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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
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<div dir=”ltr”><span style=”color: #000000; font-family: Arial;”>October 26-27, 2018, New York University</span></div>
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American 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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Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSeminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)
Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]
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David Squires deposited Roger Casement’s Queer Archive in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoGrowing interest in the archive as an object of study for queer criticism justifies closer attention to the concept of provenance. For archivists, provenance imparts a fundamental measure of integrity to archival collections by certifying their origin and proper order. Record origin and order, however, rely on authorial identity to establish…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis chapter makes two critical interventions: one to redirect attention to women’s writing on Greece from a century that was dominated by either a masculine homosocial modernity or Byron’s long shadow in David Roessel’s sense (2002); and two, revising the critical scotoma that surrounds Hellenism as a process of power and style of thought in th…[Read more]
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Ben Click started the topic CFP: Mark Twain and the Natural World in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoSPECIAL ISSUE: Mark Twain and the Natural World
The Mark Twain Annual is seeking article-length submissions that examine aspects of Twain’s work that comment on the relation between human beings and the natural world. This broad scope allows for critical examinations of Twain’s writing about the natural world in any number of ways: as nat…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic, NeMLA 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis panel on the American ecogothic will take place at the 50th annual NeMLA conference (March 21-24, 2019 in Washington, DC).
Leslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel…[Read more]
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Stacey Balkan replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoI support the creation of this forum!!
–Stacey Balkan
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Anne Garland Mahler replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoI support the creation of this forum.
-Anne Garland Mahler
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Stephanie Bosch Santana posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoI support the creation of this forum,
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Lily Saint replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoI support the creation of this forum as well,
Lily
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Fulbright Lecturership in Italian American Studies in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please see the attached opportunity for those who work in Italian American
Studies. This is a wonderful opportunity for scholars of any rank. For more
information, see the link below or write directly to Margherita Ganeri.A new Fulbright Lectureship in Italian American Culture and Literature has
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Leigh Anne Duck replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoI support the creation of this forum!
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 51ST ANNUAL IASA CONFERENCE AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months ago51st Annual IASA Conference at University of Illinois, Chicago
— Call for Papers: Reminder —
“The Conflicts of Immigration Past and Present:
The Position[ing] of Italians and the Diaspora”
October 18-20, 2018
Submission Deadline: Friday, April 27, 2018
Upload/submit proposals to Submitta…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum,
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
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Alok Amatya posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum.
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Maryam Fatima replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum. As someone working within a global south framework, I’ve found Indian Ocean perspectives particularly insightful for uncovering south-south connections. This forum will contribute to the study of this very rich literary and geopolitical space. Thank you for putting this together!
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum. As a member of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS Forum, I think the creation of a CLCS Forum focused on the Indian Ocean will contribute to the study of historical and contemporary connections and exchanges between Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
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Pallavi Rastogi posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum
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I am also happy to take on a leadership position if needed.
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