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Minni Sawhney deposited Religion and Colonialism: Jesuits at Akbar’s Mughal Court in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe reception of Jesuit priests at the the court of Akbar the Mughal emperor of India
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Righting, Riting, and Rewriting the Book of Odes (Shijing): On “Filling out the MIssing Odes” by Shu Xi in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA series of derivative verses from the late-third century has pride of place in one of the foundational collections of Chinese poetry. These verses, “Filling out the Missing Odes” by Shu Xi, can be found at the beginning of the lyric-poetry (shi 詩) section of the Wenxuan. This essay seeks to understand why such blatantly imitative pieces may have…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited The Unreachable Other: The myth of the mestizo in the novels of Carlos Fuentes in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this article I investigate the portrayal role of the Aztecs, indigeneous peoples and movements in the writings of Carlos Fuentes.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Ophelia Unbound in Asian Performances.” Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 37 (2019): 1-12 in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAsian directors leverage Shakespeare’s own propensity to undermine dominant ideologies of gender—notably through the Ophelia figure—in their effort to renew Asian performance traditions. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? How does Ophelia become “unbound” through supraling…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited The Unreachable Other: The myth of the mestizo in the novels of Carlos Fuentes in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this article I investigate the portrayal role of the Aztecs, indigeneous peoples and movements in the writings of Carlos Fuentes.
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Nicole B. Wallack started the topic CFP: Reminder–Edinburgh Companion to the Essay in the discussion
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoCall for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay [Extended Deadline]Overview:
The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay provides an overview of the theories, histories, contexts and forms of the essay as well as of current debates around the genre and its extensions. The co-editors seek brief (300-word) proposals for chapters that p…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Learning to See: Art & Media in Weimar Germany | Fall 2018 in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoA syllabus for an undergraduate course, taught in English, on the visual culture (primarily film, photography, and aesthetic theory) of the Weimar Republic. The course is housed in German Studies and crosslisted with Art History, Cinema, and other departments.
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Learning to See: Art & Media in Weimar Germany | Fall 2018 in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoA syllabus for an undergraduate course, taught in English, on the visual culture (primarily film, photography, and aesthetic theory) of the Weimar Republic. The course is housed in German Studies and crosslisted with Art History, Cinema, and other departments.
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Juliane Braun deposited On the Verge of Fame: The Free People of Color and the French Theatre of Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis essay recovers, describes, and analyzes the theatrical tradition emerging from New Orleans’s free people of color during the antebellum period. I will start out by tracing the presence of free people of color in the francophone theatres of New Orleans, teasing out their impact on the early formations of a francophone theatrical culture in the…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
We have passed peer review. Please consider writing an essay for our text.
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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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Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Narendra Modi’s victory speech delivers visions of a Hindu nationalist ascetic in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIndia’s re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a victory speech that presented himself as a selfless and humble Hindu ascetic. This vision goes far to promote a Hindu nationalist ‘new India.’
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Tom Mazanec deposited Introduction in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIntroduction to “Digital Methods and Traditional Chinese Literary Studies,” a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture.
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Tom Mazanec deposited Networks of Exchange Poetry in Late Medieval China: Notes toward a Dynamic History of Tang Literature in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis article combines qualitative and quantitative methods to rethink the literary history of late medieval China (830–960 CE). It begins with an overview of exchange poetry in the Tang dynasty and its role in the construction of the poetic subject, namely, the poetic subject’s distributed textual body. A total of 10,869 poems exchanged between 2…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Ninety-Nine Problems: Assessment, Inclusion, and Other Old-New Problems in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoDeveloping less burdensome and more equitable ways to support scholarly difference is a preeminent challenge when thinking about the future of assessment and promotion in higher education. At stake in this is the very capacity of institutions to do the work of scholarly inclusion, to recognize the range of approaches well captured in the digital…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited The New Rigor Report in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThe growing accessibility of digital technology has been met with an increased willingness on the part of scholars to integrate new digital methods into their interpretive and presentational practices. At the same time, the academic assessment structures that support scholarly work have not always been able to keep pace, thus making the pursuit of…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) – Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWithin the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) – Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWithin the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[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
TC Postcolonial Studies 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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