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Sarah Benharrech started the topic Nominee Statement for Forum Election (CLCS 18th-Century) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHello, my name is Sarah Benharrech and I would be deeply honored to be elected officer of the MLA 18th-c. Comparative Forum (CLCS 18th-Century).
Stemming from previous work on the morphology of characters in drama and novels in light of contemporary debates on taxonomy in eighteenth-century France, my current research focuses on enmeshments of…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInvited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)? in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHow does one understand a filmmaker like José Antonio Nieves Conde, a Falangist whose films with strong neorealist tendencies were radically altered by the Francoist censors for being too critical of the economic injustices inherent to daily urban life after the Spanish Civil War? Many film critics have asked this question and this essay looks…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoReview of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]
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Sarah Benharrech started the topic Call for abstracts: ASECS panel on Knowledge and Practices in the 18th Century in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
If you are planning to attend ASECS annual meeting in Baltimore next Spring, please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel, the deadline has been extended to October 8th.
124. Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in the Eighteenth Century
This panel seeks to interrogate literary, cultural, and pictorial…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg started the topic CFP: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies” in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies”
Sept 30 — Oct 1, 2022
Elmira, NY
The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College is hosting its annual Quarry Farm Symposium during the Fall 2022 semester, from September 30th to October 1st, organized around the theme of Abolition Studies. This year’s Keynote Address will…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoA literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Special Issue of Eighteenth Century Studies: Indigeneity in the Long 18th C. in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE
Eighteenth-Century StudiesSpecial Issue on Indigeneity
In Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (2016), the historian Coll Thrush repositions England’s capital not only as a city where decisions were made to dispossess Indigenous peoples, but also as a space that…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Keats’s Voice in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoKeats’s poetic thoughts on the topic of human identity remain some of Romanticism’s most incisive reflections on the constitution of selfhood. This essay is about the ways Keats’s verse thinks through questions about human subjectivity and its horizons with an imaginative range. Keats famously asserts that the poetical character has “no i…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited The Gothic, Supernatural and Religious: Scott, Hogg, and Blackwood’s in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoA distinctive style of “Scottish Gothic’”emerged, after 1815, in fiction by Walter Scott, James Hogg, and fellow members of the Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine circle. This chapter introduces this corpus of Scottish Gothic literature, specifies some ways in which the uncanny entailments of Scottish Gothic relate to religious discourse (very muc…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Postkolonyal Teori ve Osmanlı Türk Emperyalizmini Beraber Düsünmek in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOsmanlı emperyalizminden ve kolonyalizminden bahsedebilmek için postkolonyal teorinin analitik ufkunu ve kelime dağarcığını esnetmek ve belki de yeniden gözden geçirmek gereklidir. Bu yazının akademik ve politik meramı işte budur Daha açık bir deyişle, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan örneğiyle önümüzde beliren Osmanlı hayal(et)ini postkolonyal teoriyle k…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers (please share)
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoPosting to CLCS 18th c. at the request of Leland G. Spencer, editor
Call for Papers
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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