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Claudia Cabello-Hutt started the topic 20th- and 21st- century LatAm panels @MLA Philly 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHere are the panels organized by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American. Feel free to share info about related panels at the upcoming MLA.
The Autonomy of Poetry Revisited
Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 305-306, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin Ameri…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPoéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies, and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the Popular Culture Discussion Group — You may be interested in applying:
Call for Papers:
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two:…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election–Please Send Suggestions in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoTC Popular Culture’s next scheduled election of a Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Election of a New Forum Delegate–Call for Suggestions in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe election of a new Delegate Assembly representative for this forum is scheduled for the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to n…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Make a Suggestion for the 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoLSL Language and Society will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to n…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for Next Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSince the term of this forum’s current Delegate Assembly representative will expire in January 2018, the next forum delegate election is scheduled for the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive com…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoA quick reminder:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]
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Barbara J. Eckstein deposited Carbon and Conferences (Again): The Austin MLA in the Flood of 2016 in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Carbon and Conferences (Again)” offers one person’s experience of trying to get to the Austin MLA conference by a means other than airplanes. It asks fellow MLA members for more collective, mindful attention to the carbon footprint of the conference generally. While acknowledging the intellectual and personal joy in face to face encounters, it…[Read more]
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Donna Kornhaber started the topic CFP: The Films of Wes Anderson in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Films of Wes Anderson
A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)
Wes Anderson is among the most recognized and recognizable writer-directors working today: the recipient of six Academy Award nominations, the subject of countless magazine profiles, the topic of several recent books, and the object of an ever-growing…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo started the topic CFP/Convocatoria: Latin American Speculative Fiction in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers (anticipated publication date early 2018; español sigue abajo)
Volume 31 Latin American Speculative Fiction (www.paradoxa.com)
Editors: Debra Ann Castillo (debra.castillo@gmail.com) and Liliana Colanzi (lc566@cornell.edu)
Speculative fiction provides complex perspectives on the changes that technological advances produce in…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Call for Papers "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano" in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”
Este número especial de Hispanic Journal se propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los ensayos selecc…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited "Once more a kingly quest": Fan games and the classic adventure genre in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe classic adventure games—part of the earliest traditions of interactive narrative—have not disappeared, although they no longer occupy space on the shelves at the local computer store. Even as changing hardware and operating systems render these games of the 1980s and 1990s literally unplayable without emulating the computer systems of the pas…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic RUST BELT LITERATURE on the Commons in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
NOTE to those who attend: We are calling for people to host a panel at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Digital Cultures & Narrative in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoUndergraduate syllabus for a course combining media studies with creative production practices in digital narratives and culture. Designed for delivery online, with an emphasis on individual projects.
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoIn 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into t…[Read more]
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Karl Steel deposited Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHere’s a key paragraph:
“This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present day fascinations with the Norse in popular music,…[Read more] -
Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Language and Subjectivity: Theories of Formation. in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThe purpose of this graduate course is to examine key texts of the twentieth century that established the fundamental connection between language structures and practices on the one hand, and the formation of selfhood and subjectivity, on the other. In particular, the course will focus on theories that emphasize the role of formal elements in…[Read more]
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John MacKay deposited Christ Among the Herdsmen: From Refugee to Propagandist (1918-1922) in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoVertov’s early years in film: the Kino-Nedelia newsreels, the work on the agitational trains, the anti-religious propaganda films.
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