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Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]
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Andrea R. Malone replied to the topic CFP for MLA Convention 2024 in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoTo clarify, this session is sponsored by the Libraries and Research Forum.
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Andrea R. Malone replied to the topic CFP for MLA Convention 2024 in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoTo clarify, this session is sponsored by the Libraries and Research forum.
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited “Woman, Why Weepest Thou?” Re-Visioning the Golden Age Magdalen in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis article examines Mary Magdalene’s biblical identity and poetic representation in selected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish texts. An alternative reading or “re-visioning” (Adrienne Rich’s term) of the narratives that tell her story reclaims her figure from masculinist characterizations of Mary Magdalene that have made an enduring…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 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]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Pauline Viardot García (1821-1910), una compositora en la Europa del siglo XIX (1821-1910) in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoArticle about the composer Pauline Viardot
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited De nuevo, sobre la “literariedad” de Teresa de Jesús in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis article examines two important texts of Teresa de Jesús, El Libro de la vida and Las moradas del castillo interior, to take a new look at an old debate about whether Santa Teresa’s written expression is “spontaneous” or whether it is in fact more literary. Dr. Davis arrives at the conclusion that the writer’s works are both more indebted to…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर से संबंधित परंपराओं और आंदोलन के निहितार्थ in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoमहिषासुर आंदोलन के इस कदर अचानक फैल जाने का एक बड़ा कारण था कि बहुजन समाज में इन परंपराओं की जड़ें बहुत गहरी रही हैं और इनका प्रसार उसके अवचेतन तक रहा है। इन समुदायों से आने वाले फुले, आंबेडकर, पेरियार समेत सभी चिंतकों ने असुर-संस्कृति की न सिर्फ विस्तृत गवेषणा की है, बल्कि अगर आप ध्यान से देखें तो पाएंगे कि यही उनकी वैचारिकी का प्रस्थान…[Read more]
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Christopher Griffin deposited Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoThe pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited यवन की परी (जन विकल्प कविता पुस्तिका) in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years agoयह कविता पुस्तिका पटना से प्रकाशित मासिक पत्रिका ‘जन विकल्प’ के प्रवेशांक (जनवरी, 2007) के साथ नि:शुल्क वितरित की गई थी।
जन विकल्प का प्रकाशन पटना से जनवरी, 2007 से दिसंबर, 2007 तक हुआ।पत्रिका के संपादक प्रेमकुमार और प्रमोद रंजन थे।उपरोक्त इस कविता-पुस्तिका की भूमिका रति सक्सेना लिखी है, जो निम्नांकित है : “पेरिया परसिया, सेता…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Feminismo del fin in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis is a prologue to the Spanish translation of Joanna Zylinska’s The End of Man. A Feminist Counter-Apocalypse (2019).
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Habiba Ibrahim started the topic Self-Nominations & Suggestions | TC Race & Ethnicity Studies Forum EC in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoEvery year, Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. This year, the Race and Ethnicity Studies Forum executive committee seeks self-nominations and suggestions for a new committee member from our membership so as to allow for broad participation. Our hope is that broad participation will ensure diversity of…[Read more]
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Sebastian Lecourt started the topic Self-Nominations for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoAs the outgoing chair of TC Anthropology and Literature, I would like to invite the membership to offer self-nominations for the Forum’s Executive Committee. Following recent reforms, new EC members are now nominated instead of elected, but suggestions may still be solicited from the membership. Please submit self-nominations to me at…[Read more]
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Karin E. Westman uploaded the file: MLA Sessions 2004-2023 to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoAn archive document listing MLA sessions in children’s / YA literature, 2004-2023.
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Karin E. Westman uploaded the file: MLA Sessions 1980-2003 to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoAn archive document listing MLA sessions in children’s / YA literature, 1980-2003.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited जाति व्यवस्था और पितृसत्ता: पेरियार ई. वी. रामासामी in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoजाति और पितृसत्ता ई. वी. रामासामी नायकर के चिंतन, लेखन और संघर्षों की केंद्रीय धुरी रही है। उनकी दृढ़ मान्यता थी कि इन दोनों के विनाश के बिना किसी आधुनिक समाज का निर्माण नहीं किया जा सकता है।
जाति और पितृसत्ता के संबंध में पेरियार क्या सोचते थे और क्यों वे इसके विनाश को आधुनिक भारत के निर्माण के लिए अपरिहार्य एवं अनिवार्य मानते थे? इन प्रश्नों…[Read more] -
Karin E. Westman started the topic Updates from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoGreetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!
Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 5-8). At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2024 in Philadelphia (Jan 4-7).
So we can ensure representation…[Read more]
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