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Sharon O'Dair replied to the topic Your Friendly Neighborhood LLC Shax Forum Secretary: AMA (Ask Me Anything) in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoHi Sujata! A good idea to use the Commons, but I find–and have always found–the site frustrating to use. Why isn’t there just one way to log in, for instance? And just now I clicked on your posted set of abstracts for 2022 and was told by the site that I should try deleting cookies. Which I did. Returned to the site and received the same me…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic Your Friendly Neighborhood LLC Shax Forum Secretary: AMA (Ask Me Anything) in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoOpen thread for anyone curious about what it’s like being on the LLC Shax Forum Committee! If I don’t know the answer to your question, I know whom to ask to find out!
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic LLC Shakespeare is not cancelled 😉 in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoI am pleased to report that the MLA Executive has approved the renewal of the LLC Shakespeare Forum for another five years, following a successful review. (Ignore my clickbait subject header: this is a ROUTINE review that ALL groups must undergo regularly.)
I’m attaching the report so that the membership can see the suggestions made from the…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic LLC Shakespeare is not cancelled 😉 in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoI am pleased to report that the MLA Executive has approved the renewal of the LLC Shakespeare Forum for another five years, following a successful review. (Ignore my clickbait subject header: this is a ROUTINE review that ALL groups must undergo regularly.)
I’m attaching the report so that the membership can see the suggestions made from the…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Some Practices for Publishing the Precariat in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIn this paper, in a panel co-sponsored by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession and the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, I summarize some of the structural and practical problems that challenge contingent scholars when they try to publish their work in scholarly journals. I share the record of the online, multimedia,…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘Maiden Blossoms’: Shakespeare and Climate Grief in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis reflective paper contextualizes my own climate grief in light of botanical and geological references to sorrow in Shakespeare’s plays and to habitat and climate change in the North Georgia Piedmont.
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIsraeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar created the doc Template Ack letter for MLA 2022 in the group
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global mediation: Performing Shakespeare in the age of networked and digital cultures,” The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance, ed. Peter Kirwan and Kathryn Prince (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 132-150 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPerforming Shakespeare in modern times is an act of mediation between characters and actors, creating channels between geocultural spaces and time periods. The multiplicity of the plural term global Shakespeares helps us push back against deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare’s ubiquitous presence. Adaptations accrue nuanced meanings as t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Fulbright Snapshot: Snapshot: Shakespeare & East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin, March 24, 2021 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoShakespeare and East Asia (Oxford, 2021) explores distinctive themes in post-1950s Asian-themed performances and adaptations of Shakespeare. In this Snapshot, Alexa Alice Joubin discusses the book and the importance of wider research into Global Shakespeares.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.” George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCOVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is ins…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic EXTENDED DUE DATES for MLA Shax Panels: MARCH 26th in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe Exec Committee of the Shakespeare Forum for the Modern Language Association of America announce calls for presentations for three sessions at the annual convention from January 6-9, 2022. Please note updated DUE DATE of MARCH 26th, 2021.
Re-Reading “Timon of Athens”
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Sujata Iyengar edited the doc Calls for Presentations, MLA 2022, from the Exec Committee in the group
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Daniel Roger Schwarz replied to the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone via email on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThanks Liz; Great topic—best, dan
Dan Schwarz
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Elizabeth Evans started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers (MSA 2021 Chicago): Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Call for papers for a proposed session for the Modernist Studies Association Conference to be held in Chicago, November 4-7, 2021.
This proposed session considers how modernists are responding to Black Lives Matter in their scholarship. It asks, how has the…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: A New Podcast that puts critics and novelists in conversation. in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoNovel Dialogue is a new podcast, co-hosted by John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde, and available for free subscription from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Sponsored by the Society for Novel Studies and partnered with NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, we bring a literary critic and novelist into conversation to talk about how novels are made and what to…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: A New Podcast that puts critics and novelists in conversation. in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoNovel Dialogue is a new podcast, co-hosted by John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde, and available for free subscription from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Sponsored by the Society for Novel Studies and partnered with NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, we bring a literary critic and novelist into conversation to talk about how novels are made and what to…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: A New Podcast that puts critics and novelists in conversation. in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoNovel Dialogue is a new podcast, co-hosted by John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde, and available for free subscription from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Sponsored by the Society for Novel Studies and partnered with NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, we bring a literary critic and novelist into conversation to talk about how novels are made and what to…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Familiar Ambiguity: The Value of the Humanities in a Globalized World,” Signal House 10 (March 2021) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe world needs good question askers as much as it needs good problem solvers. Before solving problems, we need to first identify the problems. Great stories are often strangers at home. The best of them defamiliarize banal experiences and everyday utterances while offering something recognizable through a new language and form.…[Read more]
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