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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear MLAgrads members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher education in the…[Read more]
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Celia Marshik started the topic Contemporary Women's Writing Association International Conference CFP in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, CanadaCall for PapersThe 2019 Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference theme is inspired by
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Matricide in the City in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExplores the invisible man, in Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man,” as borrowing upon associations of patriarchal maleness, in the sense Ann Douglas in her “Terrible Honesty” argues 20s modern’s did, to secure freedom from feelings of entrapment by maternal figures, whose near-proximity to him is expressed in the text as often incestuous, gross;…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Useful Object in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores Maureen Folan, in Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” as a psychological borderline, someone who is afraid to achieve a man she can have a relationship with, and so defaults to using him as simply another object she can use in warfare against a mother she is only yet capable of playing at being able to leave behind her.
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Neelofer Qadir started the topic CFP MLA 2020 Roundtable on Global Black Studies in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoEnthusiastically inviting participants for a roundtable on global Black studies for the Modern Language Association’s 2020 convention in Seattle, Washington, USA, 9-12 January.
For this non-guaranteed session, the organizers seek short provocations in response to the following prompt:How does the prefix “global” alter, expand, or complicate no…[Read more]
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Katherine Hummel replied to the topic CFPs for Global South forum panels at the 2020 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoIs it possible to know if any of these panels are guaranteed sessions?
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock’s I’m Jack in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoIn this article, through a reading of Mark Blacklock’s 2015 novel, I’m Jack, alongside the history of erasure poetry, I suggest that an apt literary-critical metaphor for reading redaction in contemporary literature comes from the term “metadata.” This article schematizes the ways in which redaction can work in literary contexts and points to the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Alexander the Large in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores a particular passage of Anthony Burgess’s “Clockwork Orange,” illuminating how it shows the text draws our admiration for Alex.
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Medieval Literature in the Contact Zone — review essay in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExemplaria review essay by Sarah Elliott Novacich of recent books by Simon Gaunt, Jonathan Hsy, and Shirin Khanmohamadi on medieval contact zones.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Privileging Marlow in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoArgues that the way in which Marlow is presented, ensures that Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is vulnerable as a text that ostensibly helps justify the maintenance of separate spheres between men and women; argues that Marlow’s successful agency is more about his being craftily evasive, a man who doesn’t impose but dodges.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Privileging Marlow in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoArgues that the way in which Marlow is presented, ensures that Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is vulnerable as a text that ostensibly helps justify the maintenance of separate spheres between men and women; argues that Marlow’s successful agency is more about his being craftily evasive, a man who doesn’t impose but dodges.
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Amelie Daigle started the topic CFP: Transnational Families, Transnational Novels in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoJuly 12-13, 2019: Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (London, England)
From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasizes the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market…[Read more]
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Amelie Daigle started the topic CFP: Transnational Families, Transnational Novels in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoJuly 12-13, 2019: Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (London, England)
From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasizes the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic CFPs for Global South forum panels at the 2020 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoRace, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South
Papers on the intersections between indigeneity, postcoloniality, creolization, and discourses of race in the Global South. How does migration affect understandings of sovereignty/belonging? What are the powers/limitations of a globalized concept of indigeneity? 250-word…[Read more] -
Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Kristin Bluemel deposited Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced…[Read more]
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Cassandra Laity deposited Towards Feminist Modernist Studies in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoIntroduction to the new feminists modernisms in the inaugural issue of Feminist Modernist Studies.
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic Global South panels at the 2019 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThe Global South forum’s sponsored panel at this year’s MLA, “Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South,” will take place on Thursday, Jan 3 from 3:30 – 4:45pm (Hyatt Regency – Grand Suit 5). We hope to see you there.
You might also be interested in the panel “The Global South Novel,” organized by Anne Garland Mahler (out-going member of…[Read more]
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