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Pauline Kra deposited The Role of China in Montesquieu's "Esprit des lois" in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMontesquieu’s ideas on China have been the subject of much study and controversy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that, as discussed in twenty-two books of the Esprit des lois, China serves to illustrate Montesquieu’s fundamental principles and to elucidate his method. References to the empire appear frequently in the concluding chapters…[Read more]
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Jade R. Ferguson started the topic CFP: Respect, Responsibility, Coalition, Relation (MLA 2017) in the discussion
American Indian Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoRespect, Responsibility, Coalition, Relation (MLA 2017)
In the wake of Idle No More and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists, writers and scholars are called to self-reflexively articulate and act upon a politics or poetics of relation. What forms might such a politics or poetics take? How are these…[Read more] -
Georgia Kathryn Johnston started the topic Greeting to Members in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues:
I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to update you as to some of the activities of the MLA GS Life Writing Forum.
As you may know, last year MLA replaced most of the former divisions and discussion groups with forums in a new organizational structure. The Division on Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing has…[Read more]
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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:
Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern
Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]
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Lillian Melendez deposited James Joyce’s Priesthood through his Art of Writing in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDreams are abstract thoughts in one’s mind that can be revealed. Thoughts that are suppressed can be revealed in the subconscious mind. Sigmund Freud views dreams as one views sleep; as an abstract code that can be decoded through actions and through the ‘slip of the tongue.’ The Freudian slip is found in several passages of A Portrait of the A…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic Reminder: CFPs MLA 2016 Italian American LLC in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agohttps://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=6828
The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that exp…[Read more] -
Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience 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 (use link above). Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Please note that this Survey and CFP is in addition to the…[Read more]
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Final CFP for 2017 MLA: Collaborative in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Intimacies of Four Continents: Crossing Boundaries, Disciplines, Archives
Engagements with Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents. Assessments, critiques, possibilities for new approaches, archives, connections. 250 word abstract and one-page CV by 15 March 2016.
Jeehyun Lim (limj@denison.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic REVISION: CFP's for 2017 MLA in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoBlack Pacific
Intersections of African, Asian, indigenous diasporas across the Pacific. Literary/cultural mappings and imaginings of cross-racial interaction, settler colonialism, labor migration, militarism, gender and sexuality. Abstract and CV by March 11.
Ira Dworkin (idworkin@tamu.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Forum CFP's for 2017 MLA Convention in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoLatina/o Indigenous Pacific
Intersections of Latina/o and Indigenous production and identity within, around and through the Pacific Rim. Conversations, re-imaginings and re-formations across shared and divergent spaces and histories. Abstract and CV by March 11.
Anna Nogar (anogar@unm.edu) and Ruby Tapia (rtapia@umich.edu)
Writing (…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic “Writing? Authoring? Scribbling: Fuller, Hawthorne, and Their Contemporaries” in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWe welcome proposals on biographical/contextual relations; representations of women; intertextuality; trans-Atlantic/trans-American treatments; race, gender, class, and sexuality, etc.
Please send 250-word abstracts to Ivonne Garcia (garciai@kenyon.edu) and Charlene Avallone (avallone000@gmail.com) by March 15, 2016.
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Nancy Caronia started the topic LLA Italian American CFPs for MLA 2017 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoPlease see below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
DigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People
The Italian American Literature Forum is seeking panelists to present transmedia perspectives and projects (oral histories, photos, artifacts, home movies etc.) on the Italian…[Read more] -
Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Ecologies of Hawthorne MLA 2017 CFP in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoOrganization: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Title of session: Ecologies of Hawthorne
Submission requirements: Send 250-word abstracts.
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2016
Description: Consider representations of space and place, land and landscape, the “natural” and “unnatural,” environmental “transgressions,” “dev…[Read more] -
Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Re-visioning Romantic-Era Gothicism: An Introduction to Key Works and Themes in the Study of H.P. Lovecraft in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoHoward Phillips Lovecraft was an author, letter writer and poet who lived between 1890 and 1937. His works blend science fiction with Gothic themes. Lovecraft was, by the majority of accounts (including his own), a bad writer. He was also an outspoken racist for the majority of his life to a degree which makes much of his work, to a modern reader,…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoArgues that the documentary Paper Clips exemplifies the ways in which Holocaust education can unwittingly foster competing victimization narratives between blacks and Jews, sanitize both European and U.S. history, and serve subtle
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