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Letizia Modena started the topic Italo Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCFP per MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy
A century after his birth, Italo Calvino still enjoys an international following that includes novelists, artists, literary scholars, architects, even mathematicians and en…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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John Garrison started the topic CFP MLA 2023: “Race, Gender, & Consent in the Global Early Modern” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoRace, Gender, and Consent in the Global Early Modern
Guaranteed roundtable on race, gender, and consent in the prose, poetry, and drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. How do the intersections of these terms illuminate cultural formations, social privileges, and legal rights? Comparative and transnational perspectives especially welcome. Brief CV…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoIn this chapter, I connect my experience with abuse and intimate partner violence with my research projects and then radically changing my pedagogy away from coercion towards empathy.
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Luis Restrepo started the topic CFP MLA 2023 Panel CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum / LLC Africa to 1900 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCHEAP’ NATURE, ‘CHEAP’ LABOR, AND THE EARLY MODERN CAPITALOCENE
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Examining early modern/colonial literary, ethical, ecological reflections on the European capitalist violent expansion in search of ‘cheap’ nature and labor inaugurating the capitalocene era and emerging notions of nature and the human. One page abstracts…[Read more] -
Carol Chiodo deposited De nostri temporis studiorum ratione and the Digital Humanities in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoTaking a page from eighteenth century philosopher Gianbattista Vico, this is a brief reflection on how Italian Studies scholars might view their work differently in light of the digital turn.
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Carol Chiodo deposited De nostri temporis studiorum ratione and the Digital Humanities in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoTaking a page from eighteenth century philosopher Gianbattista Vico, this is a brief reflection on how Italian Studies scholars might view their work differently in light of the digital turn.
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Carol Chiodo deposited Beatrice in the Tag Cloud in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe article details how to lead students through Dante’s Divine Comedy using low stakes writing assignments to seed a web-based resource for writing about the Comedy.
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Carissa Harris started the topic MLA 2023 CFPs! in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Chaucer Forum warmly invites submissions for our MLA 2023 (San Francisco, January 5-8) sessions:
Chaucer’s Ornamentalism and Gimmickry
This roundtable session brings Anne Anlin Cheng’s concept of ornamentalism and Sianne Ngai’s work on the gimmick into conversation with Chaucer’s work. For instance, in The Squire’s Tale, Canacee’s…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Religio-Visual Cultures in the Digital Age in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoHow are various new media forms (e.g. apps, memes, gaming avatars, Webcast rites) creating performative representations of religion? 200-word proposals by March 15. Manisha Basu, U of Illinois, Urbana (mbasu@illinois.edu ) Adrienne Brown, U of Chicago (adrienneb@uchicago.edu ).
More information: How have visual digital forms supplemented r…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Detective Fiction and Religious Imaginaries in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoHow do cleric-sleuths or other religious detective figures (e.g., Cadfael, Granchester, Father Brown, etc.) navigate/challenge religion alongside police or state-sponsored will-to-knowledge? 200-word proposal to mbasu@illinois.edu by March 10.
More information: From G.K. Chesterton’s ‘Father Brown’ to Ellis Peters’ Brother Cadfael, from Harry…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Making Sacred, Making Holy: the Canonization of People and Texts in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMemorialization, “entering the canon,” and the influence of politics, race, class, or gender. Who decides on the people, texts, places, dates, etc. selected to be commemorated, studied, and/or enshrined? Theorists such as Lonergan, Bourdieu, Girard, and Agamben have explored “sacralization” as a process of making holy or sacred that can inv…[Read more]
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John Garrison replied to the topic Call for Participants on a Guaranteed Roundtable: “New Rules” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoProposals due by March 14. Thank you!
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John Garrison started the topic Call for Participants on a Guaranteed Roundtable: “New Rules” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years ago“New Rules” (Guaranteed roundtable sponsored by CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern)
Proposed new guidelines for conducting research, sharing work, and supporting the profession as we address the realities of systemic social inequity, climate change, the expansion of the adjunct labor force, and drastic shifts in institutional support for the…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Ted Laros started the topic CFP for MLA 2023: World Literature from the Global South and Human Rights in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoWorld Literature from the Global South and Human Rights
In light of recent studies on the topic (e.g. Parikh 2019, McClennen and Moore 2016), this panel explores the relations between world literature from the Global South and human rights. 250-500 word abstracts plus CV.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 4 March 2022
Ted Laros, Open Univ of the…[Read more]
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