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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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James Kyung-Jin Lee started the topic CFP: Transpacific Transactions in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPapers that analyze transpacific exchanges in literature from a critical perspective informed by scholarship on transnationalism, diaspora, and the Pacific. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2018; Jeehyun Lim (jeehyunl@buffalo.edu).
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James Kyung-Jin Lee started the topic New Approaches to Asian American Non-Fiction in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPapers that consider both recent and historical Asian American non-fiction with particular critical attention to the contemporary memoir boom. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2018; James Kyung-Jin Lee (jkl@uci.edu).
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Afghanistan in Post-9/11 American Poetry: A Creative Response to Orientalism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoOn the basis of the assumption that poetic response to Edward Said’s Orientalism is
rare, this article seeks to read three post-9/11 American poems on Afghanistan – “The Weavers” and
“Burka Women” by Gerald Wheeler, and “Kabul 2002 (From Dislocations)” by Dr. Bronwyn Winter – as a
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Afghanistan in Post-9/11 American Poetry: A Creative Response to Orientalism in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoOn the basis of the assumption that poetic response to Edward Said’s Orientalism is
rare, this article seeks to read three post-9/11 American poems on Afghanistan – “The Weavers” and
“Burka Women” by Gerald Wheeler, and “Kabul 2002 (From Dislocations)” by Dr. Bronwyn Winter – as a
significant intellectual departure from the standpoint alle…[Read more] -
Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on Humanities Commons 8 years agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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A. Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAnd interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Comparative Cultural Studies Conference, Budapest Hungary,29-31 August 2018 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe comparative studies journals Comparative Literature Studies (Penn State University), Neohelicon (Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary), and Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (East China Normal University, Shanghai), with support of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, will sponsor an international conference in Budapest, Hungary, from 29-31 Augu…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited A Corrupt Medium: Stephen Burroughs and the Bridgehampton, New York, Library in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn his eighteenth-century Memoirs, criminal Stephen Burroughs tells of his campaign to establish a library in Bridgehampton, New York. When the town elders discover the plan, they insist upon reviewing Burroughs’s choices. Undercurrents of other debates spill over into what would otherwise merely be some quibbling over book selections. In a series…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoWould anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a Romantic? — If a deeper reading of F.K. is of interest, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange such a session–indeed, not just a Romantic but esoterically a Christian….
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Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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Luiza Franco Moreira deposited Remembering Antonio Candido in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the 2018 MLA Convention, the Luso-Brazilian Forum organized a meeting to remember Professor Antonio Candido (1918-2017), on January 6, 7:15-8:30 PM. This posting collects most papers read at the meeting. Should you be interested in contributing your own remembrance, or reflections on Candido’s career, please send them to me on the Commons. I…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoEstablishing a meaningful digital identity is essential to managing one’s scholarly and professional reputation. This workshop addresses ways to cultivate an online identity and offers guidance on “going public” using tools and strategies for building a community around your work. Topics include social media, writing for different audiences, perso…[Read more]
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Carolyn McCue Goffman deposited Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis presentation explores ethical dilemmas for graduate school educators in programs that prepare M.A. students to teach English in community colleges. Such graduate programs attract students and produce strong, enthusiastic teachers, and university administrators value the programs because they draw tuition; however, the job prospects for…[Read more]
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Elisa Beshero-Bondar deposited Bicentennial Bits and Bytes: The Pittsburgh Digital Frankenstein Project in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoSlides accompanying a panel representing the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Frankenstein project to build a digital scholarly variorum edition that updates, bridges, and intersects multiple divergent editions of Frankenstein, including the manuscript notebook drafts of 1816, the 1818, 1823, and 1831 print editions, as well as the handwritten notes in the…[Read more]
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Matthew K. Gold deposited Response to Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe following is a response delivered at the end of the Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel, which took place at the January 2018 Modern Language Association Conference in New York City. This response argues that the call for critical infrastructure studies can ultimately help us mobilize a critically informed resistance to capital and set of…[Read more]
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