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Amanda L. French deposited Refrain, Again: The Return of the Villanelle in the group
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoPoets and scholars are all wrong about the villanelle. While most reference texts teach that the villanelle’s nineteen-line alternating-refrain form was codified in the Renaissance, the scholar Julie Kane has conclusively shown that Jean Passerat’s “Villanelle” (“J’ay perdu ma Tourterelle”), written in 1574 and first published in 1606, is the only…[Read more]
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Alexander Gil deposited Migrant Textuality: On the fields of Aimé Césaire's Et les chiens se taisaient in the group
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoWith the discovery of the earliest known manuscript version of Et les chiens se taisaient, we learn that Césaire had started thinking about the theater earlier than had been assumed, and most important, that he had originally envisioned this work as a historical drama based on the Haitian Revolution. “Migrant Textuality” explores the several vers…[Read more]
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Ted Atkinson started the topic CFP: The Dirty Coast (Special Session – MLA 2016) in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoFrom Texas to Florida, the Dirty Coast shifts, contains, nurtures, kills. Abstracts and brief bio on the ecologies, economies, or peoples making this coast dirty and beautiful, alluring and disgusting. All media. By 10 March 2015. To Sharon O’Dair, sodair@ua.edu.
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Ted Atkinson started the topic MLA Panels for 2016 (CFP) in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSouthern United States Forum (formerly the Southern Literature Discussion Group) at MLA 2016
Sounds of the South
When we listen to the South, what do we hear?
Taking advantage of the MLA Convention’s 2016 visit to Austin, the live music capital of the world, the Southern United States Forum is organizing a panel that aims to bring together…[Read more]
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Ted Atkinson started the topic MLA Panels for 2016 (CFP) in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSouthern United States Forum (formerly the Southern Literature Discussion Group) at MLA 2016
Sounds of the South
When we listen to the South, what do we hear?
Taking advantage of the MLA Convention’s 2016 visit to Austin, the live music capital of the world, the Southern United States Forum is organizing a panel that aims to bring together…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic Book — Call for essays in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Members of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century literature group:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting essays on working women in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century American literature. The volume will focus on the American working woman and how…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic Sustainability and Population in American Literary History in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSpecial Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying ecocritical topics, demography in literature, race, reproduction, or other American literary topics. The panel is on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in 116 VCC West. More information about the panelists and papers can b…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic Sustainability and Population in American Literary History in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSpecial Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying nineteenth-century American literature. The panel is on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in 116 VCC West. More information about the panelists and papers can be found at ht…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 2015 in the forum
Poetry on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoALA 2015 Panel Reminder:
Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science and…[Read more]
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Brad Evans started the topic MLA 2015: Special Screening of In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoSpecial Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon
http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening
In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an enti…[Read more]
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Brad Evans started the topic MLA Vancouver, Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoSpecial Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon
http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening
In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an e…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson started the topic ANN: 2015 Futures of American Studies Institute: Questions Worth Asking in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDARTMOUTH COLLEGE ANNOUNCES A ONE WEEK SUMMER INSTITUTE
THE FUTURES OF AMERICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE: QUESTIONS WORTH ASKING
MONDAY, JUNE 22 — SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2015Director: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
Co-Directors: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University), Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern U…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap replied to the topic Photography and Southern Culture in the forum
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoSouthern Quarterly has extended the deadline for submissions to the special issue photography and southern culture to January 31, 2015, and I would be happy to discuss possible submissions at anytime.
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 2015 in the forum
Poetry on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoQuantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 2015 (Boston, May 21-24)
How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science…[Read more]
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Jesse Goldberg started the topic CFP: Harlem Renaissance Drama (SSAWW 2015) in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months ago2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaProposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”
Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminal…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap started the topic Photography and Southern Culture in the forum
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoThe Southern Quarterly
Special Issue: Photography and the Shaping of Southern Culture
Guest Editor: Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky Univ. <joseph.millichap@wku.edu>
Publication Schedule: Volume 51, Number 4, Summer 2015
Submissions for the 2015 special issue should relate photography to any other aspect of culture in the South, with both…[Read more]
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Stephanie Rountree started the topic Small-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive {Edited Collection} in the forum
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoSmall-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive [Edited Collection]
Proposals due September 1, 2014
In recent years, the advent of reality television’s “hicksploitation” alongside the rise of scripted dramatic series such as True Blood and The Walking Dead has seemingly kept the U.S. South as a small-screen spectacle of wonder and ex…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic CFP Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2015 Conference in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoSSAWW Triennial Conference November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Call for Proposals
Due Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2015 for all proposals.
For the 201…[Read more]
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Jon Smith started the topic CFP: The South in the North (MLA pre-conf 6-7 Jan 2015) in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe South in the North
A Pre-MLA Mini-conference
January 6-7, 2015
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne Duck, Jennifer Greeson, Matthew Lassi…[Read more]
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