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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Re-Imagining Theory Conference, Goa, Dec 2014 in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoXVII International Conference
(A Silver Jubilee Event of the Forum on Contemporary Theory)Jointly Organized by
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
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The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
Re-Imagining Theory:
Towards New Horizons in the Humanities and the Social Sciences21-24…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Free E-Review Copy of "Romances of George Sand" in the forum
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic Research Study on LGBTQ Faculty in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoMESSAGE FROM PROF. SEAN ROBINSON RE: STUDY ON THE EXPERIENCES OF LGBTQ FACULTY
Inside the Lavender Tower: Stories of LGBTQ Faculty
Call for LGBTQ Faculty ParticipantsDear Faculty Colleagues,
I am conducting an international, qualitative study on the experiences of LGBTQ faculty. The purpose of my research is to capture the stories and…[Read more]
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Jason A. Baumann started the topic NYPL Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoThe New York Public Library
LGBT Visiting Scholars Program
Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars
http://www.nypl.org/node/113221
Each year, The New York Public Library provides stipends for up to two Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars. The stipends support travel to New York City and related expenses to do research in the Library’s premier LGBT (…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic CFP: Sexualities, Legislation, and Memory in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoSponsored by both the Division on Postcolonial Studies and the Discussion Group on Law as Literature.
Sexualities, Legislation, and Memory
How are global victories and legal challenges to LGBT rights shaping autobiography, film, relationships with nations of origin, political engagement? 300 word abstracts by 14 March 2014 (deadline may be…[Read more] -
Christopher Looby started the topic 2015 Divisional CFPs in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<p class=”MsoNormal”>QUEER ARCHIVES.
Remembering, forgetting; loss, abandonment, preservation, invention; foundations, authorities; remainders, survivals, salvages; epistemic arrangements, derangements, reorderings; material and immaterial archives; future archives; archive fever; presence, place, trace. 250-word abstracts, 1-page CV by 15 March…[Read more] -
Petar Ramadanovic started the topic Special Session MLA on Forgetting in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoAnd Forgetting? And future? Negotiating sites of memory focuses on various forms of remembering and seldom on the role that forgetting plays in creating a past. This is because we in literary studies normally assume that forgetting is the opposite of remembering, which is a rather narrow, Aristotelian way to understand this process and phenomenon.…[Read more]
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Roberto Rey Agudo started the topic CFP Spaces of Dialogue: International Conference on Transatlantic Studies in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Colleagues,
The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard is putting together an international conference on April 24-25th. Submissions from all relevant areas in literary and cultural studies are welcome. I am copying below the full text of the Call for Papers and relevant information for those interested in participating or attending.
Spaces of…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers uploaded the file: Load More Guys: Queered Space and the Politics of Grindr to
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago[Originally uploaded by Thom Bryce on 10 January 2014.] A script from the roundtable discussion at the MLA on \”Digital Queers\”
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2015: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more] -
Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoFrom Sharon Aronofsky Weltman:
Applications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7,…[Read more] -
Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere are the Victorian Division’s calls for papers for MLA 2015:
Victorian Animals
Human and nonhuman animals; reflections on the in-, non-, post-human. Papers welcome on the state of the field and on new methods and modes of inquiry. One-page abstracts and CVs by 1 March 2014; William A. Cohen (wcohen@umd.edu).
Victorian…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic CFP: Sexing the Left/ English Language Notes in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago“Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)
Sex is everywhere – even on the left. Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it? Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed encount…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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Heather Love posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCourtesy of Lawrence M. LaFountain-Stokes, I would like to announce the winners of this year’s GL/Q Caucus prize winners. They will be honored at the MLA Cash Bar (Thursday, Jan 9, 8:45-10 pm, Chicago VIII, Sheraton).
GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages
Prize Winners for 2013 CompetitionCrompton-Noll Prize for Best LGBTQ Studies Article: José…[Read more]
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Heather Love posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoAt MLA2014 in Chicago, please join us for these sessions sponsored or co-sponsored by the Division on Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Thursday, 9 January
140. Queer Modern Philologies
5:15–6:30 p.m. Lincolnshire, Chicago Marriott
Presiding: Ashley Shelden, Kennesaw State Univ.
1. “The Sexual World System,” Benjamin Kahan, L…[Read more]
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Please also join the GL/Q Caucus for its joint cash bar (with prize award ceremony) and sponsored session:
Thursday, January 9. Cash Bar: Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, together with the Ages Studies Discussion Group, Feministas Unidas, GL/Q Caucus, Women in French, and Women in German. 8:45 – 10:00 p.m., Chicago VIII,…[Read more]
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The link for Twitter is: https://twitter.com/GLQMLA
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A. Yemisi Jimoh started the topic Journal Editing Opportunity in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoThe Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) invites proposals for an Editor-in-Chief to lead its award-winning, peer reviewed journal. The Editor-in-Chief will have oversight for all aspects of the publication, management, and promotion, and editing of the journal. The successful candidate should be a…[Read more]
Open access, open source, open to all
great stuff! are you publishing this somewhere?
Hello, the paper is by Thom Bryce (@tbryce); I merely posted it on his behalf. Please do get in touch with him on the Commons! Apologies for the confusion.
thanks, Katina! will do!
I’m struck by the juxtaposition here of Thom Bryce’s paper on grindr and Cheryl Higashida’s earlier cfp for the special issue on ‘Sexing the Left’. Arguably, the former demonstrates the timeliness, and urgency, of the latter.
Thom’s conclusion – that, despite some reservations, a commercial, profit-driven form of new communication such as grind…[Read more]