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Erin Cowling started the topic Candidate Statement: Women in the Profession in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored and excited to have been nominated for the special delegate position of “Women in the Profession”. Since entering the job market four years ago I have consistently experienced and witnessed the corporatization of our profession. This is especially concerning for women and other minority groups, as we tend to be in the majority in the…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Personal Identity and Literary Personae: A Study in Historical Psychology in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis comparative study in the evolution of subjectivity in European literature during the Renaissance ascribes it to the impact of the Reformation on the public representation of authorial identity, differing from Stephen Greenblatt’s later application of Foucault to six Tudor authors.
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Marilyn Edelstein started the topic Candidate statement for exec. comm. for this forum on Women's and Gender Studies in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored to have been nominated for the executive committee for the Forum on Women’s and Gender Studies, given my lifelong commitment to these areas of scholarship and teaching. I’ve published on such feminist theorists as bell hooks and Julia Kristeva, and regularly teach courses on Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory and on Women and Lit…[Read more]
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Majda R. Atieh deposited The Revelation of the Veiled in Toni Morrison's Paradise: The Whirling Dervishes in the Harem of the Convent in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMuslim women’s perspective on liberatory Islamic orality (or empowerment via the oral traditions within Islam) is vastly accentuated in Fatema Mernissi’s and Leila Ahmed’s examinations of the harem structure. These harem narratives celebrate Sufism, a mystical Islamic theosophy that foregrounds orality and invites a constant search toward divine…[Read more]
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Natalie Crohn Schmitt deposited Dissimulation in the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCommedia dell’Arte was the most influential and widespread theatre movement in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe. A considerable part of its popularity can be accounted for by its comic representation of stressful occurrences within everyday life in early modern Europe, including in its representation of the period’s widespread dis…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic ESSE 2016: cfp in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago13th ESSE CONFERENCE
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016.
CFP: SEMINAR ON “GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE”
Conveners: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (U of Huelva, Spain, picuder@dfing.uhu.es)
Cinta Ramblado-Minero (U of Limerick, Ireland, cinta.ramblado@ul.ie)
One of the characteristics of postmodernity is the glob…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CfP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the proposed ACLA seminar below:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mi…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin
Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated M…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic Call for Abstracts: ICLA Conference 2016 in Vienna; Comparative Gender/Queer in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts relationally rather than…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Call for essays in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Women’s Studies in Language and Literature Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on wo…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic WGSC NeMLA cfp for panels, Hartford, 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers – NeMLA Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus
47th Annual NeMLA Convention
March 17-20, 2016 Hartford, CT
Hosted by the University of Connecticut
Session Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2015
Call for Papers Begins: June 15, 2015
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2015
All submissions are online at: http://www.buffalo.edu/ne…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic Do you teach about aging to undergraduate students? in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoGood morning colleagues,
I am conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or…[Read more] -
Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. Oct. 16 and Sat. Oct. 17, 2015 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme: Conflicts and ResolutionsFeatured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec Foster
Location: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512
We live in a society that has c…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWe are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While Morrison’s novels examine m…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoFamilial/Communal Structures
Black Motherhood
The Presence of the ancestor
Other Mothering
Collective Memory/Cultural Trauma
Mothering-Controlled Reproduction (racialized maternity)
Language Theory (Julia Kristeva)
Violence
Cultural/Individual Meaning of Motherhood
Relationships between mothers and daughters/sons
Mothers & Sexual…[Read more]
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