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Tracy Rutler posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCFP: 2024 MLA in Philadelphia
There is still time to submit a proposal for these three panels organized by the LLC 18th-century France (including one non-guaranteed panel co-organized with LLC 17th-century France)!
France in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
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Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] -
David Alff started the topic CFP MLA 24 — New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIt has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]
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David Alff started the topic CFP MLA 2024 — Comparative Media Histories in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoRecent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen an interest in non-print media, queer and trans book history, speculative archives, and critical making, among other approaches. This panel seeks con…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSee attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.
“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores tra…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoStories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[Read more]
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Darren J. Borg started the topic CFP: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoWhat is a life worth living?Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of prolonging it, whether artificially or by providing warnings against our current behavior in order to preserve the life that already exists. The fact that death and…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Series in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoThe Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather SeriesTaormina, SicilyJuly 10-12, 2023 Sponsored by the University of Arkansas and Società cooperativa Taormina immagine Celebrating over 50 years of fandom, join us and commemorate Francis Ford Coppola’s series- The Godfather (March 15, 1972), The Godfather Part II (December 20, 19…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic Call for Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Jessica Howell started the topic Inviting nominations for the Executive Committee in the discussion
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 3 years agoHello,
The Executive Committee of the Travel Writing Forum invites suggestions for new members of the Executive Committee. Feel free to message one of us directly, or to post a reply here.
All best,
Jessica Howell, Bernadette Andrea, Patricia Akhimie, Natalya Din Kariuki and Churnjeet Mahn
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Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic Nominations for the Prose Fiction Forum executive committee in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe welcome nominations from our membership. Please feel free to email ylee@wellesley.edu before Jan. 17, 2023.
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoGian Paolo Callegari’s prize-winning 1948 play, Cristo ha ucciso, marks an overlooked milestone in Italy’s response to the Holocaust. Among the earliest Italian creative works to confront the genocide of the European Jews, Callegari’s play challenged the legacies of anti-Semitism in European culture. Yet it also concealed the troubling histo…[Read more]
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Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoVirginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. 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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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Associate or Assistant Professor of Medieval and Iberian Studies, Spanish, UVA in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoWe’re hiring! Please spread the news about our search for a colleague in early modern or medieval Iberian Studies, at the rank of assistant or associate professor (tenure-track or tenured). Position description and application information are available h…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines ethnic strife and cultural friction in New Orleans during the Mexican-American war. Specifically, it explores how the Crescent City’s anglophone and francophone populations navigated the tension between national and transnational affiliation through performance. By considering both the material and the immaterial aspects of p…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited La figura del renegado en el teatro de Cervantes in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoOn the renegades in Cervantes’s Captivity plays
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Jonathan Hiller replied to the topic CFPs for MLA 2023 San Francisco: 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC 17th, 18th, and 19th-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee wishes to communicate an extension to the submission deadline of two of its sessions: the panel “Intersectional Work in the Italian 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries” and the roundtable “Homework Conditions: Uses of Translation in the Italian Language and Culture…[Read more] -
Letizia Modena started the topic Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCfp MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee “Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic”
How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted scholarly pursuits in and around Italian Studies, especially across gender positions and discipl…[Read more]
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