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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Pauline Kra deposited The Role of China in Montesquieu's "Esprit des lois" in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoMontesquieu’s ideas on China have been the subject of much study and controversy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that, as discussed in twenty-two books of the Esprit des lois, China serves to illustrate Montesquieu’s fundamental principles and to elucidate his method. References to the empire appear frequently in the concluding chapters…[Read more]
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Sonia Nora Feder-Lewis deposited Leadership in Literature Course Syllabus in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis course, designed for a graduate program in education which focuses on leadership, explores works of literature that have had a significant cultural impact and shaped ways in which societies view social issues from the perspective of how leadership is enacted within the texts. For students from disciplines outside of literature studies, this…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please consider submitting a proposal for one of the panels that the Law and the Humanities Forum is sponsoring at MLA 2017. We are organizing one guaranteed session and two special (non-guaranteed) sessions this year:
1. Object Lessons in Personhood (Guaranteed Session)
10-minute papers on a single “thing.” How do theoretical issue…[Read more] -
Emily Hegarty started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Teaching Eco-composition at the Community College in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session (to be proposed)
Teaching first-year writing to community college students through an ecocritical lens: interdisciplinary aspects, nature writing, journaling, environmental research, field trips, service learning, etc. 300-500 word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Emily A. Hegarty (emily.hegarty@ncc.edu). -
Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita: Survey and CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoUnbounded: David Huerta’s Incurable at 30
Special Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen deposited Midhumanism in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agocontribution to roundtable on “Becoming Human” co-sponsored by the Middle English and Chaucer forums
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Legal History Graduate Student Conference, Brown University (2/29/2016) in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Legal History Graduate Student Conference
Hosted by the Law and Humanities Graduate Study Group at Brown UniversitySaturday April 23rd, 2016
at Brown University, Providence, Rhode IslandDeadline for submission: February 29th, 2016
Acceptance notification: March 7th, 2016The Law and Humanities Graduate Study Group at Brown…[Read more]
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Serpil Oppermann started the topic EASLCE: 7th Biennial Conference "Wildness without Wilderness" in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years ago“Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability
The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE): 7th Biennial Conference (Brussels, Belgium— from 27 to 30 October 2016)
Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and its Department of Languages and Literatures, in associ…[Read more]
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Stephanie LeMenager started the topic Ecomedia Roundtable for 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Forum Members,
Please check out our CFP for the sponsored Forum for 2017!!! The topic, “Ecomedia,” reflects your requests from last year.
Looking forward to seeing your abstracts!
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Ian Cornelius deposited The Accentual Paradigm in English metrics: Or, why we don’t talk more about quantity in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years agoRead 8 January 2016 in Austin, TX, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, session number 218, “Quantity in English Verse: Linguistic and Neuroscience-Based Challenges to the Accentual Paradigm.” This short historiographical paper was the half-time show in our roundtable—an interlude between the session’s more substantive linguis…[Read more]
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Allison Carruth started the topic Future of Food Studies conference at Princeton in April in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoCritical Consumption: The Future of Food Studies
Princeton University American Studies Program
April 1-2, 2016For those interested in food studies and its intersections with the environmental humanities, American Studies, ethnic studies and/or media studies, this promises to be an exciting two-day invitational conference open to the public to…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited How Revolutionary is our Scholarship Today? in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis is a longer version of my conference paper, in which I provide some ideas on how to merge scholarship on 18th-c France, especially the revolutionary period, with the kinds of advocacy promoted by the MLA. I foreground exciting new work done by colleagues in the US, UK, and Italy, and provide a “sneak peek” at materials to be included in the…[Read more]
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T. Mera Moore Lafferty deposited Abstracts for Session 809: Poetry, Gender, Ecocriticism in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA Convention January 2016, Abstracts for Session 809
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Stacy Alaimo started the topic "Energy, Matter, Force" roundtable. Friday 8 Jan. 5:15, 6A ACC in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHope to see people at the “Energy, Matter, Force,” roundtable; the inaugural session of the Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum, at MLA:
Friday 8 Jan. 5:15, 6A ACC
Ken Hiltner, “Coal”
Catriona Sandilands, “Combustion”
Steve Mentz: “Error”
Serpil Opperman, “Storied Matter”
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson,”Solastalgia”
Ursula K. Heise, “Terra…[Read more] - Load More
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