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Carrie Johnston deposited MLA 2016: The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market” is an MLA 2016 special session in which panelists consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students and contingent and full-time faculty members into an already overcrowded job market. Instead of providing advice about getting a job, participants evaluate that advice and gen…[Read more]
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Roland Greene deposited Interamerican Obversals: Haroldo de Campos and Allen Ginsberg Circa 1960 in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis essay compares two mid-twentieth century poets of the Americas, Allen Ginsberg and Haroldo de Campos, in view of how their work circa 1960 intersects despite the differences in their poetics. It introduces the notion of the obversal, or the identity among poems through a common history.
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James Gifford deposited Productive Disappointment: The Modern University and Authority in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe “modern university” is the social institution that has grown beyond the confines of brick and mortar to become a certifying body granting approval to those subjects who pass through its machinery, typically operating under the regulation and supervision of a government-sanctioned system of formalized accreditation. The modern university is ine…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Awards Announcement — Ralph Waldo Emerson Society in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2016
<div class=”column”>The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2016) or the…[Read more] -
Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Deadline fast approaching for travel grants in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPart-time faculty and other contingent faculty are eligible for travel grants to attend the convention in Austin.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New documentary release yesterday! in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoFreeway Fliers can be found here. It contains very interesting observations, including a point about the tenure process now being very much complicit in the de-radicalization of the professoriate!
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Catherine Young deposited 'A Very Good Act for an Unimportant Place': Animals, Ambivalence and Abuse in Big-Time Vaudeville" in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAt the height of their popularity, performing animals appeared in over half of all big-time vaudeville bills and were highly significant to its business model. They were booked to draw children and their mothers to matinee performances and, as consistent sources of novelty, to create crucial word-of-mouth interest in the bill’s weekly line-up. V…[Read more]
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Eponymous Écriture and the Poetics of Reading a Transnational Epic in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe article enacts the essay as the mainstay of scholarly discourse in a knowledgeable community. It deals with (con)textualized readings of poetry (or literature) mainly through the medium of translation as an important intercultural phenomenon involving poetics, episteme, borders.
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Elizabeth Swanstrom started the topic CFP "Small Screen Fictions" in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoParadoxa, Issue in Preparation
Volume 29, “Small Screen Fictions”
Anticipated publication date: December, 2017
Editors:
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales)
Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland)
Lisa Swanstrom (Florida-Atlantic, Boca Raton, Florida, USA)In the last few decades, digital technologies have dram…[Read more]
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Thomas Berenato started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Seminar on Poetry and Forgiveness in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoSubmit an abstract by 23 September 2015 at http://www.acla.org/seminar/poetry-and-forgiveness:
W. H. Auden: “Every beautiful poem presents an analogy to the forgiveness of sins.” Geoffrey Hill: “the technical perfecting of a poem is an act of atonement, in the radical etymological sense—an act of at-one-ment, a setting at one, a bringing…[Read more]
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Nate Mickelson started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 – Poetry as Practice, Practice as Poetry in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoAbstracts due September 23 via http://www.acla.org/seminar/poetry-practice-practice-poetry
The philosopher Pierre Hadot worked throughout his career to locate poetry, particularly Goethe’s, within forms of “spiritual exercise” grounded in western philosophical and religious traditions. For Hadot, spiritual exercises (or practices) are forms…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: Between the Public and its Privates (MLA Subconference) in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Public and its Privates
Submission deadline: October 16, 2015
Submit to: mlasubconference@gmail.comBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books
January 6-7, 2016
Location: Studium Art Space
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public…[Read more]
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Tarshia Stanley posted an update in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoOCTAVIA E. BUTLER: CELEBRATING LETTERS, LIFE, and LEGACY
February 26-28, 2016
Spelman College
Atlanta GA
February 24, 2016 will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Octavia E. Butler. To commemorate her contributions to the world of letters, the Octavia E. Butler Society solicits papers for a special conference to be hosted by Spelman…[Read more] -
Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA subconference call for papers in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoAs the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to propose sessions somewhere “Between the Public and its Privates”.
Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public without uncovering its uncanny twin–the private. Consider Google’s Han…[Read more]
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: World Novels and 21st-Century Media (ACLA 2016, abstracts due Sept 23) in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions to the “World Novels and 21st Century Media” seminar at ACLA 2016. Please find the CFP reproduced below; it’s also available through this link: http://www.acla.org/seminar/world-novels-and-21st-century-media. Abstracts are due by September 23, 12am PST, and must be submitted through the ACLA online portal at…[Read more]
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Sören Fröhlich started the topic CFP C19, "Unsettling Medicine." in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago“Unsettling Medicine: Politics, Society, and Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Medical Practice.”
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Sari Altschuler
Deadline: August 16, 2015.
This panel is looking for papers that expand the political, social, and economic con…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org</div>
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This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more] -
Matthew H. Brown started the topic Deadline Extended – CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis & Pop Cultu in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoSymposium
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016
Keynote 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…[Read more] -
Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American 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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