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Filippo Menozzi started the topic New Publication in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDear Group Members
I’d like to announce a new publication that could be of interest. Thank you!
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415735650/
Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance
This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic MLA 2015: CFP "Immigration and Comics" in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Modern Language Association (MLA) Discussion Group on Comics & Graphic Narratives is pleased to announce its secod Call for Papers for the next MLA convention, to be held in Vancouver in January 2015:
<span>”Immigration and Comics”</span>
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<span>Call for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA)…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers uploaded the file: Load More Guys: Queered Space and the Politics of Grindr to
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months ago[Originally uploaded by Thom Bryce on 10 January 2014.] A script from the roundtable discussion at the MLA on \”Digital Queers\”
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Robin E. Visel started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Doris Lessing Studies in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 1950s, when she joined an influx of immigrants to London…[Read more] -
S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoHello everyone,
I apologize for not sharing the following update with you earlier: the Executive Committee (EC) for the division is going request setting up two new forums: “Arab American Literature and Culture,” to be listed under 15: “American,” within the broader category “Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,” and “Translingual and Diasporic…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic CFP: Sexing the Left/ English Language Notes in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago“Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)
Sex is everywhere – even on the left. Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it? Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed encount…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic CFP "Sexing the Left"/ English Language Notes in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP: “Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)
Sex is everywhere – even on the left. Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it? Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed…[Read more]
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Christopher Micklethwait started the topic MLA 2015 CFP: Special Session "Narrating 'Arab Americans'" in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoNarrating “Arab Americans”
Reflections on the term and its intersections with history, memory, geography, religion, race, gender, and sexuality in narratives by and about Arab Americans. 250-300 word abstract and CV by 10 March 2014; Pauline Homsi Vinson (phvinson@gmail.com) and Dalia Gomaa (dmgomaa@uwm.edu).
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years ago[Please feel free to post these CFPs widely and to circulate them within your departments]
Dear Colleagues,
The MLA Division for Arabic Literature and Culture has announced its CFPs for four panels scheduled for the MLA (Modern Language Association)130th annual convention, January 8–11, 2015, Vancouver, B.C. (Canada).
1) [Guaranteed Panel] U…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoHello everyone,
The Arabic Literature and Culture Division would like to encourage all our members to propose special panels, if they want to. These panels are vetted by the MLA, not by our division. Even if the final proposal is rejected, the whole exercise is informative, educational, and enjoyable. You’ll be connected to colleagues in your f…[Read more]-
Thank you, Suha and all. Please see and feel free to distribute the following CFP for a special session that Dalia Gomaa are hoping to propose:
Narrating “Arab Americans”: Reflections on the term and its intersections with history, memory, geography, religion, race, gender, and sexuality in narratives by and about Arab Americans. 250-300 word…[Read more]
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Nicholas Birns started the topic CFP; Teaching Indigenous Lit in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years ago<h3>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h3>
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Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more] -
Nicholas Birns started the topic CFP; Teaching Indigenous Lit in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years ago<h1>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h1>
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Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more] -
Indrani Mitra started the topic South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThe annual meeting of the South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group will take place today, January 11, from 5-6 pm in Sheraton Parlor G. Please join us.
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear Friends,
A quick reminder of session 119 “Open Hearing on the Future of the MLA Divisions”, a very important meeting today. Please try to attend it and make your voice heard regarding how the new structure will affect the Arabic Division. Here are the details of the the meeting:
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues:
The Executive Committee seeks nominees to stand in the Fall 2014 election for the Division on Arabic Literature and Culture. Nominees for the Fall 2014 election must be current MLA members (i.e., their names must appear in the membership list at the MLA Web site http://www.mla.org/member_search ).
The individual elected in 2014…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic new online issue of CANADA & BEYOND in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCanada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has
just published its latest issue at
http://www.canada-and-beyond.com/index.php/canada-and-beyond. We invite you
to browse the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review
articles and items of interest.Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoHello everyone, you are cordially invited to the following cash bar on Sat. evening:
Cash Bar Arranged by SAMLA, NEMLA, and PAMLA:
Saturday, 11 January, 8:45–10:00 p.m., Addison, Chicago Marriott
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
This year’s MLA convention features 21 panels that focus on Arabic literature and culture, listed below
The executive committee of the division looks forward to seeing you in Chicago
Best,
Suha Kudsieh
Secretary of the MLA Arabic lit. & Culture Division, 2013-14
Chair of the MLA Arabic lit. & Culture Division,…[Read more] - Load More
Open access, open source, open to all
great stuff! are you publishing this somewhere?
Hello, the paper is by Thom Bryce (@tbryce); I merely posted it on his behalf. Please do get in touch with him on the Commons! Apologies for the confusion.
thanks, Katina! will do!
I’m struck by the juxtaposition here of Thom Bryce’s paper on grindr and Cheryl Higashida’s earlier cfp for the special issue on ‘Sexing the Left’. Arguably, the former demonstrates the timeliness, and urgency, of the latter.
Thom’s conclusion – that, despite some reservations, a commercial, profit-driven form of new communication such as grind…[Read more]