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Letizia Modena started the topic Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCfp MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee “Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic”
How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted scholarly pursuits in and around Italian Studies, especially across gender positions and discipl…[Read more]
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Letizia Modena started the topic Italo Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCFP per MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy
A century after his birth, Italo Calvino still enjoys an international following that includes novelists, artists, literary scholars, architects, even mathematicians and en…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Lisa A. Freeman started the topic CFP Drama and Performance Forum and Sound Studies Joint Session in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Sounds of Humor
The Drama and Performance Forum and the Sound Studies Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) announce a co-sponsored session entitled “The Sounds of Humor” to be held at the MLA Convention in San Francisco, CA from January 5-8, 2023. What does humor sound like? Sounds tend to play an important role in performances inte…[Read more]
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Lisa A. Freeman started the topic CFP Drama and Performance Forum in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Drama and Performance Forum solicits paper proposals for two guaranteed sessions at MLA 2023 in San Francisco:
Humor and Humorlessness before 1900 From the medieval period to the nineteenth century the concept of humor shifted from an aspect of human physiology, to the eccentric qualities of individuals or comic characters, to a mode of…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited De nostri temporis studiorum ratione and the Digital Humanities in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoTaking a page from eighteenth century philosopher Gianbattista Vico, this is a brief reflection on how Italian Studies scholars might view their work differently in light of the digital turn.
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Rielle Navitski started the topic Call for Session Proposals in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Screen Arts and Culture Forum Committee is seeking proposals from the membership for two of our yearly panel slots (one guaranteed, one non-guaranteed).
If you are posting a CFP for your session on the MLA site, the deadline is February 28.
We will consider proposals for sessions up through March 15. Please email your proposals, including…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic 2021 ATHE Outstanding Book Awards: nomination deadline 1 February in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease consider nominating outstanding authors, scholars, educators, leaders, playwrights, artists, and editors for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s prestigious awards.
Please visit ATHE’s website for submission information and other details (under the “awards” drop-down tab).
The deadline for nominations is February 1.
We a…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoEdited Collection of essays on music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
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David Palmer started the topic MLA Session on Teaching Drama and the Humanities in Undergraduate Education in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Eugene O’Neill Society has organized a virtual MLA 2022 round-table session (#216V, Friday morning, January 7, 10:15 – 11:30) on the challenges of teaching drama both in theatre courses and in broader undergraduate surveys of literature. The discussion will expand to include ideas about the role of the humanities amid the increasingly car…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic MLA Session on Teaching Drama and the Humanities in Undergraduate Education in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Eugene O’Neill Society has organized a virtual MLA 2022 round-table session (#216V, Friday morning, January 7, 10:15 – 11:30) on the challenges of teaching drama both in theatre courses and in broader undergraduate surveys of literature. The discussion will expand to include ideas about the role of the humanities amid the increasingly car…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.
The following sessions will now be held virtually:
Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Presider: Rielle Navitski
A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. Drawing on the work of authors including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that p…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kastleman deposited Abstracts for MLA 2022 Session 410V, “Bad Revivals” in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis file contains abstracts for the papers presented by Minou Arjomand, Rebecca Kastleman, and Kelli Shermeyer in MLA 2022 special session 410V, “Bad Revivals: Dramas of Unruly Repetition.”
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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Dr. Elizabeth Hunter deposited Participant information for MLA 2022 Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoBios and recent work of the participants for the 2022 MLA Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” scheduled to take place on January 6, 2022.
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Dr. Elizabeth Hunter deposited Participant information for MLA 2022 Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoBios and recent work of the participants for the 2022 MLA Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” scheduled to take place on January 6, 2022.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. 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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