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Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic “On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth” March 15: Steven Zipperstein (UPenn Silvers Visiting Scholar) in the discussion
LLC Jewish American via email on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago*UPCOMING EVENT*
*”On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”*
Steve J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021
7:00 PM ESTRegistration Required:
Click here to register
<https://upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xSTYs3noTD6983U0f3FJgw>More information on the Jewish Studies Program…[Read more]
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Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago“On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”
Steven J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
Registration Required: Click here to registerMore information on the Jewish Studies Program website.
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Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoUPCOMING EVENT
“On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”
Steve J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
Registration Required: Click here to registerMore information on the Jewish Studies Program website.
“On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”Steve J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Familiar Ambiguity: The Value of the Humanities in a Globalized World,” Signal House 10 (March 2021) in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe world needs good question askers as much as it needs good problem solvers. Before solving problems, we need to first identify the problems. Great stories are often strangers at home. The best of them defamiliarize banal experiences and everyday utterances while offering something recognizable through a new language and form.…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSpecial issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations,” Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSince the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare: A Critical Introduction.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin, Ema Vyroubalova, Elizabeth Pentland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse in London in 1599. Performances of Shakespeare not only create channels between geographic spaces but also connect different time periods. Divided into two major sections, Shakespeare and World Cultures and Shakespeare and Genres, the…[Read more]
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Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: MLA 2022 (6-9 January, Washington, D.C.)
Romanian Forum’s Guaranteed Panel
Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema
2021 marks two decades since the symbolic launch of Romanian New Wave cinema, a movement that has received important recognition at international film festivals. The Romanian Forum of th…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel, Writing in a Jewish language in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoHow do writers make languages Jewish or inject Jewishness into language? English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, etc. as Jewish languages; Anglish/Yinglish and other Jewish lexicons; Hebrew-Arabic crossovers; language as hybridity. 250-word abstracts and short bios to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk. Deadline: March 8, 2021
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Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel–Contagion in/around Jewish literature in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoSubmissions exploring diverse approaches to contagion in Jewish literature and culture; interpreting contagion, infectious affects and ideas, transnational/linguistic transmission, thematic proliferations, infodemics and political contaminations, illness/disease narratives. 250-word abstracts and short bio to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk. Deadline: March 8, 2021
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Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel–Contagion in/around Jewish literature in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoSubmissions exploring diverse approaches to contagion in Jewish literature and culture; interpreting contagion, infectious affects and ideas, transnational/linguistic transmission, thematic proliferations, infodemics and political contaminations, illness/disease narratives. 250-word abstracts and short bio to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk
Deadline: March 8, 2021
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoCall for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews
We seek submissions exploring diverse approaches to myth in Jewish literature/culture; literary/cultural myths about Jews; language; feminist readings; gender critiques; contemporary myths; temporality; race; Memory Studies; Holocaust Studies; all genres, including…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews
We seek submissions exploring diverse approaches to myth in Jewish literature/culture; literary/cultural myths about Jews; language; feminist readings; gender critiques; contemporary myths; temporality; race; Memory Studies; Holocaust Studies; all genres, including…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas
We seek submissions for a forum panel exploring hybrid languages, identities, genres, cultures, genders, in prose/poetry by most recent Jewish immigrant writers; diverse approaches welcome: comparative with 1881-1924 Jewish literature; hemispheric, multilingual,…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas
We seek submissions for a forum panel exploring hybrid languages, identities, genres, cultures, genders, in prose/poetry by most recent Jewish immigrant writers; diverse approaches welcome: comparative with 1881-1924 Jewish literature; hemispheric, multilingual,…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: Maus at 30 Years (CLCS Global Jewish and LLC Jewish American) in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoMLA 2022: Maus at 30 Years (a collaboration between the CLCS Global Jewish forum and LLC Jewish American forum)
We seek submissions for a roundtable, 30 years later, on Maus’s enduring influence; teaching and/or scholarship on/around Maus; diverse approaches wanted, eg., Memory Studies, Comics Studies, Autobiography Studies, Holocaust Studies, in…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited “The Dark Mirror of Our Lives”: Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices, and Auto/biography in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoFirst presented as a paper at the 2018 SAMLA Convention in Atlanta, this article will become a chapter of my book in progress on the photobooks of the 1930s and 1940s illustrated with the photographs of the Farm Security Administration.
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Scott Challener deposited Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years agoA brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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