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Joseph Paul Fisher started the topic CFP: Music behind Bars: Articulating Incarceration and Popular Music in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPopular music’s relationship with incarceration has been a long and complicated one. The musician Lead Belly spent long stretches in prison for murder and other crimes but was eventually turned into a musical legend by folklorists John and Alan Lomax. In 1957, Elvis Presley had a number one hit with the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition “…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Transnational Adoption in Film in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its guaranteed session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015
The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic Call For Papers: MLA Convention 2015 Transnational Adoption in Film in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015
The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the adoption…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic CFP MLA 2015: "Arthur Miller: Reflections on the American Dream" in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years ago2015 is the centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth. As part of the celebration of this event, the Arthur Miller Society is organizing a session at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver on a central theme in Miller’s literary work and his career as a public intellectual: the elusiveness of the American Dream, the Dream’s foundations in what often are c…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014<…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic PEHS Calls for Papers in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSessions Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel 1: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline Hopkins frequently…[Read more] -
David Palmer started the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI would like to invite anyone interested in theater, psychological or philosophical issues in literature, narratology, or cognitive approaches to literary analysis to consider attending the following MLA special-session round-table discussion sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society. We plan to allow at least 25 minutes of this 75-minute session for…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE Translating Social Movements Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014 The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as the…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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