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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 – Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American 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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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoRitual and Representation in East Asian Literature We are inviting proposals for papers featuring ritual as a theme or structuring device in East Asian (including diasporic) literature in relation to belief, kinship, and/or community. This will be a collaborative session between the TC Anthropology and Literature and TC Religion and Literature…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Afro-Diasporic Afterlives & Archipelagos Across the Global Hispano in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years agoWe invite 250-word abstracts for papers that examine the legacies, archives, and memories of slavery and Afro-diasporic afterlives across the global Hispanophone and archipelagic Mediterranean, Pacific, and Atlantic worlds. The panel also seeks to establish connections between these different regions and/or follow the moment of racialized actors…[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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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] -
Lisa Nalbone started the topic 1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 5 years agoYou are cordially invited to attend the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies“, January 28 (7:00pm) to January 30 (5:00pm), hosted by the University of Tampa, themed “Envisaging José Martí in 2021: History, Culture and Education“. Program and registration appear: 1st Biannual Conference Registration | University of Tampa (ut.edu)
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Lisa Nalbone posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoAnnouncing the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate” Jan. 28-30, 2021. For more information, please visit: https://www.ut.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-letters/center-for-jos%C3%A9-mart%C3%AD-studies-affiliate/1st-biannual-conference-registration
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Jervette Ward started the topic 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels in the discussion
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe attached documents provide a list with links to the 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels.
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Li Guo started the topic Invitation to LLC Ming Qing Chinese Social Event, Session 11077 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoInvitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST
Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077
Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,
Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.
Forum members:…[Read more]
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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