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Matt Brim started the topic CFP: Queer Methods http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/current-call-papers in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoWSQ, Call for Papers: Special Issue
QUEER METHODS
Guest Editors:
Amin Ghaziani, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Matt Brim, Associate Professor of Queer Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Queer Studies is experiencing a methodological renaissance. In both the humanities and the social sciences, scholars…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic Do you teach about aging to undergraduate students? in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoGood morning colleagues,
I am conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or…[Read more] -
Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. Oct. 16 and Sat. Oct. 17, 2015 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme: Conflicts and ResolutionsFeatured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec Foster
Location: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512
We live in a society that has c…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWe are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While Morrison’s novels examine m…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoFamilial/Communal Structures
Black Motherhood
The Presence of the ancestor
Other Mothering
Collective Memory/Cultural Trauma
Mothering-Controlled Reproduction (racialized maternity)
Language Theory (Julia Kristeva)
Violence
Cultural/Individual Meaning of Motherhood
Relationships between mothers and daughters/sons
Mothers & Sexual…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic [Deadline extended to March 18th!] HIV/AIDS and the Literary/Cinematic Archive in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago[The deadline for this panel has been extended to March 18th!]
MLA 2016 Special Session: HIV/AIDS and the Literary/Cinematic Archive
Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. With the current proliferation of theories and conceptualizations pertaining to archive studies, how can the literary o…[Read more]
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Michelle A. Massé started the topic CFP Extension: Age Studies Forum panel, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.
What difference does age make in what we…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages (Allied Organization) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoQueers Read LGBT Literature
This panel explores the state of contemporary LGBT literature and the value of a LGBT literary canon. Calling for papers that ask: what is LGBT literature now? Abstracts by 15 March 2015; Shanté Paradigm Smalls (smallss@stjohns.edu) and Ramzi Fawaz (fawaz@wisc.edu) -
Kenneth Pinion started the topic MLA 2016 CFP: Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a 300-word abstract to this CFP for the 2016 MLA convention.
Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature.
Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. This panel seeks papers that discuss how archiving the HIV epidemic shapes our…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a 300-word abstract to my CFP for the 2016 MLA convention, “Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature.”
Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. This panel seeks papers that discuss how archiving the HIV epidemic shapes our relationships…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette replied to the topic CFP: Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoFYI. A feminist thriller, Traitors, filmed in Morocco, in Arabic and French with English subtitles, now available from Amazon in DVD and VOD.
When writer/ director Sean Gullette’s feature film–a feminist thriller, shot in Morocco with a new Moroccan star, Chaimae ben Acha– opened at the Tribeca Film Festival, an African-American woman in the au…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Proposals:
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference
November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PAPanel on “Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Literature by Women”
This panel welcomes papers that examine how Arab American women…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum on Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/
We still…[Read more]
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Martha Nell Smith started the topic CFPs MLA2016 – Queer Proximities, Vaqueer@s, Queer Crips Across Time in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoHere are CFPs for 3 different sessions we’re sponsoring for MLA2016 in Austin:
Forum: TC Sexuality Studies
Explorations of the sensorium; texture, sensation, affect, touch; spacing and relationscape; distance and distancing, nearness, seclusion; relationalities, withdrawal, fusion; transpecies, human; bonds and bonding, i…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic Call for essays in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting essays on working women in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century American literature. The volume will focus on the American working woman and how she has been represented and underrepresented in American realistic and…[Read more]
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Martha Nell Smith started the topic Queer Archives, Counterarchives, Queer Canada, and Performing the Archive in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoCheck out our sessions and related sessions for MLA 2015 by visiting our blog entry. We look forward to seeing you at the sessions and also to continuing the conversation online!
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic CFP: Southeastern Women's Studies Conference (deadline: Jan. 9, 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University has extended the deadline for general CFP submissions until January 9, 2015. Please also note that this CFP includes below a link for SEWSA conference registration and membership.
The FAU WGSS Center is proud to host SEWSA 2015: “Trafficking in Gender: Feminist Di…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Southeastern Women's Studies Conference CFP (Deadline: Jan. 9, 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University has extended the deadline for general CFP submissions until January 9, 2014. Please also note that this CFP includes below a link for SEWSA conference registration and membership.
The FAU WGSS Center is proud to host SEWSA 2015: “Trafficking in Gender: Feminist Di…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months ago5th Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference with the title of “Body, Memory, Trauma”, an interdisciplinary academic event open to every interested scholar. The conference will take place on March 6th and 7th in College Station/Bryan (Texas), together with an Italian-Argentinean artistic exhibition with the title of “Water, Art, Women, Life”, devoted…[Read more]
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