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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Weihsin Gui started the topic 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium – Talk on Sonny Liew in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoI’ll be giving a talk on Sonny Liew’s Eisner Award-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye at the 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium, and there are other fascinating talks on graphic novels lined up too. The event takes place on Friday April 12 at the Mandel Humanities Center, Brandeis University.
Below is the program and a link to the BNS web…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoReview for The Seventeenth Century of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, _The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Changed the World_ and Marco Barducci, _Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718_
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Paul Fyfe deposited Access, Computational Analysis, and Fair Use in the Digitized Nineteenth- Century Press in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis essay looks to the near history of copyright, commercially licensed resources, and fair use that shapes digital scholarship on nineteenth-century periodicals today. Using the digitization of British Library newspapers as a case study, I demonstrate how arguments about access to public domain materials do not fully account for the complex…[Read more]
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Kristin Bluemel deposited Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced…[Read more]
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Cassandra Laity deposited Towards Feminist Modernist Studies in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIntroduction to the new feminists modernisms in the inaugural issue of Feminist Modernist Studies.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic Invitation to Serve on the Exec Com of LLC Pre-1990 African Literature Forum in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThe Executive Committee of the Pre-1990 African Literature Forum is always looking for people willing and able to serve on the committee, as it is a four-year commitment with one person rotating off each year. The main responsibility of committee members is hosting two to four panels on pre-1990 African literature, so the labor is not onerous. It…[Read more]
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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic Invitation to Mentor Members in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
The MLA is looking for ways to improve year-round engagement in the forums, and it has identified professional development as a critical area of need for many of our members. If you would be willing to mentor another member of the LLC Pre-1990 African Literature forum, please reply to this post here or email Wendy Belcher at…[Read more] -
Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Maria Shine Stewart started the topic An Inside HIgher Ed Essay — Just Sharing … Written in July 2016 in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agohttps://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/07/21/how-improve-teaching-conditions-adjunct-faculty-members-essay Nothing fancy here, but a dean at one of my schools contacted me after it ran.
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic Global South panels at the 2019 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThe Global South forum’s sponsored panel at this year’s MLA, “Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South,” will take place on Thursday, Jan 3 from 3:30 – 4:45pm (Hyatt Regency – Grand Suit 5). We hope to see you there.
You might also be interested in the panel “The Global South Novel,” organized by Anne Garland Mahler (out-going member of…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic CFP : Women and Language in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHello all, here’s a CFP that may be of interest. I assume W&L must be interested in eco approaches, since the editor asked us to post. Had to edit submission requirements. Cheers.
Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original…[Read more]
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