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Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Dress, Costume: a Proposed Terminological Clarification in the Historical Research of Women’s Clothing (Preprint) in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis paper delineates the conceptual variations between the notions ‘fashion’, ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ in English-language texts on women’s garment histories using relevant examples from interwar Romanian periodicals. The aim is to offer a more precise formulation, as these three terms have largely been used interchangeably. This paper is built on a…[Read more]
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Harrod Suarez started the topic LLC Asian American Panels @ 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years ago87V – Out of This World: Larissa Lai’s Visions: Thursday, 6 January 2022 / 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
456V – Multilingual Asian American Newspaper Studies: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
481V – Archipelagic Thinking in Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American Narratives: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
630V – Radi…[Read more]
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Iskandar Zulkarnain deposited Locating Cultures in Video Games and Interactive Fiction in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoText of my keynote talk at Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES) about video game cultures, focusing on the global south.
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke deposited Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe first incarnation of this Broadview edition of Heart of Darkness appeared in 1995, the second in 1999; both were widely acclaimed, and the Goonetilleke Heart of Darkness remained for many years one of Broadview’s best-selling titles. For the third edition the book has been completely revised and updated to take account of the scholarship of t…[Read more]
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Leigh Gilmore started the topic Job Opportunity in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoPosition No. 00005756. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic ACLA 2022 Seminar CFP: Intermediality & the Transboundary in S & SE Asia in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoIntermediality and the Transboundary in South and Southeast Asia
A Seminar Proposal for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei, June 15-18, 2022
Deadline for Submission: October 31, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. PST
To submit an abstract for this seminar, please visit:…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Enigmas de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis article reviews four crucial moments of the editorial life of Guaman Poma de Ayala’s “Nueva corónica y buen gobierno” [New Chronicle and Good Government], a 1189-page history of Peru before, during, and after the Spanish conquest. The chronicle includes 399 ink drawings made by the author. The essay also addresses unanswered questions…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInvited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInvited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop
Conveners: Brian Bernards (USC) and Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK)
Part 1: University of Southern California (Los Angeles), May 20-21, 2022
Part 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 10-11, 2022Over the past two decades, intermediality and inter-Asia (much like interdisciplinarity) have…[Read more]
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Marcelo R. S. Ribeiro deposited Cosmopoéticas da desobediência informe: leitura contra-colonial do regime da extração no catálogo Lumière in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoConsiderando o catálogo Lumière como experiência inaugural do cinema mundial, este artigo propõe uma leitura anarquívica de algumas de suas imagens. Diferenciando a operação do cinematógrafo como dispositivo cosmotécnico de arquivamento do mundo e aparelho cosmopoético de invenção de mundos, exploro as formas de inscrição da diferença no…[Read more]
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic Three Positions in Black Studies and English at Amherst College in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoBlack Studies and English (three positions)The Departments of English and Black Studies at Amherst College invite applications for multiple full-time appointments in the field of Black literature and culture, to begin on July 1, 2022. We define this field broadly to include work in any genre or medium produced by people from Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoBuilding on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume examines Spanish cinema through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age. Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film brings together the scholarship of an…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza started the topic CfP: New peer-reviewed book series "Crossovers: New Perspectives on CompLit" in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(Version française ci-joint.)The European Society of Comparative Literature/Société Européenne de Littérature Comparée is calling for monograph proposals for its new peer-reviewed book series Crossovers: New Perspectives on CompLit to be published by ibidem Press (Germany).
Aims and Scope
The series welcomes the submi…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoReview of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited “The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac” in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoBuilding on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).
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