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Matthew H. Brown started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global So in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoKeynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the possibilities and limitations of combining formal textual analysis with the question of informal…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP- Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, 10/2015 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoDeadline extended to JULY 12, 2015.
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Alexander Gil deposited Migrant Textuality: On the fields of Aimé Césaire's Et les chiens se taisaient in the group
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoWith the discovery of the earliest known manuscript version of Et les chiens se taisaient, we learn that Césaire had started thinking about the theater earlier than had been assumed, and most important, that he had originally envisioned this work as a historical drama based on the Haitian Revolution. “Migrant Textuality” explores the several vers…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, 10/2015 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes,uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
Deadline: June 12,…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.
The…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoGay black representations of the phallus subvert recognizable images of the gay/black phallus, and they draw on a tradition, however brief, of writers who have also possessed and spoken from the gay/black phallus. In thus circumventing symbolic castration,
Saint’s progeny effectively engage in a tentative yet decidedly agentive elaboration of gay…[Read more] -
Nicky Agate started the topic New resource for alternative careers in the humanities in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoI invite members of this group who might be interested in exploring careers beyond university teaching to explore our new site for the Connected Academics initiative. Content—interviews, advice, resources—will updated regularly, but please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see up there.
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Doug Steward deposited THE ILLUSIONS OF PHALLIC AGENCY Invisible Man, Totem and Taboo, and the Santa Claus Surprise in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoFor the narrator of Invisible Man, the abjection of women and homosexuals operates at first as a discursive strategy for making the black male’s position more subjectively endurable, but the narrator must eventually confront this discursive strategy as an illusion of hetero-phallic agency, since he continually fails to acquire the sorts of i…[Read more]
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: Elizabeth Keckley Reader in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoProposals are invited for A Determined Life: The Elizabeth Keckley Reader edited by Sheila Smith McKoy. The reader seeks to present a comprehensive view of Keckley’s remarkable life. Much like Keckley herself, the reader will be multi-faceted in its approach, examining her life through a variety of lenses. We are seeking essays, drama, fi…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic CFP – MLA book on Miguel de Unamuno in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno, which I am editing, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoPlease attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, for your classes. Help your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future.
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Katherine Kim replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoDear Members of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics…[Read more]
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Katherine Kim replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoDear Members of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic FYI: Beyond the Professoriate: A Virtual Conference for PhDs in Career Transiti in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoFYI, please feel free to post and/or circulate the announcement.
Regards,
Suha
—Beyond the Professoriate: A Virtual Conference for PhDs in Career Transition
Hosted by Maren Wood (Lilli Research Group) and Jennifer Polk (From PhD to Life)
May 2 and 9, 2015
Attend one day: US $25
Attend two days: US $39
Register at:…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoToni Morrison CFP
We are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While…[Read more]
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Peter Leman started the topic CFP: Legal and Literary Persons (2016 MLA) in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Members of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society discussion group,
I am organizing a special session on literary and legal approaches to personhood for the 2016 MLA in Austin. Please consider submitting an abstract, due March 15. Below are the full CFP and a more detailed description. The CFP can also be found here:…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher started the topic CFP: MLA 2016 Austin: Word Books and Material Culture in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWord Books and Material Culture
Sponsored by the new Theory and Method forum Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography (formerly known as the Lexicography Discussion Group).
ABCs, dictionaries, spellers, synonymies, thesauruses: what is the life of a word book? What stories do word books tell? Please submit 250 word abstracts by the deadline.…[Read more]
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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Teaching Memory Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Members of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society group,
<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:
Teaching Memory Studies
Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective pract…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP – MLA 2016: Literature and the Public Sphere in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years ago“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”
The focus of this session is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that engages public events/ideas/issues, as well as exploring the ways lit…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE TITLE:
BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA
Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION
Sponsored by:
Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University
Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University
Indigenous studies Working Group…[Read more]
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