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Anne Donlon started the topic Sharing convention materials on the Commons in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoHello, all,
If you’re looking for more information about how to share your convention materials, this post has details about how to share work in CORE or in Docs. CORE assigns your work a DOI and gives you the option to share the deposit with groups. Work in CORE is publicly accessible–no log-in necessary to read or download. If you want to…[Read more]
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Rosi Song started the topic UPDATE: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies Online Panels in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.
Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Forum Sessions in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum. We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.
We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke deposited Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe first incarnation of this Broadview edition of Heart of Darkness appeared in 1995, the second in 1999; both were widely acclaimed, and the Goonetilleke Heart of Darkness remained for many years one of Broadview’s best-selling titles. For the third edition the book has been completely revised and updated to take account of the scholarship of t…[Read more]
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Leigh Gilmore started the topic Job Opportunity in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoPosition No. 00005756. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInvited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza started the topic CfP: New peer-reviewed book series "Crossovers: New Perspectives on CompLit" in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(Version française ci-joint.)The European Society of Comparative Literature/Société Européenne de Littérature Comparée is calling for monograph proposals for its new peer-reviewed book series Crossovers: New Perspectives on CompLit to be published by ibidem Press (Germany).
Aims and Scope
The series welcomes the submi…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoReview of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]
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Ted Laros deposited Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoIn 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature that were introduced following the nation’s t…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg started the topic CFP: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies” in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies”
Sept 30 — Oct 1, 2022
Elmira, NY
The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College is hosting its annual Quarry Farm Symposium during the Fall 2022 semester, from September 30th to October 1st, organized around the theme of Abolition Studies. This year’s Keynote Address will…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoABSTRACT
The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries.…[Read more] -
Eric Prieto started the topic Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Ren in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal </p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>The Third International Conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of California, Santa Barbara on 17–19 February 2022. </p>
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited E.M. Forster, the Clapham Sect, and the Secular Public Sphere in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoCritics have characterized E.M. Forster as an advocate of what Jürgen Habermas calls the “secular public sphere.” Yet Forster was critical of liberalism’s insistence that religious experiences should be translated into the language of secular rationality. The discussion of the Clapham Sect in “Henry Thornton” (1939) suggests that eighteenth…[Read more]
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