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Martha Nell Smith started the topic Queer Panels, GLQ Caucus & Reception for MLA 2016 in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCheck out and join us for these exciting sessions and at the GLQ Caucus & Reception!!!
Thursday, 7 January
Queer Proximities 1:45–3:00 p.m. – Selected for inclusion in the Presidential Theme, “Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, Future”
Friday, 8 January
Vaqueeras/os 10:15–11:30 a.m.
Saturday, 9 January
Queer Crips ac…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Queer Crips across Time, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoSaturday, 9 January
619. Queer Crips across Time
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies
Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.
Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThursday, 7 January
120. Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies
Presiding: Susan Antebi, Univ. of Toronto
1. “The Biopolitics of Disability,” David Mitchell, George Washington Univ.; Sharon Snyder, George Washington Univ.
2. “Crip Figures: Disability, Austerity, and As…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Disability and Interdependence, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoFriday, 8 January
325. Disability and Interdependence
1:45–3:00 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies
Presiding: Elizabeth Bearden, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Disforming Cure,” Katherine Schaap Williams, New York Univ., Abu Dhabi
2. “‘The Servant . . . Formed Himself into a Sort of Crutch’: Disability, Dependency, an…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Queer Crips across Time, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoSaturday, 9 January
619. Queer Crips across Time
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies
Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.
Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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Adam Dexter started the topic CFP: Queer Theory in French in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago47th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
17 March – 20 March 2016SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2015
Although French-language theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Monique Wittig have been fundamental in thinking about queer theory in English, queer theory’s…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic Call for Abstracts: ICLA Conference 2016 in Vienna; Comparative Gender/Queer in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts relationally rather than…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP ICLA Congress in Vienna; Committee on Comparative Queer/Gender Studies in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago<u>Call</u> <u>for</u> <u>Abstracts</u>
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Todd W. Reeser started the topic CFP: Doing the Body in the 21st Century, U of Pittsburgh in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoBodies can be collective, material, medicalized, biological, sexual, queer, trans, normative, political, racial, transnational, ecological, historical, useful, global, affective, gendered, disabled, surveilled, controlled, subjected, transformed, enhanced, engineered, empowered, organized, managed, discursive, aesthetic, translated, theorized,…[Read more]
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