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Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSeminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)
Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSeminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)
Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]
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Eric Calderwood started the topic New journal of interest to Global Hispanophone scholars in the discussion
Global Hispanophone via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoDear Global Hispanophone colleagues,
I hope that you’re all having a great summer! I’m writing to let you know
about a new journal that might be of interest to the members of this list.The Argentine writer Santiago De Luca is currently serving as Argentina’s
cultural attaché to Morocco. In that role, he has founded a new journa…[Read more] -
Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Violence, Time, and Memory in Beowulf: The Feast Hall as Cultural Reliquary in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoA reading of Beowulf that theorizes Heorot as a cultural reliquary, in so doing troubling the more standard readings of this poem as a series of episodes and digressions, in favor of focusing more on the as-yet inadequately examined queer temporalities of human experiences in the world that are embedded within the feast hall and the poem that contains it.
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Ben Click started the topic CFP: Mark Twain and the Natural World in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoSPECIAL ISSUE: Mark Twain and the Natural World
The Mark Twain Annual is seeking article-length submissions that examine aspects of Twain’s work that comment on the relation between human beings and the natural world. This broad scope allows for critical examinations of Twain’s writing about the natural world in any number of ways: as nat…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry uploaded the file: CFP: “Water Logics” International Conference April 11-12, 2019, Tulane University to
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoConvened by
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (Tulane University) and yasser elhariry (Dartmouth College) -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic, NeMLA 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis panel on the American ecogothic will take place at the 50th annual NeMLA conference (March 21-24, 2019 in Washington, DC).
Leslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBeginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]
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Geraldine Heng deposited INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OF THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES (Cambridge UP, March 8,, 2018) in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis is the typescript of the Introductory chapter of the book, THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, published on March 8, 2018 by Cambridge UP (503 pp., 8 chapters, 10″ x 7″ format). The book discusses Jews, Muslims, Africans and blackness, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani (“Gypsies”) in 7 chapters, including a critical…[Read more]
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Geraldine Heng deposited INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OF THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES (Cambridge UP, March 8,, 2018) in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis is the typescript of the Introductory chapter of the book, THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, published on March 8, 2018 by Cambridge UP (503 pp., 8 chapters, 10″ x 7″ format). The book discusses Jews, Muslims, Africans and blackness, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani (“Gypsies”) in 7 chapters, including a critical…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Groucho, Harpo, and Narrative Theory in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis short piece on _Duck Soup_ (1933) and narrative theory is a response to Jim Phelan’s target essay “Authors, Resources, Audiences,” published in the double-issue of _Style_ (52.1 & 52.2).
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Benita Sampedro replied to the topic New book about Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCongratulations, Eric Calderwood, for such groundbreaking contribution to Global Hispanophone Studies!
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Eric Calderwood started the topic New book about Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the discussion
Global Hispanophone via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m delighted to announce the publication of my book, *Colonial al-Andalus:
Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture*
<https://www.amazon.com/Colonial-al-Andalus-Making-Moroccan-Culture/dp/0674980328/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522093517&sr=8-1&keywords=colonial+al-andalus>
(Harvard University Press, 2018).Grounded in n…[Read more]
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Laurence Hooper deposited Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]
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Mahan Ellison uploaded the file: Congreso AMEII 2019 Formulario de inscripción to
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCongreso AMEII 2019 Formulario de inscripción
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Mahan Ellison uploaded the file: I Congreso de la Asociación Marroquí de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos 2019 to
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoLa Asociación Marroquí de Estudios Ibéricos e ibreoamericanos tiene el honor de enviarles la convocatoria oficial de su Primer Congreso Internacional que tendrá lugar en Agadir, los días 18, 19 y 20 de abril de 2019, sobre el tema: “Las literaturas africanas en lenguas ibéricas (1956-2018)”. Aprovechando esta ocasión, les invita para partic…[Read more]
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Francisco Fernández de Alba started the topic CFP: Fashion in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWe warmly invite you to submit abstracts on all topics related to Iberian fashion. Please see the attached CFP
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic IPPS Miami 2019 Call for Session Proposals in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoTHE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL PIERS PLOWMAN CONFERENCE
April 4-7, 2019
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida (Co-sponsored by the University of Miami and Florida International University)
The Programming Committee invites you to submit Session Proposals by May 15, 2018. Please send proposals (150-300 words) to ippsmiami2019@gmail.com
Session…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro deposited Call for Proposals MLA 2019 Convention Forum on Global Hispanophone in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPanel: “Teaching the Global Hispanophone”. Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: curricula structured according to wentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; language issues; or texts availability. How have you met these challenges? What are other less obvious challenges? We welcome proposals that will…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro deposited Call for Proposals MLA 2019 Convention Forum on Global Hispanophone in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPanel: “Teaching the Global Hispanophone”. Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: curricula structured according to wentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; language issues; or texts availability. How have you met these challenges? What are other less obvious challenges? We welcome proposals that will…[Read more]
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