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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrahams, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrhamas, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Afro-Asian Cultural Solidarity and Unfinished Projects of Independence in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed panel sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Committee of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century.
This panel takes its cue from Leopold Senghor’s writing on the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Bandung moment: as a call to shared independence that bears the risk of (ethno)-nationalist exploitations i…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 (Chicago) Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum (please excuse the cross-forum advertising):
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited CFP: Global Modernisms and the Graphic in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDouglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s field-defining article, “The New Modernist Studies,” turns ten in 2018. Despite the fact that the article takes up new media as a key topic-and although it was published just after ground-breaking work in the “visual turn” of literary studies by Mary Lou Emery (Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature,…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited CFP: Global Modernisms and the Graphic in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDouglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s field-defining article, “The New Modernist Studies,” turns ten in 2018. Despite the fact that the article takes up new media as a key topic-and although it was published just after ground-breaking work in the “visual turn” of literary studies by Mary Lou Emery (Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature,…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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Petrus Liu posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 8 years agoBU visiting position
Visiting Assistant Professor position in Chinese Lit. at Boston University
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/10781
The Department of World Languages & Literatures (WLL) invites applications for a one-year non-tenure track Visiting Assistant Professor position in Chinese literature for the 2018-2019 academic year…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 8 years agoReconsidering Family Relations in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
A Forum Session at the 2018 MLA in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019.
Family relations over the past 120 years in Chinese society(ies) have changed dramatically, and some would argue that the emergence of individualism as a modern, atomized, subjective formation has risen in inverse…[Read more]
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Fahri Öz deposited “‘To Take Were to Purloin’: Sexuality in the Narrative Poems by Christina Rossetti” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoChristina Rossetti, sexuality, narrative poems
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Fahri Öz deposited Drum-Taps: Whitman’s Problematic Legacy as a War Poet in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis paper analyzes Walt Whitman’s American Civil War poems in his collection Drum-Taps
in comparison with the poetry written by British soldier-poets of WWI. These poems present
Whitman as a problematic model for future generations of war poets since he hardly ever
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Jessica Hurley deposited Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Jessica Hurley deposited Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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