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Eric Kennedy replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoI support this petition.
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoReview of James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, and Adam Whittaker, eds.
Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and
Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series. New York and London:
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Charlie Gleek deposited A Syllabus, In Circuits in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoExamining the production, transmission, and consumption of the syllabus opens up ways of seeing the traces of dominant practices, meanings, and values in contemporary academic culture. This hegemony is in place as a function of the deliberate efforts of intellectuals hailing from the dominant cultural group. What has become pedagogical…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Chat with an Editor: Professional Development Opportunity from CELJ in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Chat with an Editor event takes place at the MLA each year. This professional development opportunity, sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, gives advanced doctoral candidates, postdocs, and new faculty the opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Modernism/modern…[Read more]
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Nicole Dib started the topic American Literature Association 2019 – Postwar Area Literature Group CFP in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMemoir and Recovery Narratives, 1945-1980
American Literature Association 2019 – Boston, May 23-26 / Postwar Area Literature Group
Memoirs and autobiographies; lost and found objects, persons, and selfhoods in literatures of the postwar period. Abstracts by January 15 to foertsch@unt.edu
Samples and Fragments, 1945-1980
American Li…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic Reminder: CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa replied to the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA chance to revisit Chicago when the weather is much improved!
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. Te…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Victoria Addis deposited Landscape and Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoSince his first works came to critical attention, Ernest Hemingway has occupied a space in the critical and cultural imagination as a definitively ‘masculine’ writer. His novels and stories focus on male narrators in difficult or extreme situations involving war, violence, and the natural world, and his critical heritage has focused on these ele…[Read more]
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Kathryn McClain replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI support this petition!
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Bill Mooney replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI support this petition!
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Kate Newell replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI support this petition! And I would be willing to serve in a leadership role.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Is The Music Man's "Gary, Indiana" song shockingly misplaced satire? in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoAnyone who has passed through Gary, Indiana, in the last thirty years and watched its tragically slow motion decline can only wonder when a Southwestern US theatre company mounts a new production of Meredith Wilson’s 1957 Broadway Musical The Music Man which includes the song “Gary, Indiana”–the purported home of Harold Hill, a con man. This…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Suzanne Presumey replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI support this petition, thank you ! I would also be willing to serve in a leadership position.
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Glenn Jellenik replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI support! And I am willing to take on a leadership role.
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Glenn Jellenik replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI support the petition!!
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