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Erin Cowling posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA Special Session on Theatre and Adaptation: In keeping with the 2019 MLA Presidential Theme “Textual Transactions”, this special session for the 2019 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, Jan 3-6, is looking for papers discussing the transactional nature of adaptations, between author, actor, and audience, from the seventeenth century to today.…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Luna Najera posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: MLA 2019
The Forum on 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose invites you to submit abstracts on the subject of sexual violence and coercion in the Hispanic Monarchy.
Session title: Early Modern #metoo
Description: Early modern Spanish prose and poetry reveal the operations of patriarchy very clearly; even…[Read more] -
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoJoin the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network for scholarly exchange and collaboration about the study of plants in the Humanities and Social Sciences. You can join our listserv and visit our website at http://plants.sites.arizona.edu/. We invite you to add your publications and/or artwork to our bibliography of primary and secondary…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Comparative Cultural Studies Conference, Budapest Hungary,29-31 August 2018 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe comparative studies journals Comparative Literature Studies (Penn State University), Neohelicon (Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary), and Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (East China Normal University, Shanghai), with support of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, will sponsor an international conference in Budapest, Hungary, from 29-31 Augu…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoWould anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a Romantic? — If a deeper reading of F.K. is of interest, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange such a session.
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Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoGood Morning!
In the fall you’ll see my name on the ballot. I am a candidate to represent the TM Forum on Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography. I am thrilled to join the executive committee and to help to raise the profile of this group in its recently reconfigured form. Thus, I am writing to ask you for your support as well as i…[Read more] -
Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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Michael Hancher posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoImaging wood blocks: manipulable 3-D digital representations of three 19th-c. wood engravings, including a “Bewick” and one for Dickens. https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mh/home/miscellany/imaging-wood-blocks
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Monica Diaz started the topic CFP MLA 2019 African Transactions Within and Beyond Colonial Brazil in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years agoGuaranteed session of the of Colonial Latin American Forum
What can the study of African/Afro-descendent culture in colonial Brazil teach us about its presence elsewhere? Papers on the African presence in Brazil in isolation, connection, or comparison to other areas of colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract and cv to Lisa Voigt at voigt.25@osu.edu
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Eleanor F. Shevlin posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP 2019 TM Book, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Title: Cut, Copy, Paste, TrackHow do we study the expansion, contraction, and development of material texts and corpora? Papers sought that explore erasure, cancellation, deletion, supplementation, and textual change. 350-word proposals cvs by 10 March 2018; Eleanor F. Shevlin (eshevlin@wcupa.edu)…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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Remy Attig deposited Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish: Common Considerations for the English Translator of Two Peripheral Lects in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the natural order of language development orality precedes literary production, but elements of the oral tradition do often appear in literature. In this presentation I will look at orality in some Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish texts to see how the study of these two lects together may better inform the translator. Though both are lects of…[Read more]
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Brandon Walsh deposited Hacking the Book in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis course considers literary experiment instigated by the Internet and exercised on both analogue and digital platforms. When we think of “hacking,” we frequently think of solitary computer programmers in dark rooms. But hacking also implies a culture of profane disruption that closely mirrors developments in literary experimentation over the…[Read more]
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Kate Ozment deposited Expanding Access: Feminist Scholarship and the Women in Book History Bibliography in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoInspired by my work on the Women in Book History Bibliography, this presentation takes a different angle on discussions of women’s texts in digital archives. The WBHB collects secondary sources on women’s writing and labor over a broad range of languages, subjects, geographic locations, and time periods. Because we collect secondary sources, we…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited “Q i-jtb the Raven”: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these various parts require sustained bibliographic analysis and description. To adequately theorize any research conducted in large-scale text archives—including r…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited “Q i-jtb the Raven”: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these various parts require sustained bibliographic analysis and description. To adequately theorize any research conducted in large-scale text archives—including r…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited BOOK REVIEW: Media coverage of Organized Labor in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe idea that the US media is biased against organized labor may seem too obvious to require comment and research, but the details are quite important to understanding to to communicate more effectively between voices of the labor community and voices of management. The common assumption that labor media coverage became more skewed with the…[Read more]
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