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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera started the topic CFP: The Nineteenth-Century in 2019 Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline to submit your proposal for the conference “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” is Friday, November 30, 2018. The keynote speakers will be Catriona Seth (http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-catriona-seth) and Pura…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic MLA election to CLCS-Medieval in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHi everyone, My name is Shirin Khanmohamadi and I’m honored to have been nominated for election to the executive committee of CLCS- Medieval and wanted to introduce myself a bit here. I am an Associate Professor of premodern literature in the Comparative and World Literature department at San Francisco State University, where I’ve been teac…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline to submit your proposal for the conference “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” is Friday, November 30, 2018. The keynote speakers will be Catriona Seth and Pura Fernández. We’re looking forward to seeing you all at Cal State, Long Beach in…[Read more]
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Suzanne Presumey replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI support this petition, thank you ! I would also be willing to serve in a leadership position.
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Glenn Jellenik replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI support! And I am willing to take on a leadership role.
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Glenn Jellenik replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI support the petition!!
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Josefa Alvarez replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI support this petition. Josefa Álvarez
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Dennis Britton replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI support this petition–Dennis Britton
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Julie Grossman replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI fully support this petition and would be willing to serve in a leadership position. Thanks. –Julie Grossman
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Paul Fyfe deposited HON 313, Reading Machines syllabus and assignments (Fall 2017) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSyllabus, project assignments, and milestones for HON 313, “Reading Machines” (Fall 2017), a first-year interdisciplinary experience course at NC State University. Reading Machines invites students into a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit ideas. The course…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReads William of Rubruck’s mission to Asia as an instance of premodern ethnographic representation and the shape of the precolonial European ethnographic gaze upon Asia.
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Thomas Leitch replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoI heartily support this petition and would certainly be willing to serve in a leadership role in the new forum if called to do so.
Thomas Leitch
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Douglas Lanier started the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoDear all,
I’m initiating the process of getting an MLA forum on TC Adaptation Studies approved. At present this is only a prospective forum. To get approval requires several steps:
First, we must gather at least 35 signatures supporting a petition to create an Adaptation Studies forum. We must also have at least 5 volunteers willing to serve in…[Read more]
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Douglas Lanier created the group
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago-
I support this petition. Kate Costello-Sullivan.
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I support this petition. Adaptation Studies constitute an exciting and important new field.
Julie Olin-Ammentorp-
I fully support this petition and would be willing to serve in a leadership position.
–Allen Redmon
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I support this petition.–Douglas E. Green
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I support this petition. -Patricia Akhimie
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Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago“‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]
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Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago“‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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