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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narratiion in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contempora…[Read more]
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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic Fellowships — Rachel Carson Center in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoHi Nicole:
Thank you for the information regarding the Rachel Carson Center fellowships; though I’ll be waiting to apply when I’ve completed my doctorate, I’ll save the site and the information for future reference.
Victor Ochoa
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Joela Jacobs replied to the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDeadline Extended to Dec 10th.
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Joela Jacobs replied to the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDeadline extended to Dec 10!
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David Palumbo-Liu deposited Open Letter to MLA Members: Why Think About Palestine Now? in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoAn argument for more, not less, attention to issues of Palestine, and beyond.
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP: Contemporary Iberian Ecocriticism and New Materialisms in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers: 2017 Special Section of Letras Hispanas on
“Contemporary Iberian Ecocriticism and New Materialisms”
Editor: Luis I. Prádanos, Miami University
Deadline: June 1, 2017
The global proliferation of ecocriticism and environmental humanities is significantly enriching the depth and scope of literary and cultural studies worl…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) o…[Read more] -
Gulsah Gocmen deposited Modernist Resilience at the End of the World(s) in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers for the Panel at the 2017 Biennial ASLE Conference, Detroit, MI
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Barbara J. Eckstein deposited Carbon and Conferences (Again): The Austin MLA in the Flood of 2016 in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Carbon and Conferences (Again)” offers one person’s experience of trying to get to the Austin MLA conference by a means other than airplanes. It asks fellow MLA members for more collective, mindful attention to the carbon footprint of the conference generally. While acknowledging the intellectual and personal joy in face to face encounters, it…[Read more]
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Laura Barbas Rhoden deposited Activismo medioambiental multimodal en el Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica: medios digitales, patrimonio biocultural y de-colonialidad in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSumilla:
El presente trabajo se plantea en función de la consideración de una nueva forma de organización, formación y comunicación ciudadana que se ha movilizado en defensa del patrimonio biocultural en el Triángulo norte de América Central: la creación y el uso de espacios digitales como parte de un activismo medioambiental multimodal. En mano…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we are seeking hosts for a panel on Bust belt Literature at the next NLA national convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary resp…[Read more]
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Amanda Starling Gould deposited Restor(y)ing the Ground: Digital Environmental Media Studies in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThis article presents a digital environmental media studies (DEMS) framework that shifts the primary focus of digital media study from one grounded in computation to one fully rooted in the earth. DEMS proposes a relational, metabolic ontology wherein popular media theory terms like atmospheric media, elemental media, cyborg, and digital labor are…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic Reminder: MLA teaching volume on Yamashita in the discussion
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoPlease complete the survey and propose an essay (submit an abstract) by 1 June 2016 at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/mlasurvey_yamashita. The co-editors enthusiastically welcome all input: from those who have taught a single work by Yamashita only once to those who have regularly taught her works over several years. <u>We want to hear from schol…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Emily Hegarty started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Teaching Eco-composition at the Community College in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session (to be proposed)
Teaching first-year writing to community college students through an ecocritical lens: interdisciplinary aspects, nature writing, journaling, environmental research, field trips, service learning, etc. 300-500 word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Emily A. Hegarty (emily.hegarty@ncc.edu). -
Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita: Survey and CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen deposited Midhumanism in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agocontribution to roundtable on “Becoming Human” co-sponsored by the Middle English and Chaucer forums
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Serpil Oppermann started the topic EASLCE: 7th Biennial Conference "Wildness without Wilderness" in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years ago“Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability
The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE): 7th Biennial Conference (Brussels, Belgium— from 27 to 30 October 2016)
Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and its Department of Languages and Literatures, in associ…[Read more]
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Stephanie LeMenager started the topic Ecomedia Roundtable for 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Forum Members,
Please check out our CFP for the sponsored Forum for 2017!!! The topic, “Ecomedia,” reflects your requests from last year.
Looking forward to seeing your abstracts!
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