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Emily Friedman deposited ENGL4160EA: Fall 2022: How Games Tell Stories in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWe are quickly approaching the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the 10th anniversaries of Twitch and Itch.io, and the ninth generation of video game consoles. The most successful TV/film Kickstarter of all time funded the animated series for D&D livestream Critical Role. Game Studies has existed as an interdisciplinary field for over three…[Read more]
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Derrick R. Spires started the topic CFP: New Citizenship Studies (special issue of American Literature) in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoGreetings colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting),
Please share the CFP for our co-edited special issue of American Literature: New Citizenship Studies. Essay submissions are due June 9, 2022. See information below and attached. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions.
Thanks,
Carrie Hyde (UCLA) and Derrick R. Spires (Cornell…[Read more] -
Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies (UVA) in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Please help us share the news with early career scholars in your networks. Maltyox chawe’/Thank you very much! — Allison. You can find the original job ad here: https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Tenure-track-Assistant-Professor—Native-American-and-Indigenous-Studies_R0030413. I’ve also pasted i…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to ask for your help in spreading the word about a search for an Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas, to be a joint appointment in the Carter G. Woodson Department of African American and African Studies and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah started the topic Tenure-Track Faculty Assistant Professor, McGill University in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Department of English at McGill University invites applications for a tenure-track position in African-Canadian and/or African-American Literatures. We welcome candidates who specialize in Black diasporic, transnational, and global Black literatures, cultures, and media. We likewise welcome applications from candidates across the full…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Enigmas de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis article reviews four crucial moments of the editorial life of Guaman Poma de Ayala’s “Nueva corónica y buen gobierno” [New Chronicle and Good Government], a 1189-page history of Peru before, during, and after the Spanish conquest. The chronicle includes 399 ink drawings made by the author. The essay also addresses unanswered questions…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInvited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic Three Positions in Black Studies and English at Amherst College in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoBlack Studies and English (three positions)The Departments of English and Black Studies at Amherst College invite applications for multiple full-time appointments in the field of Black literature and culture, to begin on July 1, 2022. We define this field broadly to include work in any genre or medium produced by people from Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoBuilding on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume examines Spanish cinema through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age. Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film brings together the scholarship of an…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Southernness on Display in Recent Little Magazines in the group
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoA consideration of how paratextual information present on two, recently-published little magazines — The Southern Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review — might work to mediate their readers’ literary expectations and interpretations. Published simultaneously at: https://southernfringes.substack.com
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Expanding the non-Took-side in Bilbo, for victory, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoI think the thing that must seem most curious about this adventure to slay a dragon and reclaim a homeland and its treasure, is how the hell could adding a burglar be adding the decisive factor? What’s the trick? For there must be one, since the dragon has only gotten larger and more deadly as the years have gone by. Peter Jackson changes…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSince the Intifada of 2000, living conditions in the Gaza Strip have progressively deteriorated, and when Hamas came to power in 2006–07, a complete blockade was enforced on the inhabitants by Egypt and Israel. In addition, five full-scale wars have been
waged on the Strip. Despite these conditions, Gazans remain resilient, as evidenced by s…[Read more] -
Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSince the Intifada of 2000, living conditions in the Gaza Strip have progressively deteriorated, and when Hamas came to power in 2006–07, a complete blockade was enforced on the inhabitants by Egypt and Israel. In addition, five full-scale wars have been
waged on the Strip. Despite these conditions, Gazans remain resilient, as evidenced by s…[Read more] -
Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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