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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear Steve,
thank you very much! All your suggestions are either books I like, or (incl. the beguilingly entitled work of your own) books that I probably will like. You are very warmly invited to join the journal I’m launching as an author and/or reviewer.:)
Best,
Alexandra
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Matthew Thomas Miller replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoIf you do recommend Azar Nafisi’s “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” I would also strongly recommend that you suggest that they read Fatemeh Keshavarz’s trenchant critique of it, “Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran.” Nafisi’s book is full of problems and, as Keshavarz argues, it–like Khaled Hosseini’s “Kite Runner” and many other…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoReading Lolita in Tehran never grabbed me, but it sure resonated with a broad public and has been translated into many languages. Ali Smith’s Artful is a strange amalgam, in which a well-done, ghoulish narrative of grief drives some otherwise not terribly interesting literary remarks, but the novelty of the form deserves a look. Then there are…[Read more]
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Steven J. Venturino replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoHi Alexandra,
Books such as Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer come to mind, as do Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel and Charles Dickens: A Life. In general it looks like literary biographies and collections of author letters are most likely to be read for pleasure. A good example is Phyllis Rose’s Parallel Lives: Five Victorian…[Read more]
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Steven J. Venturino replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoHi Alexandra,
Books such as Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer come to mind, as do Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel and Charles Dickens: A Life. In general it looks like literary biographies and collections of author letters are most likely to be read for pleasure. A good example is Phyllis Rose’s Parallel Lives: Five Victorian…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear all,
I’m sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not the only one interested in showing friends what it i…[Read more]
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Jesse Goldberg started the topic CFP: Harlem Renaissance Drama (SSAWW 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoSociety for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaProposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”
Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminality and hybridi…[Read more]
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Claudia Cornejo Happel started the topic CFP: 2015 SoTL Commons Conference in Savannah in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months ago
Do you speak SoTL? Chances are you do. Come join the conversation at the SoTL Commons.
Leverage your knowledge, skills and passion for teaching and learning as a presenter at the SoTL Commons.
<div style=”margin-left: 10em;”>When engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
“the work of the classroom [becomes] a site for…[Read more]
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Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoView the complete detailed call for proposals: http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals/
Queers & Comics – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) a…[Read more]
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Monica C. Miller started the topic 2014 Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages Awards in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoThe Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages
welcomes submissions for its annual awards.
The 2014 Florence Howe Award
Each year, the Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship recognizes two outstanding essays by feminist scholars, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language. Each recipient receives $250 and is honored at a…[Read more]
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Maria Luisa Martinez started the topic CFP for 46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015
Toronto; April 30- May 3, 2015
Host institution: Ryerson University
Panel: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 ClassroomsThis panel is sponsored by the area on pedagogy and professional
The goal of this panel is to examine language musicality, both in terms of linguistic phenomena and as a teaching tool for L2…[Read more]
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Maria Luisa Martinez started the topic CFP for 46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015
Toronto; April 30- May 3, 2015
Host institution: Ryerson University
Panel: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 Classrooms
This panel is sponsored by the area on pedagogy and professional
The goal of this panel is to examine language musicality, both in terms of linguistic phenomena and as a teaching tool for…[Read more]
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Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century (Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontar…[Read more]
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Karen Gevirtz started the topic CFP: Aphra Behn Society sessions at ASECS in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoSESSION 1:
Collaborations: Women in the Arts
Dr. Carolyn Woodward
During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of the century, Edward Young put forth an idea of the individual author and his original work, it was Goethe, Wordsworth and…[Read more]
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Karen Gevirtz started the topic CFP: Aphra Behn Society sessions at ASECS in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoThe Aphra Behn Society is hosting two sessions at ASECS 2015. Abstracts due to session organizer by September 1, 2014.
SESSION 1:
Collaborations: Women in the Arts
Dr. Carolyn Woodward
During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of the…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic NeMLA WGSC cfp for individual paper abstracts in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoNortheast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention
Toronto, Ontario – April 30-May 3, 2015
NeMLA’s Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus seeks abstracts for the approved panels below – panel descriptions, submission guidelines and the full cfp are available at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2015.html
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2014[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPlease submit your abstract by August 15. Thank you.
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Susan Gorman replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks for posting this Laura. It sounds really interesting. Where/when should we send abstracts?
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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Lisa Propst started the topic CFP: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThis CFP might be of interest to the Women’s Studies forum:
Giving Voice, Appropriating Voices: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015)
Efforts to give voice to the silenced are central to postcolonial and feminist thought. Yet scholars in both disciplines, following Gayatri Spivak and Chandra Mohanty, have insisted that…[Read more]
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