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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIn the fall of 1966, Ḥiwār magazine published al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s novel Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl [ Season of Migration to the North ]. Arabic literary critics both hailed the novel in the Arabic press and mourned that it had been published by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom’s Ḥiwār, part of a global covert cultural front of the C…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Dan Connor started the topic Solicite una beca de la Bibliografía Internacional de la MLA in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLa fecha límite de solicitud es el 1 de abril de 2020
La Bibliografía Internacional de la MLA (MLAIB) está aceptando solicitudes para becas de tres años para bibliógrafos externos. Los becarios de la MLAIB sirven como bibliógrafos externos que examinan textos académicos, escriben resúmenes informativos, y entregan citas bibliográficas para ser…[Read more]
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Louise Barrière replied to the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe deadline has been extended! The CfP now runs until March 15th.
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic CFP MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe political realities of former Spanish colonies, such as those in the Maghrib, Equatorial
Guinea, the Philippines and Puerto Rico highlight a simultaneous tension between
neocolonial and decolonial dynamics. Global Hispanophone Studies provides a relational
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic CFP MLA 2021: Scholarship and Activism in the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe political realities of former Spanish colonies, such as those in the Maghrib, Equatorial
Guinea, the Philippines and Puerto Rico highlight a simultaneous tension between
neocolonial and decolonial dynamics. Global Hispanophone Studies provides a relational
framework to understand such dynamics through the critical examination of descriptive…[Read more] -
Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic MLA 2021 Toronto LLC 18th-19thC Forum Session Proposal and Joint Proposal AIG in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMULTICULTURAL IBERIA: 18th/19th-Century Iberian literature and culture in dialogue with plurality and difference. Race, labor and class consciousness, national and/or regional identity, migration, travel, gastronomy or other cultural expressions. 250-word abstract by 3/15 to wolterna@wfu.edu.
Non-Normative Sexual Practices/Sexualities in…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Latest Issue of Decimonónica in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the recent publication of issue 17.1 (Winter 2020) of Decimonónica: Revista de Producción Cultural Hispánica. Its contents are available for free at http://www.decimononica.org/
Saludos,
Luis
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Democratizing the American University,” Inside Higher Ed in the group
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago“Democratizing the American University” argues for a more democratic approach to academic appointments within the US academy.
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Shannan Palma deposited Entitled to a happy ending: Fairy-tale logic from “Beauty and the Beast” to the incel movement in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe author proposes fairy-tale logic as a mode of magical thinking typified by the belief that certain functions, fulfilled correctly and in the right order, lead to predictable outcomes. Mapping similarities in implicit reasoning within “Beauty and the Beast,” the reality television program Beauty and the Geek (2005-08), and the misogynistic nar…[Read more]
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Louise Barrière started the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLGBTI & QUEER ARTS, CULTURES, ACTIVISMS CONFERENCE (Metz, France)
Conference dates: 11th and 12th June 2020
CfP Deadline: 28th February
[Deadline might be subject to extension due to an ongoing strike in French universities. I will inform you if this is the case, but we recommend to get your abstract in as soon as possible in any…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar started the topic New publication in the discussion
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoAlfar, Cristina León “Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 789–819. (Available through ProjectMuse muse.jhu.edu/article/741025.)
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoNumbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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