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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Glynne Walley started the topic Suggestions for Japanese to 1900 panels for MLA 2023 in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe exco is currently in the process of planning panels for next year’s MLA. We have some ideas but are eager to hear suggestions and proposals from you. If you would like to organize a panel, or to suggest a topic for one, please contact me.
Next year’s MLA will be in San Francisco, Jan. 5-8, 2023. The Presidential Theme is described here, bu…[Read more]
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Glynne Walley started the topic Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee membership in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs most of you know, forum executive committee members serve five-year terms; each year one new member joins the exco as one leaves. Historically, new members have been elected by the forum membership. However, beginning this cycle MLA is experimenting with a new policy.
Here’s MLA’s explanation:
The Program Committee has implemented a change t…
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Kendra Leonard deposited Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoEdited Collection of essays on music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
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Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.
The following sessions will now be held virtually:
Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Presider: Rielle Navitski
A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]
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Jack W. Chen started the topic Nominations: Pre-14th Century Chinese Forum Executive Committee/Delegate Assembl in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoPre-14th Century Chinese Forum Executive Committee/Delegate Assembly Nominations!
MLA has instituted a change to the staffing of forum executive committees, moving from an election-based process to an appointment-based one. As a result, it is all the more important that members who wish to serve on the executive committee for our forum put…[Read more]
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Dr. Elizabeth Hunter deposited Participant information for MLA 2022 Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoBios and recent work of the participants for the 2022 MLA Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” scheduled to take place on January 6, 2022.
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Emily Friedman deposited ENGL4160EA: Fall 2022: How Games Tell Stories in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWe are quickly approaching the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the 10th anniversaries of Twitch and Itch.io, and the ninth generation of video game consoles. The most successful TV/film Kickstarter of all time funded the animated series for D&D livestream Critical Role. Game Studies has existed as an interdisciplinary field for over three…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Korean on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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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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Edward B. Kamens started the topic Nominee statement for forum election (LLC Japaanese to 1900) in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoDiversity, equity and inclusion are and for the foreseeable future should be high priority concerns for all manner of organizations, institutions and associations, including and perhaps especially those in the academic sphere, a space from which we believe, as humanists, meaningful changes in understanding and purposeful can emanate. Recognition…[Read more]
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Erin Brightwell started the topic Membership nominee forum representative statement in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoI am pleased to stand for election as a forum representative. My work centers on Japan, but for me, this means Japan embedded in larger regional, intellectual, and cultural networks. In particular, preoccupations with classical China and Chinese haunt many of the texts that draw me. My recent monograph, Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural Studies: An Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin,” American Journal of Chinese Studies 28.2 (October, 2021): 115-130. in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHow might we de-colonize hegemonic knowledge production about East Asia and its relationship with the West? This interview with Alexa Alice Joubin draws on new perspectives on cultural exchange in her book, Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021), which promotes treatment of Asian performing arts as original epistemologies rather…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural Studies: An Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin,” American Journal of Chinese Studies 28.2 (October, 2021): 115-130. in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHow might we de-colonize hegemonic knowledge production about East Asia and its relationship with the West? This interview with Alexa Alice Joubin draws on new perspectives on cultural exchange in her book, Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021), which promotes treatment of Asian performing arts as original epistemologies rather…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural Studies: An Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin,” American Journal of Chinese Studies 28.2 (October, 2021): 115-130. in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHow might we de-colonize hegemonic knowledge production about East Asia and its relationship with the West? This interview with Alexa Alice Joubin draws on new perspectives on cultural exchange in her book, Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021), which promotes treatment of Asian performing arts as original epistemologies rather…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown,” Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern, ed. Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska (Cornell University Press, 2021), 322-349 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoAnalyzing trans narratives about the early moderns through the lenses of affective labor and social reparation, this chapter reclaims as trans the Shakespeare films that have been misinterpreted as homosexual. In doing so, this chapter builds a longer, more intersectional history of gendered embodiment. Reparative trans performances—works in w…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown,” Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern, ed. Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska (Cornell University Press, 2021), 322-349 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoAnalyzing trans narratives about the early moderns through the lenses of affective labor and social reparation, this chapter reclaims as trans the Shakespeare films that have been misinterpreted as homosexual. In doing so, this chapter builds a longer, more intersectional history of gendered embodiment. Reparative trans performances—works in w…[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
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 East Asian 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, 2022
Call for Papers
Over the past two decades, intermediality and inter-Asia (much like…[Read more] - Load More
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