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Scott Challener deposited The New Border in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2020 in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease join us at MLA 2020 for the following sessions sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:
Session 189: What’s Next for Law and the Humanities?
Thursday, January 9, 7:00-8:15 p.m.
WSCC – Skagit 3
Presiding: Kathryn D. Temple, Georgetown U
1. “The Constitution as the Aesthetic Representation of the People,” David Tse-chien Pa…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED – CFP Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDEADLINE EXTENDED
Submit papers to the Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil Symposium (University of Miami). Papers are accepted in Portuguese and English.
For more information and questions,…[Read more]
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Tanja Stampfl started the topic Tenure Track Position in Global Anglophone Literature and Composition in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Department of English at the University of the Incarnate Word seeks applications for an Assistant Professor position in Composition and Global Anglophone Literature with an emphasis on social justice issues (tenure-track, 4-4 teaching load) beginning August 2020. Ph.D. is required prior to the appointment start date. The successful candidate…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
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https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone, I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Kathryn S. Roberts deposited Writing “Other Spaces”: Katherine Anne Porter’s Yaddo in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDrawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia, this essay argues that modernism was a heterotopic movement, in which the creation of alternative social environments (such as Gertrude Stein’s atelier or the writers’ colony), and the imagination of alternative forms of social life in literature, were mutually informing, and inext…[Read more]
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Kathryn S. Roberts deposited Our Town, the MacDowell Colony, and the Art of Civic Mediation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThornton Wilder’s Our Town (1938) has found unusual currency of late. In 2011, the play lent its name to a major funding program launched by the National Endowment for the Arts; in 2017, it appeared in the center of a popular podcast and was revived by a British theater company in the wake of a terrorist attack. These productions recognize what t…[Read more]
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Stephen P. Knadler deleted the file: Introduction as Candidate for TC Disability Studies Executive Committee: Stephen Knadler, Spelman College from
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Stephen P. Knadler uploaded the file: Introduction as Candidate for TC Disability Studies Executive Committee: Stephen Knadler, Spelman College to
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCandidate bio for MLA executive committee election.
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Silvia Guslandi started the topic Silvia Guslandi – candidate for upcoming forum delegate election in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoMy name is Silvia Guslandi. I hold a Ph.D. in Euro-American Comparative Literature and I am currently a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago (working on Emanuel Carnevali, among other things). Thank you for the honor of considering me as a candidate for the Delegate Assembly. As my research interests are situated…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited Shadowy Autobiography: Robert Penn Warren and Other Makers of American Literature in the group
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoMy latest book publication, due from U of Tennessee P in 2020.
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited Shadowy Autobiography: Robert Penn Warren and Other Makers of American Literature in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoMy latest book publication, due from U of Tennessee P in 2020.
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Anne Donlon deposited Introduction to Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIntroduction to four poems written by Langston Hughes during the Spanish Civil War, published in the Little-Known Documents section of PMLA.
The introduction alongside the text of the four poems can be found on the PMLA’s site: https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.562.
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Prentiss Clark uploaded the file: Emerson Society call for applications for awards to
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2020) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 2020). Submit…[Read more] -
Prentiss Clark uploaded the file: Emerson Society call for applications for awards to
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2020) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 2020). Submit…[Read more] -
Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2020 Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop (deadline: Dec. 2, 2019) in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months ago2020 LAW AND HUMANITIES JUNIOR SCHOLARS WORKSHOP
Call for Papers
Columbia Law School, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the nineteenth meeting of the Law and Humanities J…
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Violence Has Changed Me” Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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