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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoAs the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.
Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]
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Maren T. Linett started the topic Call for Papers, MLA 2020, Seattle in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoTitle: Disability Bioethics
Description & Requirements:How does thinking about disability inform our understanding of bioethical issues, broadly defined, in literature and/or culture? 300-word abstract to Maren Linett at mlinett@purdue.edu.
Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2019
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP: Shaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ONT, 15-17 August 2019 in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years agoShaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CAN, 15-17 August 2019
The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Sixteenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. Successful proposals will offer a focused analysis of any aspect of Shaw’s work, or that of his contemporaries f…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Theorizing and Resisting the Violence of Stop-and-Frisk-style Profiling in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis article analyzes Stop-and-Frisk policing within the long history of lynching through the analytical framework of performance studies. Contemporary audio recordings of stop-and-frisk procedures are thought in relation to the historical examples of the Zoot Suit Riots and late 19th-century and early 20th-century lynchings of African Americans.
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine (HUM450AJ.O) syllabus in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years agoAt the intersection of comics and medicine is the rise of the Graphic Medicine scholarship field. This course examines the ways in which the sequentialized hybrid of word and image is bringing new insights to patient, healthcare, and clinical experiences.
In any manner of ways, the comics medium (whether known as comic books, graphic novels,…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Be sure to add this Drama and Performance session to your 2019 MLA schedule in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoSession 555. New Voices at the Intersection of Drama, Performance, and Age Studies
*Saturday, 5 January3:30-4:45 p.m., Columbian Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency HotelProgram arranged by the forums TC Age Studies and GS Drama and Performance
Presiding: Valerie Barnes Lipscomb, U of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee
1. “‘Growth Untried’: Dramatic Infan…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Two-Act In-Progress Play: Nobody goes to Gary in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTwo-Act Play
Nobody goes to Gary is a Swiftian satire. Gil Tolliver, an investigative reporter I New York City, makes a fateful journey into the real heart of Gary, Indiana, after hearing the musical tune “Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana” during _The Music Man_. Don’t measure the distance of Gary from New York in miles, but in emotional light…[Read more]
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Bernard C. Aresu started the topic Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoI am happy to contribute this brief statement in connection with my nomination as candidate to the executive committee of the MLA’s LLC Francophone.
Currently, I am Laurence H. Favrot Professor emeritus at Rice University whence I just retired from teaching to turn to full time research.
My current book project, The Self in Dissidence: Me…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Is The Music Man’s “Gary, Indiana” song shockingly misplaced satire? in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoAnyone who has passed through Gary, Indiana, in the last thirty years and watched its tragically slow motion decline can only wonder when a Southwestern US theatre company mounts a new production of Meredith Wilson’s 1957 Broadway Musical The Music Man which includes the song “Gary, Indiana”–the purported home of Harold Hill, a con man. This…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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Tobias Warner started the topic Warner — Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the LLC Francophone Forum,
I am honored to have been nominated by the current members of our executive committee to stand for election to the committee this year.
I am an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Davis where I teach literature and film from West Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLate medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]
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Maren T. Linett started the topic introduction, candidate for executive committee in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear all,
I’m currently on the ballot for the executive committee of the TC Disability Studies, and I wanted to introduce myself to the members of the group. I’m a professor of English at Purdue University, and the founding director of Purdue’s Critical Disability Studies program, which runs an undergraduate minor and brings in one speaker per y…[Read more] -
David Palmer started the topic 13th International Arthur Miller Conference in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe Arthur Miller Society (http://arthurmillersociety.net/) is planning a conference at Ashland University in Ohio next October. The call for papers is attached. Thank you for considering this call.
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited Distinguishing the Comic Book Subgenre of Cancer Narratives in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoAn overview of proposed categories for the growing graphic medicine genre of cancer comics (i.e. cancer narratives in comic book form) and an initial theory on the significant linkage between this illness and particular medium.
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Alexa Joubin deposited Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and television from the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on a definition of myth as a powerful ideological narrative, Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance examines…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Language and Culture of Quebec in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDetailed Syllabus and outline for a 7-week course in the history of the language and culture of Quebec.
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