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Lennie Amores started the topic Call For Papers MLA 2025 Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoMLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section. The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit proposals:
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions, personal or pedagogical practices, and case studies on the relation between d…[Read more] -
Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoFrom Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.
This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoBuilding on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more] -
Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Call For Nominations for Middle English Forum Executive Committee, 2025-2030 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear MLA Middle English Forum members,
The Executive Committee of the Middle English Forum would like to invite members of the forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC. The term is five years, from January 2025 to January 2030. Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be serving on a…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. 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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Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited Foreword in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoA STEAM-informed humanities’ essay describing the theoretical concept of “ecophobia”-a notion put forward in Simon Estok’s theoretical text The Ecophobia Hypothesis (Routledge 2018) that describes the systemic human fear of nature.
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Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more] -
Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia * in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoConsidering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature? I claim that conceptually linking the Constitutional protections enabled by the American civil rights movement to an emerging civil rights of nature would enable the rapid transition away from ecophobic attitudes toward…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak started the topic My virtual talk on bringing in disabled guest speakers in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
My name is Tekla Babyak (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014)—I’m an independent scholar and disability activist with multiple sclerosis. As an MLA Delegate Assembly Member representing Disability in the Profession, I’m committed to fighting against ableism in academia.
To that end, I’m writing to let you know about my upcoming v…[Read more]
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Laura Helton started the topic MLA 2024 CFP: Bibliography and Scholarly Editing in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Forum on Bibliography and Scholarly Editing invites proposals for two sessions:
Intention
Authorial intention has long been rejected as a viable constraint upon literary interpretation, but to what extent is it still operative in textual scholarship? Seeking 250-word abstracts on textual theory, collaboration, coercion, publishing, and…[Read more]
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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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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Middle English Forum sessions in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoHere are the CFPs for the Middle English Forum’s two sessions, along with a third that’s a collaborative session with the Chaucer Forum.
Adapting Middle English Literature
Organizers: Susan Nakley and Ruen-chuan Ma
This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of…[Read more]
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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
Bridge was born. The American Translators Association is a member of this initiative. -
Laura Helton started the topic MLA panels sponsored by the Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years agoFor those attending MLA in San Francisco in January, please join us for two sessions sponsored by the Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum:
Collaborative Work in Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Friday, January 6, 10:15-11:30, Moscone West 3006
Marissa Nicosia, Presiding
Panelists: Filipa Calado, Daniela D’Eugenio, Kara Flynn, Juniper…[Read more]
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Laura Helton started the topic Nominations for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum Exec Committee in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 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 2024. 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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Maren T. Linett started the topic Members’ suggestions for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoAt (and after) the January convention, the TC Disability Studies executive committee will need to appoint a new member to the executive committee. Please let us know if you want to self-nominate or nominate someone else and we will consider all nominations at our meeting. Thank you!
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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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