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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine (HUM450AJ.O) syllabus in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoAt the intersection of comics and medicine is the rise of the Graphic Medicine scholarship field. This course examines the ways in which the sequentialized hybrid of word and image is bringing new insights to patient, healthcare, and clinical experiences.
In any manner of ways, the comics medium (whether known as comic books, graphic novels,…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 on Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019
176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom APresentations
Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah
Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic A GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019
176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom APresentations Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah
Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…
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Edlie L. Wong started the topic Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoPlease note the following four sessions organized by the Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature at MLA 2019. We hope to see some of you there.
084: American Lives: Whitman and Melville (co-organized with the Forum on Life Writing)
Date: Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Time: 3:30 PM–4:45 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency – Roo…[Read more]
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Andrea Charise started the topic MLA 2019: Health Humanities & Digital Life Roundtable – abstracts/presenter info in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoPlease see the presenter info and abstracts for the MLA 2019 Roundtable, “Health Humanities and Digital Life.”
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203: Health Humanities and Digital Life
Time: 8:30AM-9:45AM – Friday Jan 4 2019
Location: Hyatt Regency – Columbus H
Description: This interdisciplinary roundtable is a critical exploration of the intersection of medical and hea…[Read more] -
Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThank you, Tana Jean! –Tom
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCorrection: Submit 250- to 500-word abstracts and a CV, by January 5, 2019, to Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University College of Medicine, at tana.welch@med.fsu.edu
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C. Beth Burch started the topic Syllabi Content for American Literature Survey Courses in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am a Professor of Judaic Studies at SUNY Binghamton. For a research project I am doing on the canon that is taught—or the teaching canon, as I’m calling it—I would like to know what works you are teaching or listing on your syllabi for American literature survey courses for any period. I would appreciate receiving de-i…[Read more]
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Maren T. Linett started the topic introduction, candidate for executive committee in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear all,
I’m currently on the ballot for the executive committee of the TC Disability Studies, and I wanted to introduce myself to the members of the group. I’m a professor of English at Purdue University, and the founding director of Purdue’s Critical Disability Studies program, which runs an undergraduate minor and brings in one speaker per y…[Read more] -
Marzia Milazzo deposited Reconciling Racial Revelations in Post-Apartheid South African Literature in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoOffering a reading of Mongane Wally Serote’s Revelations (2010) alongside other recent novels by black South African writers, this essay answers calls for more careful analyses of the roles that race plays within post-apartheid literature and culture. As it questions the shift away from a concern with institutional racism and white supremacy t…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long replied to the topic Jess Waggoner: TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThanks for your willingness to serve, Jess. –Tom Long
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Jessica Waggoner started the topic Jess Waggoner: TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHello everyone!
My name is Jess Waggoner and I am running for the MLA TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Executive Committee. At MLA’s suggestion, I wanted to use this space to introduce myself and some of my goals.
I currently serve as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of H…[Read more]
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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSituates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSituates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay reads Ivan Efremov’s “Andromeda Nebula” (1957), Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris” (1961), and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s “Andymon” (1982) in order to explore the relationship between biological evolution and dialectical materialism, as it was negotiated through the trope of the alien in the context of the cultural politics of Eastern E…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Resisting the cul-de-sac in Disgrace, Master of Petersburg and Life & Times of Michael K in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSamuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ends in both acts with the two tramps not moving in spite of agreeing that they should leave. Even though Vladimir and Estragon realize the futility of their wait, they remain adamant in the hope that Godot may arrive. Likewise, the Unnamable who cannot go on chooses to go on. What essentially translates in b…[Read more]
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