable examines the coloniality of humanist thought in its trans-Atlantic…[Read more]
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Claudia Cabello-Hutt deposited Redes queer: escritoras, artistas y mecenas en la primera mitad del siglo XX in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoA partir de la lectura del epistolario de Anna Melissa Graves, este trabajo recompone la relación de complicidad entre la escultora chilena Laura Rodig y la, hasta ahora desconocida “mecenas”, Consuelo Lemetayer. De manera específica, esta indagación de archivo analiza las redes queer de cooperación transnacional y transatlántica en las que part…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Canada’s Troubling Indifference to the Air India Bombing in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWhy has the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing not claimed a more prominent place in Canadian history and public memory?
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Benita Sampedro deposited Call for Proposals MLA 2019 Convention Forum on Global Hispanophone in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPanel: “Teaching the Global Hispanophone”. Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: curricula structured according to wentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; language issues; or texts availability. How have you met these challenges? What are other less obvious challenges? We welcome proposals that will…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona replied to the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThanks for attaching, Luz Angélica.
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Benita Sampedro posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Session: Expanding Colonial Geographies
This panel aims to re-conceptualize traditional colonial geographies in the Spanish speaking world by considering the transactions between Colonial Latin America and the Global Hispanophone world. How did colonial commercial and knowledge networks between Latin America and the Global Hispanophone…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Session: Textual Transactions in the Global Hispanophone
As the nexus of seemingly highly disparate groups, Global Hispanophone studies explore the paradox of a separation that unifies. This paradox is reflected in texts that navigate separations such as those between countries, languages, generations, interior frontiers, and colonial…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 (guaranteed) Session: Teaching the Global Hispanophone
(Roundtable)Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: for instance, curricula structured according to mid-twentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; issues of language; or difficulties in securing copies of texts. How have you met these…[Read more]
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Mahan Ellison posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoExtended deadline for the Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association.
Call for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (LHCALA)
In line with the theme proposed for the 44th annual meeting of the African Literature Association in 2018, “The Environments of African Literature”, the Lus…[Read more]
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Murat Öğütcü deposited Julius Caesar: Tyrannicide Made Unpopular in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe late Elizabethan Period was marked by socio-economic discontent. Amid this,
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1599) featured a prominent debate: whether or not
tyrannicide could solve problems. Around 1599, Essex formulated a like-minded
political revolution only to dismiss it until 1601. Yet, as providentialist and
republican debates failed t…[Read more] - Load More
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