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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoBy way of introducing myself… I am an independent writer/scholar whose work relates to the Francophone world. I live in German-speaking Switzerland but use French quite a lot and read French all the time. (Am a former French teacher, among other things.) Just finished Kamel Daoud’s spectacular “Meursault, contre-enquete”… working on an article…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoIt has been a year since Claire Oberon García asked members of this forum to introduce themselves, a year in which the forum’s membership has doubled. I would like to invite you all once again to introduce yourselves to the group, and to use this forum to share calls for papers, works in progress or completed papers (see the articles on Aimé C…[Read more]
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Alexander Gil deposited Bridging the Middle Passage: The textual (r)evolution of Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe paper represents an up-to-date, comprehensive and accurate account of the history of The Cahier d’ un retour au pays natal in English today. I use the early productions and reproductions of the poem to argue that Césaire’s early work is meant for an American (in the broad sense of the word) audience. Using textual evidence and archival…[Read more]
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Alexander Gil deposited Découverte de l'Ur-texte de Et les chiens se taisaient in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis brief piece tells the story of my discovery of the Saint-Dié Typescript of Et les chiens se taisaient. The text also provides a preliminary description of the typescript, a summary of the plot of the historical drama, as well as a brief comparison with the published version of 1946.
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic Proposed Panel Abstracts: "Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics" in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoBelow are the abstracts for the proposed MLA 2016 Special Session Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics.
David Román (University of Southern California) will serve as respondent to the following three panelists.
Octavio R. Gonzalez (Wellesley College), “The ACT UP Boston Archive: the Bio-Politics of Early Clinical Trials for AIDS Tr…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Taking Liberties: Academic Freedom and the Humanities in the group
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThe state of academic freedom today, the particular vulnerability of certain areas of study, and the special relevance of scholarship in the humanities to defenses of academic freedom.
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic MLA 2016 Panel: Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the MLA 2016 panel, “Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics,” will be posted here prior to the convention.
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Matt Brim started the topic CFP: Queer Methods http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/current-call-papers in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoWSQ, Call for Papers: Special Issue
QUEER METHODS
Guest Editors:
Amin Ghaziani, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Matt Brim, Associate Professor of Queer Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Queer Studies is experiencing a methodological renaissance. In both the humanities and the social sciences, scholars…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic [Deadline extended to March 18th!] HIV/AIDS and the Literary/Cinematic Archive in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago[The deadline for this panel has been extended to March 18th!]
MLA 2016 Special Session: HIV/AIDS and the Literary/Cinematic Archive
Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. With the current proliferation of theories and conceptualizations pertaining to archive studies, how can the literary o…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages (Allied Organization) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoQueers Read LGBT Literature
This panel explores the state of contemporary LGBT literature and the value of a LGBT literary canon. Calling for papers that ask: what is LGBT literature now? Abstracts by 15 March 2015; Shanté Paradigm Smalls (smallss@stjohns.edu) and Ramzi Fawaz (fawaz@wisc.edu) -
Kenneth Pinion started the topic MLA 2016 CFP: Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a 300-word abstract to this CFP for the 2016 MLA convention.
Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature.
Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. This panel seeks papers that discuss how archiving the HIV epidemic shapes our…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a 300-word abstract to my CFP for the 2016 MLA convention, “Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature.”
Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. This panel seeks papers that discuss how archiving the HIV epidemic shapes our relationships…[Read more]
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Lauren J. Lacey started the topic CFP for 2016 MLA in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe cfp for our guaranteed MLA session is now available on the MLA website:
Theory Now
Where is theory in relation to posthumanism or the post-humanities, new materialisms, object-oriented ontology, the neural turn and other recent developments? 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2015; Lauren Lacey (llacey@edgewood.edu) and Tilottama Rajan (<…[Read more] -
Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum: Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Colleagues,
I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/
We still need your…[Read more]
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Martha Nell Smith started the topic CFPs MLA2016 – Queer Proximities, Vaqueer@s, Queer Crips Across Time in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoHere are CFPs for 3 different sessions we’re sponsoring for MLA2016 in Austin:
Forum: TC Sexuality Studies
Explorations of the sensorium; texture, sensation, affect, touch; spacing and relationscape; distance and distancing, nearness, seclusion; relationalities, withdrawal, fusion; transpecies, human; bonds and bonding, i…[Read more]
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Martha Nell Smith started the topic Queer Archives, Counterarchives, Queer Canada, and Performing the Archive in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoCheck out our sessions and related sessions for MLA 2015 by visiting our blog entry. We look forward to seeing you at the sessions and also to continuing the conversation online!
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Call for Nominations: THE MICHAEL LYNCH SERVICE AWARD in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoHelp us acknowledge LGBTQ activism by academics; deadline extended to November 30.
THE MICHAEL LYNCH SERVICE AWARD
This award serves not only to honor an LGBTQ academic activist every year, but also, in Eve Sedgwick’s words, “to publicize and celebrate—and as widely as possible—the range, the forms, the energy, and the history of queer act…[Read more] -
Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and A…[Read more]
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Monica C. Miller started the topic 2014 Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages Awards in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoThe Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages
welcomes submissions for its annual awards.The 2014 Florence Howe Award
Each year, the Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship recognizes two outstanding essays by feminist scholars, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language. Each recipient receives $250 and is honored at an e…[Read more] -
Anna Faktorovich started the topic Free E-Review Copy of "Romances of George Sand" in the forum
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[Read more]
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