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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. 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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Ignacio Infante started the topic Asst Prof in Global Hispanophone Studies (Washington University in St. Louis) in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Assistant Professor. The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures (RLL) at Washington University in St. Louis invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Global Hispanophone Studies to begin in the fall semester of 2024. We seek an…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Franklin Lewis started the topic Ibero-Amercian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Coloquio Virtual 8 de nov. in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoIbero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Invita al 1º Coloquio Virtual IASECS
La Leyenda Negra de España y su imperio en el siglo XVIII
Presentada por Karen Stolley y Cathy Jaffe, con la colaboración de Antonio Calvo Maturana (Universidad de Málaga) y otros autores del volumen de próxima aparición
el miércoles, 8 de noviemb…[Read more]
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Angela Acosta started the topic CFP Spanish Sapphic Modernity – Feminist Modernist Studies in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoCFP: Spanish Sapphic Modernity, Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies
Article proposals (250-300 words) and short bios (50-75 words) due by November 15.
Co-editors: Angela Acosta (Davidson College) and Rebecca Haidt (The Ohio State University)
Given the relative dearth of scholarship exploring sapphic modernism in Spain, Europe, and…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation – revised in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation – revised in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.
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Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.
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Golam Rabbani deposited Heterogeneity and Baul Spirituality: The Songs of Baul Taskir Ali in Bangladesh in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis article briefly explores the contemporary heterogeneous song-texts of Taskir Ali (popularly known as Baul Taskir) from Sunamgonj, in the district of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Bauls are nomadic communities in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, and they express their profound spiritual philosophy and thoughts through their songs and performance.…[Read more]
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C. Ceyhun Arslan started the topic ACLA 2024 CfP: Mediterranean Comparisons: Literature Beyond Borders in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoMediterranean Comparisons: Literature Beyond BordersACLA 2024 CfP March 14-17, 2024, Montreal
- You can submit an abstract until September 30, 2023 through the following link: https://www.acla.org/mediterranean-comparisons-literature-beyond-borders
- If you would like to consider submitting an abstract, seek suggestions on your proposal, or have…
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic CFP: COUNTERDISCOURSES OF FAMILY: UNDOING (THE) TIES in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn this thematic issue of Journal 2i we explore the images and the discourses of the family that circulate in literature and cultural production. The articles in this volume, therefore, will offer a broad vision of non-normative families, past or present. Some of the topics to be explored in this issue include:
- Representations of chosen…
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Marisa Verna deposited « Proust et l’odeur de son temps » in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoUntil now, critics have shown little interest in the bouquet of aromas and scents that permeate the linguistic fabric of À la recherche du temps perdu , to the point of forming an olfactory (and cognitive) underlay. The aesthetic impact of these odors warrants further investigation, starting with a reconstruction of the “problem of smell” in Prou…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoMakes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.
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Paula Park started the topic Call for announcements for the Global Hispanophone Forum Newsletter in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoStarting this fall, the Global Hispanophone Forum will publish a newsletter to highlight the work of Hispanists who specialize on areas beyond Spain and Latin America. To share recent publications (past academic year) or other relevant information related to Global Hispanophone Studies with members of the “Global Hispanophone” MLA Commons group,…[Read more]
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Monique Rodrigues Balbuena deposited The Shoah in the Sephardic World in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAbstract of panel organized by the Sephardic Studies Discussion Group for the 2024 MLA Annual Convention.
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Monique Rodrigues Balbuena deposited The Shoah in the Sephardic World in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAbstract of panel organized by the Sephardic Studies Discussion Group for the 2024 MLA Annual Convention.
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William Viestenz started the topic CFP: 19th North American Catalan Society Colloquium in the discussion
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
The 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society will be held April 18-20, 2024, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Please see the attached CFP for more information on how to submit an abstract or panel proposal.
All best,
Bill Viestenz
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William Viestenz started the topic CFP: 19th North American Catalan Society Colloquium in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
The 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society will be held April 18-20, 2024, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Please see the attached CFP for more information on how to submit an abstract or panel proposal.
All best,
Bill Viestenz
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoReview of Consider David Foster Wallace.
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]
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