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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic Special Issue Journal Spanish Cultural Studies Entering the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoNew double special issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Vol 20 Issues 1-2 (May 2019) entitled “Entering the Global Hispanophone”, edited by Benita Sampedro Vizcaya and Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, and with contributions by Alberto López Martín, Eric Calderwood, Paula C. Park, Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger, Inés Plasencia Camps, Balta…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWe have passed peer review. Theory will be important in this text. We are looking for essays involving literature viewed through class theory. Let us see what you have!
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWe have passed the peer review stage so please consider writing an essay for this companion text.
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Tom White deposited The Future Demands Work: William Morris’s utopian medievalism in an age of precarity, flexibility, and automation in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIMC paper for panel 374 Medieval Futura 1: Now, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington and organised by Dr Andrea Whitacre.
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Tom White deposited The Future Demands Work: William Morris’s utopian medievalism in an age of precarity, flexibility, and automation in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIMC paper for panel 374 Medieval Futura 1: Now, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington and organised by Dr Andrea Whitacre.
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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThe problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic CFP (SAMLA 2019): Ideologies of Empire in Spanish Culture in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues:
Please consider responding to the following call for papers, which refers to a special session to be held at the 2019 SAMLA conference (Atlanta, November 15-17).
Thank you,
Luis
IDEOLOGIES OF EMPIRE IN SPANISH CULTURE (19TH THROUGH 21ST CENTURIES)
Amidst the current electoral processes, the political discourse practiced in…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoSepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoWe are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more] -
Sara Zadrozny deposited Women’s Ageing as Disease in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoIn the medical humanities, there has been a growing interest in diagnosing disease in fictional characters, particularly with the idea that characters in Charles Dickens’s novels may be suffering from diseases recognised today. However, an area that deserves greater attention is the representation of women’s ageing as disease in Victorian lit…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic CIRGEN and Marie Slodowska-Curie Actions-Individual Fellowships in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the expression of interest launched by our project CIRGEN: Circulating Gender in the Global Enlightenment. Ideas, Networks, Agencies (ERC Advanced Grant 7897015, https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcirgen.eu&data=02%7C01%7Ccj10%40txstate.edu%7C6aac4c160afb44aeb7b808d6c5b7…[Read more]
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Renata Kobetts Miller deposited Practical Advice and Institutional Supports for the Parenting Professoriate in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSlides from Renata Kobetts Miller’s (City College of New York) presentation as part of the panel on “The Problems and Possibilities of Parenting in the Academy.”
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Jean Dangler started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Spanish Literatures and Cultures in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoPlease encourage your graduate students and others to apply for our newly created position in Modern Spanish Literatures and Cultures: apply.interfolio.com/62058. We are interested in applicants whose work takes up the literary and cultural connections between Spain and North Africa.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Spanish Literatures and…[Read more]
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Jesse Miller deposited Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke’s Modernist Equipment for Living in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the relationship between modernist formal experimentation and rehabilitative futurism, the modern cultural fantasy of a hygienic future in which all illness and disability have been eradicated. Through a reading of Kenneth Burke’s early essay collection Counter-Statement (1931) and his first and only novel, Towards a Better…[Read more]
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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Omer Aijazi deposited Religion in Spaces of Social Disruption: Re-Reading the Public Transcript of Disaster Relief in Pakistan in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis paper explores how everyday religious narratives in post-disaster contexts can be interpreted as key sites of agency articulated in resistance to dominant discourses of disaster relief. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among affected communities after the 2010 floods in Pakistan, we argue that religious discourses code everyday actions with…[Read more]
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Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Proposal Deadline Extended to April 1: Contemporary Women's Writing Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers
The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association invites submissions for 20-minute presentations that examine how conte…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic New Special Issue – Abriu: Estudos de Textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
The latest special issue of Abriu, “Glocal Galicia: Redefining Galician Culture in the Global Age,” edited by José Colmeiro, is now available online.
The issue’s contents are listed here, but full-text versions of the articles can be found at the journal’s website: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Abriu/issue/view/2109
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Alice Rachel Ridout replied to the topic Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference CFP in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThank you for posting! My MLA membership renewal had not processed in time for me to post. Expressions of interest with late proposal to follow will be considered.
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