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Petra S. McGillen deposited More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei, MLA 2022 (Abstracts) in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the Two-Panel Series “More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022.
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Daniela D'Eugenio started the topic Jane Tylus_What Does it Take to Make a Saint Medieval Women, Yesterday and Today in the discussion
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Italian Program at the University of Arkansas would like to invite you to a lecture by Prof. Jane Tylus (Yale University), “What Does it Take to Make a Saint? Medieval Women, Yesterday and Today,” on Monday, March 22, at 6:00pm CST.
All are welcome! Please register in advance for the event Register here. All registered par…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Multilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoMultilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context
MLA Call: This session explores the use of language–Italian, Italian dialects, regionalism, Italiese, or even foreign languages–within the context of Italian American e/o Italian diasporic studies. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions from literary to visual and performative…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Challenging the (Italian) American Canon: Past to Present in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWhat makes a canon? More importantly, what is the confines, political and literary, faced by installing a canon? By destroying the canon as scholars, do we end up doing more good than bad? What is the future of ethnic writers when considering the canon?
Italian American studies scholar Mary Jo Bona claims that “many factors contributed to the e…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic MLA Working Group in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoMLA Working Group
Transgenerational Trauma in Italian-American Literary, Visual, and Performative Texts
From the shellshock victims of the First World War to adopting the term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma studies cover a wide-ranging area, from psychiatry to transgenerational trauma. In The Traumatic Imagination, Eugene Arva…[Read more] -
Carl Gelderloos deposited Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics in Weimar Germany—Helmuth Plessner in Translation (review essay) in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German 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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Alan J. Gravano started the topic LLC Italian American 1998-2023 (Twenty-fifth Anniversary) in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoAfter the meeting today, I thought about anniversaries. The first LLC IA was San Francisco in 1998. Thus, 2023 will be the 25th anniversary of the LLC.
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Liam Lanigan started the topic Executive Committee Election: Liam Lanigan in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA chairde,
I’m very pleased and honoured to have been nominated for election to the Irish forum executive committee. This Fall I was appointed Assistant Professor of British and European Literature at Governors State University in Chicago, having spent the last two years as a VAP at Texas Woman’s University. Previously I was the NEH Keough…[Read more]
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Ellen Scheible started the topic Executive Committee Election: Ellen Scheible in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDear Members,
I am grateful and honored to have been nominated for the executive committee and would love the opportunity to represent four-year regional state universities as well as undergraduate Irish Studies programs at the regional level. I am an associate professor of English at Bridgewater State University where I teach modern and…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoPlease see the announcement and call for papers for Diasporic Italy.
Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies AssociationInaugural Volume (2021) – Call for Papers Description:Diasporic Italy is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Italian American / Diaspora studies, focusing on timely and v…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited Dennis Looney, Paper delivered at session on pedagogy of Early Modern Period, MLA Convention, December 2005 in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Introduction to Marx & Critical Theory | Spring 2020 in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThis is the syllabus for an introductory course on Marx and critical theory that I taught at Binghamton University in the spring semester, 2020. It revises and expands an earlier iteration of the course that I had taught in spring, 2018, also at Binghamton University.
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: D’Annunzio as World Literature (MLA Symposium) in the discussion
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoHi everyone,
From a colleague. If interested, please contact Elisa.Segnini@glasgow.ac.uk
We are organizing a project titled ‘D’Annunzio as World Literature’, which includes a panel at the MLA symposium in Glasgow (June 17-19 2021, https://symposium.mla.org/glasgow/being-hospitable/?utm_campaign=symposiumsubjuly20&utm_medium=email&utm_sour…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Lecture on The Sopranos – July 22, 2020 from 3-4EST in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoJoin Jon Cavallero’s for a lecture on family in The Sopranos. See the flyer for more information.
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Aileen A. Feng started the topic CFP: “Dante’s Legacy in Renaissance Politics & Religion” — RSA 2021 (Dublin) in the discussion
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRenaissance Society of America (RSA), 2021 Annual Conference in Dublin, Ireland, 7-10 April 2021 (https://www.rsa.org/page/RSADublin2021)
“Dante’s Legacy in Renaissance Politics & Religion” sponsored by the Dante Society of America (DSA; https://www.dantesociety.org/)
Organized by Erminia Ardissino, with Aileen A. Feng (DSA representative to…[Read more]
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Petra McGillen started the topic CFP: Women & Language in the discussion
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Paola Ugolini deposited «Voi del vostro honor habiate cura». Note sul sonetto 94 di Gaspara Stampa in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoPrendendo spunto dal sonetto 94 delle Rime di Gaspara Stampa, il mio saggio si propone di analizzare l’atteggiamento di sottomissione nei confronti dell’amato da parte della poetessa, contrastandolo con i momenti in cui Stampa ricatta l’amato, minacciando di offuscarne la gloria grazie al proprio ruolo di autrice. A partire da queste dichi…[Read more]
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Paola Ugolini deposited Self-Portraits of a Truthful Liar: Satire, Truth-Telling, and Courtliness in Ludovico Ariosto’s Satire and Orlando Furioso in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoComposed during the most difficult years of Ludovico Ariosto’s relationship with the Este court, the Satire are known for presenting a picture of their author as a simple, quiet-loving man, and also as a man who can speak only the truth. However, the self-portrait offered by the Satire of the author as a man incapable of lying stands in direct c…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWhat’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: LLC Italian American – MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoTitle: Trauma & Its Consequences in Italian-Americana E-mail Address: rcalabretta@gmail.comDescription & Requirements: This session explores trauma and Italian Americans, individually, collectively as a community, and on a larger scale as a culture. Open to representations in literature, cinema, and the arts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]
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