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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Anastasia Salter deposited Ugly Bodies, Pretty Bodies Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and the Inhumanity of Culture in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoScott Westerfeld’s Uglies imagines a society where the body is under total control and the universal beauty of the body after dramatic reconstructive surgery at sixteen guarantees that everyone will be “equal.” To the young adult readership, such a world holds understandable appeal: the idea of avoiding the pains of coming to age in one’s own bod…[Read more]
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Monica Cure started the topic CFP Travel, Religion, and Interpretation ACLA 2017 Netherlands, Deadline Sep. 23 in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.
If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper
Religion has…[Read more]
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Amanda Starling Gould deposited Restor(y)ing the Ground: Digital Environmental Media Studies in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThis article presents a digital environmental media studies (DEMS) framework that shifts the primary focus of digital media study from one grounded in computation to one fully rooted in the earth. DEMS proposes a relational, metabolic ontology wherein popular media theory terms like atmospheric media, elemental media, cyborg, and digital labor are…[Read more]
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Julian Grajewski deposited the coming heath death of the science fiction universe – against heteronomy in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agodiscussion of the may 2004 issue of pmla that treated science fiction as a scholarly genre. my question was, instead of writing strung-out, dystopian lit, why not ask what will be the level of consciousness of an individual human biped in a galactic economy of quadrilions and quintillions of people, each utilizing near- infinity numbers of…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Hania Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago's Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAlthough Plato’s Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. José Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato’s Utopia, a similar…[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] -
Emily Hegarty started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Teaching Eco-composition at the Community College in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session (to be proposed)
Teaching first-year writing to community college students through an ecocritical lens: interdisciplinary aspects, nature writing, journaling, environmental research, field trips, service learning, etc. 300-500 word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Emily A. Hegarty (emily.hegarty@ncc.edu). -
Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita: Survey and CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o studies CFP's in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.
1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla started the topic CFP (MLA 2017): “25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage” in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage”
Special session proposed by the 19thc American LLC and the Chicana and Chicano LLC
Papers considering past contributions, archival silences, and future prospects of the Hispanic Recovery Project with interest on dissensus or dialogue with other currents in the long American 19th c…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): "Teaching Borderlands at 30" in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“Teaching Borderlands at 30”
As we commemorate the thirty-year anniversary of Anzaldúa’s Borderlands we invite papers that address how we teach this genre-blurring text. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Laura Halperin (lhalperi@email.unc.edu)
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Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): “La Raza y Gaza” in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“La Raza y Gaza”
Papers engaging the political resonances of Palestine for Chican@s. Intersections in various texts, teaching, or other topics. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu)
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Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): “Liberty Crack'd” in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“Liberty Crack’d”
What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin started the topic Religion & Literature Syllabus Prize (15 Mar 2016) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis will be of interest to many:
ANNOUNCEMENT: DEADLINE EXTENDED
The journal Religion and Literature is soliciting submissions for its second annual syllabus prize. Syllabi should address both religion and literature in a substantial manner, and should encourage reflection on the many possible relations between them.
To submit a syllabus for…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic CFP: (MLA 2017) US Latino/a Performance in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoMLA 2017 Proposed Special Session
“Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”
This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Br…[Read more]
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