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Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
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Kathleen Woodward deposited Reading Affect in Literary Studies in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDesigned as a short introduction to academic literary studies of affect, Reading Affect in Literary Studies is a one-credit graduate seminar, offered in Spring 2014, that was framed by the question of how we might rethink our practice as scholars of literature to take our scholarship to publics beyond the academy. Readings included work by Rita…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Americas in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Classics Book Wins Teaching Literature Book Award 2015 in the discussion
Classical Studies and Modern Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural 2015 winner of its Teaching Literature Book Award.
The Teaching Literature Book Award is an externally refereed prize, presented biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University.…[Read more]
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John Garrison started the topic Memory Studies at MLA 2016 in the discussion
Memory Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis panel and roundtable will be of interest to scholars interested in memory studies!
*** Memory and Migration ***
Thursday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Memory Studies and the Forum CLCS Hemispheric American
Presiding: Ana Paulina Lee, Columbia Univ.
1. “The Migration of Objects and the Trusteeship of M…[Read more]
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Monica Cure started the topic CFP Vulnerable Travelers, ACLA 2016 Harvard, Deadline Sep. 22 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoFor colleagues writing on travel literature, please consider submitting an abstract (200-250 words) for our panel at the annual American Comparative Literature Association conference held at Harvard from March 17-20, 2016. Abstracts are due by September 22.
This panel invites scholars to explore vulnerability in travel writing from a range of…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP on Travel – Deadline extended to July 12, 2015.
30th ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE IN THE HUMANITIES
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the University of West Georgia (UWG) invite you to celebrate the 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, October 8-10, 20…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes, uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic "Russia and the Middle East" (Pre-modern) – MLA, Austin, 7–10 Jan. 2016 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:
131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016
Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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David Palmer uploaded the file: CFP, MLA, Austin, January 2016: Evolution, Ethics & Tragedy to
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers
Special Session Topic: Evolution, Ethics, and Tragedy
MLA Convention
Austin, Texas
January 7-10, 2016
Contact Person for this Special Session:
David Palmer
Humanities Department
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
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David Palmer started the topic CFP: Evolution, Ethics & Tragedy (Kent State Humanities Conference, July 2015) in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCall for Papers
Panel Topic: Evolution, Ethics, and TragedyConference:
Why the Humanities: Answers from Cognitive and Neuroscience
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
July 9-12, 2015
http://www.kent.edu/cas/why-humanitiesContact Person for this Panel:
David Palmer
Humanities Department
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
dpalmer@maritime.eduI am…[Read more]
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Patrick Colm Hogan started the topic CFP: Scientific Study of Literature (journal) in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoFor information, go to https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ssol/main .
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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Teaching Memory Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Members of the Cognitive Approaches to Literature Group,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:
Teaching Memory Studies
Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinem…[Read more]
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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Teaching Memory Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Cognitive Approaches to Literature Group,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:
Teaching Memory Studies
Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flash…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS 131st MLA ANNUAL CONVENTION Austin, 7-10 January 2016 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years agoSESSIONS: FORUM OF COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES
Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers
Chair: Mónica Díaz, University of Kentucky
Engaging with the presidential theme for MLA 2016, “Literature and Its Publics,” this panel focuses on the material history of the production of texts – in both manuscript and printed forms – an…[Read more]
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Stephanie LeMenager replied to the topic Best Bibliographies on Cognitive Approaches to Literature in the forum
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoYes, thanks for the suggestion!
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Elena Garcia-Martin replied to the topic 685: "Politics and Poetics of Cognition"-special session at the MLA in Vancouver in the forum
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDear Lisa. I am so disappointed they scheduled my paper on “Cognitive Approaches to Race, Gender and Religion in Spanish Early Modern Captivity Plays” (# 686) in conflict with your panel. I am familiar with your work and was looking forward to meeting you and hearing your paper. Unfortunately, I have to leave right away after giving the paper but…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic 685: "Politics and Poetics of Cognition"-special session at the MLA in Vancouver in the forum
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDear All,
I very much hope that those of you going to the MLA will consider attending our special session, which will take place on Sunday, January 11 (see below).
Sincerely,
Lisa Zunshine685. Politics and Poetics of Cognition
Sunday, 11 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 214, VCC West
A special session
Presiding: Lisa Zunshine, Univ. of Kentucky
1. “…[Read more]
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Sara Vicuna Guengerich replied to the topic MLA Convention: Colonial Latin American Literatures Division Panels in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Another session of interest for colonialists is the GEMELA sponsored panel “In Search of Forgotten Women in Pre 1800 Iberia and the Americas.” Thursday, January 8, 7:00-8:15 pm, VCC East.
Presider: Emily Francomano
Sara Vicuña Guengerich, Texas Tech University, “Daughters of the Inca Conquest: Native Women in Spanish Colonial Pr…[Read more] - Load More
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