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Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years agoIn the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]
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Anne Furlong started the topic Consider joining the Executive Committee of LSL! in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoGreetings to the membership of LSL Linguistics and Literature!
Each year our Executive Committee says farewell to its longest-serving member and welcomes a new one. Following the annual MLA Convention, we appoint a new EC member, submitting a short list of names to the MLA by 28 January. The five-year term of service starts in January of 2024,…[Read more]
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Michaela Hulstyn started the topic CFP MLA 2024: Vital Signs: Thinking and Feeling Sustenance and Survival in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Cognitive and Affect Studies forum invites papers that discuss vital signs in literature for a guaranteed session at the 2024 MLA. Please submit a 250-word abstract and short bio to mhulstyn@stanford.edu by 15 March.
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Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic Nominations for the Prose Fiction Forum executive committee in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe welcome nominations from our membership. Please feel free to email ylee@wellesley.edu before Jan. 17, 2023.
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2023 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature is pleased to announce five panels at MLA 2023 (including some postponed from 2022). The full list can be accessed at this link. We hope to see you there!
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Ellen Spolsky replied to the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies via email on MLA Commons 3 years agoSome of you may also be interested in the *on line* Special Session
629 *Cognition,
Law, and Literature *Sunday 8 January 10:15 AM-11:30 AMhttps://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Session/14222
Presider
– SSimon Stern
<https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Person/5709>
– U of TorontoPresentations…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoAll: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoAll: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Cognitive and Affect Studies-sponsored Sessions at MLA2023 in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoI hope everyone will attend our forum’s sponsored sessions this year at MLA2023! Here is a convenient link to all three in the convention program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Symposium/2149
We have three very different sessions this year. First up, on Thursday, is a face-to-face session exploring neurodiverse modes of literary…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Cognitive and Affect Studies-sponsored Sessions at MLA2023 in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoI hope our forum members will consider attending our sponsored sessions at this year’s MLA convention, and help out our work by letting others who will be in attendance know about them!
* Attention, Please! Thu 5:15-6:30, Moscone West – this face to face session examines attention from neurodiverse perspectives, including neuroqueer, ADHD, and…[Read more]
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Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoVirginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. 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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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. 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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Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoConsidering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature?
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Associate or Assistant Professor of Medieval and Iberian Studies, Spanish, UVA in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoWe’re hiring! Please spread the news about our search for a colleague in early modern or medieval Iberian Studies, at the rank of assistant or associate professor (tenure-track or tenured). Position description and application information are available h…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited ‘To have been and no longer be’: The angst towards death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings. Although ‘death’ is depicted differently, the authors fear that with death “the universe wo…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Ciaran Carson: A Memorial Tribute (10 October 2019) in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis memorial tribute for the late Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), Irish creative writer extraordinaire, was commissioned three years ago for inclusion in a special number of “Reading Ireland” which has not yet materialised. It is now archived in and by Humanities Common on the third anniversary of his funeral rites and burial in Belfast, Northern…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoContrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak started the topic CFP: Musical responses to Goethe’s Works (ASECS, St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023) in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoSponsored by the Goethe Society of North America, I’m chairing a session on Goethe and music at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. I’m a disabled independent scholar with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). Thus, my Goethe session helps promote diversity in German Studies, insofar as…[Read more]
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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