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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoVisual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts ” seminar of the 2016 American Comparative Literature…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoHello!
In September, the Commons Wire, your monthly guide to how your fellow members are using the platform, will return from its summer hiatus with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a new position, or received a promotion, please let me know by e-mail or by pr…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Laura J. Beard started the topic Deadline extended CFP Special Issue of a/b in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for papers:
Special Issue of Indigenous Autobiographical Works in the Americas
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/raut
NEW DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Diana Taylor has referred to a shared hemispheric reality of “tangled systems of expression, representation, and economic and power relat…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited The correspondence of the arts in a Fin de Siècle Magazine. The “Livre d’Art” at the crossroads of Modernism in the group
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe main topic of this article is the history of a rare and precious French magazine of the late Nineteenth century, in which a vivid and crucial discussion about arts and their inter-relation grew the more and more intense in the short space of four years (1892-1896). The “Livre d’Art” was first conceived as a simple booklet to be distr…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality in the Global South, Madison, WI in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016Keynote 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…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic CFP: Special Issue on Early Film in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoEarly film provides a wealth of information about Victorian performance practices, and Victorian theatre greatly influenced the development of film. Both points have been well documented by David Mayer, among others, as exciting new work continues to demonstrate. But there is much more to be learned and said about the reciprocal relationship b…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Introductions—and Syllabus Exchange in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHello all,
This forum has almost 750 members, so I would like to invite you all to introduce yourselves! And if it is not too painful to think about the fall semester yet, I’d encourage you to use the group as a locus of information exchange and syllabus brainstorming. If you’d like to share your syllabus while retaining copyright, you can…[Read more]
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Patrick Walsh replied to the topic CFP: Urban Drama, Urban Theater (NEASECS Conference Panel, Oct. 8-10, 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoPlease note: The deadline for submissions to this panel has been extended to June 29, 2015.
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP: Shaw in New York (October 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoShaw in New York (October 16-19, 2015)
Sponsored by Fordham University at Lincoln Center, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and The International Shaw Society
Paper proposal deadline: July 1
The conference organizers invite papers focused on any aspect of Bernard Shaw’s relationship to New York: productions…[Read more]
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Patrick Walsh started the topic CFP: Urban Drama, Urban Theater (NEASECS Conference Panel, Oct. 8-10, 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS)
Annual Conference 2015 “Texts and the City”
Hosted by Trinity College
Hartford, CT, USA, October 8-10, 2015Panel: Urban Drama, Urban Theater
In the thought and literature of the eighteenth century, the theater often features as a distinctly urban space, one…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Nancy Bogen replied to the topic slide-choreographies of poems in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThank you, Marisa!
Please continue to pass the word along re my work.
Nancy
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Marisa Verna replied to the topic slide-choreographies of poems in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear Nancy
it really doesn’t look like you’re old… You bring the youth of poetry in any spectator-listener. I enjoyed everything of your slides-poems that translate them (poems) in a new language without losing their sense/meaning
thank you so much
Marisa Verna
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: HIV/AIDS: A Contemporary Comparison of Culture, People and Survival in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThe HIV/AIDS epidemic has impacted human life in ways that no other disease has in human history. The reasons for this impact are numerous and discouraging. The virus is spread through the intimate contact that defines itself. There is no cure for it. There is no vaccine. In fact, even the thought of human trials to test the efficacy of va…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Call for essays – MLA volume on Miguel de Unamuno in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno 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 their experiences.…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic CFEssays – MLA Volume on Miguel de Unamuno in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature 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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Carlos Vargas-Salgado started the topic Congreso Melgar y la Independencia, Arequipa, Perú, agosto de 2015 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCONGRESO INTERNACIONAL “MARIANO MELGAR, 200 AÑOS: POESÍA E INDEPENDENCIA”
PRIMERA CIRCULAR (para los interesados en Mariano Melgar, el bicentenario de las independencias y el romanticismo en general)
La Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas (AIP), la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL), el Municipio de Mariano Melgar, Arequip…[Read more]
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Douglas Kristopher Smith started the topic Deadline extended – CALACS 2015 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago***The Congress submissions deadline has been extended to March 30***
***La date limite pour les soumissions de propositions au Congrès a été repoussée jusqu’au 30 mars***
***Se extendió el plazo de entrega de propuestas para el Congreso hasta el 30 de marzo***
*** O prazo de envio de propostas para o Congresso foi estendido até o 30 de março**…[Read more] - Load More
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