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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 10 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global are…[Read more]
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Shazia Rahman deposited Rachna Mara’s Cosmopolitan (Yet Partial) Feminisms in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis article shows how Rachna Mara’s collection of short stories Of Customs and Excise puts forth a cosmopolitan feminism that reveals the losses and gains of diaspora in an arena of partiality and relationality.
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Shazia Sadaf deposited Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Dying Men in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoDaniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is reflection of Pakistani masculinity in a metamorphosed state. A disturbingly masculine vocabulary frames the appearance and actions of the female characters. In contrast, the speech and thought of the male characters is minified in words of loss and regret. Their material ambitions and the r…[Read more]
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Madelyn Detloff started the topic Join our Roundtable on Gender and (anti)Social Media at MLA 16 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoJoin us for our roundtable discussion on Gender and (anti)Social Media on January 8, 2016 from 1:45–3:00 p.m. Central Time (2:45 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time).
If you are at the MLA convention, join us live in room 203, JW Marriott hotel. You can join us online via live tweet at #mla16genderandmedia or via the comments stream at
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Nicky Agate started the topic Commons literary trivia quiz at the Convention in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists that utilize messianism in their narratives to negotiate ambivalence about Zionism. Studying novels from the mid-1980’s to 2013, I look at the triangular relationship between Jewish American identification, the Holocaust, and Israel, to explore major topics in contemporary J…[Read more]
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Anna M. Klobucka started the topic Call for submissions: Journal of Feminist Scholarship in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research. The journal can be found at http://www.jfsonline.org/.
The editors of JFS invite submissions on a…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Colloque international (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)
De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer
Colloque international
84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir
Université du Québec à Montréal
11, 12, 13 mai 2016
En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysi…[Read more]
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Albertine Fox deposited 'EXTREME STATES: Remixing Cinema, Visual Art and Music in Godard’s Puissance de la parole’ in Sequence, 3.1 (2015). Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence3/archive/sequence-3-1/. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis article offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Jean-Luc Godard’s video short Puissance de la parole (1988). It engages with key historical figures in film, visual art and music, positioning Godard’s video mashup as a violent intermedial space where past and future meet. Exploring techniques of fragmentation, decontextualization and rec…[Read more]
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Lawrence M. Venuti started the topic Call for Papers: “Translation and Ethnography: Reflexivity and Representation.” in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies
Second Call for Papers (new deadline: January 29, 2016)
“Translation and Ethnography: Reflexivity and Representation”
University of Calgary (Alberta)
May 30 to June 1, 2016
The 29th annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies is plea…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Cocoons of Desire and Thought: Metaphor as Metafunction in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis conference paper was an invited plenary lecture for the 11th annual meeting of ICEG in January 2014. It builds upon numerous articles, essays and books the author has published on the grammar, epistemology and socio-historical aspects of metaphor and metaphorical discourse. This paper provides a model for understanding metaphor as a needed…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Gender and Teaching Jewish American Literature in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMLA Call For Proposals:
Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature
Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic Candidate Statement: Women in the Profession in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored and excited to have been nominated for the special delegate position of “Women in the Profession”. Since entering the job market four years ago I have consistently experienced and witnessed the corporatization of our profession. This is especially concerning for women and other minority groups, as we tend to be in the majority in the…[Read more]
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Marilyn Edelstein started the topic Candidate statement for exec. comm. for this forum on Women's and Gender Studies in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored to have been nominated for the executive committee for the Forum on Women’s and Gender Studies, given my lifelong commitment to these areas of scholarship and teaching. I’ve published on such feminist theorists as bell hooks and Julia Kristeva, and regularly teach courses on Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory and on Women and Lit…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg deposited Uncovering the Platonic in Kafka in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoKafka’s Romanticism/Platonism is hidden underneath the covers. In this article I show how better translations can help the reader take the covers off the bed. Whether it be K.’s meeting with Buergel in the Castle or with the Josef K.’s meeting with the Priest in The Trial,
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Majda R. Atieh deposited The Revelation of the Veiled in Toni Morrison's Paradise: The Whirling Dervishes in the Harem of the Convent in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMuslim women’s perspective on liberatory Islamic orality (or empowerment via the oral traditions within Islam) is vastly accentuated in Fatema Mernissi’s and Leila Ahmed’s examinations of the harem structure. These harem narratives celebrate Sufism, a mystical Islamic theosophy that foregrounds orality and invites a constant search toward divine…[Read more]
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Robert Victor Wess deposited A McKeonist Understanding of Kenneth Burke's Rhetorical Realism in Particular and Constructivism in General in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoReaders of KB Journal likely know Richard McKeon mainly through his essays on rhetoric and his relationship to Kenneth Burke. But McKeon was first and foremost a philosopher who came to rhetoric in mid-career, so that his work is a philosophical path to and defense of rhetoric. This path, moreover, precisely because of its philosophical depth,…[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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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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