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Nathalie Dupont started the topic Call for Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP Conference: USES OF MODERNISM (Ghent, Belgium – 20-22 September 2023) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.
CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023
The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]
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Anne Furlong started the topic Consider joining the Executive Committee of LSL! in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoGreetings to the membership of LSL Linguistics and Literature!
Each year our Executive Committee says farewell to its longest-serving member and welcomes a new one. Following the annual MLA Convention, we appoint a new EC member, submitting a short list of names to the MLA by 28 January. The five-year term of service starts in January of 2024,…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award (Nominations Due 3.15.2023) in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear Colleagues,
The faculty of English at Idaho State University invites nominations for the fifth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2021 and 2022 are due March 15, 2023. For more information…[Read more]
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Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic Nominations for the Prose Fiction Forum executive committee in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe welcome nominations from our membership. Please feel free to email ylee@wellesley.edu before Jan. 17, 2023.
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TOMORROW SUNDAY: Panel “Words on Food” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us tomorrow Sunday for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee, “Words on Food.” Proust’s madeleine conjures pleasure and memories. What of food in French literature and thought since then, especially in times of scarcity or hunger? How to interpret food that is odd, inedible, absent?
Sunday, J…[Read more]
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TODAY: Panel “French Eyes on California” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us today for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee. Panelists will examine the role, symbol, and landscapes of California in 20th- and 21st-century French literature and thought.
Saturday, January 7
3:30pm – 4:45pm
Marriott Marquis – Nob Hill C (Lower B2 Level)
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Deborah Elise White started the topic Forum Exectuive Committee Suggestions in the discussion
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years agoHello — Please email me with any suggestions you may have for people to serve on the forum executive Committee for CLCS Romanticism & 19th Century. (Every year needs new names so even if someone is not considered for this year, it’s good for us to have several names in mind.) My email: dwhite2@emory.edu Thanks!
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic TODAY: Roundtable on Démission/resignation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us today for a roundtable on démission/resignation as a multifaceted motif and a critical stance in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone cultural and literary imagination, and on the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this dual phenomenon, whether it proceeds from the stasis of discontent or as an…[Read more]
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Jessica DeSpain started the topic TM Teaching of Literature Forum Delegate in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAs the convention approaches, the Teaching of Literature Forum is seeking a new delegate. If you would like to participate or if you have any suggestions for someone who would be a good fit, please share them here. If you have questions, you can share them here or email me at jdespai@siue.edu.
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Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoVirginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]
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Molly D. Appel deposited Syllabus for Digital Humanities and Early Latinx Literatures in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoLatinx/o/a writing has existed long before 20th century state policies and publishing markets created the category we recognize today as “Latino/a literature.” This course will focus on the literary and cultural production of writers from the era of initial colonization through Latin American independence and the 19th century actions fueled by the…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoContrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoContrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]
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Seo-Young Chu deposited “Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence” by Seo-Young Chu in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn 2000 a Stanford professor raped me. My rape is now older than I was. (I’m still not as old as he was.) The more time passes the more I’m struck by Stanford’s apathy and fecklessness about sexual violence. I wrote a letter asking Stanford to stop compounding the abuse and to reckon with its rape culture. This letter—including the “Incomp…[Read more]
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoDream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism
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Marisa Verna deposited “Sacrificio, forza e debolezza ne La peste di Camus” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoIn this essay we reinterpret Camus’s novel The Plague in light of the urgency of history, that with Covid 19 pandemia made us face a real pestilence, thus allowing us to read reality and fiction as even. Our rereading relativizes the traditional allegoric interpretation of critics, while at the same time it widens its perspectives. It is in fact i…[Read more]
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Cheryl Farris-Clayton deposited On Dickinson in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoEssay on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her impact upon literature. This essay celebrates her global reach from within societal spheres of gender. “Emily Dickinson transformed the genre of poetry from the academic salon styled idealism to the personal poignant voice of reality from the poet’s point of view.”
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Marisa Verna deposited E|C Rivista dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThisarticleaims at a better comprehension of the series of lectures that Joseph Czapski gave in the Soviet camp of Grazovietzbetween 1940 and 1941. The case of Czapski is well known, but his exceptional performance (of memory, and critical inquiry) deserves further investigation. Not surprisingly, the Polish painter…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor, Queer and Sexuality Studies, UW-Milwaukee in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoWomen’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in Queer and Sexuality Studies for 2022-2023. Must be able to teach Queer Theory and Feminist Theory courses. Apply by April 10, 2022 to ensure consideration. https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/33994
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