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Gaurav G. Desai posted an update in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS — MLA 2015, VANCOUVER
Around the World in Eighty Clicks: Travel and New Technologies
Discussion Group: Travel Literature
How have new technologies – the internet, planes, trains and automobiles influenced the experience of travel? 250 word abstract and c.v. by 15 March 2014; Gaurav G. Desai (gaurav@tulane.edu).
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Samer Mahdy Ali changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago
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Gaurav G. Desai posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months ago
Dear Colleagues,
The SSRC has put out a call for applications from graduate students in the pre-dissertation stage to apply for their Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship. They welcome (and encourage) students in the humanities to apply for these fellowships. Further details are available at…[Read more]
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Samer M. Ali replied to the topic MLA Group Structure: Membership Feedback Sought in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoI agree and disagree: The MLA has been on a years’ long campaign to atomize it’s whiteness, with the election of underrepresented ethnicities and disciplines to governing bodies — both Shaden and I have been elected to the DA. I was elected to the EC and will serve until 2016. With that seat at the table, I have proposed internationalizing our d…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months ago
Two University Press books out in 2013:
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition (Liverpool UP)
http://www.amazon.com/Disability-Studies-Spanish-Culture-Representations/dp/184631870X/Understanding Juan Benet: New Perspectives (U South Carolina…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 5 months ago
Podcast series on the culture of cities launched with 5 conversational scholarly interviews at urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com .
Cities discussed run from Madrid to Tokyo to LA/Hollywood to Valencia/Barcelona/Bilbao, and more.Click there on the Urbanculturalstudies Podcasts page or look for us on iTunes and Internet Archive. More to follow!
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months ago
I’ve just started a series of podcasts at:
UrbanCulturalStudies Podcasts
The first one is a conversational interview inspired by scholar Stephen Vilaseca’s recent article “From Graffiti to Street Art: How Urban Artists Are Democratizing Spanish City Centers and Streets,” originally published in the journal Trans…[Read more] -
Samer M. Ali replied to the topic New Directions in Arabic Lit Scholarship? in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoHi Sulaiman, I think by areas, you mean area studies or regional categories, and those have become less useful over the past decades for literatures. As for literary criticism and intertextuality, what methods or […]
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Samer M. Ali started the topic New Directions in Arabic Lit Scholarship? in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoWhat new shifts in Arabic literature scholarship do you value? And why?
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