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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Eponymous Écriture and the Poetics of Reading a Transnational Epic in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe article enacts the essay as the mainstay of scholarly discourse in a knowledgeable community. It deals with (con)textualized readings of poetry (or literature) mainly through the medium of translation as an important intercultural phenomenon involving poetics, episteme, borders.
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Kathleen Woodward deposited Reading Affect in Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDesigned as a short introduction to academic literary studies of affect, Reading Affect in Literary Studies is a one-credit graduate seminar, offered in Spring 2014, that was framed by the question of how we might rethink our practice as scholars of literature to take our scholarship to publics beyond the academy. Readings included work by Rita…[Read more]
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Steven G. Kellman deposited "Alien autographs: how translators make their marks" in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoLike other forms of treachery, translation can be either concealed or exposed. Though most literary translators work in the dark and some embrace invisibility as an ideal, all translations can be situated along the continuum of illusionist-anti-illusionist or domesticating-foreignizing. A variety of paratexts lay bare the devices of translation.…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction board elections in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI just wanted to post here to let everyone on this group know that I am running for the MLA Prose Fiction executive committee. One of the basic jobs of this position is choosing topics for the guaranteed MLA panels, and I promise to think broadly and openly about formulating those. (In fact, I think it would be a good idea to solicit suggestions…[Read more]
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Denise Kripper started the topic CFP ACLA 2016: Translation in Between: Situating Literature, Market and Culture in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoTranslation in Between: Situating Literature, Market and Culture in Ibero-America
Organizer: Adriana Mackler, University of Connecticut
Co-Organizer: Denise Kripper, Georgetown University
~~Contemporary writers have often created “writer cha…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 ACLA: Exotic Europe (deadline 09/23) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoProposal submissions at: http://www.acla.org/seminar/exotic-europe
New translations from European languages welcome in this seminar!
This seminar will discuss and compare a variety of cultures of Europe beyond the “usual suspects” of Central and Western Europe that have shaped its dominant discourse and carried off most of the international lit…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Marie Vieux-Chauvet in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHi Adam, That’s amazing that MVC will be the focus of Yale French Studies… my how times change. Sorry I don’t have time to engage with your thesis, but wish you well. And perhaps my article-length review of the English version of ACF that appeared in 2009 will be of use to you. There’s a link to it on the last page of my website,…[Read more]
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Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo started the topic Caribbean Studies Association 41st annual conference in Haiti in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCARIBBEAN GLOBAL MOVEMENTS: PEOPLE, IDEAS, CULTURE, ARTS and ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
Hotel Karibe, Pétionville, Haïti, June 5-11, 2016
The Caribbean has always been the site of global interactions and transactions. Movements from one place to the other across diverse geographic locations and spaces (from island to island, the circum-Caribbean a…[Read more]
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Adam Dexter started the topic Marie Vieux-Chauvet in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoI recently discovered that Yale French Studies is devoting an entire issue to the brilliance of Marie Vieux-Chauvet. I’m currently writing my MA thesis on Amour, Colere et Folie. If anyone is interested in reading it/making comments/suggesting sources, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Adam Dexter started the topic CFP (NeMLA 2016) Queer Theory in French DUE 09/30 in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoNeMLA 2016 — Comment dit-on “queer” en français? Queer Theory in French
contact email: adexter@tulane.edu
47th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
17 March – 20 March 2016SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2015
Although French-language theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, a…[Read more] -
Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoHi All,
In September, the Commons Wire, your monthly guide to how your fellow members are using the platform, will return from its summer hiatus with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, or received a promotion, please let me know by e-mail or by private message (to @terrains…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoBonjour Corinne et al.
As a former board member of the Haitian Studies Association (based at UMASS Boston) I can highly recommend the upcoming conference in Montreal. Too late to submit a paper, but surely not too late to register. Sorry not to make it this year myself as I have to be at another conference where I’ll be promoting my new…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoHello, all,
I’m joining the virtual party late, but I wanted to add my introduction. I’m currently Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Earlham College where I’ll be teaching language as well as a course on French Caribbean cinema. In French studies, I’m primarily a Haitianist but also work on the rest of the Francophone Caribbean as well…[Read more]
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Mario Santana started the topic CFP Translation and Iberian Literatures in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos has posted a call for papers for a dossier on “Translation and Iberian Literatures”: http://www.pasavento.com/convocatoria.html
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Over the last three decades, translation has gained increasing visibility and attention in literary studies. This development is related to the questioning of p…[Read more]
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Monica Cure started the topic CFP Vulnerable Travelers, ACLA 2016 Harvard, Deadline Sep. 22 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoFor colleagues writing on travel literature, please consider submitting an abstract (200-250 words) for our panel at the annual American Comparative Literature Association conference held at Harvard from March 17-20, 2016. Abstracts are due by September 22.
This panel invites scholars to explore vulnerability in travel writing from a range of…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Emerson's Bayonet" in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe essay reads Ralph Waldo Emerson’s argument for a “nation of friends,” in “Politics,” as Emerson’s response to his lament, also in “Politics,” that the “power of love, as the basis of the State, has never been tried.” By a careful reading of that essay, which includes locating “Politics” within the debate in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan be…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Adam Smith and the Rights of the Dead in the group
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAdam Smith closes the first chapter to Theory of Moral Sentiments, ‘Of Sympathy’, with a harmless enough assertion: ‘We sympathize even with the dead’. Death is not a topic that much interests Smith in Theory of Moral Sentiments. With the exception of a few miscellaneous thoughts in the text, the one paragraph Smith devotes to it is the extent of…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP ICLA 2016 in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts relationally rather than…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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