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Marielle R. Risse deposited Verstehen/ Einfühlen in Arabian Sands (1959): Wilfred Thesiger as Traveler and Anthropologist in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoUsing Geertz’s Verstehen/ Einfühlen distinction, this essay begins with an overview of the travel writing and anthropological work about Oman, concentrating on the southern region of Dhofar. The author then situates Wilfred Thesiger’s classic Arabian Sands (1959) within these two genres as an example of a writer who is able to show unde…[Read more]
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Dana Luciano started the topic Invitation and Panel Info: Afterlives of 19c American Racism, 8:30 am 1/9/16 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago82. Afterlives of Nineteenth-Century American Racism
Saturday, 9 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 14, ACCProgram arranged by the forum LLC 19th-Century American
Presiding: Dana Luciano, Georgetown Univ.
Speakers: Marlene Daut, Claremont Graduate Univ.; Gordon Fraser, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs; Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; <…[Read more]
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Maria DiFrancesco started the topic Summer Fellowship Opportunity: NeMLA in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe NeMLA Summer Fellowship Program Summer fellowships up to $1,500 are intended to defray the cost of traveling incurred by researchers in pursuing their work-in-progress over the summer. Fellowships primarily support untenured junior faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars. All applicants will be notified before the convention.…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Lazo started the topic Invitation – Canon and Archives Panel MLA in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago19. From Canon to Archival Encounters
<div id=”conv_program_details”>Thursday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 8C, ACC
Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-Century American
Presiding: Rodrigo Lazo, Univ. of California, Irvine
1. “Slavery and the Archival Uncanny,” Jennifer C. James, George Washington Univ.
2. “Tales of Archival E…[Read more]
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Leah Milne deposited Choosing Africa: The Importance of Naming in Beloved and The Poisonwood Bible. in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago“Choosing Africa: The Importance of Naming in Beloved and The Poisonwood Bible.” CLA Journal 55.4 (June 2012): 352-369.
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic FYI: MLA Panel (Jan. 7 @ 1:45 pm) on Russia & the Middle East (17th-19th Cent.) in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
FYI, this special panel at the MLA 2016:
48. Russia and the Middle East from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202, JW MarriottA special session
Presiding: Suha Kudsieh, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York
1. “The Middle East in Arseny Sukhanov’s Pro…[Read more] -
Eric Aronoff started the topic Gerry Canavan on NPR's "On Point" discussing science fiction and film in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Speculative Fiction Forum’s own Gerry Canavan, Assistant Prof. of 20th and 21st Century Literature at Marquette University, was a guest on the NPR show “On Point” on Friday Dec. 18th to discuss science fiction and film. Check it out:
http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510053/on-point-with-tom-ashbrook
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Nicky Agate started the topic Articles of Interest? in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the scholarly materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and, perhaps, share some of your own!
– Nicky Agate (Manag…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Bottles of ink, and reams of paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Cultue of Print in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis essay argues that greater attention to the significance of the material culture of print, especially in early African American print culture, shows how technologies of racialization emerge in conjunction with technologies of printed words and images. The stereotype is perhaps the most familiar case. In one sense it offers quick reproduction…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Bottles of ink, and reams of paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Cultue of Print in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis essay argues that greater attention to the significance of the material culture of print, especially in early African American print culture, shows how technologies of racialization emerge in conjunction with technologies of printed words and images. The stereotype is perhaps the most familiar case. In one sense it offers quick reproduction…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Extended Deadline for 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoExtended Deadline!
Call for Papers
The 21st Summer Meeting
of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
June 2-5, 2016
The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
During an extended period of self-imposed isolation following his graduation from Bowdoin, Hawthorne embarked on a tour of New England and the Hudson Valley. In 1832, he visited Burlington,…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic CFP w/ extended deadline for Hawthorne ALA panels in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago*Extended Deadlines!*
Calls for Papers: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Sessions, American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016.
“Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood”
Proposals for papers on the topic of “Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood” are sought for a Nathaniel Hawthorne Society session at the American Literature Associat…[Read more]
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Nicholas Birns deposited The Horizon’s Hoop: Emerson’s “Monadnoc” in Contingency and History in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoWhen it is spoken of at all, Emerson’s “Monadnoc” is described as a solicitation of natural sublimity. But a close rhetorical analysis of the poem reveals greater ambivalence about this sublimity than is apparent—linking it to later American philosophic poems by Frost, Stevens, Ammons, and Kinnell that at once solicit and question natural plenitu…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Open Rank English Job at St. John's University in the discussion
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James Gifford deposited Introduction to Panic Spring in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Panic Spring. First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author’s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Awards Announcement — Ralph Waldo Emerson Society in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2016
<div class=”column”>The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2016) or the…[Read more] -
Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic CfP "Human Rights in the Americas," October 4-6, 2016, UCSB in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDear Friends, Colleagues, Inter-Americanists, Theorists, Arab, Asian, Chicana/o, Decolonial, Ethnic, Hemispheric, Jewish, Latin American, Latina/o studies devotees and supporters I invite you to participate in the conference “Human Rights in the Americas” that will take place October 4 – 6, 2016, at the University of California, Santa Barba…[Read more]
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Ed Finn started the topic Climate Fiction Contest in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago
Enter ASU’s Climate Fiction Short Story Contest
First prize: $1,000
Judged by science fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson
Submit your story!
Climate change is a creeping calamity, ever-present but so gradual and pervasive that it can be tough to grasp. Climate fiction, an emerging subgenre of speculative storytelling, can help us imagine human…[Read more] -
James E. Dobson deposited Bits of Autobiography: Radical Deindividualization and Everydayness in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay focuses on the autobiographical strategies deployed by Ambrose Bierce in response to shifting conceptions of the literary representation of everyday life. I place Bierce at the transition point between nineteenth and twentieth-century realism, between an understanding of typical experience as comfortably generic and a growing sense that…[Read more]
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Jeehyun Lim started the topic Candidate statement for Executive Committee, Asian American Forum in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored to be nominated for the Asian American Forum’s Executive Committee. Asian American literature and culture are central to my research and teaching interests. As executive committee member of the forum I will try to represent current topics, issues, and directions in Asian American literature and criticism in designing the MLA forum…[Read more]
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