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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Taking Liberties: Academic Freedom and the Humanities in the group
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThe state of academic freedom today, the particular vulnerability of certain areas of study, and the special relevance of scholarship in the humanities to defenses of academic freedom.
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoPlease attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, for your classes. Help your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future.
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Francesco Levato started the topic CFP: Border(ing) Anxiety: Constructions of a Biopolitical Other in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers: Permanent Section – Creative Writing II (Prose) – Deadline Extended
2015 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Border(ing) Anxiety: Constructions of a Biopolitical Other
The force of biopolitics in contemporary society marks boundaries beyond geopolitical borders, inscribing otherness on bodies simultaneously necessary…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoSpecial Issue for Postcolonial Text
CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue
(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)
In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compil…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoSpecial Issue for Postcolonial Text
CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia
(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)
In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a forthcoming i…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic MLA Panel for 2016 – Forum on South Asia and South Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoTransnational Memories: 9/11 and South Asians (Guaranteed panel)
Papers that engage with racial injury, anger, trauma, and grief of South Asians in post-9/11 US, Canada, and Britain; representations of 9/11 in fiction, cinema, memoirs, etc. produced in South Asia and in the West; surveillance and securitization in South Asia and in the W…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSession type: Special Session
Title of session: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures
Submission requirements: Abstract of about 250 words.
Deadline for submissions: 20 March 2015
Description: Utopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual ar…[Read more] -
Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoUtopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual arts welcome.
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoUtopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual arts welcome.
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and brief CV by 15 March…[Read more]
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: Comparing Doris Lessing's Historical & Speculative Fiction, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoLooking Backward, Looking Forward: Comparative Readings of Doris Lessing’s Historical and Speculative Fiction
for the MLA Convention in Austin, 2016.Seeking comparisons of Lessing’s historical-realist-autobiographical to her speculative novels or stories, as these are often considered by critics to be separate areas or phases of Lessing’s wo…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro started the topic CFP: Forum on Global Hispanophone in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe new MLA Forum on Global Hispanophone is delighted to invite submissions for our inaugural session/s, which will take place at the MLA Annual Convention in Austin, Texas, on 7-10 January, 2016. (Note: these Calls for Papers are also available on the MLA website).
Hispanophone Literatures and Postcolonial Theory
The term ‘Hispanophone li…[Read more]
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Keith Dorwick started the topic CFP: The Chronicles of Narnia at 60, Austin in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
I am seeking speakers for a panel at the next meeting of the Modern Language Association in Austin TX, 7-10 January 2015. Successful panelists will present short critical papers (20 mins; 6 double spaced pages single sided; this is a firm limit) that discuss C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia as a whole on the 6…[Read more]
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Lauren J. Lacey started the topic CFP for 2016 MLA in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe cfp for our guaranteed MLA session is now available on the MLA website:
Theory Now
Where is theory in relation to posthumanism or the post-humanities, new materialisms, object-oriented ontology, the neural turn and other recent developments? 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2015; Lauren Lacey (llacey@edgewood.edu) and Tilottama Rajan (<…[Read more] -
Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum: Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-a…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP – MA 2016: Literature and the Public Sphere (Corrected) in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”
The focus of this session (sponsored by the Division on the Teaching of Literature) is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that eng…[Read more]
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