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Michelle B. Slater started the topic Mayapple Center is offering a summer course taught by Deak Nabors in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDeak Nabors, “The Aesthetic Tradition of Perpetual War”
August 11-15th at the Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities, Stamford, CT ($1200.00 includes tuition ($800) and room & board ($400.00) Apply now at mayapplecenter.slideroom.com
Commentators have longed noted that the United States has remained more or less persistently at war since…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoPlease consider the Prose Fiction Division’s panels for the 2015 MLA convention:
Attention Spans
Meditations on the span of popular or critical attention to works; or, contours of attention span possible for prose fiction in various media. 500 word proposals by 15 March 2014; Hester Blum (hester.blum@psu.edu).
Shapes of the Nonhuman
From…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic CFP MLA 2015: "Arthur Miller: Reflections on the American Dream" in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago2015 is the centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth. As part of the celebration of this event, the Arthur Miller Society is organizing a session at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver on a central theme in Miller’s literary work and his career as a public intellectual: the elusiveness of the American Dream, the Dream’s foundations in what often are…[Read more]
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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies Association (Nov. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA) in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference. We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions. The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 6-9, 2014. Hosted by D…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic Deadline Extended CFP: Pauline Hopkins in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more] -
Benjamin Mangrum started the topic 75th Anniversary of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
Several faculty and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently launched Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics (http://ethosreview.org). This digital project, which is supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, features weekly essays abou…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoPlease join us for the Prose Fiction Division’s panels at the MLA Convention in Chicago next week. The Division is hosting two panels and co-sponsoring a third; details below.
335. Mass versus Coterie: The Rare Book
Friday, 10 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Los Angeles–Miami, Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Prose Fic…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic CFPs: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<b>Call for Papers</b>
<b>American Literature Association</b>
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill
<b>Sessions Sponsored By</b>
<b>The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society</b>
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<b>Panel 1: Pauline Hopkins and </b><b>Washington</b><b> </b><b>D.C.</b>
As a writer with a keen interest in national…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI would like to invite anyone interested in theater, psychological or philosophical issues in literature, narratology, or cognitive approaches to literary analysis to consider attending the following MLA special-session round-table discussion sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society. We plan to allow at least 25 minutes of this 75-minute session for…[Read more]
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Laurence D. Roth posted an update in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
As we approach the upcoming convention, I want to urge all of you who’ll be in Chicago to attend our discussion group’s panel, “Jewish American or Jewish Americas?,” which will run on Sunday, January 12 at 12:00 noon at the Marriott in the Great America room (yes, oddly appropriate isn’t it).
To whet your appetite for our four…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
A collective of critics, scholars, and public intellectuals based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the official launch of Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics (http://www.ethosreview.org/). Supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, our…[Read more]
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