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Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoFrom Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.
This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoBuilding on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more] -
Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”
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Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years agoHi everyone,I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 16th with your nominations. Thanks!
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Raj Chetty started the topic CLCS Caribbean Forum panel at MLA 2024 (in-person, Philadelphia) in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years agoHey all!
Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
- Friday, 5 January 2024
- 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)
The…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic UPDATE (January 3, 2024): MLA Emergency Motion on Israel-Palestine in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago***JANUARY 3 UPDATE***
We attempted to send the original message (below) via email to all forum members, but the MLA said that wasn’t possible. We only received two replies (both voted “yes”) to the survey we included in that original message and thus ended up taking a different approach (in line with what at least one other forum is doing): we…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited Foreword in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoA STEAM-informed humanities’ essay describing the theoretical concept of “ecophobia”-a notion put forward in Simon Estok’s theoretical text The Ecophobia Hypothesis (Routledge 2018) that describes the systemic human fear of nature.
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Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more] -
Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia * in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoConsidering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature? I claim that conceptually linking the Constitutional protections enabled by the American civil rights movement to an emerging civil rights of nature would enable the rapid transition away from ecophobic attitudes toward…[Read more]
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Nathan H. Dize started the topic Conversation w/ Jean Abel Pierre about corruption in Haiti (in French) in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoKwazman Vwa is delighted to welcome author Jean Abel Pierre. Pierre will be with us to discuss his recent book, Sociologie critique de la corruption: Comment Haïti est pris au piège de la pauvreté. Corruption is a subject that concerns us all, and somehow, our preoccupation with limiting its effects and abuses never seem to fully eliminate it ent…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic MLA 2024 Convention CFP – CLCS Caribbean in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoColegas, colleagues this is our short description for our MLA Forum panel for 2024, and it follows our interest in describing contemporary shifts in states and “nation” formations in the Caribbean. Please send us your abstracts! STILL ACCEPTING ABSTRACTS–just send them our way before March 31
EVOLUTIONS IN CARIBBEAN STATE FORMATION-Caribbean…[Read more]
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Raquel Patricia Chiquillo started the topic CFP: for Journal Humanities – on Twenty-First Century Central American Novel in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoBuenas tardes, colegas: quisiera invitarlos a subir sus artículos sobre la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI para consideración de ser publicadas en la revista académica “Humanities.” La fecha de entrega es el 31 de marzo pero se puede extender. Me han dicho que el APC no se va a cobrar. Se aceptan manuscritos en español y en inglés. Por favo…[Read more]
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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David Tenorio started the topic Forum Sessions Call for papers for MLA 2024 (abstracts due 3/17) in the discussion
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoBlack Aesthetics and Politics: Fugitivity and Postsocialism in Contemporary Cuba
How do Black aesthetics and politics participate in the context of postsocialism? How does Black fugitivity, or resistance to state capture and incorporation, operate in contemporary Cuba?
Cuba Disassembled: Infrastructures, Consumption, and Material Cultures in…
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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