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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic Delegate Assembly Nominees Sought! in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoHi Folks–want to get more involved in the MLA Gothic Studies forum? We need to submit to MLA a short list of nominees (2 or 3 people) to attend the delegate assembly meeting at the annual convention. So the person needs to be a member of MLA (or willing to become one!) who plans to attend the convention at least twice in the next 3 years. Please…[Read more]
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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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John Hansen deposited The New American Scholar in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago“The New American Scholar” by John Hansen
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWhat’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agohttps://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/african-american/
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender.…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agohttps://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/african-american/
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender.…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFor anyone interested, there is now an MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group (easier to use / access than the MLA forum site I think). You can sign on at http://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies
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Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo started the topic In Memoriam: African American Literary and Scholarly Greats in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoSubmit 300-word abstracts for an In Memoriam Panel celebrating and critically engaging with the works and legacies of recently departed writers and scholars to jervette@gmail.com by April 6.
LLC African American Forum
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Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo started the topic In Memoriam: African American Literary and Scholarly Greats in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoSubmit 300-word abstracts for an In Memoriam Panel celebrating and critically engaging with the works and legacies of recently departed writers and scholars to jervette@gmail.com by April 6.
LLC African American Forum
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Joint Legal Studies/American Studies Assistant Professor of Instruction in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoNorthwestern University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Instruction to be appointed jointly in the Legal Studies program and the American Studies program. This is a full-time, benefits eligible position with a path to promotion. The initial contract is for two years.
The Assistant Professor of Instruction will offer six courses per year…[Read more]
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoGlobal Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoGlobal Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIn the fall of 1966, Ḥiwār magazine published al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s novel Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl [ Season of Migration to the North ]. Arabic literary critics both hailed the novel in the Arabic press and mourned that it had been published by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom’s Ḥiwār, part of a global covert cultural front of the C…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward replied to the topic MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>LLC African American Forum</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers for MLA 2021 in Toronto</p>
Theories of Black Women Intellectualism in the Nineteenth Century
Inviting talks on diverse iterations of intellectual thought amongst C19th Black women thinkers; Intellectual productions beyond the usual…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFPs — MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>LLC African American Forum</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers for MLA 2021 in Toronto</p>
Theories of Black Women Intellectualism in the Nineteenth Century
Inviting talks on diverse iterations of intellectual thought amongst C19th Black women thinkers; Intellectual productions beyond the usual…[Read more]
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