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Fabiana E. Martínez deposited 12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPeter Pan helps Rita solve the mystery of a stray puzzle piece. Aldo looks at the clouds and decides to quit. A little girl insists on making everything in her coloring book orange. Eve defies darkness turning past dreams into future memories.
12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar is a bilingual collection of interior vignettes told in both…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited Data Envy in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: What Is Critical Bibliography? in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoWe are excited to announce our first panel for MLA 2017 in Philadephia and provide the abstracts. Be sure to add this session to your convention schedule!
Chair: Ryan Cordell
Respondent: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (University of Virginia and Director, Rare Book School)
Barbara Heritage (University of Virginia), “Literature as Artifact: Critical…[Read more] -
Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Ar-ar-archive in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA reflection on the state of the archive in the state of post-theory.
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Sonia Nora Feder-Lewis deposited Leadership in Literature Course Syllabus in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis course, designed for a graduate program in education which focuses on leadership, explores works of literature that have had a significant cultural impact and shaped ways in which societies view social issues from the perspective of how leadership is enacted within the texts. For students from disciplines outside of literature studies, this…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please consider submitting a proposal for one of the panels that the Law and the Humanities Forum is sponsoring at MLA 2017. We are organizing one guaranteed session and two special (non-guaranteed) sessions this year:
1. Object Lessons in Personhood (Guaranteed Session)
10-minute papers on a single “thing.” How do theoretical issue…[Read more] -
Liam Corley started the topic Zombie Theology: Desacralizing the Human Body in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoGolems, Faustus, zombies–what do fantasies and fears of unsouled bodies, medieval to modern, reveal about human remains and resurrections? CV and 300-word abstract by 15 March 2016; Liam Corley (wccorley@cpp.edu).
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Liam Corley started the topic Religion in the Contact Zones (MLA 2017 Guaranteed Session) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWhat is created where religions meet? Explore borderlands (geographical, linguistic, identitarian), interplays syncretic to agonistic, medieval to modern, animistic to orthodox. CV and 300-word abstract by 15 March 2016; Adrienne Williams Boyarin (aboyarin@uvic.ca).
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin started the topic Creative Mysticism CFP in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI draw your attention to this MLA 2017 special session CFP, which may be of interest to some:
Creative Mysticism
Practices of mystical writing and reading in any language, genre, or tradition. Possible topics: comparisons, commentarial traditions, modern re-creations of earlier works, other forms of art. 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March…[Read more] -
Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell started the topic CFPs for MLA17 in Philadelphia in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOur CFPs for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia are now posted. Please consider applying and share widely!
“What Is Critical Bibliography?”
Seeking short position papers exploring the intellectual reach and possibilities for bibliography beyond textual criticism. What is the function of bibliography at the present time? 300 word abstracts by…[Read more] -
Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAn international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore the implications for the humanities of cogn…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoUnbounded: David Huerta’s Incurable at 30
Special Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin started the topic Religion & Literature Syllabus Prize (15 Mar 2016) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThis will be of interest to many:
ANNOUNCEMENT: DEADLINE EXTENDED
The journal Religion and Literature is soliciting submissions for its second annual syllabus prize. Syllabi should address both religion and literature in a substantial manner, and should encourage reflection on the many possible relations between them.
To submit a syllabus for…[Read more]
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Allan Mitchell deposited Unbecoming Human in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 10 years agoProposing an alternative phraseology of “unbecoming” to accent the risky, tentative, epigenetic processes of human development.
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Allan Mitchell deposited Unbecoming Human in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 10 years agoProposing an alternative phraseology of “unbecoming” to accent the risky, tentative, epigenetic processes of human development.
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Patrick Colm Hogan started the topic CFP: MLA 2017, "Sexual Cognition" in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years ago2017 Modern Language Association Convention
Call for Papers
For a session on “Sexual Cognition”
Sponsored by the Forum on Cognitive and Affect Studies
Topics may include how cognitive study advances our understanding of sexualities and how LGBTQIA, gender, or feminist theories complicate cognitive approaches.
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen deposited Midhumanism in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 10 years agocontribution to roundtable on “Becoming Human” co-sponsored by the Middle English and Chaucer forums
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