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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2018 in New York City: Session Proposed by CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Areas to consider for this panel might include: Global Arab texts/contexts and environmental flashpoints: economy, imperialism, petro-despotism, climate-change, pollution, resource scarcity, war,…[Read more] -
Samara Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoAggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more] -
Dina Hassan replied to the topic CFP for 2018 MLA convention collaborative panel – Teaching Global Arab Comics in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThat makes sense. That you so much for your reply.
Best Regards,
Dina
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Pauline Homsi Vinson replied to the topic CFP for 2018 MLA convention collaborative panel – Teaching Global Arab Comics in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHello Dina,
Thank you for your interest in our panel. For this collaborative panel between the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum and the Comics and Graphic Narratives forum, we are looking for work that addresses comics/graphic narratives written by or about Arabs in or outside the U.S.
We hope you can submit something if this topic…[Read more]
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Dina Hassan replied to the topic CFP for 2018 MLA convention collaborative panel – Teaching Global Arab Comics in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoI was wondering if the proposal particularly specifies Global Arab comics or can we include other forms like global Arab fiction?
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Pauline Homsi Vinson posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP for a Collaborative Session with Comics and Graphics Narrative forum at the 2018 MLA in NYC: Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S. Graphic narratives by/about Arabs: circulation, translation, critical/pedagogical reception; aesthetics/politics of representation, counternarrative; figurations of history, occupation, states of belonging.…[Read more]
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Howard Horwitz started the topic CFP-MLA Session 2018 in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoReligion in American Public Discourse
Competitive session co-sponsored by the Religion and Literature Forum and the Forum on Nonfiction Prose. Religion has long figured in the public discourse of the United States. During election season in particular, religious issues figure in campaign and more generally political discourse. President Do…[Read more]
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Hatem N. Akil posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThe Global Arab and Arab American Forum (GAAM) is seeking to fill an open position on its Executive Committee. Elected members serve a 5-year term. Eligible nominees should be MLA members and should not be currently serving on another MLA Forum’s Executive Committee. Please check GAAM details at MLA Commons. You may send your nominations (…[Read more]
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCALL FOR PAPERS
International Seminar on
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL
UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
(Canary Islands, Spain)
June 21st-23rd 2017
Romance novels have often been dismissed by critics because of their nature as a popular genre and for being written and read largely by women. However, in the last…[Read more] -
Isabelle Hesse replied to the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoYes, it’s going to be a one-day conference, to be held on Friday, 24th February.
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Hania Nashef replied to the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIs this a one-day conference or longer?
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPalestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017
24<sup>th</sup> February 2017
John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney, Australia
Organised by
Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney
Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser and Gender at ALA in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the Women’s and Gender Studies Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers:
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two:…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic MLA 2017 Panels organized by Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
We hope you will join us for the following panels organized for the 2017 MLA by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum. They are as follows:
Session 200: States of In/Security: Global Palestine in Literature, Culture, Art, and Activism
Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention Ce…[Read more] -
Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Suggest a nominee for the GAAM executive committee in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear members,
It is time to suggest nominations for a new committee member to the MLA Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum’s current Executive Committee.
The procedure for nominations is outlined by Anna Chang and posted on 10 August 2016 on the MLA Commons’ “News from the MLA”: https://news.mla.hcommons-staging.org/2016/08/10/nominatio…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoJust a reminder…
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoJust a reminder…the deadline approaches!
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechd…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited The Mother Without an Identity in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWithin Gothic Literature the identity of the mother causes women to lose their own identity. For the mothers in Beloved, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, and “Greenleaf” their identity of themselves is lost as they identity as being the mother of their children rather than their own individual person. Some gothic mothers are absent mothers…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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