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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoKathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]
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Jonathan Hiller replied to the topic CFPs for MLA 2023 San Francisco: 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC 17th, 18th, and 19th-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee wishes to communicate an extension to the submission deadline of two of its sessions: the panel “Intersectional Work in the Italian 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries” and the roundtable “Homework Conditions: Uses of Translation in the Italian Language and Culture…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Adapting Digital Resources for Global and Comparative Studies in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature invites submissions for its guaranteed MLA session: “Adapting Digital Resources for Global and Comparative Studies”
The COVID-19 pandemic forced professors to rely on technology to teach online. This session aims to share innovative methodologies used for teaching grad…[Read more]
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Stephen E. Lewis deposited “Philosopher d’une manière ‘mariale’: Alentour du verset: Petite phénoménologie des Mystères de Marie-Aimée Manchon” in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoA review article focused on phenomenological method and Christian thought in Marie-Aimée Manchon’s book _Alentour du verses: Petite phénoménologie des Mystère_ (Ad Solem, 2019).
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Sonia Velázquez started the topic CFP : Special Session Spain & England Drama in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed)
This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study of the Spanish Golden Age Comedia & plays by…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Redesigning Modernities in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]
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Letizia Modena started the topic Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCfp MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee “Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic”
How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted scholarly pursuits in and around Italian Studies, especially across gender positions and discipl…[Read more]
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Letizia Modena started the topic Italo Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCFP per MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy
A century after his birth, Italo Calvino still enjoys an international following that includes novelists, artists, literary scholars, architects, even mathematicians and en…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Jonathan Hiller replied to the topic CFPs for MLA 2023 San Francisco: 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoGood morning all,
Just a reminder to please submit your proposals by the March 15 deadline for our panels.
Regards,
Jonathan Hiller
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John Garrison started the topic CFP MLA 2023: “Race, Gender, & Consent in the Global Early Modern” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoRace, Gender, and Consent in the Global Early Modern
Guaranteed roundtable on race, gender, and consent in the prose, poetry, and drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. How do the intersections of these terms illuminate cultural formations, social privileges, and legal rights? Comparative and transnational perspectives especially welcome. Brief CV…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Arianne A. Hartsell-Gundy started the topic Call for Proposals for two 2023 MLA Convention sessions in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoI thought some of the members of this group would potentially be interested in presenting at these two sessions:
Advocating for Library Resources
The MLAIB advisory committee seeks 250-word abstracts for this roundtable discussion. Topics may include: strategic partnerships/collaborations (by librarians, faculty, administrators), open education…[Read more] -
Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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