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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months ago
In this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Debra Ann Castillo started the topic CFP/Convocatoria: Latin American Speculative Fiction in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers (anticipated publication date early 2018; español sigue abajo)
Volume 31 Latin American Speculative Fiction (www.paradoxa.com)
Editors: Debra Ann Castillo (debra.castillo@gmail.com) and Liliana Colanzi (lc566@cornell.edu)
Speculative fiction provides complex perspectives on the changes that technological advances produce in…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky became a registered member on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago
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Rosemary G. Feal started the topic NLRB rules that grad students can unionize in the discussion
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe National Labor Relations Board issued a decision on 23 August “that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-student-assistants-covered-nlra-0
Please use this discussion space to add resources for…[Read more]
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Belinda Wheeler posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years ago
I would like to thank my academic colleagues who supported me during MLA’s recent election period. I’m happy to announce that I was elected to MLA’s Delegate Assembly (Ethnic Studies). It is three year term that starts later this month. Thanks again.
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Belinda Wheeler's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years ago
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Belinda Wheeler's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago
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Sidonie Ann Smith posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago
Oh, and the paperback will be available around January 1, 2016!
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Sidonie Ann Smith posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago
My new book on the future of doctoral education, Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times, is now available in its open access version at the University of Michigan Press website. The link is http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.13607059.0001.001
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Congratulations! I can’t wait to read this.
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Sidonie Ann Smith changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago
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Sidonie Ann Smith's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago
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Margaret A. Noodin's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months ago
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Belinda Wheeler posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months ago
A big thank you to the students at NYU’s Bobst Library who took a photo of me with my book for some newspapers in Australia.
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Belinda Wheeler changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months ago
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