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Lee B. Abraham started the topic CfP: Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces – NeMLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds
April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.htmlThe late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have…[Read more]
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Donald Paul Haase deposited The Sleeping Script: Memory and Forgetting in Grimms’ Romantic Fairy Tale (KHM 50) in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe Grimms’ tale of “Brier Rose” (KHM 50) has self-reflexive characteristics of the Romantic literary fairy tale. In thematizing memory and alluding to the imagery used in the preface to the Grimm brothers’ collection of fairy tales, Wilhelm Grimm’s version of the story self-consciously reflects on its own origins and exhibits a self-awareness…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited Kipps, Belsey, and Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Black Studies in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoZadie Smith’s novel On Beauty confirms that the fiction of the second generation Caribbean diaspora has indeed arrived on the international scene, if indeed any confirmation was required after the phenomenal success of Smith’s first novel
White Teeth. The status of Smith’s fiction in the Euro-American academy, which is also the setting of O…[Read more] -
Kanika Batra deposited “Our Own Gayful Rest”: A Postcolonial Archive in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoMy subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements as necessary and long overdue supplements to global sexual activism.
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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Hatem Akil started the topic Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities – MLA 2018 CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Areas to consider for this panel might include: contexts and environmental flashpoints:…[Read more]
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Kaitlin Mondello started the topic CFP MLA 2018: "Dark Ecology" in 19th-century British Literature in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>In </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Ecological Thought</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>, Timothy Morton defines his eponymous title as “the thinking of interconnectedness” (1,7), with the recognition that this interconnection also “has a dark side” (EWN 184). This idea of “dark ecology”…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic MLA 2018, NYC–Call for Working Group Participants in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPosted on behalf of Sophia Dawn Christman-Lavin.
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Our working group seeks participants whose scholarship reflects on the notion of ecological citizenship.
The goals of the group include (1) contemplating the diverse ways in which ecological citizenship is revealed in literary works (any period), as well as through its various modes of pu…[Read more]
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Rebecca Haidt started the topic CFP: Sets, Spaces, Stages of Cinema 1750-1899 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMLA 2018 Call for Papers: please circulate to Spanish media/film/visual/cultural studies lists and urge your students and colleagues to submit abstracts!
SETS, SPACES, STAGES OF CINEMA 1750-1899
Submission requirements: 250-word abstracts by March 15th
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2017
<div class=”text_exposed_show”>Pre-cinema…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Modernism in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Modernism. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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David Wacks started the topic Graphic novels in English on Hispanic/Latino world in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis fall I am piloting a gen Ed 100-level course on Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking world in comics. Can anyone recommend good teachable graphic novels on the pre-Columbian world and/or discovery, and also on topics in 18th/19th c.? I’m planning on using Fuentes’ _Buried Mirror_ to frame it and bring short primary documents interspersed with the…
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Essay on Authority in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Essay on Authority. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoA Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative Literature
What is the “tipping point” that makes a scholarly argument persuasive? This panel combines the sharing of scholarly interests and discoveries that are the purpose of conventions with a pragmatic aspect of rehearsing the mechanics of comparative…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES 1984 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFPs for THREE ecological panels for MLA 18 NYC in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPlease follow this link to access all three, or see below.
<b>SITE SPECIFICS</b>
How does place <i>matter</i> and <i>insist</i>, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference? The main focus of this roundtable is upon its NYC environs (at any point in time, and widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts,…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”><span style=”font-style: italic;”>Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays</span></p>
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Gaura Shankar Narayan started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Special Session: "South-Asia in/and Romanticism" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear All,
The South Asian and South Asian Diaspora Forum is partnering with the Keats-Shelley Association of America to propose a joint special session for MLA 2018 on “South Asia in/and Romanticism.” Below please find an expanded CFP and note the deadline of 1 March 2017 for submitting abstracts. Please let us know if you have any…[Read more]
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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic “Das Sklavenschiff”: Race, Empire, and Culture in the Nineteenth Century in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers
North American Heine Society
German Studies Association
Atlanta, October 5-8, 2017
“Das Sklavenschiff”: Race, Empire, and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Heine’s 1854 poem “Das Sklavenschiff” mobilizes mourning and Romantic literary form for both ethical protest against racism and oppression as well as for a critique…[Read more]
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