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Kevin Potter started the topic CfP Special Issue of Humanities on Postcolonial Literatures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Humanities, Special Issue:
“Disturbances of Home/land in Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures”
Official call for papers page: here
Call for Papers:
In our vision of the home, or of what we associate with home, we tend to conjure up images of comfort, stability, permanence, primacy, and belonging. This image extends bey…[Read more]
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Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso started the topic CfP NeMLA 19| Contesting the Gaze: Gender & Genre in Hispanic Women’s Filmmaking in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoContesting the Gaze: Gender and Genre in Hispanic Women’s Filmmaking
(Proposed Roundtable for NeMLA 2019 in Washington, D.C.)In Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger notes that the idea of gaze has been traditionally defined as masculine, for there is an underlying assumption that “men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselv…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic, NeMLA 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis panel on the American ecogothic will take place at the 50th annual NeMLA conference (March 21-24, 2019 in Washington, DC).
Leslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel…[Read more]
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Ed Finn started the topic New online edition of Frankenstein for teaching and community annotation in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoDear Colleagues,
I wanted to share an exciting project we have recently launched to mark the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. We hope our completely free, open-source digital edition of the novel will be useful as a teaching resource as well as a living prototype of large-scale collaborative annotation.
Frankenbook is a collective…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited It’s Time for LISSA in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoReview of LISSA: A STORY ABOUT MEDICAL PROMISE, FRIENDSHIP, AND REVOLUTION (University of Toronto Press) by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, and Caroline Brewer
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Stephen Clingman deposited Fugitive/Narrative: Some Starting Points in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoWhat are the topologies of fugitive/narrative, whether as a matter of experience, theory or fiction? This essay follows a number of trajectories in addressing the question. In part the exploration is prompted by the refugee crisis in many places around the world, yet the issue of the “fugitive” is not exactly identical with that. Moreover, the…[Read more]
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Stephen Clingman deposited Fugitive/Narrative: Some Starting Points in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoWhat are the topologies of fugitive/narrative, whether as a matter of experience, theory or fiction? This essay follows a number of trajectories in addressing the question. In part the exploration is prompted by the refugee crisis in many places around the world, yet the issue of the “fugitive” is not exactly identical with that. Moreover, the…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Technologies, Subjectivities, Culture, and Power in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThe block that I am teaching on Birkbeck, University of London’s MA in Critical and Cultural Studies in 2018-2019.
This wide-ranging block focuses on a series of important topics examining the convergence of technology, subjectivity and cultural theory. By examining technological, political, and cultural change, we will consider how 20th and…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Special Issue of The Space Between: CINEMA (12/31/19) in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoSpecial Issue
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945
Call for Essays:
Cinema in the Space Between: An International Approach
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945 is the annual peer-reviewed digital journal of the Space Between Society, focused on interdisciplinary scholarship of the two world wars and the dec…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers deposited Studying Media through New Media in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities is about researching media through new media: for example, playing games to better understand their politics and mechanics, exhibiting new media art to witness how people engage it, building stories to become more familiar with their structures and narratives, making wearable technologies to…[Read more]
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andré carrington posted an update in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis may only be the case for a short while, but my article “Desiring Blackness: A Queer Orientation to Marvel’s Black Panther,” is currently the most read article in American Literature. It’s part of this wonderful special issue edited by Ramzi Fawaz and Darieck Scott. Free to read https:/…[Read more]
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Bradley Irish deposited Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling (Northwestern UP, 2018) in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoUniting literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and a deeply archival account of Tudor history, Emotion in the Tudor Court freshly examines how literature reflects and constructs the dynamics of emotional life in the Renaissance courtly sphere. Spanning the 16th century — with chapters on Cardinal Thomas Wolsey…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic Call for essay contributions for a volume on "Protest in the Long 18th Century" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoEighteenth century popular protest and resistance included not only riots which resulted from the rising prices of bread and other food staples in England, France, and Spain, but also those triggered by “new” policies on hats and coats, as well as riots and executions brought about from the displeasure with foreign competition. We invite ess…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoReview of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Shakespeare Theatre Company’ s Macbeth and the Limits of Multiculturalism.” Early Modern Culture 13 (2018): 240-246 in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe STC Macbeth’s setting and predominantly multiethnic cast brought to mind Orson Welles’s landmark 1936 Macbeth which was set in Haiti and featured an all-black cast. In both cases, the ethnicity and race of the cast matched that of the characters and cultures in the adaptation’s respective universe. Tommy’s production engaged in two models…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Is a key to culture in the distance from “dirt”? in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis Blog covers a new approach to culture via literary analysis. The hypothesis is that distance from dirt is a key aspect of culture that cuts across ideologies. To begin this work, we will use Big Data to study (content analysis) themes and characters in US novels from the 19th C. to the 21st C. Theory for this analysis will be Joel Kovel’s…[Read more]
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Matthew Reznicek deposited A City She Must Postpone: The Parisian Geography of Kate O’Brien’s Bildungsromane in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBy reading each of the novels of Kate O’Brien’s oeuvre as ‘a travel story’, just as we read Balzac’s Père Goriot, it becomes necessary to read them as ‘a spatial practice’, a narrative that locates itself in and responds to a specific space. The specific geography of Kate O’Brien’s Parisian novels of development, Without My Cloak (1931), The…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe relationship between obsolescence and innovation in the digital age is a peculiar one, conveying not past and future but instead demonstrating their eternal simultaneity.
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Geraldine Heng deposited Reinventing Race, Colonization, and Globalisms across Deep Time: Lessons from the Longue Durée in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCritically surveys the long premodern history of race and racism, colonization and imperialism, and globalism, across c. 1000-1500 CE.
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Geraldine Heng deposited Reinventing Race, Colonization, and Globalisms across Deep Time: Lessons from the Longue Durée in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCritically surveys the long premodern history of race and racism, colonization and imperialism, and globalism, across c. 1000-1500 CE.
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