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Clarissa Clò started the topic MLA 2020 Guaranteed Session CFP: Intersectionality and Italian American Studies in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agodeadline for submissions: March 25, 2019
Call for Papers for a guaranteed session sponsored by the LLC Italian American Forum at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention on January 9-12, 2020, in Seattle, Washington.
This panel welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to texts in different media and genres that map and reflect…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited CFP: Routledge Companion to Literature and Class in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoRoutledge is doing a series of literature companions. I have been requested to build a proposal for a Literature and Social Class companion text. You are most welcome to pass on this CFP to colleagues. Please see details in attached file. Questions?
Many thanks,
Gloria McMillan, Editor
Email for ideas, communications, and drafts
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Splendid Isolation and Cruel Returns in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoChallenges Robinson Crusoe’s ability, in “Robinson Crusoe,” to be honest with himself about how much he was actually glad Fortune stepped into remove him out of his father’s grasp. And, as well, Gulliver’s presumption, In “Gulliver’s Travels,” that he would really have preferred Fortune had not stepped in and removed him from endless more days in…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Worthy Companions in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCompares Evelina, from Frances Burney’s “Evelina,” and Werther, from Goethe’s “Young Werther.” Argues that though they could readily be made to seem opposite to one another, as they seek company with such disparate groups of people, the difference is superficial, and their motivations, the same — namely, to make use of their associations with…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited “Mi Casa, Su Casa” in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” as if it were experienced by many viewers of a particular type — SCM’s: suburban, collegiate young men — as a feeling out of how they might contrive themselves so that their future development would not place them as identifiable as losers by he-men pulp figures they’d learned early represent…[Read more]
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Annelle Curulla started the topic CFP: MLA Seattle 2020 | LLC 18th-Century French Forum in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoFailure / Échec
This panel considers descriptions, discourses and aesthetics of failure in eighteenth-century France. Please submit title and 250-word abstract in French or English by March 15, 2019 to ffalaky@tulane.edu.
Distances/ Eloignements
This panel explores understandings of distance (moral, epistemological, aesthetic, historical,…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Being Diplomatic: ANT and Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA talk given at the ANT workshop at the University of Southern Denmark in 2017. I develop some of these ideas in chapter 4 of my current book
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFPs: Translation Studies Forum Sessions, MLA 2020 Seattle in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear Translation Studies scholars,
The CFPs for our Translation Studies Forum have been posted, and I repeat them here for your convenience and invite you to send proposals or abstracts:
(1) Translatability and World Literature: How best to acknowledge translation as a mediating factor in world literature? Incommensurability vs.…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Re-Thinking Design, Italian Style Bridging the Italian Curriculum Through ‘MADE in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoRe-Thinking Design, Italian Style
Bridging the Italian Curriculum Through ‘MADE IN ITALY’
A Workshop for Instructors Aimed at Enriching the Italian CurriculumJuly 7-21, 2019 Lead Facilitator:
- Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Assistant Professor of Italian, University of Arkansas
Co-Collaborators:
- Alessandro Adorno, Director, Babilonia: Itali…
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers AATI 2019 Conference May 30 – June 2, 2019 Marist College in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months ago(Si trova la versione in inglese sotto)
CALL For Papers AATI Conference 30 maggio – 2 giugno, 2019 Marist College – Poughkeepsie, NY
L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno si terrà a Poughkeepsie, NY, dal 30 maggio al 2 giugno, 2019, presso Marist College. Il tema del convegno è aperto, ma l’A…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers AATI 2019 Conference May 30 – June 2, 2019 Marist College – in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months ago(Si trova la versione in inglese sotto)
CALL For Papers AATI Conference 30 maggio – 2 giugno, 2019 Marist College – Poughkeepsie, NY
L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno si terrà a Poughkeepsie, NY, dal 30 maggio al 2 giugno, 2019, presso Marist College. Il tema del convegno è aperto, ma l’A…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 52nd Annual IASA Conference in Houston — Call for Papers in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months ago52nd Annual IASA Conference in Houston — Call for Papers — Defying Boundaries, Rais(az)ing Walls:
Italian Americans Negotiating Borders in a Changing Ethnic Framework Location: Doubletree at Hilton, 6 E. Greenway Plaza; Houston, Texas, 77046
Date: October 31-November 3, 2019
Submission Deadline: Friday, April 26, 2019 Upload/submit proposa…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 2nd IASA International Symposium in Italy in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months ago- 2nd IASA International Symposium in Italy
CALL FOR PAPERS
June 20-22, 2019
Roma Tre University
Via Valco di San Paolo, 19
Rome, Italy
Transposing Landscapes and Identities in the Italian Diaspora: Visual and Verbal Representations
Upload/submit proposals to Submittable:https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit Submission D…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic LLC Francophone Calls for Papers — Seattle 2020 in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoCinéma-monde francophone
Papers addressing scholarly debates around cinéma-monde through analysis of recent cinematic texts from throughout the Francophone world. 250-word abstracts to Denis Provencher (denisprovencher@email.arizona.edu) by Thursday, March 7, 2019.
The Multilingual Maghreb (in collaboration with LLC Arabic)
Papers addressing m…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Call for panelists, "Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air" (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
Please consider proposing a paper to the MLA 2020 Panel, “Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air.”
A range of classification schemes proliferated in the long eighteenth century, from casta classifications in the Americas (Carrera, Imagining Identity) to racial, national, and moral classifications of human beings in Europe (Kant, Obs…[Read more]
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