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Claire Oberon Garcia replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the forum
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear Nelly~
This and all of the other forums I am involved in is/are very inactive, which is why I wrote to the MLA organizer thinking that I was having some technical difficulty. I’m deeply disappointed that this forum in particular isn’t a space for lively conversation and sharing research among our 152 members. As far as I know, this forum…[Read more]
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Nelly Noury started the topic CFP: Revue CELAAN Assia Djebar in the forum
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoAppel à communications : numéro spécial de la revue CELAAN consacré à Assia Djebar
Hommage à Assia Djebar : Sortir de la marge et du harem
En 1975, Hélène Cixous révolutionna la discipline de la théorie des genres (gender theory) en publiant son fameux texte sur Le Rire de la Méduse dans lequel elle exhorte les femmes ‘’à sortir de la marg…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic Research Study on LGBTQ Faculty in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoMESSAGE FROM PROF. SEAN ROBINSON RE: STUDY ON THE EXPERIENCES OF LGBTQ FACULTY
Inside the Lavender Tower: Stories of LGBTQ Faculty
Call for LGBTQ Faculty ParticipantsDear Faculty Colleagues,
I am conducting an international, qualitative study on the experiences of LGBTQ faculty. The purpose of my research is to capture the stories and…[Read more]
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Jason A. Baumann started the topic NYPL Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoThe New York Public Library
LGBT Visiting Scholars Program
Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars
http://www.nypl.org/node/113221
Each year, The New York Public Library provides stipends for up to two Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars. The stipends support travel to New York City and related expenses to do research in the Library’s premier LGBT (…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic CFP: Sexualities, Legislation, and Memory in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoSponsored by both the Division on Postcolonial Studies and the Discussion Group on Law as Literature.
Sexualities, Legislation, and Memory
How are global victories and legal challenges to LGBT rights shaping autobiography, film, relationships with nations of origin, political engagement? 300 word abstracts by 14 March 2014 (deadline may be…[Read more] -
Christopher Looby started the topic 2015 Divisional CFPs in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<p class=”MsoNormal”>QUEER ARCHIVES.
Remembering, forgetting; loss, abandonment, preservation, invention; foundations, authorities; remainders, survivals, salvages; epistemic arrangements, derangements, reorderings; material and immaterial archives; future archives; archive fever; presence, place, trace. 250-word abstracts, 1-page CV by 15 March…[Read more] -
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Katina Rogers uploaded the file: Load More Guys: Queered Space and the Politics of Grindr to
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months ago[Originally uploaded by Thom Bryce on 10 January 2014.] A script from the roundtable discussion at the MLA on \”Digital Queers\”
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Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic CFP: Sexing the Left/ English Language Notes in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago“Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)
Sex is everywhere – even on the left. Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it? Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed encount…[Read more]
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Heather Love posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCourtesy of Lawrence M. LaFountain-Stokes, I would like to announce the winners of this year’s GL/Q Caucus prize winners. They will be honored at the MLA Cash Bar (Thursday, Jan 9, 8:45-10 pm, Chicago VIII, Sheraton).
GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages
Prize Winners for 2013 CompetitionCrompton-Noll Prize for Best LGBTQ Studies Article: José…[Read more]
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Heather Love posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoAt MLA2014 in Chicago, please join us for these sessions sponsored or co-sponsored by the Division on Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Thursday, 9 January
140. Queer Modern Philologies
5:15–6:30 p.m. Lincolnshire, Chicago Marriott
Presiding: Ashley Shelden, Kennesaw State Univ.
1. “The Sexual World System,” Benjamin Kahan, L…[Read more]
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Please also join the GL/Q Caucus for its joint cash bar (with prize award ceremony) and sponsored session:
Thursday, January 9. Cash Bar: Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, together with the Ages Studies Discussion Group, Feministas Unidas, GL/Q Caucus, Women in French, and Women in German. 8:45 – 10:00 p.m., Chicago VIII,…[Read more]
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The link for Twitter is: https://twitter.com/GLQMLA
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Marisa Verna uploaded the file: Proust and Space Proust e lo spazio to
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis book collects some articles on a topic often ignored by proustian sholars: Proust and space. The volume is available on the link:
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Marisa Verna uploaded the file: Les registres linguistiques dans la Recherche du Temps Perdu. L'Affaire Dreyfus to
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoMany are the works on the language of proustian characters and the unavoidable critical text by Gérard Genette, Proust et le langage indirect, has by now shown that the emergence of the characters’ deepest psychological dimension is necessarily expressed through an often swerving language: mistakes, omissions, shifts in meaning, and often an un…[Read more]
Open access, open source, open to all
great stuff! are you publishing this somewhere?
Hello, the paper is by Thom Bryce (@tbryce); I merely posted it on his behalf. Please do get in touch with him on the Commons! Apologies for the confusion.
thanks, Katina! will do!
I’m struck by the juxtaposition here of Thom Bryce’s paper on grindr and Cheryl Higashida’s earlier cfp for the special issue on ‘Sexing the Left’. Arguably, the former demonstrates the timeliness, and urgency, of the latter.
Thom’s conclusion – that, despite some reservations, a commercial, profit-driven form of new communication such as grind…[Read more]