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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoThank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, “Life Writing and Cognition” (Sunday) in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoJoin us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655
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Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.
The following sessions will now be held virtually:
Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Presider: Rielle Navitski
A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]
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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 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 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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Brian Bernards started the topic ACLA 2022 Seminar CFP: Intermediality & the Transboundary in S & SE Asia in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoIntermediality and the Transboundary in South and Southeast Asia
A Seminar Proposal for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei, June 15-18, 2022
Deadline for Submission: October 31, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. PST
To submit an abstract for this seminar, please visit:…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop
Conveners: Brian Bernards (USC) and Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK)
Part 1: University of Southern California (Los Angeles), May 20-21, 2022
Part 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 10-11, 2022Over the past two decades, intermediality and inter-Asia (much like interdisciplinarity) have…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited “The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac” in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoBuilding on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).
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Susan Larson deposited Nature, the Monumental and Urban Technological Networks in Víctor Moreno’s Edificio España (2012) and La ciudad oculta (2018) / Naturaleza, lo monumental y las redes tecnológicas urbanas en Edificio España (2012) y La ciudad oculta (2018) de Víctor Moreno in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoIf we affirmatively answer Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw’s invitation to think beyond the ‘fetishization of the modern city’ as the pinnacle of human-centered progress and achievement in order to consider the urban as both a process of transformed nature and the metabolic and social transformation of nature through human labor, the city becom…[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
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities 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] -
Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone 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] -
Kamran Rastegar deposited Trauma and Maturation in Women’s War Narratives: The Eye of the Mirror and Cracking India in the group
LLC West Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoA comparative study of Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India shows that these two novels present intriguingly similar feminist frameworks through which the traumas of war and communal violence may be addressed. They do so by erasing the distinction between literary work and critical social history, producing what we…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Evans started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers (MSA 2021 Chicago): Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Call for papers for a proposed session for the Modernist Studies Association Conference to be held in Chicago, November 4-7, 2021.
This proposed session considers how modernists are responding to Black Lives Matter in their scholarship. It asks, how has the…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoBorn poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]
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