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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited The Free Travels of William Grimes from 1814 until 1825 in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis GIF chronicles the movements of a a formerly enslaved man in New England until the publication of his first memoir in 1825. William Grimes was forced to resettle and wander through Connecticut and Rhode Island because of poverty and insecurity. He is most associated with Litchfield, CT and New Haven CT where he spent the most time and which…[Read more]
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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “Wild Nights”: Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEmily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues tha…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic Announcing the Library Company's Innovation Fellowship Program in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia’s newly-launched Innovation Fellowship Program will pair two short-term research fellows-one humanities scholar and one creative practitioner-to critically and creatively engage a collection integral to the Library Company’s mission, values, or institutional history.
The Innovation Fellowship Program is an e…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic Library Company of Philadelphia Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2021-2022 in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoNational Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships
National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships support research in residence at the Library Company on any subject relevant to its collections, which are capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the…[Read more]
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Christopher Hill deposited Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoFigures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill traces the history of naturalist fiction from its emergence in France in the 1860s through its spr…[Read more]
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in…[Read more]
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Adrian Versteegh replied to the topic Delegate Assembly Nominees Sought! in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoHi Jeffrey—I’d be happy to volunteer. I’m a member and I attend every year. Just let me know what you need.
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic Delegate Assembly Nominees Sought! in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoHi Folks–want to get more involved in the MLA Gothic Studies forum? We need to submit to MLA a short list of nominees (2 or 3 people) to attend the delegate assembly meeting at the annual convention. So the person needs to be a member of MLA (or willing to become one!) who plans to attend the convention at least twice in the next 3 years. Please…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic Library Company 2020 First Book Award: Nominations due July 1 in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia invites submissions for the 2020 First Book Award. This prize was established in 2018 to recognize an extraordinary contribution to early American studies using Library Company collections. This year, we have opted to recognize a significant first book published by an early-career scholar within the past two yea…[Read more]
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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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John Hansen deposited The New American Scholar in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago“The New American Scholar” by John Hansen
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFor anyone interested, there is now an MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group (easier to use / access than the MLA forum site I think). You can sign on at http://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies
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Elizabeth Scarlett deposited RECording the End time in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Film in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoApocalyptic themes handled by Spanish directors of the current century, including Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, David and Álex Pastor, Álex de la Iglesia, Juan Antonio Bayona, Jorge Torregrossa, and Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas, and F. Javier Gutiérrez.
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoGlobal Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 Mar…[Read more] - Load More
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