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Darren J. Borg started the topic CFP: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoWhat is a life worth living?Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of prolonging it, whether artificially or by providing warnings against our current behavior in order to preserve the life that already exists. The fact that death and…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoThis chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]
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Nesrine Chahine started the topic Nominations for CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are seeking nominations for the Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum at the MLA. We are also seeking nominations for a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly on behalf of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum. Both appointments would begin after the MLA Convention in 2024. Please email all nominations…[Read more]
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Anna Ziajka Stanton started the topic Seeking Nominees for Executive Committee + Delegate Assembly Rep (CLCS GAAM) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are seeking nominations for the Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum at the MLA. We are also seeking nominations for a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly on behalf of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum. Both appointments would begin after the MLA Convention in 2024. Please email all nominations…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘It was the best butter’: Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years agoSeries of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]
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Laura Helton started the topic MLA panels sponsored by the Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoFor those attending MLA in San Francisco in January, please join us for two sessions sponsored by the Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum:
Collaborative Work in Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Friday, January 6, 10:15-11:30, Moscone West 3006
Marissa Nicosia, Presiding
Panelists: Filipa Calado, Daniela D’Eugenio, Kara Flynn, Juniper…[Read more]
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Laura Helton started the topic Nominations for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum Exec Committee in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
The Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum is seeking self-nominations for a new member of the forum’s executive committee, to serve a five-year term starting in January 2024. The executive committee organizes at least one MLA conference session each year and nominates a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. If you’re int…[Read more]
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John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoBased in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]
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John Gruesser deposited Poe’s Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in “Hop-Frog” in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAs I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]
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Asha Nadkarni started the topic CFP: MELUS 2023 in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues and friends,
On behalf of Butler University, which is sponsoring the MELUS 2023 conference in Indianapolis, April 20-23, 2023, we’d like to reach out and invite you to send a proposal for the upcoming conference and announce our extended deadline of November 30th. We encourage individual, panel, and/or roundtable proposals. Please…[Read more] -
Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoWhat follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoWhat follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe Research Society for Victorian Periodicals should work to protect multiple runs of actual Victorian periodicals, which are potentially at risk in “collective collections” organized by academic libraries.
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Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoAbstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.
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Esha Sil started the topic ‘Creole Indias, Creolising Pondicherry’: New Article in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoDear all
It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of the article, ‘Creole Indias, Creolising Pondicherry’, authored by Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir (Department of English, King’s College, London). The essay develops her theory of littoral enclaves, archipelagic theory, and creolisation in India, via Pondicherry, and has a…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoJohannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoJohannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]
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Esha Sil started the topic Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture 2022: Paul Gilroy in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThe School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA) is delighted to announce that this year’s Annual Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Paul Gilroy.
Date: Thursday 9th June 2022Time: 17:30-19:00, followed by a drinks reception
Location: Lecture Theatre 1
Paul was the recipient of the 2019 H…[Read more]
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