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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoOceans and Empires: Sinophone Crossroads in Global Space and Time
The 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies <https://www.sinophonestudies.org/s3conference>
5/12—5/14/2023
Penn State University
The Sinophone world that is invigorated by “multisensory protests” and “ally-ship” (the focus of the 2021 conference) a…[Read more]
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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in SE Asian Studies in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years agoGosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies
The Association for Asian Studies is honored to offer the new Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies, made possible by a generous gift from L.A. Peter Gosling and Linda Yuen-Ching Lim.This fellowship is focused on cap…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: New Media and Post/Colonialism: New Colonial Media? in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years agoCall for Papers
New Media and Post/Colonialism: New Colonial Media?
Recent global scholarly debates have brought increased attention to the question of the “coloniality” of media, both new and old. While indigeneity and colonial subjection are both being pursued in these arenas, we are interested in the following questions, and more:
• Have…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Dec. 13, 2021; 6-7:30pm) Latinx Project featuring NYU Press Books in the discussion
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoLatinx Studies at NYU Press
Mon, December 13, 2021, from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
On Monday, December 13, 2021, The Latinx Project is holding a feature of NYU Press books on Latinx Studies; including Jesica S. Fernández, author of Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship; Mary Beltran, author of the forthcoming Latino TV…[Read more]
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Emily Friedman deposited ENGL4160EA: Fall 2022: How Games Tell Stories in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWe are quickly approaching the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the 10th anniversaries of Twitch and Itch.io, and the ninth generation of video game consoles. The most successful TV/film Kickstarter of all time funded the animated series for D&D livestream Critical Role. Game Studies has existed as an interdisciplinary field for over three…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop
Conveners: Brian Bernards (USC) and Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK)
Part 1: University of Southern California (Los Angeles), May 20-21, 2022
Part 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 10-11, 2022Over the past two decades, intermediality and inter-Asia (much like interdisciplinarity) have…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSince the Intifada of 2000, living conditions in the Gaza Strip have progressively deteriorated, and when Hamas came to power in 2006–07, a complete blockade was enforced on the inhabitants by Egypt and Israel. In addition, five full-scale wars have been
waged on the Strip. Despite these conditions, Gazans remain resilient, as evidenced by s…[Read more] -
Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Bringing Superheroes into the Fight against COVID-19 Misinformation in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOver the past year, artists, doctors, medical professionals, and international agencies such as the World Health Organisation have been using comics to communicate the risks of the SARS-CoV2 virus. The visual economy and a near-universal language of lines, balloons, and panels in comics makes them well suited to disseminate epidemic-related…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Los modos literarios flexibles de ‘Vísceras de la ciudad’ (1935) de Rosa Arciniega in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.
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Alden Sajor Marte-Wood started the topic Call for papers: Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia (MLA 2022) in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for papers: Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). This session is sponsored by the MLA’s Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia Diasporic forum. In The Costs of Connection: How D…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellows in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe University of Washington Libraries invites applicants for our Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellowship Program funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. We invite recent Ph.D. graduates, or finishing doctoral candidates across all disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences to apply for one of three one-quarter long full time paid…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Symposium: Literary / Media Histories of (Post)colonial Southeast Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoA symposium on Literary / Media Histories of (Post)Colonial Southeast Asia. Friday 12 March at 9:30 AM US Pacific time (Los Angeles) on Zoom.
Speakers: Elizabeth Wijaya, Nadine Chan, Cheryl Narumi Naruse, & Philip Holden
Please register in advance: tinyurl.com/sealitmedia21
We have a website with talk abstracts, speaker bios, & helpful…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited “The Dark Mirror of Our Lives”: Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices, and Auto/biography in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years agoFirst presented as a paper at the 2018 SAMLA Convention in Atlanta, this article will become a chapter of my book in progress on the photobooks of the 1930s and 1940s illustrated with the photographs of the Farm Security Administration.
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