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Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic CFPs for Prose Fiction Forum sessions at MLA 2023 in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoPlease send abstracts of 200-300 words to ylee@wellesley.edu before March 16, 2022.
- Narratives Beyond Binaries: Does narrative still rely on binary structures in a world that has moved beyond them (male/female; past/present; public/private)? The binary and nonbinary as modes of thinking; post-poststructuralism; holding theory accountable to…
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Harrod Suarez started the topic CFP: New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies (MLA 2023) in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agohttps://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Paper19560.html
New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies
This panel solicits papers from graduate students doing Asian American literary studies in pursuit of new horizons–whether innovative methodologies, frameworks, texts, or fields. Send 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2…[Read more] -
Adrienne Brown started the topic Visual Culture MLA Convention CFPs in the discussion
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoBelow you’ll find four CFP’s for proposed panels sponsored by the Visual Culture Forum for this year’s MLA. Please do circulate widely and consider contributing.
1- Visual Culture Forum seeks proposals for guaranteed MLA session, Women and Frames of Violence. How do women engage, practice and perform violence in visual culture? Considerations b…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]
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Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic Call for Session Proposals in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Screen Arts and Culture Forum Committee is seeking proposals from the membership for two of our yearly panel slots (one guaranteed, one non-guaranteed).
If you are posting a CFP for your session on the MLA site, the deadline is February 28.
We will consider proposals for sessions up through March 15. Please email your proposals, including…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Rachel Floyd started the topic Dissertation Research on Professional Development in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello! My name is Rachel Floyd and I’m currently working on my dissertation research in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. I’m researching the current professional learning needs of recent alumni from graduate foreign language programs, including those no longer in academia. Would you be interested in sup…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Making magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth century: Twenty-one reports in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe reports listed here and then reproduced in facsimile were published in British and American journals during the nineteenth century. They describe contemporary aspects, both editorial and mechanical, of the production processes that made such publications possible. Leading topics include the relative efficiency of steam-powered printing, the…[Read more]
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Laura Helton started the topic Nominations for Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years agoDear colleagues,
The Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum is seeking self-nominations for a new member of the forum’s executive committee, to serve a five-year term starting in January 2023.
The executive committee organizes at least one MLA conference session each year and nominates a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. If you’re int…[Read more]
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Glynne Walley started the topic Suggestions for Japanese to 1900 panels for MLA 2023 in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe exco is currently in the process of planning panels for next year’s MLA. We have some ideas but are eager to hear suggestions and proposals from you. If you would like to organize a panel, or to suggest a topic for one, please contact me.
Next year’s MLA will be in San Francisco, Jan. 5-8, 2023. The Presidential Theme is described here, bu…[Read more]
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Glynne Walley started the topic Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee membership in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs most of you know, forum executive committee members serve five-year terms; each year one new member joins the exco as one leaves. Historically, new members have been elected by the forum membership. However, beginning this cycle MLA is experimenting with a new policy.
Here’s MLA’s explanation:
The Program Committee has implemented a change t…
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Kendra Leonard deposited Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoEdited Collection of essays on music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
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Harrod Suarez started the topic LLC Asian American Panels @ 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years ago87V – Out of This World: Larissa Lai’s Visions: Thursday, 6 January 2022 / 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
456V – Multilingual Asian American Newspaper Studies: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
481V – Archipelagic Thinking in Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American Narratives: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
630V – Radi…[Read more]
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Matthew Thomas Miller deposited Advances and Limitations in Open Source Arabic-Script OCR: A Case Study in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis work presents an accuracy study of the open source OCR engine, Kraken, on the leading Arabic scholarly journal, al-Abhath. In contrast with other commercially available OCR engines, Kraken is shown to be capable of producing highly accurate Arabic-script OCR. The study also assesses the relative accuracy of typeface-specific and generalized…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.
The following sessions will now be held virtually:
Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Presider: Rielle Navitski
A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]
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Dr. Elizabeth Hunter deposited Participant information for MLA 2022 Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoBios and recent work of the participants for the 2022 MLA Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” scheduled to take place on January 6, 2022.
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William Nichols deposited Telling the story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of convergence and the defense of the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWhile many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm. Specifically, the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Jobs in Digital Publishing and Digital Scholarship at University of Pennsylvania in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoKnow a talented digital humanist with Python and Docker skills, or someone with experience in digital publishing and an interest in building collaborative partnerships? The growing Research Data and Digital Scholarship team at University of Pennsylvania Libraries is hiring for two new positions—please share!
Digital Scholarship Programmer (…[Read more]
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