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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Deadline fast approaching for travel grants in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPart-time faculty and other contingent faculty are eligible for travel grants to attend the convention in Austin.
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Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic CfP "Human Rights in the Americas," October 4-6, 2016, UCSB in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDear Friends, Colleagues, Inter-Americanists, Theorists, Arab, Asian, Chicana/o, Decolonial, Ethnic, Hemispheric, Jewish, Latin American, Latina/o studies devotees and supporters I invite you to participate in the conference “Human Rights in the Americas” that will take place October 4 – 6, 2016, at the University of California, Santa Barba…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New documentary release yesterday! in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoFreeway Fliers can be found here. It contains very interesting observations, including a point about the tenure process now being very much complicit in the de-radicalization of the professoriate!
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Personal Identity and Literary Personae: A Study in Historical Psychology in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis comparative study in the evolution of subjectivity in European literature during the Renaissance ascribes it to the impact of the Reformation on the public representation of authorial identity, differing from Stephen Greenblatt’s later application of Foucault to six Tudor authors.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Personal Identity and Literary Personae: A Study in Historical Psychology in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis comparative study in the evolution of subjectivity in European literature during the Renaissance ascribes it to the impact of the Reformation on the public representation of authorial identity, differing from Stephen Greenblatt’s later application of Foucault to six Tudor authors.
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Geraldine Heng deposited The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages”—a two-part article—questions the widely held belief in critical race theory that “race” is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries—chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon l…[Read more]
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Natalie Crohn Schmitt deposited Dissimulation in the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCommedia dell’Arte was the most influential and widespread theatre movement in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe. A considerable part of its popularity can be accounted for by its comic representation of stressful occurrences within everyday life in early modern Europe, including in its representation of the period’s widespread dis…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Enjoying "King Lear" in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“King Lear,” like all great tragedies, is surely designed to entertain and illuminate, not to depress an audience – as too many interpretations argue. Lear abdicates to ensure the future of Cordelia, from excessive love of virtue and justice, the violation of which initially drives him mad – with rage – but he progressively goes sane, learning t…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic Ethnic Studies Division Panels, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe following are panels sponsored by the Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division at MLA 2016:
113, Social Death and Citizenship, is scheduled to take place at 3:30+4:45 p.m. on 07-JAN-16 in 7, ACC.
568, Archival Legibility and Invisibility, is scheduled to take place at 12:00 noon+1:15 p.m. on 09-JAN-16 in 311, JW Marriott.
618,…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA subconference call for papers in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoAs the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to propose sessions somewhere “Between the Public and its Privates”.
Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public without uncovering its uncanny twin–the private. Consider Google’s Han…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin
Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated M…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic 568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility Selected for Presidential Theme in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division Panel 568 on Archival Legibility and Invisibility has been selected for inclusion in this year’s Presidential theme, Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future.”
Saturday, 9 January, 2016
568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Program arranged by the Fo…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic MLA 2016: 113. Social Death and Citizenship in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThursday, 7 January 2016
113. Social Death and Citizenship
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Presiding: Stephen P. Knadler, Spelman Coll.; Amritjit Singh, Ohio Univ., Athens
1. “Declaration of Independence: Origin of American Social Death in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Sally Hemings,” Michael Lackey, Uni…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited “Trespass and Forgiveness in William Shakespeare’s King Lear” in the group
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis article reads the problem of trespass within William Shakespeare’s King Lear. I draw upon eighteenth-century jurist William Blackstone’s notion of trespass, sixteenth-century jurist Jean Bodin’s notion of sovereignty, in order to understand the question of property rights that emerges in Lear’s abdication of his sovereignty.
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic CFP: In/Security with cluster on "Labour, Precarity, and the University" in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP: In/Security
Special issue of English Language Notes, Fall/Winter 2016 (Vol. 54, No. 2)
This issue of ELN takes for its focus the topic of security and its necessary correlate, insecurity. As Itty Abraham notes, the term “security” is a “traveling signifier” that has “attached itself to every scale of human activity, from the individual…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Travel and its Crossroads- Deadline extended to 07/12/2015 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe deadline has been extended to July 12, 2015
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Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP – Travel and its Crossroads- Oct 8-10, 2015 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoDeadline extended to July 12, 2015
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