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John Charles Hawley started the topic executive committee election in the discussion
Global South on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI’m honored to be one of two nominees for election to the executive committee of this newly formalized group. I’ve served on three other MLA executive committees (Religion and Literature; Lit in English other than British and American; Postcolonial Studies), and have have a delegate to the assembly. The titles of the last two of those c…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic CFP: (ACLA 2016) Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the 2016 ACLA proposed seminar:
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance
http://www.acla.org/seminar/what%E2%80%99s-love-got-do-it-theory-desire-and-performance
Organizer: Yomaira Figueroa, Michigan State University
Co-Organizer: Carolyn Ureña, Rutgers University
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoVisual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts ” seminar of the 2016 American Comparative Literature…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHello!
In September, the Commons Wire, your monthly guide to how your fellow members are using the platform, will return from its summer hiatus with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a new position, or received a promotion, please let me know by e-mail or by pr…[Read more]
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Jodi Melamed started the topic Finance Capital and the University in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider attending the following panel sponsored by our division:
Sunday, 10 January
803. Finance Capital and the University
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Presiding: Christopher John Newfield, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
1. “Securitization and University of Finance,” Am…[Read more]
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Laura J. Beard started the topic Deadline extended CFP Special Issue of a/b in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for papers:
Special Issue of Indigenous Autobiographical Works in the Americas
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/raut
NEW DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Diana Taylor has referred to a shared hemispheric reality of “tangled systems of expression, representation, and economic and power relat…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality in the Global South, Madison, WI in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the…[Read more]
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Nancy Bogen replied to the topic slide-choreographies of poems in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThank you, Marisa!
Please continue to pass the word along re my work.
Nancy
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Marisa Verna replied to the topic slide-choreographies of poems in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear Nancy
it really doesn’t look like you’re old… You bring the youth of poetry in any spectator-listener. I enjoyed everything of your slides-poems that translate them (poems) in a new language without losing their sense/meaning
thank you so much
Marisa Verna
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Carlos Vargas-Salgado started the topic Congreso Melgar y la Independencia, Arequipa, Perú, agosto de 2015 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCONGRESO INTERNACIONAL “MARIANO MELGAR, 200 AÑOS: POESÍA E INDEPENDENCIA”
PRIMERA CIRCULAR (para los interesados en Mariano Melgar, el bicentenario de las independencias y el romanticismo en general)
La Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas (AIP), la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL), el Municipio de Mariano Melgar, Arequip…[Read more]
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Douglas Kristopher Smith started the topic Deadline extended – CALACS 2015 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago***The Congress submissions deadline has been extended to March 30***
***La date limite pour les soumissions de propositions au Congrès a été repoussée jusqu’au 30 mars***
***Se extendió el plazo de entrega de propuestas para el Congreso hasta el 30 de marzo***
*** O prazo de envio de propostas para o Congresso foi estendido até o 30 de março**…[Read more] -
Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and brief CV by 15 March…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP – MA 2016: Literature and the Public Sphere (Corrected) in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”
The focus of this session (sponsored by the Division on the Teaching of Literature) is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that eng…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP – MLA 2016: Literature and the Public Sphere in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”
The focus of this session (sponsored by the Forum on the Teaching of Literature) is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that engages pub…[Read more]
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Mariela Méndez started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Clarice Lispector Cronista in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoClarice Lispector Cronista: A Re-assessment. This Session seeks re-examinations of Lispector’s journalism and its contribution to the long tradition of chronicle-writing in Latin America. Send 300-word abstracts and one-page C.V. to Dr. Mariela E. Méndez @ mmendezd@richmond.edu by March 15th, 2015.
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Juan Ramos started the topic MLA 2016: CFP-Andean Modernismos in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoAndean Modernismos
Special Session
This session invites papers that reconceptualize, reimagine, or theorize Modernismos in Andean countries. Papers on all genres and neglected aspects of Andean Modernismos are welcome. 300-word abstract, One-page C.V. by 12 March 2015; Juan G. Ramos (jramos@holycross.edu). -
Laura J. Beard started the topic CFP MLA 2016 session in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSpecial Session
Papers exploring the relationships between public acts of witnessing, such as Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, and the literary and other texts they inspire or engage. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2015; Laura J. Beard (lbeard@ualberta.ca). -
Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic Mexican Material Culture Session, MLA2016 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoMaterial goods and built environments reflect and produce social meaning. This panel organized by the Mexican Forum, will explore the relationship between material culture and notions of authenticity, tradition and progress in Mexico. Papers on artifacts from pre-Hispanic times to the present, or literary and filmic representations of material…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa replied to the topic CFP: Cuerpo Memoria Trauma // Exposición: Agua, Arte, Mujer, Vida in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe deadline for submissions for this CFP has been extended until January 31st. Please, see below.
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE TITLE:
BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA
Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION
Sponsored by:
Department of Hispanic Studies – Tex…[Read more]
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