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Kristin Moriah started the topic Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoUn-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives
This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]
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SBussey started the topic Philadelphia plans in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoLooking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year’s Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]
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Arianne A. Hartsell-Gundy started the topic Call for Presenters: “Marked for Death? Challenges to the Humanities in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCall for Presenters: “Marked for Death? Challenges to the Humanities and Humanities Librarianship”
All faculty members in humanities disciplines are invited to submit proposals to present at a session entitled “Marked for Death? Challenges to the Humanities and Humanities Librarianship,” at this year’s American Library Association Conferenc…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more] -
Epifanio San Juan deposited CHALLENGING AMERICAN STUDIES in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoCritique of orthodox American Studies in the last quarter of the twentieth=century.
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Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. 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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Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more] -
Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPlease join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023! Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.
Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions
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Arthur Wang started the topic CFP: Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes for Emerging and Contingent Scholars in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPost45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholars. The Emerging Scholar prize is named in honor of two-time Post45 Journal editor Mary Esteve to celebrate her commitment to the work of the journ…[Read more]
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Stephanie Rountree started the topic CFP: Record, Document, Archive [edited collection, advance contract LSU Press] in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoRecord, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region [edited collection]
Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press
Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison
Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023
Completed Chapters (7,000 words): March 15, 2024
As the double meaning of our title suggests,…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoVery happy to share that my article on Kracauer’s “Photography” essay (1927) and its weird use of Bachofen’s theory of the archaic matriarchy has just been published in The Germanic Review. E-prints here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CNSXEEHMUQYSFFXG3TZ9/full?target=10.1080/00168890.2023.2232511
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoReview of Consider David Foster Wallace.
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]
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