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Maheswari D deposited INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TAMIL LANGUAGE AND LITERARY STUDIES- VOL – 2 : ISSUE – 2, JANUARY 2020 in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis is the regular issue of the journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TAMIL LANGUAGE AND LITERARY STUDIES (E-ISSN: 2581-7140), VOL – 2: ISSUE – 2, JANUARY 2020. There are 21 scholarly articles in English, 21 of them in Tamil Language and one in English.
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Object-Oriented Disability: The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThough the verbal icon has a long and robust multisensory history extending beyond Milton, my goal here is to challenge ableist readings of Milton’s poetry by linking his poetic ekphrasis to the politics and aesthetics of disability.
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies to Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U (ljt233@nyu.edu ) Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 2 April 2020. (C…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Survival Strategies in the Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWhat can we learn from indigenous and Black strategies for survival in the Americas, as we face the enduring legacies of capitalist settler colonialism? Please send a 200-word abstract and a brief biographical statement to Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) Please share broadly. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 3 April 2020
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Laura Torres-Rodríguez started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021) in the discussion
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies. Send to Laura J. Torres-Rodríguez ljt233@nyu.edu Deadline: April 2LCC Mexico and CLCS Hemispheric American
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic Standing for Election of Executive Committee of CLCS Hemispheric American in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWe invite you to stand for election to our Executive Committee — come guide our group in upcoming years! Note that you are only allowed to serve on one executive committee at a time. If you are interested, please email Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) as soon as possible. Thank you!
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Canadian Environments and the Extraction Economy in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCanadian Environments and the Extraction Economy
This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum and the Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum, considers the cultures and histories of resource extraction in Canada. We seek papers on Canadian and/or Indigenous literatures and environments. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March…[Read more] -
Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Scarborough in/as Canadian Literature in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoScarborough in/as Canadian Literature
This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum, considers the recent florescence of literature from and about Scarborough, ON. We seek papers discussing particular works related to Scarborough, as well as theoretical approaches. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March 2020 Robert Zacharias, York…[Read more] -
Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Indigenous-diasporic relations on Turtle Island in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIndigenous-diasporic relations on Turtle Island
What are the possibilities for building alliances across lines of difference on Turtle Island? What are the challenges of intertwining decolonial struggles? We welcome papers, artistic, and pedagogical provocations on diasporic-Indigenous relations on Turtle Island.Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more] -
Louise Barrière replied to the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe deadline has been extended! The CfP now runs until March 15th.
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James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?”: The 1923 Text in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of the 1923 state of Hemingway’s In Our Time is the first of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” in The Little Review, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: Afro-Latinx Stories in the discussion
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting proposals for this panel on “Afro-Latinx Stories” for the 2021 Modern Language Association convention. See more info below. Thanks!
Cheers,
Elena
MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories
- Papers analyzing Afro-Latinx cultural and literary production.
- Send 150-word abstract and C…
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: Afro-Latinx Stories in the discussion
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting proposals for this panel on “Afro-Latinx Stories” for the 2021 Modern Language Association convention. See more info below. Thanks!
Cheers,
Elena
MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories
- Papers analyzing Afro-Latinx cultural and literary production.
- Send 150-word abstract and C…
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Shannan Palma deposited Entitled to a happy ending: Fairy-tale logic from “Beauty and the Beast” to the incel movement in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe author proposes fairy-tale logic as a mode of magical thinking typified by the belief that certain functions, fulfilled correctly and in the right order, lead to predictable outcomes. Mapping similarities in implicit reasoning within “Beauty and the Beast,” the reality television program Beauty and the Geek (2005-08), and the misogynistic nar…[Read more]
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Louise Barrière started the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLGBTI & QUEER ARTS, CULTURES, ACTIVISMS CONFERENCE (Metz, France)
Conference dates: 11th and 12th June 2020
CfP Deadline: 28th February
[Deadline might be subject to extension due to an ongoing strike in French universities. I will inform you if this is the case, but we recommend to get your abstract in as soon as possible in any…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar started the topic New publication in the discussion
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoAlfar, Cristina León “Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 789–819. (Available through ProjectMuse muse.jhu.edu/article/741025.)
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Anita Harris Satkunananthan deposited Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]
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