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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exa…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell uploaded the file: CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection, DEADLINE 12/1/16) to
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAbstracts are sought for an edited collection on the comics of Alison Bechdel for the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists series at UP of Mississippi. Interdisciplinary approaches welcome; deadline 12/1/16
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Ken Martin started the topic CFP: SAMLA-Utopia, Dystopia, and the Search for Self in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoUtopia, Dystopia, and the Search for Self: This panel seeks to explore the relationship between utopia, dystopia, and the journey of self-development or the discovery of Self. By June 1, 2016 please submit a 300-word abstract, brief bio, and A/V requirements to Ken Martin, University of North Georgia, at kdmartin@ung.edu.
SAMLA 88 will take place…[Read more]
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Georgia Kathryn Johnston started the topic Greeting to Members in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues:
I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to update you as to some of the activities of the MLA GS Life Writing Forum.
As you may know, last year MLA replaced most of the former divisions and discussion groups with forums in a new organizational structure. The Division on Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing has…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited SoTL and Rubrics: Transforming Feedback to the Written Word in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoHow do we offer feedback to essays? Over time, the response as narrative has become problematic. Class sizes have increased, more classes are being taught, fewer professors are teaching composition. Time has become even more scarce as duties outside the classroom multiply for full-time faculty. In addition, technology has changed the way by…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited (Skillfully) Wielding the World-Wide Web in the Classroom: “I’m NOT Gonna Be That Creepy Guy” in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI used to share with my classes that ebooks are outselling books, and like the music industry, the book market is now digital. While the record business has shifted in profound ways with the rise of digital technology, the book press is still in flux. Digital book sales over the past couple of years have been fluctuating around book sales. As a…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Alien Lines in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAlien Lines: Science Fiction Comics
The medium of comics—often dominated by genres bound to contemporary concerns or enduring conventions—remains marginal in the study of science fiction. Likewise, the oldest questions driving science fiction scholarship—identity and difference, self and other, chance and futurity—have not been central to comics…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Adaptation in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDrawing the Line: Comics and Adaptation
While comics adaptations have frequently been derided for “dumbing down” great works of literature through adaptation, recent movie adaptations of comics have conquered the box office and brought new attention to the medium. These intriguing developments beg the questions—How might comics be trans…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Temporality in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoGraphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality
Whether we consider the fragmentation of time in the Dr. Manhattan chapter of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, or Art Spiegleman’s intermingling of his father’s WWII past with his present as narrator in Maus, rendering time as space has been one of the most unique and commented upon formal aspect…[Read more]
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Lissette Lopez Szwydky started the topic CFP2017: Adaptation, Transmediation in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA2017 Adaptation, Transmediation: The Narrative Boundaries of Genre, Medium, and Time
Special Session
How do adaptation and transmediation push the boundaries and possibilities of literature? Transnational and transhistorical perspectives especially welcome. CV and 500-word abstracts by 11 March 2016; Lissette Lopez Szwydky (lissette@uark.edu). -
Cesar Braga-Pinto started the topic CFP 2017: Luso Brazilian Graphic Narratives in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoLuso Brazilian Graphic Narratives
Description: This panel explores different forms of graphic narrative from the Luso-Brazilian world, including, but not limited to political cartoons, graphic novels, comic strips and graffiti.
Deadline for submissions: 14 March 2016Submission requirements:
250 word abstractsContact person information
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Martha B. Kuhlman started the topic CFP 2017 Graphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoComics and Graphic Narrative Forum Modern Language Association Panel 2017:
Graphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality
Whether we consider the fragmentation of time in the Dr. Manhattan chapter of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, or Art Spiegleman’s intermingling of his father’s WWII past with his present as narrator in Maus, rende…[Read more]
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Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Philip Smith replied to the topic Discuss Philip Smith's CORE uploads in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoThanks Nicky,
I only just joined MLA Commons and didn’t realise notice of my uploads would be emailed directly to the group. Sorry if it seemed like spam – quite unintentional.
If anyone does have any thoughts on my papers I would love to hear your feedback.
Best wishes,
Phil
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Nicky Agate started the topic Discuss Philip Smith's CORE uploads in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoAs you may have seen, Philip Smith uploaded several comics-related articles to CORE, the MLA repository, yesterday. Should the group wish to respond or comment on the articles—or any others—please feel free to use this thread to do so.
To view the articles, either click on CORE at the top of the page, or on Deposits in the left-hand menu.
Thanks!
Nicky
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 2 of 2: Breakdowns, No Towers and the Rest of the Canon in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 1 of 2: Maus in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis paper offers a synthesis and critique of the existing academic literature on Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese and an overview of Asian American alternative comics. It examines the range of literary and linguistic sources which Yang draws upon in his collage of Chinoiserie and Japonism. It presents the argument that existing criticism h…[Read more]
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