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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]
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Maheswari D deposited INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TAMIL LANGUAGE AND LITERARY STUDIES- VOL – 2 : ISSUE – 2, JANUARY 2020 in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis is the regular issue of the journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TAMIL LANGUAGE AND LITERARY STUDIES (E-ISSN: 2581-7140), VOL – 2: ISSUE – 2, JANUARY 2020. There are 21 scholarly articles in English, 21 of them in Tamil Language and one in English.
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Jennifer M. Wilks replied to the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoDeadline extended to 3/31!
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP MLA 2021: Crossing Borders in N. Amer. Jewish Writing – proposals due 3/15 in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe Forum in LLC: Jewish American is sponsoring a panel that asks: How have US borders figured in Jewish writing? How have Jewish authors, texts, and discourses circulated across them? Papers will theorize and remap Jewish borderlands in the diaspora. 250 abstracts and brief CV requested. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15 March 2020 Dean Jo…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP MLA 2021: Antisemitism Beyond Zionism – proposals due 3/15 in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe Forum on LLC: Jewish American is sponsoring a panel on Jewish American literary engagements with antisemitism apart from or prior to Zionism including antisemitism in 19th c. literature, diaspora and national identity, and counter-histories. Papers may theorize the topic. 250 words, CV. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15 March 2020 Dean J…[Read more]
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIn the fall of 1966, Ḥiwār magazine published al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s novel Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl [ Season of Migration to the North ]. Arabic literary critics both hailed the novel in the Arabic press and mourned that it had been published by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom’s Ḥiwār, part of a global covert cultural front of the C…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Louise Barrière replied to the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe deadline has been extended! The CfP now runs until March 15th.
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: LLC Italian American – MLA 2021 in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoTitle: Trauma & Its Consequences in Italian-Americana E-mail Address: rcalabretta@gmail.comDescription & Requirements: This session explores trauma and Italian Americans, individually, collectively as a community, and on a larger scale as a culture. Open to representations in literature, cinema, and the arts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: Afro-Latinx Stories in the discussion
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting proposals for this panel on “Afro-Latinx Stories” for the 2021 Modern Language Association convention. See more info below. Thanks!
Cheers,
Elena
MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories
- Papers analyzing Afro-Latinx cultural and literary production.
- Send 150-word abstract and C…
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: Afro-Latinx Stories in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting proposals for this panel on “Afro-Latinx Stories” for the 2021 Modern Language Association convention. See more info below. Thanks!
Cheers,
Elena
MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories
- Papers analyzing Afro-Latinx cultural and literary production.
- Send 150-word abstract and C…
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Shannan Palma deposited Entitled to a happy ending: Fairy-tale logic from “Beauty and the Beast” to the incel movement in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe author proposes fairy-tale logic as a mode of magical thinking typified by the belief that certain functions, fulfilled correctly and in the right order, lead to predictable outcomes. Mapping similarities in implicit reasoning within “Beauty and the Beast,” the reality television program Beauty and the Geek (2005-08), and the misogynistic nar…[Read more]
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Louise Barrière started the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLGBTI & QUEER ARTS, CULTURES, ACTIVISMS CONFERENCE (Metz, France)
Conference dates: 11th and 12th June 2020
CfP Deadline: 28th February
[Deadline might be subject to extension due to an ongoing strike in French universities. I will inform you if this is the case, but we recommend to get your abstract in as soon as possible in any…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar started the topic New publication in the discussion
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoAlfar, Cristina León “Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 789–819. (Available through ProjectMuse muse.jhu.edu/article/741025.)
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoExtra- and non-anthropocentric subjects of the Global South, notably the Caribbean. Who/ what is the human-animal-other subject? Narratives/poetics extrinsic to the colonial mind/body split? Old materialisms ‘with soul’. 300 word abstract and 1 page CV by 3/15 to Jennifer M. Wilks (jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu) and Rosemary J. Jolly (rjj14@psu.edu).
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is the peer-reviewed submission version of the essay, which focuses on the role that digital communication platforms can play in teaching and engaging with Wallace’s work.
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literary Studies: Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoDespite a strong pedigree of textual scholarship in literary studies, the study of contemporary literature often eschews such methods on the grounds that there is an insufficient archive to fully comprehend the production of just-published work. In this article I argue for a turn to textual scholarship in the field of contemporary literary studies…[Read more]
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