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Linda V Troost deposited Choose Your Own Jane Austen Adventure (slides only) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoPDF of slides for a panel presentation on Jane-Austen and Regency-themed video games.
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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Claudia Cabello-Hutt started the topic CFP 2018- Working Group Wild Interventions in Latin/o America – XX and XXI Centu in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAddress the ways in which cultural, literary, and artistic interventions in the socio-political landscape of Latin/o America during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have queered genders and sexualities, practices of sociality, public spaces, the production and consumption of cultural goods, forms of embodiment, developmental rhetorics, and…[Read more]
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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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Maia Gil'Adi started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Latina/o New York in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPapers examining the history and/or contemporary state of Latina/o literature and cultural production in New York. 200-300 word abstract, 1-page cv by March 10, 2017 to John Alba Cutler (john-cutler@northwestern.edu).
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Maia Gil'Adi started the topic Extended Deadline. CFP (MLA 2018): The "X" Factor in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2018; co-sponsored by LLC Latina and Latino and LLC Chicana and Chicano
Papers exploring the historical, gendered, and linguistic aspects of the shift from Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Chican@/Latin@ to Chicanx/Latinx. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv by March 20, 2017; Richard T. Rodriguez…[Read more]
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Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoCFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
LLC Puerto RicanImperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu).
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoCaribbean Space and Bodies at War
Forum: LLC Puerto Rican
Imperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu). -
Joanne Bernardi started the topic Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts (CFP, NY 2018) in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoDigital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts (CFP, NY 2018)
Papers on the application of DH techniques to pre-modern and modern Japanese literature. Challenges, possibilities, needs, and ideas. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@humnet.ucla.edu).
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Joanne Bernardi posted an update in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoLLC Japanese since 1900 session CFP, MLA NY 2018 just posted:
Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media
Papers on the application of DH techniques to nontextual materials from or concerning Japan, including film, art, sound. 250 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Problem of Multimodality: What Data-Driven Research Can Tell Us About Online Writing Practices in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article investigates the writing mode, multimodal aspects, and folksonomic elements of digital composition gathered from a WordPress-based ePortfolio platform. Focusing on the student perspective, data was gathered through both surveys of first year students and text analysis of digital compositions in order to produce quantitative results…[Read more]
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Benigno Trigo deposited From Necrotic to Apoptotic Debt in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoAnalysis of debt of the unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico from a psychoanalytic perspective using recent work by Eduardo Lalo as a point of departure for the analysis.
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Raúl Coronado posted an update in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Members of the MLA Latina and Latino Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Forum:
Below is the list of our forum’s activities to be held at the MLA convention in Philadelphia January 5-8, 2017. Please note that this year we are inaugurating a new event. We are co-sponsoring a cash bar reception with the following forums: Chicana and C…[Read more]
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Francesco Masala started the topic Call for Submission: Constructing and Representing Ecuadorian Identity in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>“YOU Think Therefore I Am”: Constructing and (Re)presenting Identity In and Outside </b></span><span class=”s1″><b>Ecuador</b></span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>This Call for Papers seeks scholarly contributions for an edited volume focusing upon the Ecuadorian’s individual experience while abroad. In par…[Read more] -
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