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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 4 years 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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Andrew Newman deposited ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’: The Great Gatsby in the 1980s in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis essay illustrates the application of reception study, the subfield of literary history that emphasises the historical experiences of readers, to pedagogical contexts by investigating the teaching of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) in American high schools during the 1980s. Focusing on the episode in which Jay Gatsby leads Nick a…[Read more]
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Andrew Newman deposited Captivity: From Babylon to Indian Country in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoLiterary historical overview of the genre of the captivity narrative in colonial North America.
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!
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Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel
In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet
Presider: Alberto Varón
Recent events have demonstrated the…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!
Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
- Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel
- In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet
- Presider: Alberto Varón
- Recent events have demonstrated the…
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Rielle Navitski started the topic Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoI’m excited to announce that a beta version of Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook is now available online: https://open.online.uga.edu/latinxmedia/
Edited by Leslie Marsh and myself (Rielle Navitski) with the support of the Affordable Learning Georgia initiative, the freely available textbook addresses a range of media forms (film, te…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Job Searcjh for Late Associate & Full Professor at Southern Methodist University in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 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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Renee Hudson started the topic CFP for Metheun Drama Handbook on Theatre and Social Action in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoTheatre and Social Action Call for Papers for the Methuen Drama Handbooks series Theaters have closed everywhere. Theaters are reopening. And at the same time, the global pandemic and recent social movements have urgently been measured, mediated, and aided by the arts and theater makers to reshape the way we must now represent, facilitate, and p…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited «دوک همت» در دستان عنکبوت دورگه: پذیرش خلاق پروین اعتصامی از شعر والت ویتمن in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoپروین اعتصامی (۱۲۸۵ـ ۱۳۲۰)، شاعر نامدار معاصر، در شعرهایش از منابع متعددی بهره بردهاست؛ اما نکته جالب توجه این است که او در تمام این برداشتهای ادبی، اشعار خود را کاملاً از آثار پیشین متمایز میکند. پروین عناصری را که از آثار دیگران وام گرفته است هنرمندانه با عناصر شعر خود و سنت ادبی فارسی درمیآمیزد و آن را از آن خود میکند؛ به گ…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Hemingway in Spain in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoA disingenuous look on Hemingway Cutthroat and on Hemingway in Spain: Retropost, 2011: Hemingway, días de vino y muerte https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/08/hemingway-dias-de-vino-y-muerte.html
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
I 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.
The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]
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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 Late-19th- and Early-20th-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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Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoScholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
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Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoPublished in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoPublished in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Reading Folk Horror Through Nostalgia in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis paper considers the use of Boym’s formulations of reflective and restorative nostalgia as a productive lens for viewing the tensions within folk horror texts and their appeals. Considering folk horror texts such as The Wicker Man, Midsommar and The Living and the Dead, the paper will demonstrate that Boym’s two conceptions help to draw out…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘La Peste Escarlata’ y la epidemiología evolutiva in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoEl artículo examina el relato de Jack London “La Peste Escarlata” desde la perspectiva de la actual epidemiología evolucionista, sosteniendo que su comprensión pesimista de la dinámica epidemiológica en poblaciones crecientes, y su visión catastrofista de la evolución, son esencialmente correctas y se hallan muy por delante de las ideas recibi…[Read more]
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Victoria Addis deposited Forming Ecomasculinities through Deep Ecology in Gravity’s Rainbow in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis article examines the concept of ecomasculinity – how masculinities and ecologies interact – through the lens of deep ecology, arguing (following Serpil Oppermann) that Pynchon’s postmodernist boundary collapsing informs deep-ecological interconnections for male characters previously embroiled in negative cycles of patriarchal dominance.…[Read more]
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