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Sujata Iyengar started the topic EXTENDED DUE DATES for MLA Shax Panels: MARCH 26th in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe Exec Committee of the Shakespeare Forum for the Modern Language Association of America announce calls for presentations for three sessions at the annual convention from January 6-9, 2022. Please note updated DUE DATE of MARCH 26th, 2021.
Re-Reading “Timon of Athens”
What can be done with “Timon of Athens” today? We welcome a range of metho…[Read more] -
Sujata Iyengar edited the doc Calls for Presentations, MLA 2022, from the Exec Committee in the group
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James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]
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Daniela D'Eugenio started the topic Jane Tylus_What Does it Take to Make a Saint Medieval Women, Yesterday and Today in the discussion
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Italian Program at the University of Arkansas would like to invite you to a lecture by Prof. Jane Tylus (Yale University), “What Does it Take to Make a Saint? Medieval Women, Yesterday and Today,” on Monday, March 22, at 6:00pm CST.
All are welcome! Please register in advance for the event Register here. All registered par…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago*Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original post. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original message. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Scott Newman started the topic CFP African Sound Studies in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers
A Panel on “African Sound Studies” at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
November 16 – 20, 2021
Sound studies has exploded over the past decade, drawing heightened attention to how sound and sonic media shape both the everyday and the exceptional. But even as sound studies has attended closely to qu…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Familiar Ambiguity: The Value of the Humanities in a Globalized World,” Signal House 10 (March 2021) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe world needs good question askers as much as it needs good problem solvers. Before solving problems, we need to first identify the problems. Great stories are often strangers at home. The best of them defamiliarize banal experiences and everyday utterances while offering something recognizable through a new language and form.…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar created the doc Calls for Presentations, MLA 2022, from the Exec Committee in the group
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic From the Shakespeare Forum Exec: Calls for Presentations, MLA 2022 in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Exec Committee of the Shakespeare Forum for the Modern Language Association of America announce calls for presentations for three sessions at the annual convention from January 6-9, 2022
Re-Reading “Timon of Athens
What can be done with “Timon of Athens” today? We welcome a range of methodologies and concerns. Send bios, titles, and 100…[Read more]
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Ricardo Jose Castro started the topic CFP: Cognitive Approaches to Latin American / Iberian Cultural Productions in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Graduate Student Caucus, Allied MLA Organization, is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on Cognitive Approaches to Comtemporary Latin American & Iberian Cultural Productions, at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC.
Panel focuses on cognitive approaches to literatures/cultures of Iberia/Latin America. Topics may include, but not…[Read more]
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Rich Willis deposited An emendation of verses in Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander”. in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI suggest an emendation of some of Marlowe’s verses in his tragedy of “Hero and Leander”, published in 1598 as if an “unfinished Tragedy”. The point of my emendation is to develop an approach to an understanding of what Shakespeare has to say about Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander”. For examples in Sonnet 117 Shakespeare tells Henry something about…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic CPF: Imagining Time (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoImagining Time
Seeking work on the psychology of time in reading: how writers and readers make & modulate virtual experiences of time; tempo, cadence, duration, synchronicity; cognitive approaches particularly welcome. 300-word abstract and CV. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021 Elizabeth Oldfather, U of Louisiana, Monroe…[Read more] -
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Care in the Age of Chaucer in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCare in the Age of Chaucer
Premodern care across political, ethical, religious, medical, environmental discourses. Gender, conduct, and responsibility. Consolation and therapy. Justice and reparation. (Un)caring acts and affects. Pastoral, non-Foucauldian, Lordean paradigms. Self and community. Please submit 250-word abstracts to Wan-Chuan Kao…[Read more]
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Ingrid Nelson started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Atmospheric Chaucer in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWhat kinds of atmospheres does Chaucer’s work engage with or create? How can we understand the social, political, ecological, juridical, poetic, sensory, or media atmospheres within which his poetry circulates? To what extent is Chaucerian poetry part of our contemporary atmosphere? How can we engage with premodern and/or modern theories of a…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (Spanish version) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis Spanish-language unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of C…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (English version) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations,” Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSince the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]
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