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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature”
We invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript sub…[Read more]
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Marlene Daut posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello, fellow 19th-century Americanists! This is Marlene Daut, and I am on the ballot for the 19th-Century American Executive Committee this MLA. So, I thought I’d take just a few moments to tell you a little bit about my interests.
After being at the Claremont Graduate University for 7 years, I’ve recently moved to the University of Virginia…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark created the doc Emerson Society Awards announcement 2018 in the group
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Eric Weiskott deposited English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoEnglish Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth century, when alliterative poetry ceased to be composed. Eric Weiskott draws on the study of…[Read more]
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Joseph Campana posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCall for postdocs
Rice University, 2018-19: “Waste Histories and Futures.”
http://hrc.rice.edu/node/709
Deadline: Friday, December 1, 2017Rice University’s Humanities Research Center will host the seminar “Waste: Histories and Futures” in 2018-19, co-organized by Joseph Campana (English), Cymene Howe (Anthropology), and Dominic Boyer…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers
Living Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms
ACLA Seminar, 3/29-4/1, 2018 at UCLAThis American Comparative Literature Association seminar invites papers addressing life forms that have been largely neglected by the nonhuman turn, in its more immediate focus on animals, objects, and environmental forces or…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited The Medieval Chinese Gāthā and Its Relationship to Poetry in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAbstract: This paper investigates the shifting definitions of the term gāthā (Ch. ji) over an 800-year period, from the earliest sūtratranslations into Chinese until the mid-tenth century. Although the term originally referred to the verse sections of scriptures, gāthās soon began to circulate separately, used in ritual, contemplative, and peda…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Rags Make Paper, Paper Makes Money: Material Texts and Metaphors of Capital in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoBecause nineteenth-century paper was made from rags, the materiality of paper money became a likely ground from which to debate the nature of value in modern capitalism. On one hand, if paper money was backed by nothing but itself, then it was worth little more than itself: a gathering of lowly rags. On the other hand, the process of turning…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHi everyone, just wondering what to do to make this site of greater use to membership. All suggestions and ideas welcome!
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Let us know if we can help here! It might be great to use your group (or site) to promote all the ecocriticism / environmental humanities sessions at the convention, collect presentations and slides from presenters (share them with the group from CORE), or promote other events relevant to the group through the “Events” calendar up above!
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Susan Tane Travel Grants for joint PS/NHS Conference in Kyoto in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSusan Tane Travel Grants, Flight, and Hotel Information for Poe Scholars Traveling to Kyoto:
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from June 21-24, 2018. Plenary speakers will be Michael J.…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Kyoto Conference – Deadline: August 1, 2017 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Conference
Kyoto Garden Palace Hotel—Kyoto, Japan
The Poe Studies Association, The Poe Society of Japan, The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society of Japan invite paper and session proposals for a joint conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan on June 21-24, 2018. Our banquet speaker w…[Read more] -
Ivonne Garcia started the topic Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Kyoto Conference Sam Coale Travel Grants, etc. in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoKyoto Conference Sam Coale Travel Grants, Flight, Hotel, and Contact Information:
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from June 21-24, 2018. Plenary speakers will be Michael J. Colacurcio and…[Read more] -
Eric Weiskott deposited Real Formalism, Real Historicism in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoIn the next seven minutes, I would like to convince you that real formalism and real historicism really are, or really should be, one and the same critical practice. Our idea of what counts as knowledge about early English literature will be enriched by integrating formalist and historicist methods. Those of us who work on prosody and poetics are…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Quantity in the Alliterative Tradition in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoQuantity matters in the meter of Beowulf and other early English poems. It matters in the form of a metrical principle known as resolution. Metrical resolution served alliterative poets as a way of counting; it can serve modern scholars as evidence for the cultural meanings of verse craft. This paper therefore has two sections: How it Works and…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Jane Addams and Hull-House (historical novel Waking the Dead) in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe historical novel Waking the Dead is now available at ResearchGate. This data file (there are 20) introduces Jane Addams
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Timothy Robbins started the topic Seeking Contributors to The Open Anthology of Early American Literature in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months ago<p dir=”ltr”>Dear C-19 friends and colleagues,</p>
<p dir=”ltr”>We are currently seeking writers, editors, and contributors of all kinds to The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook under development with the Rebus Community. Rebus is a non-profit organization that works with faculty,…[Read more] - Load More
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