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Aurelie Vialette started the topic CFP MLA 2019 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoMLA 2019. “Galdós in Cataluña, Cataluña in Galdós”
Catalan Studies Forum and Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (AIG).
Abstracts should be sent to aurelie.vialette@stonybrook.edu
Deadline: March 1st, 2018.
Short description:
The literary, social and political debates around Benito Pérez Galdós’s work in Catalonia. T…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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Jennifer Duprey deposited Marginality and the Grotesque in Valle-Inclán’s Cara de Plata in the group
Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoViana de Prior es el nombre que le otorga Ramón del Valle Inclán al pueblo en que se desarrollan los eventos de su drama titulado Cara de plata (1922). La primera de las Comedias bárbaras nos presenta un topónimo inventado caracterizado por su remanentes feudales. Tanto la forma como el contenido de Cara de Plata articulan la crítica mordaz del…[Read more]
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Harrison Meadows deposited Wild Theater: Staging the Margins of Ideology in the Spanish Comedia in the group
Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe theatrical production of Baroque Iberia exhibits an obsession with wildness that remains to be fully explored. By the time Segismundo takes the stage dressed in animal pelts in Calderón’s La vida es sueño, the wild figure had already enjoyed a long history on the Spanish stage, first appearing in Lope de Vega’s El nacimiento de Ursón y Valent…[Read more]
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Harrison Meadows deposited Wild Theater: Staging the Margins of Ideology in the Spanish Comedia in the group
Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe theatrical production of Baroque Iberia exhibits an obsession with wildness that remains to be fully explored. By the time Segismundo takes the stage dressed in animal pelts in Calderón’s La vida es sueño, the wild figure had already enjoyed a long history on the Spanish stage, first appearing in Lope de Vega’s El nacimiento de Ursón y Valent…[Read more]
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Antonio Guijarro-Donadiós deposited How to cook a cat: Marginal Space in 17th Century Spanish Short Theater in the group
Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe image of a courtly and cosmopolitan Madrid that enjoyed an intense cultural life, where millions were spent on luxurious festivals that attracted famous artists and travelers, also contained a marginal space, where poor people, the crippled, thieves, soldiers, gamblers, prostitutes, and black people lived and made a living, even cooking cats…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe deadline is approaching!
To participate in the 2018 Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit all abstracts to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18th, 2017.
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Elena Garcia-Martin deposited “Gender, Race and Interculturalism in TNT-El Vacie’s Romani Fuenteovejuna.” in the group
Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis paper addresses the performance of Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna undertaken by TNT-El Vacie (Territorio de Nuevos Tiempos), a theater company from Seville, Spain. I Consider how Antonio Álamo’s adaptation, Pepa Gamboa’s direction, and the staging of El Vacie, a company comprised exclusively of non-professional Roma women, constitutes a site o…[Read more]
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Esther Fernandez uploaded the file: “Ni una menos”: Contextualizar la violencia de género del teatro del siglo XVII en la escena española contemporánea to
Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI expand on how disempowered women protagonists in the Comedia recover their sense of agency under new contemporary readings. Specifically, since the passing of domestic violence legislation in 2004, a new wave of Comedia adaptations have resorted to the symbolic capital of early modern classics to raise awareness of women’s misrepresentation a…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Candidate Introduction – MLA Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
I am a candidate for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum executive committee. Now that the voting period has opened, and following MLA recommendations, I would like to post a brief introduction.
I am professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, where I serve as associate chair and graduate coordinator in…[Read more]
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Rosanne Kennedy posted an update in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Memory Studies Colleagues,
I’m pleased to have been nominated for the Executive Committee for Memory Studies, and wanted to tell you about my activities. My early work (World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time, ed with Jill Bennett, 2003) stimulated dialogue between postcolonial studies and memory studies. I examined memory and t…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Christopher Gascón posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoDEADLINE EXTENDED!
The AHCT Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
April 12-14, 2018, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso, TXThe NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE for receipt of all submissions (abstracts and graduate student papers) is OCTOBER 1, 2017
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater invites submissions for its 2018 Symposium. The conference…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited The Speculative Situation in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIs the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDakin Matthews: 2018 AHCT Symposium Donald T. Dietz Plenary Speaker, Saturday, April 14, 2018. Dakin Matthews has served as Artistic Director of Andak Stage Company, California Actors Theatre, the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, and the Antaeus Company, and is an Emeritus Professor of English from California State University, East Bay. An…[Read more]
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