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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Making Sacred, Making Holy: the Canonization of People and Texts in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoMemorialization, “entering the canon,” and the influence of politics, race, class, or gender. Who decides on the people, texts, places, dates, etc. selected to be commemorated, studied, and/or enshrined? Theorists such as Lonergan, Bourdieu, Girard, and Agamben have explored “sacralization” as a process of making holy or sacred that can inv…[Read more]
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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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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Rielle Navitski started the topic Asst. Prof. – African American Theatre and Performance – University of Georgia in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe University of Georgia Department of Theatre and Film Studies and the Institute for African American Studies seek an assistant professor whose scholarly research focuses on African American theatre and performance. Additional areas of specialization might include African American film, performance methods based in Afrocentric…[Read more]
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Lauren Russell started the topic “Neurodivergent Poetics: Extending the Choreography” Roundtable Tonight, 7 PM in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello All,
Happy New Year! If you are attending the MLA conference this week, whether virtually or in person, please consider joining us tonight at 7 PM for Neurodivergent Poetics: Extending the Choreography, a virtual roundtable with Chris Martin, Joel Dias-Porter, Hannah Emerson, Estee Klar, Adam Wolfond, and Julia Miele Rodas, moderated…[Read more]
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Harrod Suarez started the topic LLC Asian American Panels @ 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years ago87V – Out of This World: Larissa Lai’s Visions: Thursday, 6 January 2022 / 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
456V – Multilingual Asian American Newspaper Studies: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
481V – Archipelagic Thinking in Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American Narratives: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
630V – Radi…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group
LLC African American Forum 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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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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William Nichols deposited Telling the story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of convergence and the defense of the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWhile many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm. Specifically, the…[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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Derrick R. Spires started the topic CFP: New Citizenship Studies (special issue of American Literature) in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoGreetings colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting),
Please share the CFP for our co-edited special issue of American Literature: New Citizenship Studies. Essay submissions are due June 9, 2022. See information below and attached. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions.
Thanks,
Carrie Hyde (UCLA) and Derrick R. Spires (Cornell…[Read more] -
Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies (UVA) in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Please help us share the news with early career scholars in your networks. Maltyox chawe’/Thank you very much! — Allison. You can find the original job ad here: https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Tenure-track-Assistant-Professor—Native-American-and-Indigenous-Studies_R0030413. I’ve also pasted i…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to ask for your help in spreading the word about a search for an Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas, to be a joint appointment in the Carter G. Woodson Department of African American and African Studies and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah started the topic Tenure-Track Faculty Assistant Professor, McGill University in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Department of English at McGill University invites applications for a tenure-track position in African-Canadian and/or African-American Literatures. We welcome candidates who specialize in Black diasporic, transnational, and global Black literatures, cultures, and media. We likewise welcome applications from candidates across the full…[Read more]
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Kimberly Mack started the topic GS Life Writing Forum Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoDear All–My name is Kimberly Mack, and I am running to serve on the executive committee of the GS Life Writing forum. I would like to share a little bit about my work and, if elected, what I would hope to contribute to the GS Life Writing Forum over the next few years. I am very excited about this opportunity, and I look forward to getting to…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)? in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHow does one understand a filmmaker like José Antonio Nieves Conde, a Falangist whose films with strong neorealist tendencies were radically altered by the Francoist censors for being too critical of the economic injustices inherent to daily urban life after the Spanish Civil War? Many film critics have asked this question and this essay looks…[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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Susan Larson deposited Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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