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Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2019 Graduate Seminar Syllabus: Literature of the American Civil Wars in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe plural, wars, of this course’s title signals two competing traditions in Civil War memory and periodization:
* the Civil War as a distinct and defining event, from 1861 to 1865, that splits American history (and most English departments’ surveys of American literature) into two distinct halves; and
* the Civil War as an ongoing fea…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoWacks, David A. “Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull (Review).” La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, vol. 47, no. 1, 2018, pp. 122–24. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cor.2018.0022.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Updated CFP for Routlesdge Lit and Class Companion (new passed peer edit stage) in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoDear Literary Criticism Group,
Just an update on our collection of essays, Literature and Class Companion in that series for Routledge. We await word of acceptance, having passed the peer edit.
This is a time of silence and angst so just to let you all know we are hard at this intersectional approach and wishing you all a happy summer.Some of…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited The Afrofuturist Historical Novel in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe recent surge of interest in Afrofuturism has resulted in some groundbreaking work looking at the ways technology and race intersect in film, fashion, music and literature, as is evidenced by the important collection of essays “Afrofuturism 2.0” (2016), edited by Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones. However there has not yet been an aca…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Righting, Riting, and Rewriting the Book of Odes (Shijing): On “Filling out the MIssing Odes” by Shu Xi in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA series of derivative verses from the late-third century has pride of place in one of the foundational collections of Chinese poetry. These verses, “Filling out the Missing Odes” by Shu Xi, can be found at the beginning of the lyric-poetry (shi 詩) section of the Wenxuan. This essay seeks to understand why such blatantly imitative pieces may have…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWe have passed the peer review stage so please consider writing an essay for this companion text.
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Tom White deposited The Future Demands Work: William Morris’s utopian medievalism in an age of precarity, flexibility, and automation in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIMC paper for panel 374 Medieval Futura 1: Now, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington and organised by Dr Andrea Whitacre.
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Marci McMahon started the topic CFP: Sound Acts: Unmuting Performance Studies (Performance Matters) in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Deadline extended: CFP: Special Issue of Performance Matters Sound Acts: Unmuting Performance Studies
Deadline: Full submissions by 31 May 2019.</p>
<p style=”text-align: left;”>This special issue of Performance Matters places theater and performance on the map in sound studies by tracing out how sound acts. “Sound a…[Read more] -
Michael Ullyot deposited Course Outline: Revenge Tragedy in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoEnglish 412 is, in its official description, “A survey of drama from 1558 to 1603, including works by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.” In this version from 2017, students focused on six revenge tragedies, the blockbuster genre of the Elizabethan theatre: plays filled with bloody violence, elevated rhetoric, and ghosts imploring…[Read more]
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Proposal Deadline Extended to April 1: Contemporary Women's Writing Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers
The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association invites submissions for 20-minute presentations that examine how conte…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic New Special Issue – Abriu: Estudos de Textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
The latest special issue of Abriu, “Glocal Galicia: Redefining Galician Culture in the Global Age,” edited by José Colmeiro, is now available online.
The issue’s contents are listed here, but full-text versions of the articles can be found at the journal’s website: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Abriu/issue/view/2109
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Alice Rachel Ridout replied to the topic Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference CFP in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThank you for posting! My MLA membership renewal had not processed in time for me to post. Expressions of interest with late proposal to follow will be considered.
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear LSL Applied Linguistics members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]
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Krilka Stavreva started the topic CFP International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for PapersThe 2019 Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference theme is inspired by its location at Algom…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFP: Women and Language journal in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis CFP came to several of us on email, with a request to post to our group. So here it is:
Women & Language Editor <editorwomenandlanguage@gmail.com> Yesterday, 10:12 AM dbalder@pitt.edu; aebc@st-andrews.ac.uk; kljohnson@wm.edu;
Hi all,
Can you please share the Women & Language CFP with the MLA Translation Studies forum? I’ve pasted it b…[Read more] -
Krilka Stavreva started the topic CFP Women & Language in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Useful Object in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores Maureen Folan, in Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” as a psychological borderline, someone who is afraid to achieve a man she can have a relationship with, and so defaults to using him as simply another object she can use in warfare against a mother she is only yet capable of playing at being able to leave behind her.
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Neelofer Qadir started the topic CFP MLA 2020: Roundtable for Global Black Studies in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoEnthusiastically inviting participants for a roundtable on global Black studies for the Modern Language Association’s 2020 convention in Seattle, Washington, USA, 9-12 January.
For this non-guaranteed session, the organizers seek short provocations in response to the following prompt:How does the prefix “global” alter, expand, or complicate no…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Worthy Companions in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCompares Evelina, from Frances Burney’s “Evelina,” and Werther, from Goethe’s “Young Werther.” Argues that though they could readily be made to seem opposite to one another, as they seek company with such disparate groups of people, the difference is superficial, and their motivations, the same — namely, to make use of their associations with…[Read more]
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