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Stacey Amo started the topic Discussion Group on What Contingency Means to You in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 2 years agoJoin members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]
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Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]
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Douglas Lanier replied to the topic 2024 Panel on Adaptation, Politics, and Social Media – Presentation Abstracts in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies via email on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoLooks terrific!! Thanks for your work in putting together this panel and keeping the adaptation flame alive! Cheers, Doug Lanier
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Thomas Leitch replied to the topic 2024 Panel on Adaptation, Politics, and Social Media – Presentation Abstracts in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCongratulations, Leah, and thanks for all the work behind this post. Here’s hoping the stars align more favorably for Philadelphia than they did for San Francisco. All best, Tom
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Julie Grossman replied to the topic 2024 Panel on Adaptation, Politics, and Social Media – Presentation Abstracts in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis looks fantastic, Leah. I wish I could be there! All best, Julie
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Leah Anderst started the topic 2024 Panel on Adaptation, Politics, and Social Media – Presentation Abstracts in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoMLA Panel 608: Adaptation, Politics, and Social Media, Leah Anderst, presiding
Saturday January 6, 2024 – 5:15-6:30pm Franklin 7 (Marriott)
Speakers:
Phillip Zapkin “Staging Oedipus and the Arab Spring in Utah: Weber State University’s Adaptation of Ali Salim’s The Comedy of Oedipus”
Ali Salim’s 1970 play The Comedy of Oedipus drew on Greek…[Read more]
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Arthur Wang started the topic CFP: Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes for Emerging and Contingent Scholars in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPost45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholars. The Emerging Scholar prize is named in honor of two-time Post45 Journal editor Mary Esteve to celebrate her commitment to the work of the journ…[Read more]
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Stephanie Rountree started the topic CFP: Record, Document, Archive [edited collection, advance contract LSU Press] in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoRecord, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region [edited collection]
Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press
Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison
Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023
Completed Chapters (7,000 words): March 15, 2024
As the double meaning of our title suggests,…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoReview of Consider David Foster Wallace.
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoExcerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy: A Search for Answers in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]
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Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoI am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on “Political Oratory and African American Literature.” Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse. Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.
Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]
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