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Carla Sassi started the topic CFP: Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Lit in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWe invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2018.
The detailed CFP and further Special Issue…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on "Environment, Ecology, Clim in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWe invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2018.
The detailed CFP and further Special Issue…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature”
We invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript sub…[Read more]
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Marlene Daut posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello, fellow 19th-century Americanists! This is Marlene Daut, and I am on the ballot for the 19th-Century American Executive Committee this MLA. So, I thought I’d take just a few moments to tell you a little bit about my interests.
After being at the Claremont Graduate University for 7 years, I’ve recently moved to the University of Virginia…[Read more]
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Alex Feldman posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoExecutive Committee Candidacy
Dear all,
I am writing to introduce myself as a candidate/ nominee for the upcoming Executive Committee elections. I am a Lecturer and Fellow (Asst. Prof.) in the English Department at the University of Haifa, specialising in Modern British, American and European drama, with a particular focus on the representation…[Read more] -
Prentiss Clark created the doc Emerson Society Awards announcement 2018 in the group
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2018 Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS – 2018 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop
Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania invite submissions for the annual meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior S…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bakhtin, Theory of Mind, and Pedagogy: Cognitive Construction of Social Class in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis essay brings together cognitive literary theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic imagination to illuminate the construction of social class in the eighteenth-century novel. It offers a close reading of selected passages from Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778), made possible by combining Bakhtinian and cognitive poetics. It also dis…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan uploaded the file: Ethnolinguistic Prelude to Gary, IN, "Land of Rust Belt Romance and Adventure" to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThese previews are to contextualize the Calumet region of NW Indiana. These trips will include coffee hours at local Calumet Region libraries to call for fiction short stories by people who grew in steel mill / industrial towns across the US. I am limited to covering NW Indiana, but our dostribution list includes people from PA, OH, and other states.
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Joseph Campana posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCall for postdocs
Rice University, 2018-19: “Waste Histories and Futures.”
http://hrc.rice.edu/node/709
Deadline: Friday, December 1, 2017Rice University’s Humanities Research Center will host the seminar “Waste: Histories and Futures” in 2018-19, co-organized by Joseph Campana (English), Cymene Howe (Anthropology), and Dominic Boyer…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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Jennifer R. Ballengee posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP for The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – March 29th to April 1st, 2018.
Dangerous Passages (Benjamin 1940/2018).
As is well known, Walter Benjamin undertook a dangerous passage over the Pyrenees, a route taken by many refugees hoping to flee Nazi-occupied Franc…[Read more] -
Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Living Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms
ACLA Seminar, 3/29-4/1, 2018 at UCLAThis American Comparative Literature Association seminar invites papers addressing life forms that have been largely neglected by the nonhuman turn, in its more immediate focus on animals, objects, and environmental forces or…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945 : Call for Essays (of potential interest to scholars of American modernism and 20th-century studies)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
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David Squires deposited Outlawry: Ida B. Wells and Lynch Law in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis essay demonstrates how Lynch Law suspended normative criminal law and undermined constitutional amendments made after the US Civil War. Focusing on the period between Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, the essay argues that “outlawry” provides the necessary juridical concept for understanding how a tradition of popular sovereignty wor…[Read more]
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Rose Casey posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCFP: Forms of Law: The Agentive Capacities of Literary and Legal Forms, ACLA 2018 (UCLA)
Organizers: Rose Casey (rose.casey@mail.wvu.edu) and Stephanie De Gooyer (sdegooye@willamette.edu)
Abstracts of 1500 characters due September 1 to 23rd via ACLA portal: https://www.acla.org/forms-law-agentive-capacities-literary-and-legal-formsIn their newly…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoHistorians, literary scholars, and international lawyers interested in the early modern period have all grappled with the problem of anachronism, yet mostly independently of one another. This essay uses the question of war crime in Shakespeare’s Henry V to argue that early modernists interested in international law need not reject synchronic h…[Read more]
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Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco deposited The International National: Ius Commune and the fictions of citizenship. in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe following text was presented as part of the Presidential Panel at the American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht (The Netherlands), July 8th 2017. The panel was composed of Joseph Slaughter (ACLA President, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University in the City of New York), Maria Aristodemou, Law, Birkbeck College,…[Read more]
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