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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television,” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19.1 (March 2022): 167-180. in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism, this article analyzes the manifestation of the ideas of yellow peril and yel…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Jina Kim started the topic CFP Modernist Studies Association’s Annual Conference “Pacific-Rim Modernism” in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCFP for the Modernist Studies Association’s Annual Conference
“Pacific-Rim Modernism”
Portland, Oregon | October 27-30, 2022
https://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa2022/cfp.html
Call for Individual Paper Proposals for MSA Panel Streams
- Pacific-Rim Modernism examines not only how western modernists and modernist cultural productions imag…
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Jina Kim started the topic CFP Korean Literature Association Conference 2022 in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoKorean Literature Association Annual Meeting
November 11-12, 2022, University of OregonEugene, OR, USA
The Korean Literature Association cordially invites proposals for its annual meeting on the theme of “Resonance” to be held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. We invite individual papers and team projects that reflect on the way res…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited The Correspondence of E M Forster and Forrest Reid: Content and Implications of a New Literary Archive in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis essay/ article examines the provenance and the implications of a literary archive acquired by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of Queen’s University Belfast and now fully catalogued by Brian Caraher and Emma Hegarty under the auspices of the British Academy. The state-of-the-art. fully annotated, online catalogue establishes the…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for Redisigning Modernities Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic MLA 2023 proposal deadline April 1 in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoHi all, A reminder that the deadline for proposing sessions for the 2023 MLA convention (1/5-8 in San Francisco) is April 1. Any MLA member may propose a special session. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issuse), workshops (focused e.g. on professional development…[Read more]
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Guojun Wang started the topic Deadline for 2023 MLA is 4/1 in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues, I’d like to remind you that the deadline for proposing sessions for the 2023 MLA convention (1/5-8 in San Francisco) is April 1. Any MLA member may propose a special session. The 75-minute session usually includes 4 papers or 3 papers plus response, but the format can be flexible. For more information about proposing a special…[Read more]
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Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoThank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, “Life Writing and Cognition” (Sunday) in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoJoin us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655
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Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Exec Committee Member? in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 4 years agoMLA has a new process for selecting new members to forum executive committees. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you’d like to make a nomination (or self-nominate) please email me. Thank you, Sophia
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Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Member? in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 4 years agoMLA has a new process for selecting new members to forum executive committees. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you’d like to make a nomination (or self-nominate) please email me at sam50@psu.edu. Thank you, Sophia
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Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Member? in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 4 years agoMLA has adopted a new process for populating the forum roster. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you would like to to recommend a member to serve (or self-nominate) please email me at sam50@psu.edu. Thank you, Sophia
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Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.
The following sessions will now be held virtually:
Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Presider: Rielle Navitski
A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]
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