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Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 648 – Cash Bar co-sponsored by Caribbean forum, Sat 1/11 @ 7:15 pm in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago648 – Cash Bar Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, LLC Puerto Rican, and CLCS Caribbean
Saturday, 11 January 2020
7:15 PM – 8:30 PM
Sheraton -…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 468 – Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom, Sat. 1/11 @ 10:15 am in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago2020 MLA convention session sponsored by the CLCS Caribbean forum:
Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom
Saturday, January 11th, 2020
10:15 am to 11:30 am
Washington State Convention Center, Skagit 3
Presiding: Kaiama Glover, Barnard College-Columbia University
Prose Fiction, Plays, and Pantomimes: Teaching…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 200. The Caribbean 1970s, Friday 10 January 2020 at 8:30 am in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago2020 MLA convention panel, cosponsored by the CLCS Caribbean and TC Postcolonial Studies forums:
The Caribbean 1970s
Friday, January 10th, 2020
8:30 am to 9:45 am
Washington State Convention Center, Chelan 4
Presiding: Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University
“Liberation of a Small Place: Political Narratives about the…[Read more]
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Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Affective Appr. to the Study of Contemp. Spanish LGBTQI Culture – Schedule MLA in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.
Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]
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Shane Graham started the topic CFP: Langston Hughes Review Special Issue—”‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ at 100″ in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoLangston Hughes Review
Guest Editor: Shane Graham
Expected Publication: May 2021
In June 1921, Crisis published Langston Hughes’ first adult poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” In many ways it contained the blueprint for the poet’s entire subsequent career, and established many of his key themes: black pride and self-assertion; the validat…[Read more] -
Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
<a title=”Original URL:
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
LLC African since 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World” in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIn the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic Candidate Statement for the Executive Committee CLCS Global Anglophone Forum in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
I am honored to have been nominated for the MLA Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Anglophone forum. I am currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, working in the fields of British and transnational modernisms, and postcolonial and global Anglophone literatures. My monograph, Nation…[Read more]
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Nicole Rizzuto started the topic Candidacy Statement Executive Committee 20th and 21st C English and Anglophone in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoMy interest in serving on the Executive Committee for Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English and Anglophone Literatures stems from my ongoing research within these fields and from my commitment to addressing the changing structure of the profession and its effects on knowledge production and scholarly activity. I take the current ideological…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Scheherezade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDrawing on Arabic textual traditions and foregrounding the liminal time and space of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation, Muslim slave narratives deserve recognition as generative forebears of transnational, multicultural literature in both England and the United States. Yet these forebears were…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Scheherezade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature in the group
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDrawing on Arabic textual traditions and foregrounding the liminal time and space of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation, Muslim slave narratives deserve recognition as generative forebears of transnational, multicultural literature in both England and the United States. Yet these forebears were…[Read more]
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