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Lennie Amores started the topic Call For Papers MLA 2025 Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoMLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section. The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit proposals:
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions, personal or pedagogical practices, and case studies on the relation between d…[Read more] -
Dorothy Stringer started the topic Join TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature’s Executive Committee! in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years agoMLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for a seat on the Executive Board. The Executive Board devises and runs programming for the MLA Convention, including at least two panels yearly. The Forum is an excellent way to meet colleagues with similar interests.…[Read more]
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Mimi Winick deposited Abstracts for panel, “Anthropology and Speculative Fiction,” MLA 2024 in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years ago“Anthropologists, Aliens, and Indigenous Futurism: Writing against Culture in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning” Eric Aronoff, Michigan State U
“Alberto Vanasco: An Alien Ethnography of Argentina,” Caleb Delorme, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
“H. G. Wells’s Fetishism ” Jayne Hildebrand, Barnard C
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Darren J. Borg replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoOur panel, #733–“What is a life worth living?: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life– does not have a specific focus on psychoanalysis, but my paper, “Towards a Psychoanalysis of the Time-Traveller,” does. Please share!
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThe Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature invites you to attend our panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia!
We have two interesting and timely sessions this year:
194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti
Friday, 5 January 2024, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak started the topic My virtual talk on bringing in disabled guest speakers in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
My name is Tekla Babyak (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014)—I’m an independent scholar and disability activist with multiple sclerosis. As an MLA Delegate Assembly Member representing Disability in the Profession, I’m committed to fighting against ableism in academia.
To that end, I’m writing to let you know about my upcoming v…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: MLA 2024–Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers. Queer theory embraces p…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.
The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).
This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations For Assembly Delegate in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe TC Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Running for Delegate is a good way to become more involved in Forum activities and to make connections with colleagues who share your scholarly interests. To forward your own or a colleague’s name, or to…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Sebastian Lecourt started the topic Self-Nominations for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoAs the outgoing chair of TC Anthropology and Literature, I would like to invite the membership to offer self-nominations for the Forum’s Executive Committee. Following recent reforms, new EC members are now nominated instead of elected, but suggestions may still be solicited from the membership. Please submit self-nominations to me at…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2023 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature is pleased to announce five panels at MLA 2023 (including some postponed from 2022). The full list can be accessed at this link. We hope to see you there!
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Maren T. Linett started the topic Members’ suggestions for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAt (and after) the January convention, the TC Disability Studies executive committee will need to appoint a new member to the executive committee. Please let us know if you want to self-nominate or nominate someone else and we will consider all nominations at our meeting. Thank you!
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Maren T. Linett replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThank you Leigh! Who has a nomination or self-nomination for someone to run for a term of service on the delegate assembly for TC Disability Studies? The Executive Committee, as Leigh notes, will be considering nominees at our meeting at the January MLA.
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