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Matthew H. Brown started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis & Pop Culture in the Global South in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoKeynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the possibilities and limitations of combining formal textual analysis with the question of informal…[Read more]
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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Baal and Thoth: Unwelcome Apparitions in J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg and Disgrace in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoIn his seminar, Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida discusses how one of the essential qualities of the specter is his ability to appear incessantly. The inability to know when the specter may appear, however, not only enforces its haunting quality but also conveys a despairing sense of what Derrida refers to as empty Messianism from which emits…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: HIV/AIDS: A Contemporary Comparison of Culture, People and Survival in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThe HIV/AIDS epidemic has impacted human life in ways that no other disease has in human history. The reasons for this impact are numerous and discouraging. The virus is spread through the intimate contact that defines itself. There is no cure for it. There is no vaccine. In fact, even the thought of human trials to test the efficacy of va…[Read more]
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Siendou Konaté started the topic CFP AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC: THE TRUE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE? in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCahiers Ivoiriens d’Etudes Comparees (CIEC) / Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies (IJCS) VOLUME 2 NUMERO 2
LA MUSIQUE POPULAIRE AFRICAINE : LES VÉRITABLES VOIX DU PEUPLE ?
ARGUMENTAIRE
Peut-être pour des raisons d’un élitisme intellectuel ou peut-être du fait de l’absence d’un outil adéquat pour leur analyse, les arts populaires afr…[Read more]
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Envisioning Religion in Science Fiction (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHeavens Above: Envisioning Religion in Science Fiction (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)
Alien religions, post-secular numinous experience, evolutionary religious developments, neo-religious epiphanies–science fiction rarely leaves religion behind as it leaps to the stars. Papers addressing teleologies of transcendence, apocalyptic religious…[Read more] -
Lisa Stein Haven started the topic MAD Magazine Special Offer AHSA in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago***SPECIAL OFFER***
Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—
“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”
a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time
For new members, or members who were not m…[Read more] -
David Pratt started the topic CFP: MLA 16 Special Session – The Publics of Charles Bukowski and Henry Chinaski in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis panel will consider the audiences for Bukowski’s oeuvre and public self in conversation with the social milieus of his fictional counterpart, Chinaski. Specific topics panelists might explore include, but are not limited to:
The varying nature of Bukowski’s reception across time and space (his contemporary European reception, for instance,…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded a combination of humor, hyperbole, and c…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded the combination of humor, hyperbole, a…[Read more]
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Amy Rubens started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Special session proposal for the 2016 Modern Language Association convention in Austin, TX.
“Circulating Notions of TB”
Conference papers invited that examine the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis in imaginative, digital, and other texts.
How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with–or even activ…[Read more]
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Alexander L. Kaufman started the topic 10th Biennial Robin Hood Conference in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe Tenth Biennial conference of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies will take place on 1st and 2nd July 2015 at the University Centre, High Melton, Doncaster.
And the official Call for Papers:
<div class=”text_exposed_show”>The theme for this conference will be: Outlaws in their Contexts (local heroes to global outlaws,…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetics and Science Panel for ALA 2015 in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoALA Panel Reminder:
Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science and contemporary…[Read more]
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Lisa Stein Haven replied to the topic CFP American Humor Studies at ALA in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThanks, Roberta. Of course, the dates are January 10, 2015 for abstracts and notifications will then go out January 20th. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Roberta Rosenberg replied to the topic CFP American Humor Studies at ALA in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoHi Lisa, I think you need to change the dates in the last paragraph since they must be from a past CFP. Looks like some wonderful topics, however.
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Lisa Stein Haven started the topic CFP American Humor Studies at ALA in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoAmerican Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue ,
Boston MA 02116-5798Conference Director:
Olivia Carr Edenfield, Georgia Southern UniversityConference Fee: For those who pre-register before April 15, 2015: $90 ($60 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Retired…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic JFA Books Received in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe print titles listed below are now available for review in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. If you are interested in one (or more), drop me a line at <Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu>. We ask for reviews of between 1200 and 1500 words within approximately three months of receipt of the book.
Since it is often the case that I get…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic JFA Books Received in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe print titles listed below are now available for review in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. If you are interested in one (or more), drop me a line at <Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu>. We ask for reviews of between 1200 and 1500 words within approximately three months of receipt of the book.
Since it is often the case that I get multiple…[Read more]
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