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Andrea R. Malone replied to the topic CFP for MLA Convention 2024 in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoTo clarify, this session is sponsored by the Libraries and Research forum.
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Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoI am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on “Political Oratory and African American Literature.” Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse. Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.
Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]
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Atia Sattar started the topic NWSA CFP: Decolonizing Feminist and Queer Pedagogies in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe CFP below is for a pedagogy workshop to be conducted at the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore, October 26–29, 2023.
“This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emp…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSalaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]
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Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP Conference: USES OF MODERNISM (Ghent, Belgium – 20-22 September 2023) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.
CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023
The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]
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Faye Hammill deposited The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years agoTransatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships’ libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the…[Read more]
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Habiba Ibrahim started the topic Self-Nominations & Suggestions | TC Race & Ethnicity Studies Forum EC in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoEvery year, Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. This year, the Race and Ethnicity Studies Forum executive committee seeks self-nominations and suggestions for a new committee member from our membership so as to allow for broad participation. Our hope is that broad participation will ensure diversity of…[Read more]
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David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group
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Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
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David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group
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John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoBased in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]
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John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoBased in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]
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John Gruesser deposited Poe’s Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in “Hop-Frog” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAs I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]
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John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) Text in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoBased in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in…[Read more]
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John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) Text in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoBased in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in…[Read more]
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