-
Cynthia Chase replied to the topic MLA 2025 – Migrations and Diasporas in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French via email on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoDear Karen Quandt,
Thank you for thinking of me, and with regard to such a good topic. But, I am going to be in Europe, not coming to the MLA.
Best wishes for a very successful session.
Yours,
Cynthia Chase
From: Karen Quandt <noreply@hcommons-staging.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2024 10:10 AM
To: Cynthia Chase <cc97@cornell.edu>
Subject:…[Read more] -
Karen Quandt started the topic MLA 2025 – Migrations and Diasporas in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract for this guaranteed 19th-c French LLC Forum session at the MLA 2025 in New Orleans.
We invite submissions of 250-word abstracts for a roundtable with short papers on migrations, diasporas, and centers of cultural exchange in the 19th-century francophone world. Special focus on Louisiana and New Orleans is e…[Read more]
-
Karen Quandt started the topic MLA 2025 – Masks and Masquerades in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract for this 19th-c French LLC Forum guaranteed session at the MLA 2025 in New Orleans.
This panel invites submissions of 250-word abstracts for papers related to masks and masquerade broadly defined. Topics may include various forms of deceit, disguise, performance, appearance, and secrets.
Submit abstract t…[Read more]
-
Sarah Benharrech started the topic MLA 18th century French Forum dinner on Saturday January 6th at 8:00pm in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear MLA members and 18th century enthusiasts,
You are invited to attend the 18c French Forum dinner on Saturday, January 6th at 8:00pm.
The dinner will take place at Caribou Café (1126 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107), which is a short walk from the PA Convention Center and the Downtown Marriott. The chef, Olivier Desaintmar…[Read more]
-
Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please write t…[Read more]
-
Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCentering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]
-
Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRegistered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]
-
Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
-
Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]
-
Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French 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]
-
Sarah Benharrech started the topic Assistant Professor of French at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Tennessee flagship campus in Knoxville is seeking applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in early modern French studies, with a focus on the 18th century, to begin August 1, 2024. To broaden our programs, innovative and…[Read more]
-
Graham Jensen started the topic Last chance! Send us your MLA 2024 proposals on CanLit and TV/film! in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoNOTE: There are just two days left before the March 15 deadline!
Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity,…[Read more]
-
Tracy Rutler posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCFP: 2024 MLA in Philadelphia
There is still time to submit a proposal for these three panels organized by the LLC 18th-century France (including one non-guaranteed panel co-organized with LLC 17th-century France)!
France in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
This panel invites contributions on the intersections between France and…[Read more] -
Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] -
Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.
The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).
This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]
-
David Alff started the topic CFP MLA 24 — New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIt has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]
-
David Alff started the topic CFP MLA 2024 — Comparative Media Histories in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoRecent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen an interest in non-print media, queer and trans book history, speculative archives, and critical making, among other approaches. This panel seeks con…[Read more]
-
Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: CanLit Adapts/Adapting Canadian Literature in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity, “Canadianness,” pedagogy, and production from critics and…[Read more]
-
Eleanor R. Ty started the topic Nominate yourself to the Canadian Literature committee in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are currently seeking one new member for the Canadian Forum. Executive committees serve for five years and help choose the topics for the conference. Please send your nominations to Graham Jensen ghjensen@uvic.ca by Friday, Jan 20, 2023 at noon. Thank you.
-
Faye Hammill deposited Canadian Literature syllabus in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years agoSyllabus for final-year undergraduate one-semester course on anglophone Canadian literature
- Load More
Open access, open source, open to all
