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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoPostgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018). This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms,…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoPostgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018). This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms,…[Read more]
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]
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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
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FRENCH NATURES featuring BRUNO LATOUR’s conference-spectacle “INSIDE”
October 26-27, 2018, New York UniversityA two-day conference-festival about how literature, film, visual art, theater, and philosophy mediate our relationship to the planet in our times of environmental catas…[Read more]
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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSeminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)
Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe peer reviewed journal iMex. Interdisciplinary Mexico, ISSN 2193-9756 is currently accepting original, unpublished articles on the subjects of haunting and spectrality in contemporary Mexican cultures for its special issue Spectral Mexico. Original call for papers available here:…[Read more]
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Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWhat is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies? Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019. Panel…[Read more]
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Ben Click started the topic CFP: Mark Twain and the Natural World in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoSPECIAL ISSUE: Mark Twain and the Natural World
The Mark Twain Annual is seeking article-length submissions that examine aspects of Twain’s work that comment on the relation between human beings and the natural world. This broad scope allows for critical examinations of Twain’s writing about the natural world in any number of ways: as nat…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic, NeMLA 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis panel on the American ecogothic will take place at the 50th annual NeMLA conference (March 21-24, 2019 in Washington, DC).
Leslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel…[Read more]
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Brian Lennon deposited Questions and answers on “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise” in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoPublished by Johns Hopkins University Press Blog, 28 March 2018. A Q&A about the essay “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise,” published in Configurations 26.1 (2018): 47–72, DOI: 10.1353/con.2018.0002.
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Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoIn a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]
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Laurence Hooper deposited Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: Working Group on Italian American/Canadian in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoItalian American and Italian Canadian Is Multi-Ethnic Too
Class, gender, migration, history, diaspora, ethnicity, politics, radicals, working class, cinema, foodways, literature, media, popular culture, cultural studies, theory, 250-word abstract. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville (calabret@uak.edu); Alan Gravano, Rocky…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo started the topic Calls for papers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 – deadline March 15, 2018
Please consider submitting an abstract for one of two sessions proposed by the Dante Society of America for the next Modern Language Association Convention, to be held in Chicago on Jan. 3-6, 2019.
The calls for papers are below. Abstracts and short bios are requested by March 15, 2018. Please
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Claudia Cabello-Hutt deposited Redes queer: escritoras, artistas y mecenas en la primera mitad del siglo XX in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoA partir de la lectura del epistolario de Anna Melissa Graves, este trabajo recompone la relación de complicidad entre la escultora chilena Laura Rodig y la, hasta ahora desconocida “mecenas”, Consuelo Lemetayer. De manera específica, esta indagación de archivo analiza las redes queer de cooperación transnacional y transatlántica en las que part…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona replied to the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThanks for attaching, Luz Angélica.
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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
please find attached the CfP for the International Conference on Human Rights that will take place at the South Dakota State University, Oct. 4-6, 2018. We are looking forward to you panel proposals, round tables, and individual presentations.
Many thanks,
Luz Angélica Kirschner
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