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William Viestenz started the topic CFP: 19th North American Catalan Society Colloquium in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
The 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society will be held April 18-20, 2024, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Please see the attached CFP for more information on how to submit an abstract or panel proposal.
All best,
Bill Viestenz
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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 2024 CLCS-18th Century Panels — Deadline Extended in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMarch 20, 2023 is the deadline to apply to the CLCS-18th Century Forum’s panels at next year’s MLA in Philadelphia.
I. Comparative Media Histories
Recent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen…[Read more]
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Ervin Malakaj started the topic CfP: Sessions Organized by the Forum on Second-Language Learning and Teaching in the discussion
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCfP: Sessions Organized by the MLA Forum on Second-Language Learning and Teaching2024 Modern Language Association Annual ConventionJanuary 4-7, Philadelphia
The MLA Forum on Second-Language Learning and Teaching invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2024 MLA…[Read more] -
Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] -
Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoIt has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoRecent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen an interest in non-print media, queer and trans book history, speculative archives, and critical making, among other approaches. This panel seeks con…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic REMINDER MLA 2024 – PHILADELPHIA – CALL FOR PAPERS in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoMLA 2024 – Philadelphia
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama announces the following CALL FOR PAPERS:
Session 1: Translating and Staging Spanish Early Modern Plays Throughout Time
Submissions on staging early modern Spanish plays in languages other than Spanish exploring the interplay of language, translation, and emotions. 2…[Read more] -
Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSalaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic Reminder – CFP 2024 MLA Philadelphia in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoMLA 2024 – Philadelphia
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama announces the following CFP:
Session 1: Translating and Staging Spanish Early Modern Plays Throughout Time
Submissions on staging early modern Spanish plays in languages other than Spanish exploring the interplay of language, translation, and emotions. 250–300-word abs…[Read more] -
David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoStories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award (Nominations Due 3.15.2023) in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear Colleagues,
The faculty of English at Idaho State University invites nominations for the fifth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2021 and 2022 are due March 15, 2023. For more information…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic MLA 2024 – Call for Papers – LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Dram in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 3 years agoMLA 2024 – Philadelphia
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama announces the following CFP:
Session 1: Translating and Staging Spanish Early Modern Plays Throughout Time
Submissions on staging early modern Spanish plays in languages other than Spanish exploring the interplay of language, translation, and emotions. 250–300-word a…[Read more] -
Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
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Carmela Mattza started the topic MLA 2023 Convention – San Francisco in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear Comediantes,
Happy New Year! We hope to see many of you at our two organized panels at this year’s MLA in San Francisco:
Saturday, Jan 7, 5:15-6:30 PM, Sierra Suite H, Marriott Marquis “Classical Theater in Today’s Higher Education”
Sunday, Jan 8, 8:30-9:45 AM, Nob Hill C (Marriott Marquis, Lower B2 level) “Comedia Poetics and Performance”…[Read more]
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Jessica DeSpain started the topic TM Teaching of Literature Forum Delegate in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAs the convention approaches, the Teaching of Literature Forum is seeking a new delegate. If you would like to participate or if you have any suggestions for someone who would be a good fit, please share them here. If you have questions, you can share them here or email me at jdespai@siue.edu.
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Evan Chaloupka deposited Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThis talk introduces the concept of “prosthetic narration,” a narrative technique that mediates the engagement of disabled cognition such that the reader is invited to reimagine how one thinks and perceives. In his essay, “The Novel,” Émile Zola establishes the “intimate union” between the author and “the reality of the scene” as a premise of fic…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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