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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Textual Trans Actions: Queering Kinship
We seek paper proposals for a special session at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore trans actions/transactions in kinning narratives and/or other representations in any mode (including the visual) or genre. These include…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
We seek paper proposals for a special session “Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore nar…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago to be proposed jointly by the GS Drama & Performance and TC Age Studies forums. Responding to the growing interest in age/aging among theatre and performance scholars, the panel seeks papers examining any aspect of the life course from childhood to old age, in…[Read more]
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Claire Nettleton posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Viral Culture: How CRISPR Genome Editing and the Microbiome are Reshaping Humanity and the Humanities. This will be a daylong, interdisciplinary symposium at Pomona College in Claremont, California on April 27th, 2018 on the relationship between biotechnology (CRISPR, interventions into microbiome and the history of medical innovation) and…[Read more]
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Andrea Charise posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoHello everyone,
Here’s the CFP for the MLA forum “Medical Humanities and Health Studies” (guaranteed panel for MLA 2019). Please consider submitting or spreading the word:
Health Humanities and Digital Life
Short (10-15min) papers for guaranteed roundtable on health / illness / medicine / wellbeing and the digital realm. Diverse…[Read more] -
Kathryn J. McKnight posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoWill there be a CFP for MLA 2019 for Medical Humanities & Health Sciences?
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Hi Kathryn,
We will have at least two — one on digital health humanities, and one on graphic medicine. I’m pasting in a draft of the graphic medicine one below. We would love to encourage forum members to collaborate and propose multiple health humanities themed panels.
Erin Lamb
Short Version for MLA Website (limited to 35 words)
Graphic…[Read more]
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Lisa Marie Rhody deposited Beyond Darwinian Distance: Situating Distant Reading in a Feminist Ut Pictura Poesis Tradition in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoLooking from a distance, as a condition of knowledge, participates within a long-standing Western tradition of power relations. This article considers the use of “distant reading” as theorized by Franco Moretti in his book by the same title and suggests that the method of literary analysis that uses such a metaphor should be aware and critical of…[Read more]
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Jessica Hurley deposited Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear…[Read more]
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Rebecca Garden deposited Class and Ethnicity in the Global Market for Organs: The Case of Korean Cinema in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhile organ transplantation has been established in the medical imagination since the 1960s, this technology is currently undergoing a popular re-imagination in the era of global capitalism. As transplantation procedures have become routine in medical centers in non-Western and developing nations, and as organ sales and transplant tourism become…[Read more]
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Sarah E. Chinn deposited Masculinity and National Identity on the Early American Stage in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay explores how the early American stage functioned as an incubator for ideas about national identity, artistic expression, and masculinity. Reading four plays from the early years of the Republic – Royall Tyler’s The Contrast, William Dunlap’s Andre´, John Augustus Stone’s Metamora, and Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator, I demonstrat…[Read more]
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Sarah E. Chinn deposited Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis article analyzes the connections between Lorde’s representations of blindness in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, and its connection to lesbian sexuality.
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Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years agoFeminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoFeel free to send me ideas for next year’s MLA Age-Studies panels. The exec. committee will be discussing them Saturday. Email: lipscomb@sar.usf.edu
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoBe sure to attend our Age Studies session this year: Global Perspectives on Aging in Literature and Film, Saturday, noon-1:15, Sutton South, Hilton. If you’re interested in Age Studies, we want to meet you!
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