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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene
http://www.acla.org/seminar/writing-disaster-era-anthropocene
Location: Harvard University
Date: March 17-20, 2016
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 23rd, 2015 (http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper)
Organizers: Jennifer Cazenave and Alla Ivanchikova, Hobart and William Smith…[Read more] -
Jessica Winston started the topic Announcing Teaching Literature Book Award Winner 2015 in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural 2015 winner of its Teaching Literature Book Award.
The Teaching Literature Book Award is an externally refereed prize, presented biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University.…[Read more]
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Nicole Seymour started the topic Masculinity and Environment in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoDear All:
I’m co-organizing a February 2016 workshop titled “Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change” at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany. Our CfP deadline is tomorrow, but if you have interest and need more time, please contact me at nseymour@fullerton.edu. See our CfP at:…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited “Trespass and Forgiveness in William Shakespeare’s King Lear” in the group
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis article reads the problem of trespass within William Shakespeare’s King Lear. I draw upon eighteenth-century jurist William Blackstone’s notion of trespass, sixteenth-century jurist Jean Bodin’s notion of sovereignty, in order to understand the question of property rights that emerges in Lear’s abdication of his sovereignty.
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more] -
Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Amanda L. French deposited Refrain, Again: The Return of the Villanelle in the group
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoPoets and scholars are all wrong about the villanelle. While most reference texts teach that the villanelle’s nineteen-line alternating-refrain form was codified in the Renaissance, the scholar Julie Kane has conclusively shown that Jean Passerat’s “Villanelle” (“J’ay perdu ma Tourterelle”), written in 1574 and first published in 1606, is the only…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Art, Literature and Revolution in Latin America: Telling the Story in the group
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCourse Description: As German intellectual Walter Benjamin writes in his essay “The Storyteller”, “Experience which is passed on from mouth to mouth is the source from which all storytellers have drawn.” In the process of sharing experiences, more stories are born with authorship that are common while at the same time recognizing the individ…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Korean Literature Survey & CFProposals in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDo you teach Korean literature? Please fill in our survey designed to gather information about instructors’ materials for teaching texts and translations of Korean works. We are also currently accepting proposals for this new initiative.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Comments on the Commons Newswire in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHi all,
I just wanted to alert this group’s members to the fact that there have been a couple of comments on the Commons Newswire piece on your work. I thought one of you might like to respond.
https://thewire.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ecocriticism-environmental-humanities/
Yours,
Nicky
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Sharon Achinstein started the topic CFP MLA 2016: 17-Century Britain and/or/in Europe in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago17th-Century Britain/and/or/in Europe
Special Session
A panel reframing geographical and literary contours: literary, political, or philosophical concerns; networks; thinking beyond ‘Crisis’; questioning current institutional barriers. 300 word abstract by 21 March 2015; Sharon Achinstein (sachins1@jhu.edu) and Anston Bosman (abosman@amherst.edu). -
Michelle A. Massé started the topic CFP Extension: Age Studies Forum panel, MLA 2016 in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.
What difference does age make in w…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThank you Simon Richter for uploading the latest syllabus. Your course on Waterworlds looks terrific!
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Simon Richter uploaded the file: Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise & Catastrophic Flooding to
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoAs a result of climate change, the world that will take shape in the course of this century will be more water inundated than we’re accustomed to. The polar ice caps are melting, glaciers are retreating, ocean levels are rising, polar bear habitat is disappearing, countries are jockeying for control over a new Arctic passage, while low-lying c…[Read more]
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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Teaching Memory Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Members of the Teaching of Literature group,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:
Teaching Memory Studies
Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flash…[Read more]
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