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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: special issue-Southeast Asian & Australian Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCFP: special issue of Antipodes journal on Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections
We invite essay submissions for a special issue of Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) on the topic of Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections. This special section will…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CFP – Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCall for PapersBeat Generation and Counterculture PanelsSouthwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)41st Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2020Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference CenterAlbuquerque, New Mexico http://www.southwestpca.orgProposal submission deadline: October 31, 2019posals for papers and panels are now being accepted for…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers
May 28-31, 2020
Fondazione Campus
Via del Seminario Prima, 790
Lucca, Italy
http://www.fondazionecampus.it
Italian Diaspora(s): The Manifestations and Dynamics of Cultural ChangeSubmission Deadline: Saturday, February 1, 2020 https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit The I…[Read more]
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Colleen M. Ryan started the topic Colleen Ryan – Candidate for Upcoming Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoFellow Colleagues of Italian/ Italian American / Italian Diaspora Studies ,
My name is Colleen Ryan. I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University and currently serve as Secretary of the Italian American Studies Association. It is an honor for me to be a nominee to represent the MLA’s Italian American forum as an executive committee me…[Read more]
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Colleen M. Ryan started the topic Colleen Ryan – Candidate for Upcoming Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoFellow Colleagues of Italian/ Italian American / Italian Diaspora Studies ,
My name is Colleen Ryan. I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University and currently serve as Secretary of the Italian American Studies Association. It is an honor for me to be a nominee to represent the MLA’s Italian American forum as an executive committee member, an…[Read more]
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Jonathan Hiller started the topic Statement for candidacy for executive committee, 17th, 18th, and 19th Century in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoBuon giorno a tutt*,
Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.
I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]
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Jonathan Hiller started the topic Statement for candidacy for executive committee, 17th, 18th, and 19th Century in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoBuon giorno a tutt*,
Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.
I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic “Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months ago“Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale
An edited volume
Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2020 “The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!” ~ Nietzsche “I have marine feet and Vesuvian…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Transcultural Manipulations: Translation Workshop syllabus HACU 241 in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis multilingual undergraduate translation workshop was co-taught in the Spring of 2014 with Prof. Norman Holland in the division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College. During the course, students were introduced to translation theory and explored key concepts through intralingual translation exercises before embarking on…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis paper examines cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief (2007) and Open City (2011). The protagonists of both novels maintain cosmopolitan identities largely by embracing an international literary culture in which elite cosmopolitan fiction relays the experiences of marginalized cosmopolitan subjects, such as the migrant w…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Modernism (Syllabus) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIntroduction to the literary theory, form, and style of Modernism, a literary movement that dominated the first half of the 20th century and continues to exert its influence over literature today, which, tellingly, is described by the label post-Modernism.
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James Gifford deposited Modernism (Study Guide) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIntroduction to the literary theory, form, and style of Modernism, a literary movement that dominated the first half of the 20th century and continues to exert its influence over literature today, which, tellingly, is described by the label post-Modernism.
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James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Coursepack) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Syllabus) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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