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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Age Studies Events at the Chicago MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCome and join other age studies scholars at these remaining Chicago events. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Session 555. New Voices at the Intersection of Drama, Performance, and Age Studies
Saturday, 5 January 3:30-4:45 p.m., Columbian Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel
Program arranged by the forums TC Age Studies and GS Drama and P…[Read more]
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Laura L. Runge started the topic Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century in the discussion
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoMLA 2019 LLC Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
Sunday January 6, 2019: 10:15-11:30 AM, Randolph 2 (Hyatt Regency Chicago)
Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century
Session Chair: Laura L. Runge, University of South Florida
“Before We Were Normal: Disability and Aesthetics in the Early Eighteenth C…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Honoring Margaret Morganroth Gullette in Chicago in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoI am very pleased to let you know that Margaret Morganroth Gullette is being awarded the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars for her book, Ending Ageism; Or, How Not To Shoot Old People. This honor will be presented at the MLA Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 5 January, at 7:00 p.m. in the Sheraton Ballroom I-IV of the Sheraton Grand Hotel. Margaret’s…[Read more]
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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Age Studies Sessions at MLA 2019, Chicago in the discussion
TC Age Studies via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHere are the sessions at MLA 2019 that pertain to Age Studies. Looking
forward to seeing you there!*Age Studies Panels at the MLA Convention in Chicago*
*3-6 January 2019*
*Session 38. Aging, Care, and Humor*
Thursday, 3 January
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Toronto Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel
Program arranged by the forum TC Age…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTo TC Women’s and Gender Studies…
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, v…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTo TC Women’s and Gender Studies…
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, v…[Read more]
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Whitney Sperrazza deposited Intimate Correspondence: Negotiating the Materials of Female Friendship in Margaret Cavendish’s Sociable Letters in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn this article, I argue that Margaret Cavendish uses ‘Sociable Letters’ and the female friendship within its pages to intervene in early modern epistolary traditions and negotiate alternatives for conventional markers of intimacy between correspondents. Grounding the argument in current scholarly debates on familiar letter conventions, I…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera started the topic CFP: The Nineteenth-Century in 2019 Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline to submit your proposal for the conference “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” is Friday, November 30, 2018. The keynote speakers will be Catriona Seth (http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-catriona-seth) and Pura…[Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline to submit your proposal for the conference “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” is Friday, November 30, 2018. The keynote speakers will be Catriona Seth and Pura Fernández. We’re looking forward to seeing you all at Cal State, Long Beach in…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP — North American Network in Aging Studies conference paper deadline 11/1 in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues in Age Studies,
We are happy to announce that the joint international conference of the North American and European Networks in Aging Studies hosted by the Trent Center for Aging & Society in Peterborough, ON, is coming closer, and conference preparations are already in full swing!
And now, it’s time to add one of the most i…[Read more]
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Caroline Wilkinson deposited Review of Peter J. Capuano, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReview of Peter J. Capuano, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body
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Caroline Wilkinson deposited Review of The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature by Anna Henchman in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReview of The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature by Anna Henchman
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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSituates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Nominations for the 2019 TC: Age Studies Executive Committee Election in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis is an invitation for you to nominate someone–self nominations welcome–for a position on the TC: Age Studies executive committee. When the executive committee meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago, it will take up the matter of nominations for the executive committee elections that will be held in fall 2019. One nominee will be…[Read more]
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and 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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