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Tana Jean Welch started the topic Reminder: CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoRoutledge Auto/Biography Studies
Series Editor: Ricia Anne Chansky
The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series publishes outstanding new work from preeminent scholars and emerging voices in autobiography, biography, life writing, life narrative, and identity studies. This series is an interdisciplinary project that maintains interest in all…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Palgrave Series in Life Writing in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing Brant, C. (Ed), Saunders, M. (Ed) This series features books that address key concepts and subjects, with an emphasis on new and emergent approaches. It offers specialist but accessible studies of contemporary and historical topics, with a focus on connecting life writing to themes with cross-disciplinary appeal.…[Read more] -
Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Special Issue — The Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical
Following the founding colloquium of the IABA Africa chapter in October 2017, this special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies will both explore and provisionally consolidate examples of contemporary scholarship on the varied forms of ‘auto/biogrAfrical’ life storying that emerge from (and in rel…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: International Auto/Biography Association Americas Conference – Jamaica in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoLives in Transition: Negotiating the Currents in a Changing World
The 4th Biennial Conference of the IABA Americas Chapter
The conference conveners invite papers that explore the means by which auto/biographical subjects explore lives ‘in transition’ and/or in the process of ‘transitioning.’ How do life narratives explore the kinds of adjustm…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Women and Language in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Victoria Addis deposited Landscape and Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoSince his first works came to critical attention, Ernest Hemingway has occupied a space in the critical and cultural imagination as a definitively ‘masculine’ writer. His novels and stories focus on male narrators in difficult or extreme situations involving war, violence, and the natural world, and his critical heritage has focused on these ele…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited WHAT SORT OF JEW DOSTOEVSKY LIKED AND DISLIKED: A NARRATIVE OF A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoIn his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as ‘carriers’ of some national idea. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre, there are some Jews. The fashi…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCorrection: Submit 250- to 500-word abstracts and a CV, by January 5, 2019, to Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University College of Medicine, at tana.welch@med.fsu.edu
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReads William of Rubruck’s mission to Asia as an instance of premodern ethnographic representation and the shape of the precolonial European ethnographic gaze upon Asia.
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Stephen E. Lewis deposited Seeing, or Seeing Oneself Seen: Nicholas of Cusa’s Contribution in De visione Dei in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoNicholas of Cusa’s _De visione Dei sive de Icona_ (1453), in addition to its contribution to the question of the vision of God, engages with numerous debates concerning visibility in general, and thus addresses the dimensions of phenomenality–namely, questions concerning the icon as a type of phenomenon, the reversal of vision into a…[Read more]
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Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago“‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]
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Ida Yoshinaga started the topic CFP International Fantastic Division for ICFA #40 (proposals due 10/31) in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoInternational Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #40
March 2019
Orlando, Florida
CFP Deadline 10/31/18
Please join us on <u>March 13-16, 2019</u>, for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) #40 in its theme of “Politics and Conflicts.” We welcome ideas for papers and panels on science fiction, fantasy, fair…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoI look to the ways material text studies might be prompted by, and improve upon, thinking in new materialism. The result is that paper could be read for how histories and narratives seep into the paper record and require accounts of agentic materiality lest they be lost or muted. In what follows, I use stories about rag paper as points of…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Writing History: 19th Century African American Activism in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoOur work in this course will center around two questions. First, what were the material and social conditions for Black men, women, and children living in the territory that would become the United States, from roughly 1750 until on or about 1860? While slavery is likely the first concept that comes to mind, additional concepts such as racism,…[Read more]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Help Us Brainstorm in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoAs we at GS AutoFiction continue to expand our online initiatives, we’d like to hear from you about how we can best use this platform. Do you have ideas for posts relevant to the autofiction community and discipline? Who should we talk to? Do you want to guest post for us? Let us know!
1- What pressing issues in the field of Autofiction s…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Don’t Write About September 11th”: Meta-poetic Elements in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis article focuses on three post-9/11 meta-poems – “My Wife Says Don’t Write About September 11th” by Ryan G. Van Cleave, “How to Write A Poem After September 11th” by Nikki Moustaki and “To the Words” by W. S. Merwin – to demonstrate the point that the current scholarly understanding of post-9/11 aesthetics as something functioning like…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler deposited “Modernist Jane: Austen’s Reception by Writers of the Twenties and Thirties” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoDespite their commitment to Ezra Pound’s commandment to “make it new!:” modernist authors like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton, and Thornton Wilder referred to Jane Austen surprisingly often in their public and private writings. Although they excoriated her sexual inexperience and limited…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic CfP: International Conference: Migration Studies, Transnational Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCFP: Forms of Migration: An International Conference on Transnational Literature & Innovative Aesthetics
May 2—4, 2019: University of Graz (Graz, Austria)
The Department of American Studies and the Centre for Intermediality Studies at the University of Graz (Graz, Austria), in conjunction with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), announces a call f…[Read more]
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