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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFour themes distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theaters from works in other parts of the world: Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle; Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities in film and touring productions; and multilingual, disability, and racial…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFour themes distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theaters from works in other parts of the world: Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle; Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities in film and touring productions; and multilingual, disability, and racial…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare: A Critical Introduction.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin, Ema Vyroubalova, Elizabeth Pentland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse in London in 1599. Performances of Shakespeare not only create channels between geographic spaces but also connect different time periods. Divided into two major sections, Shakespeare and World Cultures and Shakespeare and Genres, the…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Territoriality, Language, and Power in the 18th-19th c. Iberian World (MLA 2022 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
If you’re thinking of attending MLA 2022, please consider applying for this panel and/or spreading the word to interested colleagues. Thanks!
Nobel Prize winner and 20th-century poet Czeslaw Milosz famously wrote that “language is the only homeland.” In the 18th-19th century Iberian world, a world made by European imp…[Read more]
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Jean-Claude Carron started the topic Sixteenth-Century French Poetry Auction in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoOffrez-vous, entre autres, l’édition originale de la Défense ou les Oeuvres des Dames des Roches, de la collection Barbier-Mueller à Genève. Voir cette information parue dans Le Temps:
“… Si Les Hymnes ne constituent pas la plus importante des pièces proposées, ce recueil de Pierre de Ronsard était pour Barbier-Mueller l’un des plus beaux ouv…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic CFPs: 16th-Century French–LLC for MLA 2022 Washington, DC (Due: 15 March) in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months ago1. Current Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies
The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature invites proposals for 18-minute papers on any aspect of sixteenth-century French literature and culture to be delivered at the MLA in Washington, D.C., 6–9 January 2022. We will consider s…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Calls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years agoCalls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022
How the French 17th Century Invented (or Not)… What ideas, practices, forms, or genres can be ascribed to 17th-century France and what should be reconsidered in light of a different temporality or geographic origin? Send 300-word proposals to harrisod@grinnell.edu by…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Ethnohistory Submissions — Primary Sources for Research, Teaching, Activism in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Submissions – Ethnohistorical Primary Documents (from Rob Schwaller)
The global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has dramatically affected academic research and publication. As many professional ethnohistorians struggle to meet the challenges of online teaching and face severely limited research opportunities, the editors of Ethnohistory…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.: The Pandemic and ‘Yellow Peril’.” Global Social Security Review Vol. 15 (Winter 2020): 50-59 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years agoScroll down to read the Korean, followed by English, versions :::::: COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. Offering strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic, this article analyzes the his…[Read more]
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Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2021: Forum Panels in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease consider attending one or both of the panels sponsored by our forum at MLA 2021 in the next few days:
“Revisiting William Morris and the Arts and Crafts: Reception and Influence,” our co-sponsored panel, is scheduled for Thursday, January 7th from 5:15pm – 6:30pm (EDT).
“From the Scribal to the Digital: The Labor of Collections” is…[Read more]
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Li Guo started the topic Invitation to LLC Ming Qing Chinese Social Event, Session 11077 in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years agoInvitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST
Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077
Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,
Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.
Forum members: Rania…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic André Tournon, “Rire pour comprendre…” now available from Classiques Garnier in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoPlease see the attached prospectus from Garnier Frères (forwarded to our Forum by Ned Duval)
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIntroduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.
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Whitney Trettien deposited Cultures of the Book (ENGL 034, taught remotely Fall 2020) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe book: it’s a soothingly familiar technology, one we all know how to operate. Open the front covers to reveal the text; turn the page to continue reading. Yet even the most seemingly ordinary aspects of the book, like titles and page numbers, had to be invented. In this course, we will work to defamiliarize the book, investigating how the f…[Read more]
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Rachael King started the topic Statement on Forum Executive Committee Election in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to be nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the CLCS 18th-Century forum. I have been an MLA member since 2008. My work, while rooted in eighteenth-century British literature, crosses fields to draw from media studies, book history, and the history of ideas. My first book, Writing to the World: Letters a…[Read more]
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Patricia Sieber started the topic LLC Ming and Qing Forum Executive Committee Election Candidate Statement (2020) in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPATRICIA SIEBER
CANDIDATE STATEMENT FOR THE LLC MING AND QING CHINESE (G202) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION
I am an associate professor of Chinese literature and the inaugural director of the Translation and Interpreting Program at The Ohio State University. My research interests encompass traditional Chinese theater and song…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPrior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]
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