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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to…[Read more]
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Maria Maisto started the topic Award Winner Kevin Birmingham Speaks About Adjuncts and Exploitiation in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoFull speech at http://www.kevinbirmingham.net/research/
I accept the Truman Capote Award in this spirit of justice. I would be remiss, therefore, if I did not address another injustice tarnishing the literary critical profession. I am, so far as I can tell, the first adjunct faculty member to receive this award. To be sure, I have one of the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis presentation is a slide-show introduction to MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. Reasons for citing, core elements of MLA8 format, and examples are included in the Powerpoint.
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Breaking Open the Conversation on Delarivier Manley in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis, the first critical collection on Delarivier Manley, revisits the most heated discussions and adds new perspectives that will change the conversation on the foremost woman writer in the age of Queen Anne. This compilation demonstrates the wide range of thinking about Manley’s literary production and significance. While contributors r…[Read more]
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Adapting Desires in Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBetween 1694 and 1757, there were at least five adaptations of Behn’s “The History of the Nun; or The Fair Vow Breaker”. Modern critics have focused on Thomas Southerne’s play, “The Fatal Marriage: or, the Innocent Adultery” (1694), David Garrick’s 1757 revision of Southerne’s play into the tragedy, “Isabella: or, the Fatal Marriage,” and Jane…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg deposited Essential Kafka, Josephine the Songstress in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoKafka’s last short story: Josephine die Saengerin – as translated by Phillip Lundberg. Copyright Free translation as stated on the copyright page of Essential Kafka.
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Susan Zieger started the topic Executive Forum Candidacy in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoI’m Susan Zieger and I am running for the Executive Committee of CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century. I’ll briefly introduce my academic work and my plans for the Committee should I have the honor to represent our fields and critical interests to the MLA.
I am Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside; I received my Ph.…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP Aphra Behn Online Special Issue in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSpecial Issue Overview & CFP for 18th-Century Camp!
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard University
In Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.” For…[Read more] -
Lenora Hanson started the topic Low-Wage Work: The Boundary Condition of University Labor in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThis year the MLA Executive Council is sponsoring the roundtable session “Low-Wage Work: The Boundary Condition of University Labor” on Saturday, January 7th from 8:30-9:45 in 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center. Please share information about this session widely:
Participants include: Laura Goldblatt, Global Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the…[Read more]
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Susan Slyomovics deposited Algerian Women’s Būqālah Poetry: Oral Literature, Cultural Politics, and Anti-Colonial Resistance in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoBūqālah refers both to a ceramic pitcher as well as to poems ritually embedded in the traditional, favorite, divinatory pastime associated with women city dwellers of specific Algerian towns such as Blida,Cherchell, Tlemcen, Constantine, and Algiers. This essay considers the shift from orality to a written archive of French and Algerian c…[Read more]
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Maria Lujan Figueredo started the topic Digital Humanities & Digital Media: Conversations on Politics Culture Aesthetics in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoNew book collection! Announcement via John Cayley and Loss Pequeño Glazier.
Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics and Literacy
edited by Roberto SimanowskiNotice of this book of interviews – published open access and freely downloadable – deserves wide circ…[Read more]
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Julian Grajewski deposited bringing the war back home (to women) in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoattempt to bring the horrors of the indo-china war to the most intimate part of women, 1967, xuan loc, rvn
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Pauline Kra deposited The Manuscript of Claude Dupin's Commentary on Montesquieu's 'Esprit des lois' in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoClaude Dupin published two versions of his critique of the Esprit des lois: Réflexions sur quelques parties d’un livre intitulé ‘De l’esprit des loix,’ in 2 volumes, which appeared in 1749 and was suppressed by the author; and Observations sur un livre intitulé de l’Esprit des loix, in three volumes, published before 1755 and also suppressed.…[Read more]
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Peter M. Logan deposited Let's Get Real: The Victorian Novel in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoSyllabus for an advanced graduate course on realism and the Victorian novel taught at Temple University in Fall 2015.
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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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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, 10 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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Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]
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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic CFP Philadelphia 2017 MLA Heine in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)
“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Musl…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoUnbounded: David Huerta’s Incurable at 30
Special Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).
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