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Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.
Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8
Thanks,
Elena Machado Sáez
Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: "Democracy and the US Latinx Novel" in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago“Democracy and the US Latinx Novel”
Call for Papers
LLC Latina and Latino ForumRecent events have demonstrated the simultaneous vulnerability and resiliency of democratic projects, and of our cultural frameworks for imagining the norms and processes of those institutions.
This collaborative panel seeks presentations that address democracy…[Read more]
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Malin Lidström Brock deposited Beyond Multiculturalism: Invisible Men and Transculturality in The Human Stain and Erasure in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn Philip Roth’s The Human Stain (2000) and Percival Everett’s Erasure (2001) multiculturalism is described as moralistic and essentialist; both novels present black American male protagonists who feel victimized by multiculturalism. Although critics have maintained that the two novels present a universalist view of American identity, in this cha…[Read more]
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Malin Lidström Brock deposited Almost French: Food, Class, and Gender in the American Expatriate Memoir in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis chapter explores links among food, class and gender in two memoirs written by contemporary American expatriates in France. The argument made is that references to French cuisine simultaneously create and resolve the tensions that arise in the texts when the authors describe their ideal and elitist lives to a presumed American female…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic SSRN English & American Literature Research Network in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoEnglish & American Literature Research Network: https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2021/01/english-american-literature-research.html
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Will Fenton started the topic Library Company of Philadelphia 2021-22 Fellowships: Applications due March 1 in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia welcomes applications for its Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Dissertation Fellowships, Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellowships, and Francis Johnson Fellowships. The deadline for receipt of applications is March 1, 2021.
Program in Early American Economy and Society…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years agoBirds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDear MLA members,
Please consider attending one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los An…
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Lorena Gauthereau started the topic Call for applications: US Latino/a/x Digital Humanities Grants-in-Aid ($7,500) in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoUniversity of Houston
Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage Program / US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH)
Call for Proposals
GRANTS-IN-AID funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) program is a digital scholarship/research undertaking to provide training and research on US Latino…[Read more] -
Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited The Free Travels of William Grimes from 1814 until 1825 in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis GIF chronicles the movements of a a formerly enslaved man in New England until the publication of his first memoir in 1825. William Grimes was forced to resettle and wander through Connecticut and Rhode Island because of poverty and insecurity. He is most associated with Litchfield, CT and New Haven CT where he spent the most time and which…[Read more]
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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “Wild Nights”: Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEmily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]
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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “Wild Nights”: Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEmily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]
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Jayashree Kamble replied to the topic seeking a NYC-area research assistant in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoI’d suggest emailing the American Studies department at the CUNY graduate center. They might have grad students who can take on your task. (Of course, the NYPL is closed for archival research at the moment.)
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Matthew Calihman started the topic seeking a NYC-area research assistant in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHello American Literature Group:
I am looking for a research assistant to photograph some archival material for me at the New York Public Library. Do you know of any people doing this kind of work in the NYC area? Thank you very much, in advance, for any help you can offer.
Sincerely,
Matthew Calihman
Missouri State University
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the…[Read more]
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Benigno Trigo replied to the topic Introduction and many thanks! in the discussion
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello, everyone! I’ve been nominated to a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC Puerto Rican Forum Panel, so I’d like to tell you a little about myself. My research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American and Caribbean Literature; Women’s Writing; Psychoanalysis and Autobiography. My publications include Malady and G…[Read more]
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Lourdes Estrada-López started the topic CFP: From Manuscript to Digital (Virtual Conference) Deadline October, 31st in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCFP: II International Conference From Manuscript to Digital: Worldwide English Literature and Worldwide Literatures in English
Organizers: University of Lincoln, Universidade de Lisboa, Universidad de Jaén
Location: Jaén, Spain (Virtual-Google Meet)
Dates: December 1-3, 2020
Deadline: 31st October 2020This second International Conference F…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Sadists and Readers of Horror Comics: : The BBC, ‘Nineteen-Eighty-Four’ and the British Horror Comics Campaign in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis paper examines the responses to the 1954 BBC adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four, as held by the BBC Written Archives Centre, in the light of the British Horror Comics campaign of the mid-1950s.
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Will Fenton started the topic Announcing the Library Company's Innovation Fellowship Program in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia’s newly-launched Innovation Fellowship Program will pair two short-term research fellows-one humanities scholar and one creative practitioner-to critically and creatively engage a collection integral to the Library Company’s mission, values, or institutional history.
The Innovation Fellowship Program is an e…[Read more]
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