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Steven Schroeder deposited in the path of totality in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe forty poems in this collection have percolated through more than forty years of meditation on “city” that began when I was an undergraduate studying with Richard Luecke at Valparaiso University. The title, In the Path of Totality, references a phrase made familiar by media coverage leading up to the total solar eclipse that was visible acr…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited fallen prose in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years agoChina is the occasion, not the subject or the object, of the forty-seven poems collected in Steven Schroeder’s Fallen Prose – lyrical glimpses of the “new” city in Southern light. Most of the poems in the collection are set in Shenzhen, a few in Zhuhai, Macao, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong – and one or two a bit further west, in Kunming. All attend…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited the imperfection of the eye in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years agoThere is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here and now of the seventy-one poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection is most often Chicago,…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years agoIn the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award (Nominations Due 3.15.2023) in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear Colleagues,
The faculty of English at Idaho State University invites nominations for the fifth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2021 and 2022 are due March 15, 2023. For more information…[Read more]
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Michaela Hulstyn started the topic CFP MLA 2024: Vital Signs: Thinking and Feeling Sustenance and Survival in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Cognitive and Affect Studies forum invites papers that discuss vital signs in literature for a guaranteed session at the 2024 MLA. Please submit a 250-word abstract and short bio to mhulstyn@stanford.edu by 15 March.
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Ellen Spolsky replied to the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies via email on MLA Commons 3 years agoSome of you may also be interested in the *on line* Special Session
629 *Cognition,
Law, and Literature *Sunday 8 January 10:15 AM-11:30 AMhttps://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Session/14222
Presider
– SSimon Stern
<https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Person/5709>
– U of TorontoPresentations…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoAll: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoAll: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Cognitive and Affect Studies-sponsored Sessions at MLA2023 in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoI hope everyone will attend our forum’s sponsored sessions this year at MLA2023! Here is a convenient link to all three in the convention program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Symposium/2149
We have three very different sessions this year. First up, on Thursday, is a face-to-face session exploring neurodiverse modes of literary…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Cognitive and Affect Studies-sponsored Sessions at MLA2023 in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoI hope our forum members will consider attending our sponsored sessions at this year’s MLA convention, and help out our work by letting others who will be in attendance know about them!
* Attention, Please! Thu 5:15-6:30, Moscone West – this face to face session examines attention from neurodiverse perspectives, including neuroqueer, ADHD, and…[Read more]
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Laura Helton started the topic MLA panels sponsored by the Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoFor those attending MLA in San Francisco in January, please join us for two sessions sponsored by the Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum:
Collaborative Work in Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Friday, January 6, 10:15-11:30, Moscone West 3006
Marissa Nicosia, Presiding
Panelists: Filipa Calado, Daniela D’Eugenio, Kara Flynn, Juniper…[Read more]
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Laura Helton started the topic Nominations for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum Exec Committee in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
The Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum is seeking self-nominations for a new member of the forum’s executive committee, to serve a five-year term starting in January 2024. The executive committee organizes at least one MLA conference session each year and nominates a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. If you’re int…[Read more]
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Jessica DeSpain started the topic TM Teaching of Literature Forum Delegate in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAs the convention approaches, the Teaching of Literature Forum is seeking a new delegate. If you would like to participate or if you have any suggestions for someone who would be a good fit, please share them here. If you have questions, you can share them here or email me at jdespai@siue.edu.
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoJames Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Mor…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoConsidering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature?
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Molly D. Appel deposited Syllabus for Digital Humanities and Early Latinx Literatures in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoLatinx/o/a writing has existed long before 20th century state policies and publishing markets created the category we recognize today as “Latino/a literature.” This course will focus on the literary and cultural production of writers from the era of initial colonization through Latin American independence and the 19th century actions fueled by the…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Testimonies of War: Reportages by Samar Yazbek and Atef Abu Saif” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoWar diaries are often written under duress, and are attempts at documenting events as they unfold, or narrating stories of how people survive under trying circumstances. She argues that conditions of war under which authors produce their work dictate the form itself. When an author’s life is under threat, when safety is compromised, m…[Read more]
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