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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Making Sacred, Making Holy: the Canonization of People and Texts in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMemorialization, “entering the canon,” and the influence of politics, race, class, or gender. Who decides on the people, texts, places, dates, etc. selected to be commemorated, studied, and/or enshrined? Theorists such as Lonergan, Bourdieu, Girard, and Agamben have explored “sacralization” as a process of making holy or sacred that can inv…[Read more]
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John Garrison replied to the topic Call for Participants on a Guaranteed Roundtable: “New Rules” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoProposals due by March 14. Thank you!
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John Garrison started the topic Call for Participants on a Guaranteed Roundtable: “New Rules” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years ago“New Rules” (Guaranteed roundtable sponsored by CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern)
Proposed new guidelines for conducting research, sharing work, and supporting the profession as we address the realities of systemic social inequity, climate change, the expansion of the adjunct labor force, and drastic shifts in institutional support for the…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 4 years agoPedagogical edition, transcription, and translation of the Aljamiado-Morisco Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) found in MS J57 of the Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás, CSIC, Madrid. A variant of the folktale of the “handless maiden,” this narrative details the conversion of the pagan princess Carcayçiyona to Islam and the trials t…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years agoPedagogical edition, transcription, and translation of the Aljamiado-Morisco Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) found in MS J57 of the Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás, CSIC, Madrid. A variant of the folktale of the “handless maiden,” this narrative details the conversion of the pagan princess Carcayçiyona to Islam and the trials t…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Leyenda de la donçella Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 4 years agoPedagogical edition, transcription, and translation of the Aljamiado-Morisco Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) found in MS J57 of the Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás, CSIC, Madrid. A variant of the folktale of the “handless maiden,” this narrative details the conversion of the pagan princess Carcayçiyona to Islam and the trials t…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Leyenda de la donçella Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years agoPedagogical edition, transcription, and translation of the Aljamiado-Morisco Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) found in MS J57 of the Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás, CSIC, Madrid. A variant of the folktale of the “handless maiden,” this narrative details the conversion of the pagan princess Carcayçiyona to Islam and the trials t…[Read more]
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N. Michelle Murray started the topic CFP – MLA 2023: The Place of Africa in Spain and the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Place of Africa in Contemporary Spain and the Global Hispanophone
This panel welcomes papers theorizing colonial memory of Spanish interventions in the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa. Abstracts by March 15 to globalhispanomla@gmail.com and MLA.Iberian.Lit.Cult.20th.21st.c@gmail.com
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Luis Restrepo started the topic Executive Committee Nominations — CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years agoCLCS Renaissance and Early Modern invites nominations for our Executive Committee. Self-nominations welcomed and encouraged. The Executive Committee is fully committed to including and amplifying the wide range of perspectives, voices, and languages that are crucial to our field. We are also committed to representing a diverse range of…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Suggestions Requested: LLC 16th-Century English Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years agoDear Members of the LLC 16th-Century English Forum:
The members of the current Executive Committee for the LLC 16th-Century English Forum invite nominations/suggestions of names of people serve on the Executive Committee. This is a great opportunity to shape panels at MLA and the field generally Please send questions or suggestions to committee…[Read more]
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Luis Restrepo posted an update in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease join the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern at the MLA2022 all online
Session
240V At the Intersection of Early Modern Race Studies and Trans Studies
Friday, 7 January 2022
10:15 AM – 11:30 AMSession
376V Insurrection, Tyranny, and Resistance: Indigenous, Colonial, and Enslaved Perspectives
Friday, 7 January 20225:15 PM – 6:30 PM…[Read more]
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Dr. Elizabeth Hunter deposited Participant information for MLA 2022 Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoBios and recent work of the participants for the 2022 MLA Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” scheduled to take place on January 6, 2022.
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David A. Wacks deposited Omar Patón, Memoir of the Journey to and from Mecca (Castile, 15th c.) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoOmar Paton was one of the last Castilian Muslims to complete the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca. He undertook the journey from his home city of Ávila (Castile), departing in 1491. Upon his return from the East, Paton depicted the experiences and emotions he lived during his long and dangerous pious expedition in his Memoir of the Journey to and…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Omar Patón, Memorial de ida y venida hasta Makka (Castile, 15th c.) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoOmar Paton was one of the last Castilian Muslims to complete the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca. He undertook the journey from his home city of Ávila (Castile), departing in 1491. Upon his return from the East, Paton depicted the experiences and emotions he lived during his long and dangerous pious expedition in his Memoir of the Journey to and…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoTo encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more] -
Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Gained, Lost, Missed, Ignored: Vernacular Scientific Translations from Agricola’s Germany to Herbert Hoover’s California in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoFor the past twenty years, scholars of world and global history and literature have shown that the early modern world was a complex, entangled place. And yet, by emphasizing connection, such work at times overlooks the many separations that drove the engines of global early modernity: transoceanic slave trades, tribute labor, and the economic…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Review of Memorial de ida i venida hasta Maka: la peregrinación de ʿOmar Paṭōn ed. by Pablo Roza Candás in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoVersion of academic record: Wacks, David A., Review of Roza Candás, Pablo, ed. Memorial de ida i venida hasta Maka: La peregrinación de ʿOmar Paṭōn. Oviedo, 2018. ISBN 978-84-16343-67-6. 482 pp. La corónica, vol 48, no. 2, pp. 177-180. doi:10.1353/cor.2020.0013
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Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown,” Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern, ed. Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska (Cornell University Press, 2021), 322-349 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoAnalyzing trans narratives about the early moderns through the lenses of affective labor and social reparation, this chapter reclaims as trans the Shakespeare films that have been misinterpreted as homosexual. In doing so, this chapter builds a longer, more intersectional history of gendered embodiment. Reparative trans performances—works in w…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sefarad in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoFrom its linguistic origins as a Biblical land of great wealth across the sea, to its more recent nostalgic imaginary as a lost Golden Age of Mediterranean Jewish culture, Sefarad has been as much an idea as a physical place, a lens through which Iberian Jews have interpreted their world, first in al-Andalus, then in Christian Iberia, and later in…[Read more]
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