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Christopher M. Lupke replied to the topic Navigating the MLA: A Guide for East Asian Scholars in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoColleagues:
Thanks for your interest. The MLA is a multifaceted organization with lots of different things going on. Those in East Asian Studies are mostly fairly new to the MLA. Thus, we are organizing this session to give an overview of what the MLA does and how to navigate it. There also will be ample time for questions and comments. Members…[Read more]
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Monika Dix posted an update in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoI would also be interested in participating in this discussion, especially addressing the issue how to convince more East Asian specialists (faculty & grad students) to join the MLA. How can the MLA serve as a complementary platform or provide something very different from conferences such as AAS?
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Melek Ortabasi replied to the topic Navigating the MLA: A Guide for East Asian Scholars in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoWhat a great idea for networking and sharing information. Thanks for doing this and please post to all East Asian forums!
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Pamela Herron replied to the topic Navigating the MLA: A Guide for East Asian Scholars in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoI would be interested in this especially if I could address it from the point of view of contingent or non-tenured faculty.
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Kelly Y. Jeong started the topic Disability and Human (in)Dignity in East Asian Literature and Film in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPapers addressing representations of <span class=”il”>disability</span> and human (in)dignity in <span class=”il”>East</span> <span class=”il”>Asian</span> literature and film. Comparative perspectives preferred. 250-word abstract and short CV by March 15; Kelly Jeong (kelly.jeong@ucr.edu)
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Kelly Y. Jeong started the topic Navigating the MLA: A Guide for East Asian Scholars in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoNavigating the MLA: A Guide for East Asian Scholars
An interactive discussion for East Asian scholars on how to master the intricacies of the
MLA covering Forums, Elected Committees, the Delegate Assembly, MLA Commons,
and more.
Guaranteed Session Sponsored by the East Asian Forum.
Christopher Lupke Presiding.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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William Waters replied to the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoJust a reminder that this Friday February 17, 2017 is the CFP deadline for “Situating Lyric” (Boston University, June 7-11, 2017): see http://www.bu.edu/wll/situatinglyric . Confirmed speakers include Jonathan Culler, Charles Altieri, Virginia Jackson, Jahan Ramazani, Dominique Combe, Eva Zettelmann, Klaus Hempfer, Haun Saussy, Stephen Owen, Robert von…[Read more]
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Jiwei Xiao started the topic Jia Pingwa MLA 2018 Roundtable cfp in the discussion
Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe “Arrival” of Jia Pingwa in World Literature: Translation and Interpretation
A Roundtable sponsored by the LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese Forum for the MLA Annual Meeting in New York, Jan. 4-7, 2018.
Jia Pingwa is considered one of the most original and influential novelists in contemporary China. A prolific writer, he has non…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Artaud y México in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis essay proposes the concept of literary immanence as a new critical model for reading world literature from the perspective of the specific situation experienced by the subject as he or she encounters the world. The literary event is instantiated within three discursive domains: literary immanence, the literary situation into which the subject…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Institutional History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Institutional History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through organizations, schools, institutes, and symposia. Papers on any aspect of this institutional history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Peter M. Logan (peter.logan@temple.edu). -
Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Book History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Book History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through publishing. Papers investigating presses, journals, book series, or other aspects of print history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Jeffrey J. Williams (jwill@andrew.cmu.edu). -
William Waters replied to the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years ago“Situating Lyric” Conference website (with updated CFP): http://www.bu.edu/wll/situatinglyric
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William Waters started the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years ago“SITUATING LYRIC”
First biannual conference of International Network for the Study of Lyric
To be held at Boston University June 7–11, 2017 (CFP extended deadline: February 17, 2017)
The general theory of lyric is a developing field of study. After a period of relative neglect, a breakthrough moment seems to have arrived with multiple new model…[Read more]
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Nathan Faries started the topic Ming/Qing LLC Forum Meeting Notes (Jan. 6, 2017) in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 9 years agoMing/Qing China LLC Forum
MLA 2017 Meeting Notes, Philadelphia
January 6, 7:30-8:45 p.m.
Chair, Prof. Tina Lu presiding, started at 7:35 p.m.
12 colleagues in attendance (attendance/e-mail sign-up page passed around)
How do we increase representation and build community of Chinese scholars at MLA?
Encourage panel proposals, direct…[Read more]
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Michael Bérubé deposited Why Teach Literature? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years agoContribution to “Why Teach Literature?” Program arranged by the forum TM The Teaching of Literature. Gaurav G. Desai, Tulane U, presiding.
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Yes — please come! BTW — I’m not seeing my responses posted in the MLA Commons LLC East Asian. Can they make a more cumbersome online system?? Best wishes, Chris