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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP for EuroSEAS 2019: "Southeast Asian Travelogues and Global Asia" in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP for EuroSEAS 2019: “Southeast Asian travelogues and global Asia”
This laboratory considers the ways in which travelogues by Southeast Asians articulated the concept of inter-Asian connections, thus prefiguring the term ‘global Asia.’ Examples include the study of early modern India and Southeast Asia by Chinese-language Nanyang (South Sea…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards replied to the topic Article from Kyoto Review of SEAsia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is a really helpful resource. Thanks, Weihsin!
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Article from Kyoto Review of SEAsia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoHere’s an interesting article I thought I’d share with everyone, published December 2018 in the _Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia_.
Lee Jun Jie. “Colonialism and ASEAN Identity: Inherited ‘Mental Barriers’ Hindering the Formation of a Collective ASEAN Identity.”
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine (HUM450AJ.O) syllabus in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoAt the intersection of comics and medicine is the rise of the Graphic Medicine scholarship field. This course examines the ways in which the sequentialized hybrid of word and image is bringing new insights to patient, healthcare, and clinical experiences.
In any manner of ways, the comics medium (whether known as comic books, graphic novels,…[Read more]
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John Alba Cutler started the topic Latinx Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHi, everyone,
Please mark your calendars for the following Latinx Forum sessions at MLA in January:
- 466: Chicanx-Riqueñx Chicago Date: Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 Time: 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Location: Hyatt Regency – Michigan 2
- 537: Latinx Chicago: Contemporary Latinx Authors Write on and from Chicago Date: Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 Time: 1:45 PM…
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Nicole Dib started the topic American Literature Association 2019 – Postwar Area Literature Group CFP in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMemoir and Recovery Narratives, 1945-1980
American Literature Association 2019 – Boston, May 23-26 / Postwar Area Literature Group
Memoirs and autobiographies; lost and found objects, persons, and selfhoods in literatures of the postwar period. Abstracts by January 15 to foertsch@unt.edu
Samples and Fragments, 1945-1980
American Li…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic Reminder: CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Victoria Addis deposited Landscape and Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoSince his first works came to critical attention, Ernest Hemingway has occupied a space in the critical and cultural imagination as a definitively ‘masculine’ writer. His novels and stories focus on male narrators in difficult or extreme situations involving war, violence, and the natural world, and his critical heritage has focused on these ele…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCorrection: Submit 250- to 500-word abstracts and a CV, by January 5, 2019, to Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University College of Medicine, at tana.welch@med.fsu.edu
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Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: Asst Prof. in Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoOpen assistant prof position in SE Asian Studies (including broadly-defined literature and culture focus) at UCLA:
https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF04048
The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures (http://www.alc.ucla.edu/) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), invites applications for a position in Southeast Asian studies,…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
American Indian Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Southeast Asia related papers in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHello! So my earlier post below contained a lot of formatting tags/HTML data, and MLA Commons does not allow users to edit or delete their error-filled posts in the spirit of preserving a transparent record of all conversations. So I’m posting the info from my previous post here.
THURSDAY, 3 JANUARY
“Historical Genres of the Nanyang”
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Southeast Asia related papers in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi everyone, we plan to make an announcement detailing all Southeast Asia related papers at MLA 2019, so please let me know if you are presenting one! Thanks. Cheryl
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia-related sessions & talks @ MLA 2019 in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago<p class=”western”><span style=”font-size: medium;”>Hello! Our Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia Diasporic forum in the Modern Language Association will have 3 sessions at the January 2019 Chicago MLA conference. I’m also giving a 2nd talk on Singaporean comics artist Sonny Liew’s earlier work in a special session on postcolonial graphic nar…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: Asst Prof. in Transpacific Asian American Studies, USC in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDept. of American Studies & Ethnicity
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
The Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, is seeking one tenure-track assistant professor in the field of American…[Read more]
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