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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research.
We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Redesigning Modernities in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]
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Delia Steverson started the topic MLA 2023 CFP Passages of Water and Labor Cultures of the Coastal South in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoPassages of Water and Labor Cultures of the Coastal South and the Caribbean
In Edwidge Danticat’s short story “Without Inspection,” an undocumented Haitian immigrant, Arnold, dies from unsafe working conditions at a construction site in south Florida. In the news coverage about the event, the construction company and developer release a state…[Read more]
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Delia Steverson started the topic MLA 2023 CFP Disability and Public Health in the U.S. South in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoDisability and Public Health in the U.S. South
A key part of colonizing in the U.S. South depended on the rhetoric of health, such as Ponce de Leon’s mythical fountain of youth and nineteenth-century boosterism claiming Florida as the “winter sanitarium of the country” (qtd in Knight 5). The semi-tropical warmth of the South invited justif…[Read more]
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Rhona Trauvitch started the topic Join the Executive Committee of LSL Linguistics and Literature in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoGreetings to the membership of LSL Linguistics and Literature!
Each year our Executive Committee says farewell to its longest-serving member and welcomes a new one. The time has come (the Walrus said) for us to appoint a new EC member who would begin their service in January 2023. Our appointment form is due in one week, and we seek…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic Asst. Prof. – African American Theatre and Performance – University of Georgia in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe University of Georgia Department of Theatre and Film Studies and the Institute for African American Studies seek an assistant professor whose scholarly research focuses on African American theatre and performance. Additional areas of specialization might include African American film, performance methods based in Afrocentric…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El mito del pluricentrismo desde le realidad de la traducción in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe present work analyzes the application of the pluricentric interpretation
to the Spanish language from the repercussion that this current may have
to correctly interpret the complex reality of Spanish in the United States. The
concept of pluricentrism is not innocent, it tries to favor certain political and
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Notas editoriales al Cantar de Mio Cid in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoComo homenaje a Fernando González Ollé se realizó esta presentación de notas y correcciones a la edición de FMM en Biblioteca Nueva, 1997, como un modo de ampliar el diálogo y abrirlo al conjunto de participantes en el homenaje, fueran autores o lectores.
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Notas editoriales al Cantar de Mio Cid in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoComo homenaje a Fernando González Ollé se realizó esta presentación de notas y correcciones a la edición de FMM en Biblioteca Nueva, 1997, como un modo de ampliar el diálogo y abrirlo al conjunto de participantes en el homenaje, fueran autores o lectores.
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Cantar de Mio Cid. Edición crítica. Versión en español moderno. Introducción. Notas. in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoEl primer objetivo de esta edición es la reconstrucción crítica del texto, llevando hasta sus últimas consecuencias las hipótesis lingüísticas, porque un texto es, primero, la lengua en que fue escrito. Para esta reconstrucción crítica podremos recurrir a la ayuda del ordenador, pero lo que contará fundamentalmente serán los datos obtenidos…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. Drawing on the work of authors including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that p…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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William Nichols deposited Telling the story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of convergence and the defense of the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWhile many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm. Specifically, the…[Read more]
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Derrick R. Spires started the topic CFP: New Citizenship Studies (special issue of American Literature) in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoGreetings colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting),
Please share the CFP for our co-edited special issue of American Literature: New Citizenship Studies. Essay submissions are due June 9, 2022. See information below and attached. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions.
Thanks,
Carrie Hyde (UCLA) and Derrick R. Spires (Cornell…[Read more] -
Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies (UVA) in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Please help us share the news with early career scholars in your networks. Maltyox chawe’/Thank you very much! — Allison. You can find the original job ad here: https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Tenure-track-Assistant-Professor—Native-American-and-Indigenous-Studies_R0030413. I’ve also pasted i…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to ask for your help in spreading the word about a search for an Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas, to be a joint appointment in the Carter G. Woodson Department of African American and African Studies and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah started the topic Tenure-Track Faculty Assistant Professor, McGill University in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Department of English at McGill University invites applications for a tenure-track position in African-Canadian and/or African-American Literatures. We welcome candidates who specialize in Black diasporic, transnational, and global Black literatures, cultures, and media. We likewise welcome applications from candidates across the full…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)? in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHow does one understand a filmmaker like José Antonio Nieves Conde, a Falangist whose films with strong neorealist tendencies were radically altered by the Francoist censors for being too critical of the economic injustices inherent to daily urban life after the Spanish Civil War? Many film critics have asked this question and this essay looks…[Read more]
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