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Jessica Winston started the topic TAships Available ISU Graduate Programs in English and the Teaching of English in the discussion
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Dear Colleagues,
The M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English at Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) combine the study of English and American Literature with practical and theoretical coursework in the teaching of composition and literature.
We now have two additional TAships available for graduate students…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: The Critic as Amateur in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSaikat Majumdar and I are inviting essays for a proposed collection tentatively titled The Critic as Amateur, with strong interest from Oxford UP. The collection will focus on literary criticism as an activity suspended (productively) between expertise and amateurism. It will explore the idea of the critic of literature as an amateur rather t…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic Call for Assistant Editors: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoCALL FOR
ASSISTANT EDITORS (2017 & 2018)APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 20 NOVEMBER 2016
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the cultures of cities and blending humanities and social science approaches to the urban phenomenon. The journal publishes research articles (subject to peer review) of…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoMarie Darrieussecq’s Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel’s “bad” language is a foil for Darrieussecq’s larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural StudiesMay 6-7, 2016
McMaster Innovation Park
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U. Ma in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural Studies
May 6-7, 2016
McMaster Innovation Park
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited John Milton: the First Modern in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoJohn Milton is a hero to Millennials: C. S. Lewis based Perelandra on Paradise Lost; Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy mirrors the epic; Mark Morris’s best ballet is “L’Allegro and Il Penseroso”; digital artist Terrance Lindall created virtual images of Paradise Lost for the Oxford U. Press; Comus is the originator and lead Krewe for…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited ENGL 4864: History and Theory of the Novel in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThis syllabus delineates the readings and assignments for an advanced undergraduate course on the history and theory of the novel taught in fall 2014 at the University of Georgia.
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Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoYou might be interested in my recent book, *Art and Adaptation*, which presents a comprehensive survey and discussion of the dominant ideas by leading thinkers on why we make art. Approaches that examine the evolution of art behavior embrace natural selection, sexual selection, social selection, and cognition. Plenty of more information at my…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Book review: A new republic of letters: Memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA book review of Jerome McGann’s A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).
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Hania Nashef deposited "Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in The Master of Petersburg." in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoUnlike his earlier novels, J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg, has not received the attention that it deserves from the critics. The novel, which is set in Russia not only draws on real aspects of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s life but also on certain events in the Russian author’s novels, specifically The Devils. Coetzee’s Dostoevsky is an aging a…[Read more]
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Binod Paudyal deposited "Reimagining Transnational Identities in Lahiri’s The Namesake" in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis essay demonstrates that Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake goes beyond conventional wisdom about immigrant experiences in so far as it explores how the South Asian diaspora participates in transnational connections, shaping and transforming the notion of American identity in the contemporary global era. Lahiri’s novel offers us a striking acc…[Read more]
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Sonia Nora Feder-Lewis deposited Leadership in Literature Course Syllabus in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis course, designed for a graduate program in education which focuses on leadership, explores works of literature that have had a significant cultural impact and shaped ways in which societies view social issues from the perspective of how leadership is enacted within the texts. For students from disciplines outside of literature studies, this…[Read more]
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Philip Goldstein replied to the topic MLA-Philadelphia. CFP: Form and The Public Intellectual in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear Professor Bahr:
Below is a proposal for the forum on the status of the public intellectual. It is titled “Critical Theory: From Ideological Critique to Cultural Practices.” I hope you will consider it acceptable.
Best,
Philip Goldstein
Emeritus Professor of English,
University of Delaware
Unlike Marxist theory, which has declined in…[Read more]
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Liam Corley started the topic Zombie Theology: Desacralizing the Human Body in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoGolems, Faustus, zombies–what do fantasies and fears of unsouled bodies, medieval to modern, reveal about human remains and resurrections? CV and 300-word abstract by 15 March 2016; Liam Corley (wccorley@cpp.edu).
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Liam Corley started the topic Religion in the Contact Zones (MLA 2017 Guaranteed Session) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWhat is created where religions meet? Explore borderlands (geographical, linguistic, identitarian), interplays syncretic to agonistic, medieval to modern, animistic to orthodox. CV and 300-word abstract by 15 March 2016; Adrienne Williams Boyarin (aboyarin@uvic.ca).
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin started the topic Creative Mysticism CFP in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI draw your attention to this MLA 2017 special session CFP, which may be of interest to some:
Creative Mysticism
Practices of mystical writing and reading in any language, genre, or tradition. Possible topics: comparisons, commentarial traditions, modern re-creations of earlier works, other forms of art. 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March…[Read more] -
Rajender Kaur started the topic MLA 2017 Panels: South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Forum in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoHi Folks,
Please consider submitting abstracts for the following panels of the Forum on South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultures
Thanks,
Raje Kaur
Guaranteed Panel:
Feasting, Fasting, Famine: Representations of Hunger in South Asian Literatures and Cultures
Forum: LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease support efforts to establish an LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum by signing the petition.
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Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPhilosophy and Literature Colleagues,
An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore the i…[Read more]
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