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Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSpecial issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Tragedy, Euripides, Melodrama: Hamartia, Medea, Liminality in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis article examines socio-historical dimensions and cultural and dramaturgic implications of the Greek playwright Euripides’ treatment of the myth of Medea. Euripides gives voice to victims of adventurism, aggression and betrayal in the name of ‘reason’ and the ‘state’ or ‘polity.’ Medea constitutes one of the most powerful mythic forces to…[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 and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoOur text
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class
. . . is now on its way to print. Due out in Jul-Aug. It is dedicated to Aaron Barlow (essay contributor) and my mother, who both died in January 2021.
The editor used my illustration of 1890s London’s East End (although our text is global, we did have some essays of this place s and period.
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David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (Spanish version) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis Spanish-language unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of C…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (English version) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba.
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Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic CFP: Radical Care in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFor MLA 2022:
How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.
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Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic CFP: Radical Care in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFor MLA 2022:
How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.
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Alden Sajor Marte-Wood started the topic Call for papers: Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia (MLA 2022) in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for papers: Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). This session is sponsored by the MLA’s Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia Diasporic forum. In The Costs of Connection: How D…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.
Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8
Thanks,
Elena Machado Sáez
Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
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Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellows in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe University of Washington Libraries invites applicants for our Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellowship Program funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. We invite recent Ph.D. graduates, or finishing doctoral candidates across all disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences to apply for one of three one-quarter long full time paid…[Read more]
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Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: MLA 2022 (6-9 January, Washington, D.C.)
Romanian Forum’s Guaranteed Panel
Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema
2021 marks two decades since the symbolic launch of Romanian New Wave cinema, a movement that has received important recognition at international film festivals. The Romanian Forum of th…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Symposium: Literary / Media Histories of (Post)colonial Southeast Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoA symposium on Literary / Media Histories of (Post)Colonial Southeast Asia. Friday 12 March at 9:30 AM US Pacific time (Los Angeles) on Zoom.
Speakers: Elizabeth Wijaya, Nadine Chan, Cheryl Narumi Naruse, & Philip Holden
Please register in advance: tinyurl.com/sealitmedia21
We have a website with talk abstracts, speaker bios, & helpful…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic CFP: Infrastructures of Care MLA 2022 in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis panel explores intersections between infrastructure studies, labor, and care in global anglophone literature: in what ways are care work and the realms of reproductive and affective labor infrastructural to our lifeworlds? What kinds of infrastructures facilitate or impede domestic labor and the work of caring? How is the ongoing labor of…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Ecopoetic Elements in the Work of Sarah Kirsch, Ahmed Rashid Thani, and Derek Walcott in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoComparative analyses of poetry by the German Sarah Kirsch, the Emirati Ahmed Rashid Thani, and the St Lucian Derek Walcott identify three distinct ecopoetic elements their work has in common. The three poets, born before the origin of ecocriticism, favour metaphors that represent natural landscapes. These metaphors express a certain…[Read more]
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Harrod Suarez started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Lit (MLA 2022) in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoDear all,
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Literature and Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia Diasporic Forums.
Please send abstract (300 words…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Attached please find a call for nominations for the fourth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2019 and 2020 are due March 15, 2021. For more information about the nomination…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 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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Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 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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