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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Leaving Home, November 3-4 2022 (NYU) in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoMedieval and Renaissance Center
New York UniversityAnnual Conference
November 3-4 2022Leaving Home
Keynote speakers
Daniel Jütte, NYU Department of History
Olenka Pevny: Cambridge University Faculty of Modern & Medieval LanguagesCall for papers: NYU’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for papers for its annual conference to…[Read more]
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Anita Savo started the topic CFP for New England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoNew England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies
October 8, 2022
Colby College
Waterville, METhis conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern ecologies and their literary historical representations, as well as their material…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Medieval Rebellion and Modern Insurrectionism in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoPaul Megna’s paper for the Middle English Forum at MLA 2022 invoked a Public Books piece by Irina Dumitrescu in order to prompt contemporary medievalists to ponder the events of 1/6/2021. How might 1/6/2021 cause us to reconsider the scholarly lenses through which we have typically interpreted the events of Rising of 1381 and their literary ma…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoMedieval studies is in a moment in which it is re-examining the long-held categories that have traditionally defined its boundaries. As this reconceptualization of the field progresses, Trans Studies offers a number of scholarly methodologies and insights that are changing the way medievalists consider their field and, more specifically, Trans…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Cultures in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis session seeks to build upon the growing appreciation for the complex and multifarious discursive engagements between late medieval English literary texts and Islamicate or Persianate culture, society, language, or literature. Recognizing that such engagements include much more than direct literary representations of the individual Islamicate…[Read more]
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Matthew Giancarlo started the topic Language Theory Session CFP topics posted for MLA 2023: invitation to submit in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMembers of the Language Theory group,
The Call for Papers topics for the 2023 MLA Annual Convention have been posted here: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Session13763.html
Please consider submitting a paper proposal for one of the topics, and please circulate them to interested colleagues!
The deadline for submissions is…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]
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Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]
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Carissa Harris started the topic MLA 2023 CFPs! in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Chaucer Forum warmly invites submissions for our MLA 2023 (San Francisco, January 5-8) sessions:
Chaucer’s Ornamentalism and Gimmickry
This roundtable session brings Anne Anlin Cheng’s concept of ornamentalism and Sianne Ngai’s work on the gimmick into conversation with Chaucer’s work. For instance, in The Squire’s Tale, Canacee’s…[Read more]
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Noah Guynn started the topic Medieval French CFP, MLA 2023: Feminist/Queer Reading in Honor of Simon Gaunt in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 4 years agoNew Directions in Feminist and Queer Readings of Medieval French Literature: a Session in Honor of Simon Gaunt
Simon Gaunt’s research interests were remarkably varied: from Romance philology to psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, and beyond. This panel honors one important part of his legacy: his groundbreaking feminist and queer readings of m…[Read more]
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Noah Guynn started the topic Medieval French CFP, MLA 2023: Fictions of the Sacred in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe omnipresence of religious rhetoric in medieval French culture is among the most salient and often among the most alienating cultural juggernauts faced by students and scholars alike. Yet, sacred biography–hagiographical, Marian, and Christological–has not fully found its place in the discipline of medieval French studies. As a corpus at onc…[Read more]
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