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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Celia Marshik started the topic CFP: Joint Session "Modernism, Copyright and Public Domains" (MLA Toronto, Jan. in the discussion
Modernist Studies Association on MLA Commons 6 years agoI am pleased to announce this Call for Papers for a non guaranteed session organized jointly by MSA and SHARP (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) at the next MLA convention in Toronto (January 2021): “Modernism, Copyright and Public Domains.” Impact of early 20th-century works coming out of copyright; Archives now…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic MSA Members! Call to Vote on Bylaws! in the discussion
Modernist Studies Association on MLA Commons 6 years agoFrom Matt Hart, President of MSA, on Behalf of the Executive Committee of the MSA:
The Executive Committee of the MSA has proposed creating two new elected voting Trustees of the Association with the aim of being more responsive to the full range of its membership: Contingent Faculty Representative and Graduate Student Representative. Beca…[Read more]
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Julia Elsky started the topic CFP – Romanian Forum panel on Eugene Ionesco in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Romanian Forum of the MLA invites proposals for presentations on its guaranteed panel at the 2021 Convention of the Modern Language Association (Toronto, January 7-10, 2021):
Eugène Ionesco’s Theater of Language
The year 2021 will mark the seventieth anniversary of the first performance of Eugène Ionesco’s classic work of the Theater of th…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Welcome to the Modernist Studies Association on the MLA Commons! in the discussion
Modernist Studies Association on MLA Commons 6 years agoWelcome to the MSA on the MLA Commons! Here you’ll find updates from the Modernist Studies Association, calls for papers, and a place to network and connect.
- Looking for news from the MSA Board?
- Wanting to share a CFP or an event?
- Got an idea you’d like to discuss with other scholars, teachers, and writers in modernist studies?
- Seeking…
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Ben Streeter deposited Reparation in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoW. G. Sebald and Patrick Modiano are two contemporary authors who share similar themes and literary practices. They are both fastidiously or even obsessively historical in their narrative development. And they seem preoccupied with the sins of World War II. Critics have divided feelings about their accomplishments. Skeptics say their trauma…[Read more]
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Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere. I too am looking forward to more information!
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Beth Widmaier Capo replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis sounds fantastic. Do you have instructions (deadline, length, address) for abstract submissions?
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Shannon Herbert started the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoIn 2017, when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to use the hashtag #metoo if they’d ever “been sexually harassed or assaulted” social media feeds were suddenly flooded with the phrase. People were quick to point out that #metoo did not originate with Milano, but with Tarana Burke, a social worker and activist who proposed the phrase in 2006. Since…[Read more]
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Claudia Stokes started the topic Inviting nominees for MLA delegate assembly in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Late-19th- and and Early-20th-Century American Literature Forum invites members to stand for election as alternate candidates for the MLA delegate assembly. Elected delegates are expected to serve a three-year term and must attend the MLA convention for two out of three of those years. If you are interested, please email Claudia Stokes at c…[Read more]
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Benjamin Mangrum started the topic MLA 2021 Panel for CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century forum in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century forum is sponsoring a panel on “Comparative Environmentalisms” at the MLA 2021 conference in Toronto. CFP is below:
Comparative Environmentalisms
This panel explores environmentalisms across linguistic, indigenous, and national frameworks. Challenges to the idea of “environmentalism” are welcome. Abstracts of 2…[Read more]
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [remarks] in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoSince the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [slides] in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoSince the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Otherbreath: Bare Life and the Limits of Self in Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’ in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoFor the “Extreme Texts” special issue of Jacket2, edited by Divya Victor (2019)
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