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Carl Gelderloos deposited Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis essay reads Ivan Efremov’s “Andromeda Nebula” (1957), Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris” (1961), and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s “Andymon” (1982) in order to explore the relationship between biological evolution and dialectical materialism, as it was negotiated through the trope of the alien in the context of the cultural politics of Eastern E…[Read more]
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Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago“‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]
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Oana Popescu-Sandu deposited “From Minimalist Representation to Excessive Interpretation: Contextualizing 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe article examines the Romanian and American reception of Cristian Mungiu’s 4 weeks, 3 months, 2 weeks (2007), arguing that the film’s representational minimalism indirectly caused an excess of interpretation across cultural contexts. This overinterpretation was possible because the film’s aesthetic minimalism encouraged viewers to decode the s…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim started the topic CFP: Drafting Monique Wittig, Yale University, October 3-4, 2019 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers: Drafting Monique Wittig
Conference organized by Morgane Cadieu (Yale) and Annabel Kim (Harvard)
October 3–4, 2019
Yale UniversityThis conference, to be held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, both marks the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the publication of Wittig’s landmark novel, Les Guérillères, and showc…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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Ida Yoshinaga started the topic CFP International Fantastic Division for ICFA #40 (proposals due 10/31) in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoInternational Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #40
March 2019
Orlando, Florida
CFP Deadline 10/31/18
Please join us on <u>March 13-16, 2019</u>, for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) #40 in its theme of “Politics and Conflicts.” We welcome ideas for papers and panels on science fiction, fantasy, fair…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited Spatial Affinities: Poetry and Law in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe spatial affinity between poetry and the law is an interesting theoretical fiction to understand how the construction of the legal discipline is a process to turn all possible spatial affinities into spatial subalternities, into spatial submissions. One could say that legal spaces, the legal production of spaces, is a way to summon up different…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and CultureCo-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2019 Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop (deadline: Dec. 1, 2018) in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago2019 LAW AND HUMANITIES JUNIOR SCHOLARS WORKSHOP
Call for Papers
Columbia Law School, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the thirteenth meeting of the Law and Humanities J…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek started the topic ACLA CfP: Palestine/Israel: The Vocabulary of the Conflict and its Circulation in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoWe invite submissions of proposals to participate in our ACLA seminar titled “Palestine/Israel: The Vocabulary of the Conflict and its Circulation.” A detailed description of the seminar here and at the end of this email. Feel free to contact us for more information.
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CF Beat P – Louisville Conf for Lit and Culture – 21-23 Feb 2019 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers:
The Beat Studies Association sponsors an annual panel at the Louisville Conference for Literature and Culture Since 1900, to be held at the University of Louisville Feb. 21-23, 2019.
If you are interested in presenting at this conference, please submit a brief (250 word) abstract and a one-paragraph bio to Deborah Geis ( - Load More
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