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Jennifer Blair started the topic Discussion Group Open Meeting at the MLA–Friday, January 9th at 3:00 in the forum
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoWould you like to find out more about the Canadian Literature Discussion Group? Are you interested in discussing the topics and issues raised in the group’s panels at the 2015 MLA, and also what’s to come at the Austin convention in 2016? What interests you about this field of study and how would you like to see the group develop?
The exe…[Read more]
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Jennifer Blair started the topic Details for Convention Panels: Session #322 and Session #459 in the forum
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Canadian Literature Discussion Group has two exciting panels scheduled for the upcoming MLA convention. See the program details listed below and the “Files” section of the MLA Commons for full abstracts.
Looking forward to seeing you in Vancouver!
Session #322: Coastal Canada
January 9, 2015 1:45-3:00pm in 114 VCC West
“Coastal Zones…[Read more]
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Lisa Stein Haven replied to the topic CFP American Humor Studies at ALA in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThanks, Roberta. Of course, the dates are January 10, 2015 for abstracts and notifications will then go out January 20th. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Jennifer Blair uploaded the file: MLA 2015 Canadian Literature Panels: Details and Abstracts to
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Canadian Literature Discussion Group has two panels scheduled for the upcoming convention:
“Coastal Canada” (Jan 9, 1:45-3:00, 114 VCC West) and
“Visual Cultures and Young People’s Texts in Canada” (Jan 10, 10:15-11:30, 113 VCC West).
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Roberta Rosenberg replied to the topic CFP American Humor Studies at ALA in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoHi Lisa, I think you need to change the dates in the last paragraph since they must be from a past CFP. Looks like some wonderful topics, however.
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Lisa Stein Haven started the topic CFP American Humor Studies at ALA in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoAmerican Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue ,
Boston MA 02116-5798Conference Director:
Olivia Carr Edenfield, Georgia Southern UniversityConference Fee: For those who pre-register before April 15, 2015: $90 ($60 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Retired…[Read more]
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories byKeith Oatley (2012). About the psychology and emotions of fiction.
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Sabina Knight replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoI would recommend the following books for your worthwhile list:
Jonathan Culler, _Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction_ (OUP, 1998 and updated).
Sabina Knight, _Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction_ (OUP, 2012)
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months ago5th Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference with the title of “Body, Memory, Trauma”, an interdisciplinary academic event open to every interested scholar. The conference will take place on March 6th and 7th in College Station/Bryan (Texas), together with an Italian-Argentinean artistic exhibition with the title of “Water, Art, Women, Life”, devoted…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoDear all,
I’m sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but style and method are closely connected, after all.
Could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not…[Read more]
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Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out F…[Read more] -
Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and A…[Read more] -
Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century
(Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)
For Ra…[Read more]
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William E. Lenz started the topic CFP Travel Culture at Popular Culture 2015 in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
PCA/ACA Travel & Tourism
CALL FOR PAPERS AT NATIONAL PCA/ACA CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY, APRIL 1-4, 2015
We had 7 panels in Travel and Tourism last year in Chicago; I hope to see 15 this year.
I’m looking for any and all interesting papers or presentations regarding travel and tourist culture. This i…[Read more]
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Jon Smith started the topic CFP: The South in the North (MLA pre-conf @SFU Jan 6-7 2015) in the forum
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The South in the North
A Pre-MLA Mini-conference
January 6-7, 2015
Simon Fraser University (Harbour Centre)
Vancouver, BC
Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne D…[Read more]
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Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic Review & Comment on Draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Ed. in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly revise the standards in order to…[Read more]
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Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Canadian Literature Discussion Group now invites proposals for two panels planned for the MLA 2015 conference in Vancouver, including one collaborative panel organized with the Children’s Literature Division. The due date for both is March 15th.
Visual Cultures and Young People’s Texts in Canada
Exploring visual culture produced by, for…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher started the topic MLA 2015 Discussion Group CFP: Teaching with the Oxford English Dictionary in the forum
Lexicography on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoTeaching with the Oxford English Dictionary: A Roundtable
We invite proposals for 8-10 minute presentations (which will be followed by a general discussion). Topics include: teaching students to use the OED; descriptions of successful assignments; negotiating the OED Online; and broader reflections on dictionaries in the classroom.
Please send…[Read more]
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Joseph Paul Fisher started the topic CFP: Music behind Bars: Articulating Incarceration and Popular Music in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPopular music’s relationship with incarceration has been a long and complicated one. The musician Lead Belly spent long stretches in prison for murder and other crimes but was eventually turned into a musical legend by folklorists John and Alan Lomax. In 1957, Elvis Presley had a number one hit with the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition “…[Read more]
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George Louis Scheper replied to the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years agoSplendidn — for Litrerature and the Other arts, here is another NEH summer Institute fellowship opportunity
NEH Fellowship Opportunity
<b>Pictorial Histories and Myth-Histories: “Graphic Novels” of the Mixtecs and Aztecs</b>
<p align=”center”> A Summer Institute in Oaxaca, Cholula, and Mexico City. June 29 – July 26, 2014</p>
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