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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrahams, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrhamas, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra posted an update in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFPs for Global South panels at MLA 2019 (Chicago):
**Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South**
Encounters with waste in narratives both historical and contemporary welcomed. Possible entanglements include animality, comparative modernities, labor and the environment.
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Tahia Abdel Nasser posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoLLC Arabic CFPs for MLA 2019
The Forum on Arabic Literature and Culture invites paper proposals for four sponsored panels at the 2019 MLA convention in Chicago:
Textual Transactions in Arabic Theory
Exploring critical theories and philosophies from the Middle East, North Africa, and diaspora. Tracing transnational, transregional, and…[Read more] -
Lorelei Caraman deposited Between Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism: A corpus-based analysis of animal comparisons in Shakespeare’s plays in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe assertion of the centrality and supremacy of man, or rather, of the idea(l) of humanity, during the Renaissance period, inevitably entailed the repudiation of the animal and the beginning of the great human-animal divide. What was seen, at the time, as the rebirth of man, was also the birth of a rampant anthropocentrism which, until the recent…[Read more]
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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Afro-Asian Cultural Solidarity and Unfinished Projects of Independence in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed panel sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Committee of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century.
This panel takes its cue from Leopold Senghor’s writing on the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Bandung moment: as a call to shared independence that bears the risk of (ethno)-nationalist exploitations i…[Read more]
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Radovan Škultéty started the topic CFP (MLA 2019 Chicago): Reinterpreting Nonsense in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis is a call for papers for a special session at the annual MLA convention to take place in Chicago, Jan 3 – 6, 2019.
We live in the internet era with its mirrored online reality where (almost) everything seems quantifiable, searchable and generally predictable. Our minds are trained to apply logic and reason to analyze the world and organize…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019: CFP from GS Prose Fiction
Title of session: Religions + Secularisms in the Novel
Submission requirements: 200-wd abstract & brief bio to jhg@ucla.edu
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2018
Description: After the demise of the secular thesis, new ways of reading the novel in relation to secularism and religion?
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Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2018 in New York
(technical difficulties prevented me this year from posting the GS Prose Fiction panels before MLA; apologies!)
GS Prose Fiction held two panels: Fictionality in a Post-Fact World & Infrastructure
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited CFP: Global Modernisms and the Graphic in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDouglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s field-defining article, “The New Modernist Studies,” turns ten in 2018. Despite the fact that the article takes up new media as a key topic-and although it was published just after ground-breaking work in the “visual turn” of literary studies by Mary Lou Emery (Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature,…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited CFP: Global Modernisms and the Graphic in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDouglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s field-defining article, “The New Modernist Studies,” turns ten in 2018. Despite the fact that the article takes up new media as a key topic-and although it was published just after ground-breaking work in the “visual turn” of literary studies by Mary Lou Emery (Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature,…[Read more]
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Nathan H. Dize deposited An Explosion in the Archives, Reframing French Archives through Caribbean Digital Praxis in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe digital archive of Saint-Domingue poses major questions relating to power and the production of history, especially since North American institutions possess and have digitized massive collections of French language materials. Once digitized, how will the material be curated, read, and interpreted by the archive’s various users (teachers,…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago to be proposed jointly by the GS Drama & Performance and TC Age Studies forums. Responding to the growing interest in age/aging among theatre and performance scholars, the panel seeks papers examining any aspect of the life course from childhood to old age, in…[Read more]
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