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Joseph M. Ortiz started the topic Suggestions Requested for LCC 16th-Century English Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Members of the LLC 16th-Century English Forum: The members of the current Executive Committee for the LLC 16th-Century English Forum invite nominations/suggestions of MLA members who may wish to serve on the Executive Committee. This is a great opportunity to shape panels at MLA and the field generally. Please send questions or suggestions to…[Read more]
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Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
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Richard A. Strier replied to the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century English via email on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Professor Su Fan Ng,
I might be willing to help out, BUT I have to tell you that I no longer attend MLA, and could only work virtually.
Richard Strier
Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Editor, Modern Philology, 2004-2016
Department of English
University of…[Read more] -
Su Fang Ng started the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear all:We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC 17th-Century English. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements…[Read more]
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Karin Bagnall started the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoIf you’re a Philadelphia local (or power user!), please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.
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Dorothy Stringer replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoApologies for missing info; dates and times as follows:
194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti
Friday, 5 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level 4)
648 – Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis
Sunday, 7 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 2 (Level 4)
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Vimala C. Pasupathi deposited “TEACHING WITH COMMONPLACE BOOKS IN THE AGE OF #RELATABLECONTENT” in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoAn Essay about a Commonplace book assignment I wrote and tested in 2012 (published in Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy in 2014) and have since revisited and reflected upon. The essay goes into more detail about aspects of my assignment that I had not discussed in my earlier, and more practical, publication for JITP––more spe…[Read more]
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Vimala C. Pasupathi deposited “TEACHING WITH COMMONPLACE BOOKS IN THE AGE OF #RELATABLECONTENT” in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoAn Essay about a Commonplace book assignment I wrote and tested in 2012 (published in Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy in 2014) and have since revisited and reflected upon. The essay goes into more detail about aspects of my assignment that I had not discussed in my earlier, and more practical, publication for JITP––more spe…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAccording to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section “until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types.” 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4’s printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Book Chapters: Memory Studies: An Anthology of Perspectives in the discussion
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoChapter proposals are invited for a volume on contemporary memory and literary studies edited by Dr. D. Sudha Rani ( VNRVJIET ), Dr. Rachel Irdaya Raj ( VNRVJIET ), Dr.Shashibhusan Nayak (MLA).
Memory studies is an increasingly diverse, interdisciplinary, and dynamic field of knowledge that spans multiple disciplines. Sociologists, psychologists,…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]
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Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]
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Stef Craps started the topic Call for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory in the discussion
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory

London, UK, 27-29 June 2023
The eleventh Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by King’s College London, the University of Westminster, and Goldsmiths, University of London from Tuesday 27 to Thursday 29 June 2023, and will take place on-site at King’s College London and the Regent’s Stre…[Read more]
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng started the topic CFP MLA LLC 16c English: “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” at the MLA 2024 conference in Philadelphia (4-7 Jan. 2024). We welcome submissions and inquiries from scholars at all career stages.
Call for Papers: How might we study disability aesthetics alo…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited “Writing about War”: Dương Thu Hương’s Representations of the Vietnam-American War in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoWhile 30 April 1975 represented the end of hostilities between North and South Vietnam, it was not the end of internecine conflicts. The victorious communists treated Southerners with contempt and subjected them to humiliation and violence, including incarceration in so-called re-education camps. Dương Thu Hương served in the Women’s Youth Briga…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month 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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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThis article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Paranoid Publics in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis article takes up the insurrection in Washington DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics, tracking such gamification as a political-economic demand generated by neoliberalism. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud’s insight that delusional formations are attempts at…[Read more]
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Lara A. Dodds started the topic CFP for MLA 2023 17thC English in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal to one of the three panels sponsored by LLC 17th-Century English:
1. Open Topic Seventeenth-Century Literature
We seek new work on any topic in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century. All approaches/methodologies are welcomed. 250-word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15…[Read more]
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