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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays (potentially of interest to those working in theatre)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA…[Read more] -
Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945
deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA citation style, to the guest-editor James W. McM…[Read more] -
Jennifer R. Ballengee posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2018. Dangerous Passages (Benjamin 1940/2018).
As is well known, Walter Benjamin undertook a dangerous passage over the Pyrenees, a route taken by many refugees hoping to flee Nazi-occupied France. In the spirit of Walter Benjamin — his work and/or his life — this panel examines dangerous passages of all sorts. Papers might consider…[Read more] -
Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited The Speculative Situation in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.
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Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo started the topic CFP: ACLA 2018. Topographies of narrative empathy: the social and the cognitive in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn recent times, empathy has occupied a privileged status in cross-disciplinary research on human behavior and social interaction. Cognitivists have identified empathy as a key emotion that explains why humans behave pro-socially. There is now evidence to suggest empathy as not only a key ingredient of altruism and cooperation, but also a…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited HUMN 3220: Political & Social History of Music in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAn introduction to music appreciation and history that emphasizes the political, cultural, and social influences on music from antiquity to the 20th century. Contents include sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental, and folk and art music from across the Western world, including modern popular song. No previous musical experience necessary. All…[Read more]
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Tamar Steinitz deposited Back Home: Translation, Conversion and Domestication in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAbstract
The Sudanese-born author Leila Aboulela describes the position of the non-western Anglophone writer as a translator by default, moving ‘back and forth’ between languages and cultures. This essay argues that Aboulela’s novel The Translator (1999) calls into question conceptualizations of translation that grow out of western relig…[Read more] -
André Carrington deposited Mike Brown’s Body: New Materialism and Black Form in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA contribution to the Editors’ Forum on Queer Form, edited by Kadji Amin, Roy Pérez, and Amber Musser, for ASAP/Journal.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Think the academy has its values & incentives all wrong? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
Are you concerned about the growing reliance on quantitative metrics to evaluate research—and people—in the humanities and social sciences? Do you think that current evaluation practices emphasize quantity over quality, discourage collegiality, ignore inclusivity, and overlook the importance of non-traditional forms of rese…[Read more] -
Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAs the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines Flight on April 9th, 2017 by Chicago security police who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth. Some media have treated this as a horror perpetrated by a single airline that bullies passengers, or by a business model…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Book review: Robert Leucht. Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930 Ulrich E. Bach. Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA review of Robert Leucht’s “Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930” (2016) and Ulrich Bach’s “Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire” (2016)
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James Elkins deposited Why Should Novels About Science Be Coy About Including Science (or Mathematics)? On Michele Audin in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited A Misunderstanding of Fiction: Thoughts on William Gibson’s “The Peripheral” in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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Diane Jakacki deposited REED London: Humanistic Roots, Humanistic Futures in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoUsing REED London as a case study of how we, as pre-modern performance and theatre historians, are using digital methods to aggregate its materials, access and analyze a remarkably broad array of archival documents, and amplify their importance to a broader spectrum of humanities scholars and potential collaborators than we cannot have been able…[Read more]
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Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Performance and Orality as Cultural and Pragmatic Strategies in the Musical Performance of 9ice in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoColoniality is a complex heritage encapsulating complex cultural challenges confronting the performance artist. Nigerian musical production appears to have been operating in a world without borders since the advent of colonialism. There have been non-indigenous forms brought into the cultural landscape which have challenged the performers. The…[Read more]
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Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Performance and Orality as Cultural and Pragmatic Strategies in the Musical Performance of 9ice in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoColoniality is a complex heritage encapsulating complex cultural challenges confronting the performance artist. Nigerian musical production appears to have been operating in a world without borders since the advent of colonialism. There have been non-indigenous forms brought into the cultural landscape which have challenged the performers. The…[Read more]
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Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Performance and Orality as Cultural and Pragmatic Strategies in the Musical Performance of 9ice in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoColoniality is a complex heritage encapsulating complex cultural challenges confronting the performance artist. Nigerian musical production appears to have been operating in a world without borders since the advent of colonialism. There have been non-indigenous forms brought into the cultural landscape which have challenged the performers. The…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited Images of Art and Science in Christian Bok’s “Crystallography” in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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James Elkins deposited New Ways of Experimenting with Images in Literature: On Christian Bok’s Xenotext in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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