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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Uncomfortable Bedfellows: Shakespeare and Global Studies”, Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 40 (2022) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoAbstract in English :::
Shakespeare adaptations share an intimate relation with global studies, because Shakespeare – as a cultural institution – registers a broad spectrum of practices that generate productive dialogues with world cultures.
Global studies enables us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare’s works. This…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Transgender Theory and Global Shakespeare,” Performing Shakespearean Appropriations Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet, ed. Darlena Ciraulo, Matthew Kozusko, Robert Sawyer (Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2022), 161-176 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoEven though Shakespeare’s plays were initially performed by all-male casts, they were designed to appeal to diverse audiences. Many modern adaptations reimagine those plays as expressions of gender nonconformity. Over the past decades, prominent films and theater works have fostered new public conversations about the politics of appropriating g…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television,” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19.1 (March 2022): 167-180. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism, this article analyzes the manifestation of the ideas of yellow peril and yel…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited Surmounting Borders, The Corridos of Jenni Rivera in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoRanchera music on the U.S. Mexican Border
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Job Post: Visiting Assistant Prof of English in Multi-Ethnic Literature in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
Please share this job post with your networks!
Many thanks,
Elena
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Bucknell University’s English Department seeks to hire a visiting assistant professor of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US. The one-year r…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare: International Films, Television, and Theatre, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin and Victoria Bladen (Palgrave, 2022) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s plays and motifs have been appropriated in fragmentary forms on screen since motion pictures were invented in 1893. Allusions to Shakespeare haunt our contemporary culture in a myriad of ways, whether through brief references or sustained intertextual engagements. ::::: This collection of essays extends beyond a US-UK axis to bring t…[Read more]
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Lisa A. Freeman started the topic CFP Drama and Performance Forum and Sound Studies Joint Session in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Sounds of Humor
The Drama and Performance Forum and the Sound Studies Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) announce a co-sponsored session entitled “The Sounds of Humor” to be held at the MLA Convention in San Francisco, CA from January 5-8, 2023. What does humor sound like? Sounds tend to play an important role in performances inte…[Read more]
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Lisa A. Freeman started the topic CFP Drama and Performance Forum in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Drama and Performance Forum solicits paper proposals for two guaranteed sessions at MLA 2023 in San Francisco:
Humor and Humorlessness before 1900 From the medieval period to the nineteenth century the concept of humor shifted from an aspect of human physiology, to the eccentric qualities of individuals or comic characters, to a mode of…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Call for Applications: Bucknell English MA Program in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDo you have any undergraduates who are interested in pursuing graduate studies but perhaps not ready to enter a PhD program yet?
I’m hoping that you’ll consider advising them to apply to Bucknell’s MA in English program. Admission comes with two years of tuition remission and an approximately $12,000 stipend.
The MA program features one-on-…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic 2021 ATHE Outstanding Book Awards: nomination deadline 1 February in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease consider nominating outstanding authors, scholars, educators, leaders, playwrights, artists, and editors for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s prestigious awards.
Please visit ATHE’s website for submission information and other details (under the “awards” drop-down tab).
The deadline for nominations is February 1.
We a…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Nominations Welcome for Executive Committee of “LLC Latina and Latino” Forum in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe MLA has just announced a new process for appointments to the executive committee which now allows us to “solicit suggestions directly from the forums’ members in the forums’ MLA Commons groups.”
The executive committee appoints one new member to the executive committee every year. We welcome recommendations of colleagues as well as sel…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic MLA Session on Teaching Drama and the Humanities in Undergraduate Education in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Eugene O’Neill Society has organized a virtual MLA 2022 round-table session (#216V, Friday morning, January 7, 10:15 – 11:30) on the challenges of teaching drama both in theatre courses and in broader undergraduate surveys of literature. The discussion will expand to include ideas about the role of the humanities amid the increasingly car…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic MLA Session on Teaching Drama and the Humanities in Undergraduate Education in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Eugene O’Neill Society has organized a virtual MLA 2022 round-table session (#216V, Friday morning, January 7, 10:15 – 11:30) on the challenges of teaching drama both in theatre courses and in broader undergraduate surveys of literature. The discussion will expand to include ideas about the role of the humanities amid the increasingly car…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kastleman deposited Abstracts for MLA 2022 Session 410V, “Bad Revivals” in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis file contains abstracts for the papers presented by Minou Arjomand, Rebecca Kastleman, and Kelli Shermeyer in MLA 2022 special session 410V, “Bad Revivals: Dramas of Unruly Repetition.”
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Dr. Elizabeth Hunter deposited Participant information for MLA 2022 Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoBios and recent work of the participants for the 2022 MLA Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” scheduled to take place on January 6, 2022.
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Dec. 13, 2021; 6-7:30pm) Latinx Project featuring NYU Press Books in the discussion
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoLatinx Studies at NYU Press
Mon, December 13, 2021, from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
On Monday, December 13, 2021, The Latinx Project is holding a feature of NYU Press books on Latinx Studies; including Jesica S. Fernández, author of Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship; Mary Beltran, author of the forthcoming Latino TV…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!
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Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel
In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet
Presider: Alberto Varón
Recent events have demonstrated the…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!
Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
- Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel
- In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet
- Presider: Alberto Varón
- Recent events have demonstrated the…
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies (UVA) in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Please help us share the news with early career scholars in your networks. Maltyox chawe’/Thank you very much! — Allison. You can find the original job ad here: https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Tenure-track-Assistant-Professor—Native-American-and-Indigenous-Studies_R0030413. I’ve also pasted i…[Read more]
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