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Shannon Herbert started the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoIn 2017, when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to use the hashtag #metoo if they’d ever “been sexually harassed or assaulted” social media feeds were suddenly flooded with the phrase. People were quick to point out that #metoo did not originate with Milano, but with Tarana Burke, a social worker and activist who proposed the phrase in 2006. Since…[Read more]
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Isabel Jaén-Portillo replied to the topic Award-Winning Filmmaker Almudena Carracedo participating tonight in Session 178 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear all,
I am attaching a coupon to obtain Almudena Carracedo’s film The Silence of Others with a MLA discount.
Best regards,
Isabel
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Francesco Ardolino deposited ‘Our environment is modernising’ in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years agoA Joan Maragall Dictionary should be written. It would contain a relatively limited number of lexemes—Fifty? Sixty?—and, in the first place, the approaches that the author himself had made to those words should be added, despite being contradictory….
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Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Award-Winning Filmmaker Almudena Carracedo participating tonight in Session 178 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear colleagues,
Just a quick reminder that Spanish film director Almudena Carracedo, 2019 Goya winner for Best Documentary Feature, will be participating tonight Thursday, 9 January 2020 in Session 178 The Silence of Others and the Fight for the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain.
Here is the link to her award-winning film https://thesilence…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic LLC 18th-19th Century Spanish and Iberian MLA 2020 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years ago265 Visualizing Catalunya
Forum: LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian & LLC Catalan Studies
Friday, January 10, 202010:15 AM – 11:30 AMWSCC, 201
Presider: Leigh Mercer, University of Washington, Seattle
Presentations:
Nick Wolters, Wake Forest University, “The Catalan Cut: Tailoring Bourgeois Identities in Nineteenth-Century B…[Read more]
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Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Affective Appr. to the Study of Contemp. Spanish LGBTQI Culture – Schedule MLA in the discussion
21st Century Hybrid Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.
Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of t…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited How Poetry Became Meditation in Late-Ninth-Century China in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoIn late-ninth-century China, poetry and meditation became equated — not just metaphorically, but as two equally valid means of achieving stillness and insight. This article discusses how several strands in literary and Buddhist discourses fed into an assertion about such a unity by the poet-monk Qiji 齊己 (864–937?). One strand was the aesthet…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
<a title=”Original URL:
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic Convocatoria Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoConvocatorias https://www.madrid-ias.eu/es/convocatoria/convocatorias/novedad/nuevas-convocatorias-del-mias/
El MIAS invita a investigadores de todas las nacionalidades. Admitido en abril de 2019 como miembro de pleno derecho de la prestigiosa red NetIAS (Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study), el MIAS tiene como objetivo reforzar e…[Read more]
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Nicolás Fernández-Medina started the topic Candidate Introduction for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoEstimados/as colegas,
I hope all is well! I will be running for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum executive committee. With the voting period right around the corner, I wanted to introduce myself briefly.
I am Associate Professor of Spanish and Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. My training is in Spanish literature…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic University of Florida – Spanish Graduate Program in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
The Spanish graduate program at the University of Florida is accepting applications for the MA and PhD degrees in either Spanish Literatures and Cultures or Hispanic Linguistics. Please circulate the attached flyer among any interested parties.
Inquiries can be addressed to: grad-coord@spanish.ufl.edu
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP •• Edited Collection •• The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume *The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830* and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*Call for Proposals*
*The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830*
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Commemoration: The Cultural Politics of Locating Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare.” Asian Theatre Journal 36.2 (Fall 2019): 275-280 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCultural memory is actively constructed through embodied and political performances. Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare, two “national poets” of unequal global stature, have recently become vehicles for British and Chinese cultural diplomacy and exchange during their quatercentenary in 2016. The culture of commemoration is a key factor in Tang’s…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon deposited Introduction to Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIntroduction to four poems written by Langston Hughes during the Spanish Civil War, published in the Little-Known Documents section of PMLA.
The introduction alongside the text of the four poems can be found on the PMLA’s site: https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.562.
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Colleen M. Ryan started the topic Colleen Ryan – Candidate for Upcoming Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoFellow Colleagues of Italian/ Italian American / Italian Diaspora Studies ,
My name is Colleen Ryan. I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University and currently serve as Secretary of the Italian American Studies Association. It is an honor for me to be a nominee to represent the MLA’s Italian American forum as an executive committee me…[Read more]
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Kathi Inman Berens deposited Introduction: “What Is Creative Making As Creative Writing?” in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis special issue of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies centers on how creative writing changes when writers actively engage computers as nonhuman collaborators in “creative making.” Using examples from McGurl’s The Program Era, Emily Dickinson, and the crowdsourced “translation” of Melville’s classic into Emoji Dick, Berens suggests th…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “King Lear on the small screen and its pedagogical implications,” in Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear, ed. Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAs a work that survives and appears in more than one form, King Lear has a vexing problem of interpretation and a rich opportunity for the study of textual and cultural variants. The play begins with an aging monarch staging a fantastical, paradoxical final act as a king. It lures us toward a final act of interpretation to nail down the nature of…[Read more]
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