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David A. Wacks posted an update in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoblog post: “Ramon Llull’s Missionary Crusade in Blanquerna ca. 1280” http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/03/01/blanquerna/
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David A. Wacks posted an update in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoblog post: “Ramon Llull’s Missionary Crusade in Blanquerna ca. 1280” http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/03/01/blanquerna/
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Élika Ortega started the topic MLA 2018 CFP Archive Activism: Shadow Libraries and Vulnerable Collections in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe collection, preservation, study, and dissemination of the human record, scholarly and otherwise, are basic principles of all humanities work. Undeniably, the affordances of digital technologies and the human networks they weave increasingly offer viable and valuable approaches to these needs. However, the vulnerabilities of technological…[Read more]
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Anton Pujol started the topic CFP–MLA 2018 NYC in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago“Catalan Forms of Survival in the State of Insecurity”
Cultural, economic, social, political Catalan forms of subsistence, or insistence, in the midst of states of permanent insecurity. Abstracts by 15 March 2017; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu).
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Anton Pujol started the topic CFP–MLA 2018 NYC in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoSession Title: Engendering Different Catalan Enunciations
Session Organizer: Anton PujolIn a recent article (1/13/17), Paul B. Preciado argues that screens are the new skin of the world. They constitute the membrane of a new collective entity radically decentered and in the process of subjectivization. Like Gutenberg’s contemporaries, we ar…[Read more]
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Samara Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoAggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more] -
John Young deposited How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Processes of Textual Production in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O’Brien’s archival papers at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O’Brien’s works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such k…[Read more]
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Isidro de Jesús Rivera started the topic Medieval Iberian LLC Sessions at MLA 2018, NYC in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoSessions organized by Medieval Iberian Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at the 2018 MLA Convention.
Location: New York City, NY
Date: 4-7 January 2018New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies
Papers on new works, new methodologies or new critical approaches to Medieval Iberian literature or culture.
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Isidro de Jesús Rivera started the topic Medieval Iberian LLC Sessions at MLA 2018, NYC in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoSessions organized by Medieval Iberian Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at the 2018 MLA Convention.
Location: New York City, NY
Date: 4-7 January 2018<h4>New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies</h4>
Papers on new works, new methodologies or new critical approaches to Medieval Iberian literature or culture.
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Feisal G. Mohamed started the topic Closure of Duquesne University Press in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoDear Colleagues,
As you may have heard, Duquesne University abruptly announced a week ago that it would close its press: press staff, including the director, Susan Wadsworth-Booth, had no advance notice. There is an Inside HigherEd piece about it h…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts (CFP, NY 2018 in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years agoCFP: Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts (CFP, NY 2018)
Papers on the application of DH techniques to pre-modern and modern Japanese literature. Challenges, possibilities, needs, and ideas. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@humnet.ucla.edu)
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP: Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media ( in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years agoLLC Japanese since 1900 session CFP, MLA NY 2018 just posted:
Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media
Papers on the application of DH techniques to nontextual materials from or concerning Japan, including film, art, sound. 250 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017
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Matthew Davis deposited “As Above, So Below: Staging the Digby Mary Magdalene in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years agoWith thirty-seven named locations, the Digby Mary Magdalene is rightfully considered to require the most elaborate staging of the Middle English dramatic corpus. In this article, I re-examine the manuscript to find evidence of how the various locations in the play can be grouped into what I term staging complexes. Beginning with the division of…[Read more]
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Matthew Davis deposited Lydgate at Long Melford: Reassessing the Testament and “Quis Dabit Meo Capiti Fontem Lacrimarum” in Their Local Context in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe extracodical stanzas of John Lydgate’s Testament and “Quis Dabit Meo Capiti Fontem Lacrimarum” in the Clopton chantry chapel of the Great Church of Holy Trinity, Long Melford, not only are two intriguing witnesses differing in presentation and language from the manuscript copies but also can be considered as part of a rhetorical program where…[Read more]
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFPs for 2018 MLA GS Forum in Life Writing in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoCatfished: Lies Online
How do platforms that facilitate sharing life narratives open doors to fake lives? This panel explores social media and other online spaces as means for constructing counterfeit lives: romantic, political, and otherwise.250 word abstracts and brief bios by March 15.
Contact: Ricia Anne Chansky (ricia.chansky@upr.edu) and…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: MLA 2018 Special Session Proposal in the discussion
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This panel examines auto/biographical narratives that challenge the myth of a homogeneous United States. What complex and nuanced aspects of American national identities are revealed…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky created the doc CFP: MLA 2018 Special Session Proposal in the group
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Comparative Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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