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Carla Sassi started the topic Walter Scott Conference – 2024 in the discussion
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWalter Scott Conference – 2024
According to Mark Twain, writing in 1883, most of the world had by then outlived the “harms” associated with Walter Scott’s “Middle-Age sham civilization.” But in “our south,” he continued, “they flourish pretty forcefully still.” Twain was refering to the US south, and at the Thirteenth International Wal…[Read more] -
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Lisa A. Freeman started the topic MLA 2024 Drama and Performance CFPs in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoPlease find below the cfps for the MLA 2024 Drama and Performance Forum panels:
<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Adaptation: Migrations Across Form(s) </span>
In her classic work A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon contended that “to deal with adaptations as adaptations is to think of them as . . . inherently ‘palimpsestuous’…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
The LLC Scottish Forum is accepting proposals for the following session to be held at the next MLA Annual Convention (Jan 2024), Philadelphia:
Marking the 200th anniversary of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner’s publication, we invite papers on James Hogg’s novel, its influence and afterlives. Please send an abstract and b…[Read more]
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Lisa A. Freeman started the topic Drama Forum Executive Committee: Nominations Solicited in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe welcome nominations from our membership for the Drama Forum Executive Committee. Please feel free to email lfreeman@uic.edu before Jan. 20, 2023.
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Carla Sassi started the topic The 2022 Jack Medal (IASSL). Call for submissions and nominations in the discussion
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoWe are pleased to inform you that the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL) is now accepting submissions and nominations for the 2022 Jack Medal competition.
The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article or book chapter on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you that the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL) is now accepting submissions and nominations for the 2022 Jack Medal competition.The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article or book chapter on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish…[Read more]
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Jane Wessel's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
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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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Carla Sassi's profile was updated on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]
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LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from 1987-2004.…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoPlease join us on 24th September at 17.00 (BST) for ‘Environmental Scotland’, the second in IASSL’s series of panel discussions on Scottish literatures. Speakers include Susan Oliver, Sìm Innes, Samantha Walton and Monika Szuba. Titles and abstracts of their presentations are attached below. The webinar is free and open to everyone but…[Read more]
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