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Nancy Caronia started the topic CFP MLA 2018: From Anarchism to Assimilation: The Making of Italian Americans in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn conjunction with the MLA theme: #States of Insecurity, this panel seeks contributions that complicate notions of assimilation and the assimilated Italian American. How has Italian American radicalization been minimized, erased, or marginalized in favor of the assimilation tale of struggle, hard work, and success? How have Italian radical…[Read more]
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Michael Schinasi started the topic CFP 2018 special session: National Theaters Around the Globe in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoNational Theaters Around the Globe
Special Session
Any aspect of worldwide National Theaters (the institution usually manifest in buildings; not dramatic literatures). All periods: history, ideology, relation to culture industry, etc. 250 word abstract by 15 March 2017; Michael Schinasi (schinasim@ecu.edu). -
James Gifford deposited ENGL 3384: Postcolonial Literature (2017-01) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoSelected works from the literatures of former European colonies: African, Indian, Caribbean, Australian, Canadian, Latin American, etc.
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James Gifford deposited HUMN 2439: Radical Political Thought in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis course explores major currents of political radicalism both within and outside of the dominant western political tradition. Topics considered may include antidemocratic radicalism, democratic radicalism, Marxian radicalism, radical feminism, radical individualism, and post-colonial radicalism. Readings will include selections from Kant,…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI@Palermo 2017: Call for Papers in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoCALL For Papers
AATI International Conference Abroad
Università degli Studi di Palermo
28 giugno – 2 luglio 2017
L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno internazionale si terrà nella città di Palermo, 28 giugno-2 luglio 2017, presso l’Università degli Studi di Palermo, co…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Reckoning with Remembrance: the Contemporary Ballad and the Black Tradition in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoContribution to “Boundary Conditions of the Ballad” panel. Scott Challener, Rutgers U, presiding.
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Laura Lisabeth deposited When William Strunk Was A Philologist He Thought of Grammar as a Folder in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn this paper, I show how, as a philologist, William Strunk’s approach to language was a rich historical and rhetorical experience far from the prescriptivism E.B. White ascribes to him in the first edition of The Elements of Style (1959). An interesting historical parallel exists between Strunk’s tenure as a PhD student in philology at Cornell…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic call for nominations in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoIt is not too late to nominate a scholar of ecocriticism and environmental humanities for potential election to the forum’s executive committee! Please send your nominations as soon as possible to the current EC secretary Jeffrey Cohen (jjcohen@gwu.edu) or any other member of the executive committee (Stephanie LeMenager, Sharon O’Dair, Ron…[Read more]
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Suzanne del Gizzo started the topic Hemingway Society Founders' Fellowship: Updated Link in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoUpdated Link–the link in my first post did not work. Here is the post again with a working link. Thanks.
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>The Hemingway Foundation and Society invites applications for two $1000.00 Founders’ fellowships to support scholars working in Hemingway studies. Although the competition is open to all scholars, pre…[Read more] -
Christopher M. Lupke started the topic East Asian Languages and Literatures — Reception — ALL WELCOME in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPlease come to the East Asian Languages and Literatures Reception on Saturday night at 8:45 pm in Marriott 411-412. There will be food and drink! I hope to see you there.
Christopher Lupke
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David C. Lloyd started the topic BDS and the Inversion of Victimhood in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSubmitted by faculty members in MLA-related fields at Israeli universities
This statement, at MLABoycott’s website, is presented anonymously by Israeli academics who support the boycott of Israeli universities. The faculty are forced to sign anonymously because of a 2011 law passed by the Israeli parliament that prohibits support for BDS a…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Judith Butler and Ariella Azoulay on the logic of the academic boycott in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoBoth Judith Butler and Ariella Azoulay have recently posted at MLABoycott’s site, articulating their rationale for supporting the boycott of Israeli academic institutions at this time.
“The boycott targets the Israeli regime, not Israeli citizens, unless they act as representatives of the regime. What, then, is the position…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic John Berger (1926-2017): critic, essayist and BDS advocate in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe have received the sad news that the great essayist and art critic <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/02/john-berger-obituary">John Berger</a> died today, January 2, at age 90. He was a principled supporter of BDS. In 2006 he wrote what is referred to as <a…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Daniel Boyarin on the boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoJewish Studies scholar Daniel Boyarin has issued the following statement about academic boycott:
"I am on record, even on Israeli television, as a supporter of BDS and of a limited academic boycott as well. By limited boycott I mean that I do not countenance boycotts of individuals (Let he who is sinless cast the first stone) but of…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Jacques Lezra and Tim Reiss respond to Anthony Appiah in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIn a recent blog issues in his capacity as MLA President, <a href="https://president.mla.hcommons-staging.org/2016/11/02/taking-issue-taking-stock/">Anthony Appiah</a> addressed the current debate around justice and academic freedom for our Palestinian colleagues.
MLA Colleagues Bill Mullen, Jacques Lezra and Tim Reiss respond…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Brandeis Center: another nuisance suit threatened in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Brandeis Center, notorious these days for launching efforts to censor other people's freedom of speech, has just threatened the MLA with a lawsuit if it passes the boycott resolution. For responses to this clumsy effort at intimidation, see David Lloyd…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited A Variant of Lawrence Durrell’s Livia; or, Buried Alive and the Composition of Monsieur; or, the Prince of Darkness in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe propose an alternative reading of the sequential construction of Lawrence Durrell’s The Avignon Quintet. The form only became clear as he prepared the first volume, Monsieur; or, the Prince of Darkness, for publication. By contrasting the published variant of Livia; or, Buried Alive, we draw attention to Durrell’s structural preoccupations. By…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Summoned by Bells in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoUVic Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives hold prized materials in modern literature, ranging from nearly 400 letters by T.S. Eliot to Ezra Pound’s elucidation of his poetry for a German translation. A featured series in the leading journal Modernism/modernity recently discussed the former, with British scholars demonstrating their flu…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde deposited Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIntroduction – excerpt from book published by Columbia University Press.
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