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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
S. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction
Friday, January 5
1:45–3:00 p.m., Bowery, SheratonPresiding: Anne Stiles, St. Louis University
1. “Medical Eclecticism in the Fiction of Silas Weir Mitchell,” Kristine L. Swenson, Missouri University of Science and Technology
2. “Fractional Phantoms: Gothic Bodies in S. Weir Mitchell’…[Read more]
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives
Friday, January 5
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, HiltonPresiding: Allison Carruth, UCLA
1. “The Dark Green: Plants, Cli- Fi, and the Anthropocene,”Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University
2. “Cloud Extinction and Speculative Climate Change in Mexican…[Read more]
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Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares deposited Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDesde el período del Dadá se han ido borrando los límites entre las formas artísticas y sus soportes, entre las estéticas de uso y las estéticas formales, entre los espacios altos y bajos de producción cultural, y también, entre la percepción de centros y periferias que parecen haberse astillado y reproducido a la interioridad de espacios hasta ha…[Read more]
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Caren Irr deposited Climate Fiction in English in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. “cli-fi”) in English. Written with an international readership in mind.
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Candidate Introduction – MLA Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
I am a candidate for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum executive committee. Now that the voting period has opened, and following MLA recommendations, I would like to post a brief introduction.
I am professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, where I serve as associate chair and graduate coordinator in…[Read more]
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Heather I. Sullivan posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI’m delighted to be a candidate for the Science and literature Group in the upcoming MLA Executive Committee Elections! My current work in the environmental humanities, the “DARK GREEN,” builds on interdisciplinary discussions of literature (English- and German-language) and ecological science. I’ve worked on such projects my entire career,…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers
Living Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms
ACLA Seminar, 3/29-4/1, 2018 at UCLAThis American Comparative Literature Association seminar invites papers addressing life forms that have been largely neglected by the nonhuman turn, in its more immediate focus on animals, objects, and environmental forces or…[Read more]
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Christopher Gascón posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDEADLINE EXTENDED!
The AHCT Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
April 12-14, 2018, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso, TXThe NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE for receipt of all submissions (abstracts and graduate student papers) is OCTOBER 1, 2017
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater invites submissions for its 2018 Symposium. The conference…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited The Speculative Situation in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.
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Kathryn Anne Everly posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDakin Matthews: 2018 AHCT Symposium Donald T. Dietz Plenary Speaker, Saturday, April 14, 2018. Dakin Matthews has served as Artistic Director of Andak Stage Company, California Actors Theatre, the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, and the Antaeus Company, and is an Emeritus Professor of English from California State University, East Bay. An…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThird Call for Papers:
The AHCT Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
April 12–14, 2018, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso, TX
Submission deadline: September 1, 2017.
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater invites submissions for its 2018 Symposium. The conference dates coincide with the world’s longest-running Spanish Golden Age the…[Read more] -
Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Family Documents, Analogy, and Reconciliation in the Works of Carme Riera in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoIn La meitat de l’ànima and Temps d’innocència Carme Riera looks to the family album and personal history to reconcile with Spain’s turbulent past. The fictionalization of history emphasizes the unstable nature of the past and the improbability of “truth.” Through letters and photographs the past lives in the present yet remains elusive as m…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Book review: Robert Leucht. Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930 Ulrich E. Bach. Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA review of Robert Leucht’s “Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930” (2016) and Ulrich Bach’s “Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire” (2016)
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Book review: Robert Leucht. Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930 Ulrich E. Bach. Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA review of Robert Leucht’s “Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930” (2016) and Ulrich Bach’s “Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire” (2016)
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James Elkins deposited Why Should Novels About Science Be Coy About Including Science (or Mathematics)? On Michele Audin in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited A Misunderstanding of Fiction: Thoughts on William Gibson’s “The Peripheral” in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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