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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Dan Connor started the topic Solicite una beca de la Bibliografía Internacional de la MLA in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLa fecha límite de solicitud es el 1 de abril de 2020
La Bibliografía Internacional de la MLA (MLAIB) está aceptando solicitudes para becas de tres años para bibliógrafos externos. Los becarios de la MLAIB sirven como bibliógrafos externos que examinan textos académicos, escriben resúmenes informativos, y entregan citas bibliográficas para ser…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic CFP MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe political realities of former Spanish colonies, such as those in the Maghrib, Equatorial
Guinea, the Philippines and Puerto Rico highlight a simultaneous tension between
neocolonial and decolonial dynamics. Global Hispanophone Studies provides a relational
framework to understand such dynamics through the critical examination of…[Read more] -
Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic MLA 2021 Toronto LLC 18th-19thC Forum Session Proposal and Joint Proposal AIG in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMULTICULTURAL IBERIA: 18th/19th-Century Iberian literature and culture in dialogue with plurality and difference. Race, labor and class consciousness, national and/or regional identity, migration, travel, gastronomy or other cultural expressions. 250-word abstract by 3/15 to wolterna@wfu.edu.
Non-Normative Sexual Practices/Sexualities in…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?”: The 1923 Text in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of the 1923 state of Hemingway’s In Our Time is the first of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” in The Little Review, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Latest Issue of Decimonónica in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the recent publication of issue 17.1 (Winter 2020) of Decimonónica: Revista de Producción Cultural Hispánica. Its contents are available for free at http://www.decimononica.org/
Saludos,
Luis
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Julia Elsky started the topic CFP – Romanian Forum panel on Eugene Ionesco in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThe Romanian Forum of the MLA invites proposals for presentations on its guaranteed panel at the 2021 Convention of the Modern Language Association (Toronto, January 7-10, 2021):
Eugène Ionesco’s Theater of Language
The year 2021 will mark the seventieth anniversary of the first performance of Eugène Ionesco’s classic work of the Theater of th…[Read more]
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Ben Streeter deposited Reparation in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoW. G. Sebald and Patrick Modiano are two contemporary authors who share similar themes and literary practices. They are both fastidiously or even obsessively historical in their narrative development. And they seem preoccupied with the sins of World War II. Critics have divided feelings about their accomplishments. Skeptics say their trauma…[Read more]
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Caroline Winter deposited The Future is Meta: Five Revolutionary Ideas for Cataloguing and Metadata in Libraries and Archives in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoA job talk given as part of an interview for a faculty librarian position
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Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere. I too am looking forward to more information!
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Beth Widmaier Capo replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis sounds fantastic. Do you have instructions (deadline, length, address) for abstract submissions?
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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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Benjamin Mangrum started the topic MLA 2021 Panel for CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century forum in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century forum is sponsoring a panel on “Comparative Environmentalisms” at the MLA 2021 conference in Toronto. CFP is below:
Comparative Environmentalisms
This panel explores environmentalisms across linguistic, indigenous, and national frameworks. Challenges to the idea of “environmentalism” are welcome. Abstracts of 2…[Read more]
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [remarks] in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoSince the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[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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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [slides] in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoSince the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]
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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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