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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Poet as Physician in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDaphne Marlatt’s “Healing” as a poem about re-cooperating from the infliction of a triggering, caustic word upon one’s mental composition, using efficacy, experience in knowing composure and competency, as a rebutting counter.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Introductions and Initiations in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Phyllis Webb’s “To Those Who Have Also Considered Suicide” is a poem which mischievously induces the reader to become one of the “friends” who undergo the “initiation” of suicide. The reader is encouraged to let go any grievance, however, in consideration of the poet’s successful demonstration of the initiation as involving genuine…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Being Diplomatic: ANT and Literary Studies in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA talk given at the ANT workshop at the University of Southern Denmark in 2017. I develop some of these ideas in chapter 4 of my current book
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Privileging Marlow in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoArgues that the way in which Marlow is presented, ensures that Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is vulnerable as a text that ostensibly helps justify the maintenance of separate spheres between men and women; argues that Marlow’s successful agency is more about his being craftily evasive, a man who doesn’t impose but dodges.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Privileging Marlow in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoArgues that the way in which Marlow is presented, ensures that Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is vulnerable as a text that ostensibly helps justify the maintenance of separate spheres between men and women; argues that Marlow’s successful agency is more about his being craftily evasive, a man who doesn’t impose but dodges.
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFPs: Translation Studies Forum Sessions, MLA 2020 Seattle in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear Translation Studies scholars,
The CFPs for our Translation Studies Forum have been posted, and I repeat them here for your convenience and invite you to send proposals or abstracts:
(1) Translatability and World Literature: How best to acknowledge translation as a mediating factor in world literature? Incommensurability vs.…[Read more]
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Amelie Daigle started the topic CFP: Transnational Families, Transnational Novels in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoJuly 12-13, 2019: Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (London, England)
From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasizes the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market…[Read more]
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Amelie Daigle started the topic CFP: Transnational Families, Transnational Novels in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoJuly 12-13, 2019: Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (London, England)
From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasizes the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic CFPs for Global South forum panels at the 2020 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoRace, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South
Papers on the intersections between indigeneity, postcoloniality, creolization, and discourses of race in the Global South. How does migration affect understandings of sovereignty/belonging? What are the powers/limitations of a globalized concept of indigeneity? 250-word…[Read more] -
Christofer Rodelo started the topic CFP, "Performance and Form" grad symposium @ Harvard, 4/26/19 in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoPer(form)ance: A Graduate Symposium on Performance and Form
Harvard University Theatre and Performance Colloquium
April 26, 2019CALL FOR PAPERS (submissions due by 2/15)
The Harvard University Theater and Performance Colloquium seeks fifteen-minute papers from graduate students for a symposium on the topic of “performance and form.” We will gat…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium – Talk on Sonny Liew in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoI’ll be giving a talk on Sonny Liew’s Eisner Award-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye at the 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium, and there are other fascinating talks on graphic novels lined up too. The event takes place on Friday April 12 at the Mandel Humanities Center, Brandeis University.
Below is the program and a link to the BNS web…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Jennifer Stoever started the topic MS Sound Forum CFP is live on the MLA website! in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 7 years agoDecolonizing Sound
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This panel explores sound and decolonizing Western methodologies, epistemologies, and archives, and the necessity of decolonizing sound studies. Intersectional scholarship encouraged; non-English and pre-20th century research welcomed. 250-word abstracts to MLAMediaSound@gmail.com by 15 March 2019.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP: Shaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ONT, 15-17 August 2019 in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years agoShaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CAN, 15-17 August 2019
The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Sixteenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. Successful proposals will offer a focused analysis of any aspect of Shaw’s work, or that of his contemporaries f…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Theorizing and Resisting the Violence of Stop-and-Frisk-style Profiling in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis article analyzes Stop-and-Frisk policing within the long history of lynching through the analytical framework of performance studies. Contemporary audio recordings of stop-and-frisk procedures are thought in relation to the historical examples of the Zoot Suit Riots and late 19th-century and early 20th-century lynchings of African Americans.
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Be sure to add this Drama and Performance session to your 2019 MLA schedule in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoSession 555. New Voices at the Intersection of Drama, Performance, and Age Studies
*Saturday, 5 January3:30-4:45 p.m., Columbian Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency HotelProgram arranged by the forums TC Age Studies and GS Drama and Performance
Presiding: Valerie Barnes Lipscomb, U of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee
1. “‘Growth Untried’: Dramatic Infan…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic Global South panels at the 2019 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThe Global South forum’s sponsored panel at this year’s MLA, “Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South,” will take place on Thursday, Jan 3 from 3:30 – 4:45pm (Hyatt Regency – Grand Suit 5). We hope to see you there.
You might also be interested in the panel “The Global South Novel,” organized by Anne Garland Mahler (out-going member of…[Read more]
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