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Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 – Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.
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Tobias Warner started the topic MLA 22 CFP – Francophone Studies in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Please see below for several calls for papers in Francophone Studies for MLA 2022 in Washington, D.C. These sessions are sponsored by the LLC Francophone Forum Executive Committee. You may submit any queries and paper proposals directly to the session organizers.
Thank you,
Tobias Warner
Global Anti-Racist Movements: The…[Read more]
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Sarah Thomas started the topic MLA 2022 Forum Panels in 20th/21st Century Spanish & Iberian: Circulate & Apply! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoGender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
What radical acts of visibility and resistance are being mobilized by the work of Afro-descendants in Spain? What genres, visual and verbal imagery are used to subvert gender and racial categories to redefine Spain today?Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Benita Sampedro…[Read more]
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Sarah Thomas started the topic MLA 2022 Forum Panels in 20th/21st Century Spanish & Iberian: Circulate & Apply! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoGender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
What radical acts of visibility and resistance are being mobilized by the work of Afro-descendants in Spain? What genres, visual and verbal imagery are used to subvert gender and racial categories to redefine Spain today?Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Benita Sampedro…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry started the topic Global Hispanophone CFPs in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 5 years agoWhen the MLA Went Global: What is Global in the Global Hispanophone?
The Global Hispanophone Forum is organizing a round table with seven participants representing the different global forums in the MLA. This panel seeks to interrogate the notion of the global from different angles. What is global in the Global Hispanophone, Lusophone,…[Read more]
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Mary Kate Donovan started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: The Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone
Multilingualism within the Global Hispanophone signals the past colonial routes and present migratory flows that complicate the social cohesion national literatures purport to consolidate. Issues of translation, therefore, are steeped in both national and regional tensions,…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli started the topic Call for Papers in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 5 years agoTeaching the Cultures of Portuguese Speaking Countries
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This session is interested in discussing the methodological and epistemological challenges/opportunities of teaching the cultures of the Portuguese speaking countries around the world. 200-word abstract + short bio.Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Marcus V. C. B…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli started the topic Call for Papers (MLA 2022) in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 5 years ago1822-2022: Rethinking Brazilian Independence Today
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Session examines legacies and contradictions of 200 years of Brazilian independence. Literary, artistic, or historical approaches with a focus on questions of race, democracy, or citizenship are especially welcome. 200-word abstract + short bio.Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli started the topic Call for Papers (MLA 2022) in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe Ends of the Lusotropical Consensus
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Papers addressing challenges to Lusotropicalism by the rise of new political and cultural subjects across the Portuguese-speaking world. New literary voices, poetics and politics of the archive, racism, memory, iconoclasm. 200-word abstract + short bio.Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli started the topic Call for Papers (MLA 2022) in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 5 years agoWater: Memory, Ecology, and Politics in the Lusophone World
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Papers addressing the literary and cultural significance of water the Portuguese-speaking world. We welcome papers on rivers, seas, oceans, dams, access to water, droughts, environmental impacts, ritualistic practices, and others. 200-word abstract + short bio.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli started the topic Call for Papers (APSA 2022) in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe Week of Modern Art 100 Years Later
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Papers exploring Lusophone modernist cultural expressions or topics. Panel reconsiders legacy, cultural influence, and contemporary relevance of the 1922 events. Comparative, transatlantic, and theoretical approaches are especially welcome. 200-word abstract + short bio.
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Tania Martuscelli started the topic Call for Papers (APSA 2022) in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 5 years agoCrime Fiction in Portuguese
Papers addressing crime fiction from the Portuguese-speaking world across periods. A dialogue with the genre and/or comparative and transatlantic approaches, as well as cultural, social, and political analyses are welcome. 200-word abstract + bio.Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Tania…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry started the topic The Black Mediterranean / CFP / MLA 2022 Guaranteed Session in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers
MLA Annual Convention
6–9 January 2022
Washington DC
Guaranteed Forum Session
Sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean
The Black Mediterranean
Michelle Murray (Vanderbilt University), presiding
The subordinations of racial disparity, conflict, and death are persistent traits of the Mediterranean and its d…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
TC Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 5 years agoBirds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli started the topic New number of journal E-Letras ComVida in the discussion
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Tania Martuscelli started the topic Job Position in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 5 years agoSenior Preceptor in Portuguese
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures seeks applications for a senior preceptor in Portuguese. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2021. The senior preceptor will be responsible for teaching three courses…[Read more] -
Catherine Barbour started the topic CfP MLA2022 Translingual Iberia: Peripheries and Mobilities in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease send 250 word abstracts for a proposed panel at MLA2022 on trans- and multilingualism in cultural production of the Iberian Peninsula. Studies of works by migrant cultural producers and/or in non-state languages particularly encouraged.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 15, 2021 to Catherine Barbour, University of Surrey…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDear MLA members,
Please consider attending one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los An…
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Anastasia Salter deposited Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn this paper we examine the representation of crafts in video games, particularly in “crafting systems” – collections of mechanics that are described as crafting within a game’s narrative. Real world crafting practitioners value creativity, expression, and mastery of material, but the act of crafting itself is often viewed by society as repro…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Mujeres en papel y tinta: identificación, automodelaje y remodelaje en el archivo colonial in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDirect and indirect women’s access to the expression of their ideas and wishes on ink and paper has significantly contributed to the construction of the Latin American colonial archive. Nevertheless, this contribution to the area of Latin American women’s studies still remains little known and understudied. The colonial tradition of women’s autho…[Read more]
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