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Minni Sawhney deposited La figura del renegado en el teatro de Cervantes in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoOn the renegades in Cervantes’s Captivity plays
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoJohannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Redesigning Modernities in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]
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Adrienne Brown started the topic Visual Culture MLA Convention CFPs in the discussion
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoBelow you’ll find four CFP’s for proposed panels sponsored by the Visual Culture Forum for this year’s MLA. Please do circulate widely and consider contributing.
1- Visual Culture Forum seeks proposals for guaranteed MLA session, Women and Frames of Violence. How do women engage, practice and perform violence in visual culture? Considerations b…[Read more]
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Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Ted Laros started the topic CFP for MLA 2023: World Literature from the Global South and Human Rights in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoWorld Literature from the Global South and Human Rights
In light of recent studies on the topic (e.g. Parikh 2019, McClennen and Moore 2016), this panel explores the relations between world literature from the Global South and human rights. 250-500 word abstracts plus CV.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 4 March 2022
Ted Laros, Open Univ of the…[Read more]
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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Cantar de Mio Cid. Edición crítica. Versión en español moderno. Introducción. Notas. in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 4 years agoEl primer objetivo de esta edición es la reconstrucción crítica del texto, llevando hasta sus últimas consecuencias las hipótesis lingüísticas, porque un texto es, primero, la lengua en que fue escrito. Para esta reconstrucción crítica podremos recurrir a la ayuda del ordenador, pero lo que contará fundamentalmente serán los datos obtenidos…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Reflexiones sobre estratos y contacto: Al-Andalús, Afrorrománico, América, Palestina. in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe object of this research is divided among phenomena observed in al-Andalús, in North Africa, with the peculiarity that data from America and its languages can help to clarify certain points and, finally, in Palestine. There is therefore a historical journey and a synchronous investigation. This has given rise to reflections that relate…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza (1969-2021): En busca de Oriente en Occidente. in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 4 years agoJuan Carlos buscó decididamente un modelo común mediterráneo que permitiera explicar que muchas de las características de los llamados tradicionalmente “arte visigodo” o “arte mozárabe” eran independientes de la instauración de la dinastía Omeya en al-Andalús y, de manera mucho más profunda, cómo esa importancia e influencia que se concede al art…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, “Life Writing and Cognition” (Sunday) in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoPlease join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoJoin us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic “Cognitive” sessions at the MLA! (527, 645) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDon’t miss these two online sessions on cognitive literary theory! Session “Sadness” (527, Saturday, January 8) features papers by Haiyan Lee and Lisa Zunshine, while “Life-Writing and Cognition” (645, Sunday, January 9) features papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month 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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Anne Donlon started the topic Sharing convention materials on the Commons in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoHello, all,
If you’re looking for more information about how to share your convention materials, this post has details about how to share work in CORE or in Docs. CORE assigns your work a DOI and gives you the option to share the deposit with groups. Work in CORE is publicly accessible–no log-in necessary to read or download. If you want to…[Read more]
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Ted Laros replied to the topic Session on World Literature and Human Rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoPlease see below for a description of the session on “World Literature and Human Rights”:
Session Description:
What is the relation between ‘world literature’ and ‘human rights’? Both notions imply a universalizing gesture, by relying on transcultural aesthetic or literary categories (world literature) or shared moral values (human rights)…[Read more]
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Christine Holbo replied to the topic Panel at MLA 2022: Representing Race in Law and Literature in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoAttached are the abstracts for the Representing Race in Law and Literature panel…
284AV Representing Race in Law and Literature
Virtual Session at MLA 2022, 12 pm on January 7
Representing Race in Law and Literature
In recent decades, scholarship across diverse fields has converged on the question of how legal and literary forms conspire to pr…[Read more]
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Rosi Song started the topic UPDATE: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies Online Panels in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.
Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]
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