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Weihsin Gui started the topic Deadline extended March 20: SEAsia-Australia session in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago***Deadline extended to March 20, 2019***
CFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Consolidating Gains in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA review of Stanley Kunitz’s poetry, emphasizing how he used his poetry to both explore and manage his relationship with his dominating mother. Argues that none of Kunitz’s elegies work as conventional elegies, or as we traditionally understand or expect them to work, but more as working their way to the direction Peter Sacks advocates, as…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon started the topic MLA 2020: Southeast Asia-Focused CFPs in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMLA 2020: Southeast Asia-Focused CFPs
Having a hard time keeping track of the Southeast Asia-focused CFPs for MLA 2020? See the attached PDF for both the short and long descriptions of these four exciting CFPs! Please feel free to share widely and submit your own abstracts!
Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections:…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMLA 2020 CFP: Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia
This special session of the MLA Southeast Asian Forum seeks to interrogate settler colonialism through a diverse range of Southeast Asian literary and cultural texts. We are particularly interested in texts that illuminate the reconfiguration of place, power, and politics in the region, both…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: "Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in SE Asia" in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoMLA 2020 (Jan 9-12, Seattle) CFP for Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
“Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in Southeast Asia”
In Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media, and Daily Life (2011: 1-2), Elizabeth Evans defines transmediality as “the increasingly popular i…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium – Talk on Sonny Liew in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoI’ll be giving a talk on Sonny Liew’s Eisner Award-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye at the 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium, and there are other fascinating talks on graphic novels lined up too. The event takes place on Friday April 12 at the Mandel Humanities Center, Brandeis University.
Below is the program and a link to the BNS web…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years agoGraduate-level syllabus for a seminar in the Department of English. Neither “history of the book” nor “media studies,” this course sits somewhere in-between combining the ethos of a makerspace with the hands-on resources of a letterpress and book arts studio.
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster started the topic CFP: Stonewall at 50 (guaranteed session). MLA 2020, Seattle. in the discussion
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoStonewall at 50: A Roundtable (guaranteed session)
Sponsored by the Sexuality Studies Forum
Approaches might include coalitions; activism; queer and trans of color critique; pride; shame; state violence; police brutality; mythologies; New York City; urbanism; gentrification; history; genealogies; nightlife; periodization; gay liberation; v…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP for EuroSEAS 2019: "Southeast Asian Travelogues and Global Asia" in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP for EuroSEAS 2019: “Southeast Asian travelogues and global Asia”
This laboratory considers the ways in which travelogues by Southeast Asians articulated the concept of inter-Asian connections, thus prefiguring the term ‘global Asia.’ Examples include the study of early modern India and Southeast Asia by Chinese-language Nanyang (South Sea…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards replied to the topic Article from Kyoto Review of SEAsia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is a really helpful resource. Thanks, Weihsin!
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Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoStudents learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoTeaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more] -
Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor (slides) in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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