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Noah Guynn started the topic Medieval French CFP, MLA 2023: Feminist/Queer Reading in Honor of Simon Gaunt in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoNew Directions in Feminist and Queer Readings of Medieval French Literature: a Session in Honor of Simon Gaunt
Simon Gaunt’s research interests were remarkably varied: from Romance philology to psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, and beyond. This panel honors one important part of his legacy: his groundbreaking feminist and queer readings of m…[Read more]
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Noah Guynn started the topic Medieval French CFP, MLA 2023: Fictions of the Sacred in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoThe omnipresence of religious rhetoric in medieval French culture is among the most salient and often among the most alienating cultural juggernauts faced by students and scholars alike. Yet, sacred biography–hagiographical, Marian, and Christological–has not fully found its place in the discipline of medieval French studies. As a corpus at onc…[Read more]
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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Luis Restrepo started the topic Executive Committee Nominations — CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years agoCLCS Renaissance and Early Modern invites nominations for our Executive Committee. Self-nominations welcomed and encouraged. The Executive Committee is fully committed to including and amplifying the wide range of perspectives, voices, and languages that are crucial to our field. We are also committed to representing a diverse range of…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe 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 2023 through the close of the January 2028 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members also include…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoThank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, “Life Writing and Cognition” (Sunday) in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoJoin us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655
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Ellen Welch started the topic On behalf of LLC 16th-century in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoWith apologies for cross-posting, please see information about the LLC 16th-century French forum’s sessions at this weekend’s conference below:
· From the LLC French Sixteenth-Century Forum at the MLA:Please join us via the MLA Confex portal (if you are registered) for most sessions; and for free worldwide on Zoom for our Saturday sessio…[Read more]
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Corinne NOIROT replied to the topic MLA Sessions: 16c French Sessions in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoSpecial Zoom room for “French Drama in Context (1498–1610): Beyond Boundaries” (NOW VIRTUAL)
– ZOOM meeting ID: 895 2890 9673
– Passcode: theatrehttps://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89528909673?pwd=WEJCUlRiYm5nTHhLK0FsalVtNVBwQT09
Saturday 8 January ; noon–1:15 PM EST
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Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.
The following sessions will now be held virtually:
Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Presider: Rielle Navitski
A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic MLA Sessions: 16c French Sessions in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello everyone,
Here is an updated list of our 16c French sessions for MLA, which is now essentially online (all times are Eastern):
- Putting Sensory Worlds into Words in Sixteenth-Century France on 6 January 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM [online]
- Joachim Du Bellay at Five Hundred Years on 6 January 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM [online]
- French Drama in Context…
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Anne Donlon started the topic Sharing convention materials on the Commons in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello, all,
If you’re looking for more information about how to share your convention materials, this post has details about how to share work in CORE or in Docs. CORE assigns your work a DOI and gives you the option to share the deposit with groups. Work in CORE is publicly accessible–no log-in necessary to read or download. If you want to…[Read more]
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Corinne NOIROT replied to the topic 16c French Executive Committee: Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoI would like to nominate Alison Calhoun.
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Ellen Welch started the topic Update on 17th-c French sessions and call for executive committee nominations in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello friends,
A quick update in preparation for the MLA convention starting on Thursday. At this point, all of the sessions organized by the LLC 17th-French Forum have gone online or been postponed to next year:
- Friday, 7 January 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM. 179V Francophonie and the Early Modern: Intertextual Connections [online]
- Friday, 7…
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic 16c French Executive Committee: Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoBeginning this year, the MLA Program Committee has updated the way Forum Executive Committees are created. In the past, the executive committee and the forum membership nominated potential candidates, who were then narrowed to two in the spring, and voted between in the fall election cycle. Now, to streamline the process and to avert the…[Read more]
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Luis Restrepo posted an update in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease join the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern at the MLA2022 all online
Session
240V At the Intersection of Early Modern Race Studies and Trans Studies
Friday, 7 January 2022
10:15 AM – 11:30 AMSession
376V Insurrection, Tyranny, and Resistance: Indigenous, Colonial, and Enslaved Perspectives
Friday, 7 January 20225:15 PM – 6:30 PM…[Read more]
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Rosi Song started the topic UPDATE: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies Online Panels in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.
Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]
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Noah Guynn started the topic Appointments to the Executive Committee, LLC Medieval French in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs you may have heard, the Program Committee has implemented a change to the process of assembling Forum Executive Committees. We will use an appointment model as a trial run for the next three years, meaning the existing committee will select new members. The rationale for this change is that the MLA has heard from many executive committees that…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Forum Sessions in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum. We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]
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