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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTo TC Women’s and Gender Studies…
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, v…[Read more]
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Whitney Sperrazza deposited Intimate Correspondence: Negotiating the Materials of Female Friendship in Margaret Cavendish’s Sociable Letters in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn this article, I argue that Margaret Cavendish uses ‘Sociable Letters’ and the female friendship within its pages to intervene in early modern epistolary traditions and negotiate alternatives for conventional markers of intimacy between correspondents. Grounding the argument in current scholarly debates on familiar letter conventions, I…[Read more]
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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, 2 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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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera started the topic CFP: The Nineteenth-Century in 2019 Conference in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoEstimadas/os colegas, Les recuerdo que la fecha límite para someter su propuesta para la conferencia “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” es el viernes, 30 de noviembre de 2018. Las conferencias magistrales estarán a cargo de Pura Fernández ([Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoEstimadas/os colegas, Les recuerdo que la fecha límite para someter su propuesta para la conferencia “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” es el viernes, 30 de noviembre de 2018. Las conferencias magistrales estarán a cargo de Pura Fernández y Catriona Seth. ¡Las/os esperamos en Cal State, Lo…[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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Patrick Colm Hogan started the topic Literary Universals Workshop at the University of Connecticut in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLITERARY UNIVERSALS WORKSHOP
The University of Connecticut, Storrs24 May 2019
Announcement and Call for Papers
Literary universals include properties and structures ranging, for example, from genre patterns through metaphor and imagery, and from ethical or political themes through formal features of prosody. Technically, literary universals are…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Durendal, translated: Islamic object genealogies in the chansons de geste in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe transfer of Saracen arms into Frankish ownership is a leitmotif of
many chansons de geste, but one whose significance for translatio imperii has yet to be
elucidated. In this essay, I focus on the Chanson d’Aspremont, a twelfth-century epic
set in Calabria that narrates the pre-history of Durendal, Roland’s sword of Song of
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia in the group
MS Visual Culture 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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Jeremiah Mercurio deposited Faithful Infidelity: Charles Ricketts’s Illustrations for Two of Oscar Wilde’s Poems in Prose in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe artist, collector, and critic Charles Ricketts (1866–1931) has often been characterised as a reactionary voice in early-twentieth-century debates about modern art. Although he responded conservatively to modern-art developments such as those embodied by the term ‘Post-Impressionism’, his work in book design and illustration exemplifies p…[Read more]
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Oana Popescu-Sandu deposited “Translingualism as Dialogism in Romanian-American Poetry” in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis essay examines how translingual poetry by immigrant Romanian writers who live in or travel to the United States requires a transnational community framing rather than a national one and raises new questions about cultural and linguistic identity formation that reflect on both national and world literature issues. This analysis of the…[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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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Fall 2018 Syllabus in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis syllabus is my fifth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. In consultation with my colleagues, I decided that this year’s version should also include a unit that looked at digital objects with a humanities perspective. The course is organized around four projects, each of which is oriented…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures (Fall 2018) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoCatalog Description
356 Information Structures 3 Course Prerequisite: DTC 101. Social and cultural role of information; research with electronic sources; production, validation, storage, retrieval, evaluation, use, impact of electronic information. (Crosslisted course offered as DTC 356, ENGLISH 356).Course Description
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Roger Whitson deposited DTC 475: Digital Diversity (Fall 2018) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoCatalog Description
475 [DIVR] Digital Diversity 3 Course Prerequisite: Junior standing. Cultural impact of digital media in cultural contexts; issues of race, class, gender, sexuality online. (Crosslisted course offered as AMER ST 475, DTC 475, ENGLISH 475).Course Description
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Alexa Joubin deposited Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and television from the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on a definition of myth as a powerful ideological narrative, Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance examines…[Read more]
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María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles deposited Activismo, literatura y cambio social en el Caribe hispano: aproximación en tres movimientos in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis essay calls for a reflection on the links between literature, activism, and social change in the Hispanic Caribbean, privileging certain interventions led by women, who have contributed to the defense of better living conditions and a more equitable social pact. Taking into account the diversity and mobility that characterizes the Caribbean…[Read more]
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