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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Feisal G. Mohamed started the topic Closure of Duquesne University Press in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoDear Colleagues,
As you may have heard, Duquesne University abruptly announced a week ago that it would close its press: press staff, including the director, Susan Wadsworth-Booth, had no advance notice. There is an Inside HigherEd piece about it here: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/07/duquesne-university-press-shut-down-later-year
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFP for MLA 2018 in NYC: SITE SPECIFICS in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoSITE SPECIFICS (a roundtable)
How place matters and insists, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference. Focus upon NYC environs (widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts, environmental justice) or “climate controlled” spaces especially welcome.
150 word abstracts by march 1 2018 to jjcohen@gwu.edu
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFP: Legal Ecologies (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoFor this roundtable session on “Legal Ecologies,” a collaboration between the MLA Law and Humanities forum and Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities forum, proposals are invited for short, 8-10 minute papers. Participants may consider a wide range questions, including, but not limited to, the following: how does the notion of <i cla…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic call for nominations in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoIt is not too late to nominate a scholar of ecocriticism and environmental humanities for potential election to the forum’s executive committee! Please send your nominations as soon as possible to the current EC secretary Jeffrey Cohen (jjcohen@gwu.edu) or any other member of the executive committee (Stephanie LeMenager, Sharon O’Dair, Ron…[Read more]
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Steve Dolph started the topic MLA Off-Site Event: Out/Lines in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe expansive contours of the Iberian world in the 16th and 17th centuries, expressed in the imperial motto plus ultra or “further beyond,” can at times obscure the aporias (of ecologies, ethnicities, and epistemologies) at its fringes. Recent scholarship on the material cultures, political economies, and discourses of gender of imperial Spain has…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Conditions for Palestinian Higher Education: MLA Members Report in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIn June, 2016 a group of six MLA members traveled together to the West Bank and Israel to find out what it was like for Palestinian academics and students trying to study, teach, and research at universities in the occupied territories and within Israel itself. In addition to learning about academic conditions under occupation, the group also wa…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in c…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narratiion in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contempora…[Read more]
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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic Fellowships — Rachel Carson Center in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHi Nicole:
Thank you for the information regarding the Rachel Carson Center fellowships; though I’ll be waiting to apply when I’ve completed my doctorate, I’ll save the site and the information for future reference.
Victor Ochoa
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Joela Jacobs replied to the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDeadline Extended to Dec 10th.
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Joela Jacobs replied to the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDeadline extended to Dec 10!
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David Palumbo-Liu deposited Open Letter to MLA Members: Why Think About Palestine Now? in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn argument for more, not less, attention to issues of Palestine, and beyond.
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP: Contemporary Iberian Ecocriticism and New Materialisms in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers: 2017 Special Section of Letras Hispanas on
“Contemporary Iberian Ecocriticism and New Materialisms”
Editor: Luis I. Prádanos, Miami University
Deadline: June 1, 2017
The global proliferation of ecocriticism and environmental humanities is significantly enriching the depth and scope of literary and cultural studies worl…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: Edited Volume on Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCFP: Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia
This is a call for an EDITED VOLUME on Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater.
This edited volume will focus on issues of social justice in theatrical works of Golden Age Spain. For example, the 2013 Repertorio Español production of Fuenteovejuna illustrates how relevant social justice…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: Call for edited volume in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP: Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia
This is a call for an EDITED VOLUME on Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater.
This edited volume will focus on issues of social justice in theatrical works of Golden Age Spain. For example, the 2013 Repertorio Español production of Fuenteovejuna illustrates how relevant social justice…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH Seminar on King Lear in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply. The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) o…[Read more] - Load More
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