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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA subconference call for papers in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoAs the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to propose sessions somewhere “Between the Public and its Privates”.
Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public without uncovering its uncanny twin–the private. Consider Google’s Han…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin
Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated M…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Classics Book Wins Teaching Literature Book Award 2015 in the discussion
Classical Studies and Modern Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural 2015 winner of its Teaching Literature Book Award.
The Teaching Literature Book Award is an externally refereed prize, presented biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University.…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited “Trespass and Forgiveness in William Shakespeare’s King Lear” in the group
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis article reads the problem of trespass within William Shakespeare’s King Lear. I draw upon eighteenth-century jurist William Blackstone’s notion of trespass, sixteenth-century jurist Jean Bodin’s notion of sovereignty, in order to understand the question of property rights that emerges in Lear’s abdication of his sovereignty.
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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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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 17th-Century English 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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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Religion and Literature 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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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Shakespeare 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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Janice Ho started the topic CFP: In/Security with cluster on "Labour, Precarity, and the University" in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP: In/Security
Special issue of English Language Notes, Fall/Winter 2016 (Vol. 54, No. 2)
This issue of ELN takes for its focus the topic of security and its necessary correlate, insecurity. As Itty Abraham notes, the term “security” is a “traveling signifier” that has “attached itself to every scale of human activity, from the individual…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Travel and its Crossroads – extended deadline 07/12/15 in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is October 8-10, 2015. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections (with literature, aesthetics, philosophy, etc.)
Place: University of West Georgia, Carrollton GA (45 miles west of Atlanta)
When: October 8-10, 2015
Deadline: July 12,…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCFP on Travel – Deadline extended to July 12, 2015.
30th ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE IN THE HUMANITIES
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the University of West Georgia (UWG) invite you to celebrate the 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, October 8-10, 20…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes, uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Art, Literature and Revolution in Latin America: Telling the Story in the group
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCourse Description: As German intellectual Walter Benjamin writes in his essay “The Storyteller”, “Experience which is passed on from mouth to mouth is the source from which all storytellers have drawn.” In the process of sharing experiences, more stories are born with authorship that are common while at the same time recognizing the individ…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic New MLA resource site for humanities careers in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoI invite members of this group who might be interested in exploring careers beyond university teaching to explore our new site for the Connected Academics initiative. Content—interviews, advice, resources—will updated regularly, but please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see up there.
connect.mla.hcommons-staging.org
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Call for essays – MLA volume on Miguel de Unamuno in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their experiences.…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic CFEssays – MLA Volume on Miguel de Unamuno in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno, which I am editing, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about…[Read more]
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Sharon Achinstein started the topic CFP MLA 2016: 17-Century Britain and/or/in Europe in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: MLA 2016:
17th-Century Britain/and/or/in Europe
Special Session
A panel reframing geographical and literary contours: literary, political, or philosophical concerns; networks; thinking beyond ‘Crisis’; questioning current institutional barriers. 300 word abstract by 21 March 2015; Sharon Achinstein (sachins1@jhu.edu) and…[Read more] -
Sharon Achinstein started the topic CFP MLA 2016: 17-Century Britain and/or/in Europe in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago17th-Century Britain/and/or/in Europe
Special Session
A panel reframing geographical and literary contours: literary, political, or philosophical concerns; networks; thinking beyond ‘Crisis’; questioning current institutional barriers. 300 word abstract by 21 March 2015; Sharon Achinstein (sachins1@jhu.edu) and Anston Bosman (abosman@amherst.edu). -
Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures (MLA 16 Special Session) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSession type: Special Session
Title of session: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures
Submission requirements: Abstract of about 250 words.
Deadline for submissions: 20 March 2015
Description: Utopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual ar…[Read more] - Load More
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