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Aarthi Vadde started the topic MLA 2024 GA Forum CFP (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDigitality, Postcoloniality, Globality (sponsored by CLCS Global Anglophone Forum) Deadline today!
This panel considers how digital technologies intersect with categories of knowledge, namely postcoloniality and globality. Possible topics: conceptions of digitality from the Global South, decolonizing DH, born-digital/post-digital literature and…[Read more] -
Graham Jensen started the topic Last chance! Send us your MLA 2024 proposals on CanLit and TV/film! in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoNOTE: There are just two days left before the March 15 deadline!
Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity,…[Read more]
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Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: CanLit Adapts/Adapting Canadian Literature in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity, “Canadianness,” pedagogy, and production from critics and…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Middle English Forum sessions in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoHere are the CFPs for the Middle English Forum’s two sessions, along with a third that’s a collaborative session with the Chaucer Forum.
Adapting Middle English Literature
Organizers: Susan Nakley and Ruen-chuan Ma
This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of…[Read more]
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Eleanor R. Ty started the topic Nominate yourself to the Canadian Literature committee in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are currently seeking one new member for the Canadian Forum. Executive committees serve for five years and help choose the topics for the conference. Please send your nominations to Graham Jensen ghjensen@uvic.ca by Friday, Jan 20, 2023 at noon. Thank you.
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Faye Hammill deposited Canadian Literature syllabus in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years agoSyllabus for final-year undergraduate one-semester course on anglophone Canadian literature
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Nesrine Chahine started the topic Nominations for CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are seeking nominations for the Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum at the MLA. We are also seeking nominations for a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly on behalf of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum. Both appointments would begin after the MLA Convention in 2024. Please email all nominations…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic MLA 2023 Middle English Forum Convention Sessions and Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDear Middle English Forum members,
Below is the information for the three sessions that our forum is sponsoring or cosponsoring, with links to session abstracts.
We are also seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Middle English Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through…[Read more]
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Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoVirginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. 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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Sophie Christman deposited The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article traces the developme…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more] -
Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe Research Society for Victorian Periodicals should work to protect multiple runs of actual Victorian periodicals, which are potentially at risk in “collective collections” organized by academic libraries.
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Mirosław Miernik started the topic CFP: Volume on Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo), “Hadrian the Seventh” in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoWe are seeking submissions for an upcoming volume on the work of Frederick Rolfe, also known as Baron Corvo, with particular emphasis placed on his novel Hadrian the Seventh. The book will be published by Lexington Books in 2024. The chapters should be around 7,500 words. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- The politics…
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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Leaving Home, November 3-4 2022 (NYU) in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoMedieval and Renaissance Center
New York UniversityAnnual Conference
November 3-4 2022Leaving Home
Keynote speakers
Daniel Jütte, NYU Department of History
Olenka Pevny: Cambridge University Faculty of Modern & Medieval LanguagesCall for papers: NYU’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for papers for its annual conference to…[Read more]
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