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Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago*Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic CFP Volume on Agustín Fernández Mallo in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for papers: Essay proposals for a volume on the work of Spanish poet, novelist, and essayist Agustín Fernández Mallo, to be edited by Ana León-Távora (Salem College) and Zachary Rockwell Ludington (U of Maine).
Following our MLA 2021 panel, “General Trash Heap of Theory: Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Iconoclastic Aesthetics,” we invite abst…[Read more]
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Ricardo Jose Castro started the topic CFP: Cognitive Approaches to Latin American / Iberian Cultural Productions in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Graduate Student Caucus, Allied MLA Organization, is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on Cognitive Approaches to Comtemporary Latin American & Iberian Cultural Productions, at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC.
Panel focuses on cognitive approaches to literatures/cultures of Iberia/Latin America. Topics may include, but not…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2022 MLA Round Table: When the MLA Went Global: What is Global in the Global His in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWhen the MLA Went Global: What is Global in the Global Hispanophone?
The Global Hispanophone Forum is organizing a round table with seven participants representing the different global forums in the MLA
This panel seeks to interrogate the notion of the global from different angles. What is global in the Global Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone,…[Read more] -
Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic CPF: Imagining Time (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoImagining Time
Seeking work on the psychology of time in reading: how writers and readers make & modulate virtual experiences of time; tempo, cadence, duration, synchronicity; cognitive approaches particularly welcome. 300-word abstract and CV. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021 Elizabeth Oldfather, U of Louisiana, Monroe…[Read more] -
Susan Larson deposited Madrid Río, El Matadero and the Nature of Urbanization in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis essay considers two closely related high-profile urban renewal projects that have altered the landscape of the southern region of Madrid since 2007: Madrid Río and El Matadero Madrid Centro de Creación Contemporánea. While the former is often cast as renovating the ‘natural’ ecology of the city and the latter a renovation of its cultural la…[Read more]
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Resistance Literature and Occupied Palestine in Cold War Beirut in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFREE ACCESS: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0377919X.2020.1855933
For the last decade of his life, the Palestinian intellectual, author, and editor Ghassan Kanafani (d. 1972) was deeply immersed in theorizing, lecturing, and publishing on Palestinian resistance literature from Beirut. A refugee of the 1948 war, Kanafani presented…[Read more] -
Caroline Winter deposited Romantic Literature and the Emergence of Modern Commercial Society (Syllabus) in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoA syllabus for a 300-level (3rd year) English literature course taught at the University of Victoria’s English department
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic CFP MLA 2022 Forums CLCS 18th Century & LLC 18th-19th Century Spanish & Iberian in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoTerritoriality, Language, and Power in the 18th-19th c. Iberian World
Ten-minute presentations interrogating language, power, and territoriality (sovereignty, possession, ownership) in African, Asian, European, and inter-American spaces governed by Spain and Portugal. 200 word abstract & brief CV to ambfk@virginia.edu and cj10@txstate.edu. Deadline…[Read more] -
Carl Gelderloos deposited Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics in Weimar Germany—Helmuth Plessner in Translation (review essay) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this short essay I discuss two new translations of Helmuth Plessner’s work, “Political Anthropology,” translated by Nils F. Schott (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and “Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology,” translated by Millay Hyatt (Fordham University Press, 2019).
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Linda M. Willem replied to the topic Honoring Emilia Pardo Bazán: An International Campaign in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI strongly support this initiative.
Linda M. Willem
Butler University
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Michaela Hulstyn started the topic CFP: The Art of Unselfing (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Cognitive and Affect Studies and Philosophy and Literature forums invite papers that engage the philosophy, cognition, or emotions of unselfing in literature and/or art for the 2022 MLA meeting. Collaborative, non-guaranteed session. Please submit a 250-word abstract by 15 March to mhulstyn@fsu.edu.
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Megan Cytron replied to the topic Honoring Emilia Pardo Bazán: An International Campaign in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThank you for this wonderful initiative, which I wholeheartedly support.
Megan Cytron
Universidad Complutense
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Paula A. Sprague replied to the topic Honoring Emilia Pardo Bazán: An International Campaign in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoPlease add my support to this important initiative!!
Stay well, everyone.
Paula Sprague
Univ. of Virginia
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Diana Castilleja replied to the topic Honoring Emilia Pardo Bazán: An International Campaign in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI fully support this initiative.
Diana Castilleja
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Louise E. Ciallella replied to the topic Honoring Emilia Pardo Bazán: An International Campaign in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI wholeheartedly support this initiative. Saludos a todos, y uno especial a mi amiga Carmen Pereira. Louise Ciallella, Northern Illinois University.
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