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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThanks to everyone who has recommended places to eat — on behalf of me and others with dietary restrictions, could someone be so kind as to recommend places with good gluten-free options?
(And by that I mean at least two or three entrées that meet gluten-free restrictions; ideally in places with separate preparing spaces but even if shared…[Read more]
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Vimala C. Pasupathi replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoI hesitate to tell people all of this because I’d like for my favorite spaces to be free of crowds.
If you want cheap and delicious food, you should go to Queens, particularly Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, & Flushing. Golden Mall in Flushing if you’re cool on walking down some steps into a basement mall & ordering super cheap and a…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Dont’ Miss the RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2018! in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoRCWS Literacy Studies Sponsored Sessions:
402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders
FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, CONCOURSE D (HILTON)
Sponsoring Entity: RCWS Literacy Studies
Presentations
1. Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies, Jennifer Stone (U of Alaska,… -
Nicholas Rinehart deposited “On Élie and Eric” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA contribution to Transition’s “I Can’t Breathe” forum, an online space for responses to the murders of unarmed black Americans by police. My piece, which was chosen for publication in the print edition of the magazine, reflected upon the similarities between the death of Eric Garner in New York City and the death of an enslaved sugar refiner nam…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Please Join us for GAAM’s Sessions at MLA 2018 in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear Colleague,
Please join the Global Arab and Arab American forum at the following sessions during MLA 2018. This is a very crucial time for those engaged in Arab and Islamic topics at the MLA – and our solidarity is more essential than ever.
44A: Global Arab Precarity and the Contemporary US Academy: Race, Religion, Profession: …[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Have 45 minutes at the convention? Help us improve CORE! in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThursday, Jan 4 at 2:30pm in the Sheraton
We will be hosting a focus group to find out more about MLA member use of CORE, our open-access repository for sharing scholarship and increasing the impact of your work. If you are free on Thursday, January 4 at 2:30pm, please consider taking part in this group and helping us improve the CORE platform. I…[Read more]
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Heekyoung Cho posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoYou are cordially invited to Korean Forum Reception at the MLA Convention!
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Korean Forum Reception
Sponsored by the Center for Korean Research, Columbia UniversityDate: Saturday, 6 January
Time: 8:45-10:00 p.m.
Place: Murray Hill East, Hilton, New York, NY
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe deadline is approaching!
To participate in this year’s annual Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit all abstracts to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18th, 2017.
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIf you’d like to know more about MLA Commons/Humanities Commons and how to make the most of them, consider attending our workshop in NYC: Friday, January 05, 2018, 03:30 PM – 04:45 PM, Hilton – Hudson (session 362)
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoWhat is the significance of post-9/11 American poetry sixteen years after the attack? It would be great if this topic is introduced in 2018 Covention under the forum head 20th and 21st century American. Interested MLA members are requested to talk to me on this point.
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Caren Irr deposited Toward the World Novel: Genre Shifts in Twenty-First-Century Expatriate Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoPresents an analysis of the emergence of new genres of international–especially expatriate–fiction in 21st-century US letters.
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoPlease note the following sessions for MLA 2018!
THURSDAY 4 JANUARY 2018
#1. “Southeast Asia and Its Empires” (Roundtable)
Date/Time: Thursday 4 January 5:15 PM-6:30 PM
Location: Concourse B (Hilton)
From the Dutch in Indonesia to the British and Japanese in Malaya to the Americans in Vietnam and the Philippines, Southeast Asia has had lon…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMLA members are invited to the first business meeting of the newly established Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (CLCS) forum. The meeting will be held at the 2018 MLA Convention on 4 January 2018, 8:45-10:00 p.m., room Clinton, in the New York Hilton Midtown. This meeting will be an…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Migratory Dialectics and Border Semiosis in Ana Castillo’s Chicana Novel So Far from God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMy paper argues for a shift in our theoretical focus on time in narrative dialectics and a post-Barthesian semiotic model for critical interpretations of Latino/a/x border narratives. Currently, we know that border narratives reveal the underlying patterns of literary communicative acts of difference (i.e., oral and literary ambiguity, high…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far from God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAs part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]
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Octavio Gonzalez posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoHi Everyone, I’m Octavio (Tavi) Gonzalez, and I’m running for the Sexuality Studies Executive Committee election. I am assistant professor at Wellesley College, and have been a member of MLA since I was a graduate student. Last year, I presented on a panel on “Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics,” where I presented on the Archives of…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Fleur Pillager, Midewewinini: Food as the Source of Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoFrom the original paper presentation: In this paper I discuss the figurative language used in Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks with a particular focus on the figures and symbols associated with food and food practices. This paper performs a textual analysis of figurative language and symbols and the themes of food and food practices to reveal the…[Read more]
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