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Kristin Moriah started the topic Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoUn-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives
This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years agoBuilding on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
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Marc Caplan replied to the topic Nominations for Global Jewish Executive Committee in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years agoI’m pleased to second Jonathan’s nomination, if necessary…!
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Jonathan S. Skolnik replied to the topic Nominations for Global Jewish Executive Committee in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years agoHi Laini, I’d like to self-nominate. I’ll also send an email. All best, Jonathan Skolnik UMass Amherst
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Christine Y Lupton started the topic Seeking Nominations for committee members in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years agoWe’d very much like nominations for our new committee member. The term would begin Jan 25 and run for three years. Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee. Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas (self nomination totally OK!): c.lupton@warwick.ac.uk. DEADLINE: Jan 15th 2024.
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Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
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Laini Kavaloski started the topic Nominations for Global Jewish Executive Committee in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoWe are looking for nominations for appointment to the Global Jewish Forum Executive Committee (self-nominations encouraged). The term runs for five years, from January 2025 through January 2030.
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SBussey started the topic Philadelphia plans in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoLooking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year’s Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. MLA Convention Session #154 in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoYou are cordially invited to the first of three sessions sponsored by this forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:
#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction
Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)
Presider: Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York
Presentations
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic New executive committee member to be appointed soon in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear forum members,
If you are interested in being considered for appointment to the executive committee (EC) for this forum, please email me by 28 December 2023. Include your CV along with a message of intent. This is a five-year commitment during which you become secretary in your third year and chair in the fourth. You must be a member of MLA…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more] -
Dorothy Stringer replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoApologies for missing info; dates and times as follows:
194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti
Friday, 5 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level 4)
648 – Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis
Sunday, 7 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 2 (Level 4)
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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Sharon Smulders deposited “Medicated Music”: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAlthough Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s experience of love undoubtedly informs the female speaker’s curative restoration in Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), the series also shows the conscious deliberation of a Victorian poet engaged in the task of renovating generic imperatives to release feminine subjectivity — which had been invalidated by t…[Read more]
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Epifanio San Juan deposited CHALLENGING AMERICAN STUDIES in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoCritique of orthodox American Studies in the last quarter of the twentieth=century.
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Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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