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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Ethnohistory Submissions — Primary Sources for Research, Teaching, Activism in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Submissions – Ethnohistorical Primary Documents (from Rob Schwaller)
The global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has dramatically affected academic research and publication. As many professional ethnohistorians struggle to meet the challenges of online teaching and face severely limited research opportunities, the editors of Ethnohistory…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Gender and Genre Bias: Women Writers & Networks in Latin America in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIt is well known that the literary history of Latin America and its canon has been/is written by a patriarchal Eurocentric society that controls what constitutes national literature. It is also established that (colonial/contemporary) Latin American subjects in the periphery of the urban republic of letters are not included due to their gender…[Read more]
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Kathleen M. Lubey started the topic LLC Restoration and Early 18th C Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHello colleagues! I’m happy to be nominated to the executive commitee for the LLC Early Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century forum, and I hope you’ll consider a vote in my direction. I’ve posted a short bio and CV on my Humanities Commons page –have a glance if you’d like to know more about me and my work. Thanks, and here’s wishing you all…[Read more]
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Rachael King started the topic Statement on Forum Executive Committee Election in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to be nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the CLCS 18th-Century forum. I have been an MLA member since 2008. My work, while rooted in eighteenth-century British literature, crosses fields to draw from media studies, book history, and the history of ideas. My first book, Writing to the World: Letters a…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Secular Women Writers of Colonial Spanish America.” in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoNew directions of research in colonial women’s studies on gender roles, periphery and margins, and discursive practices that expand the notion of “literary text” (Adorno 177), indicate that the textual corpus of colonial women’s writings continues to increase. This emergent group of texts reveals patterns of rhetorical strategies and recurre…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies 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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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship: UVA, 2021 application cycle in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHappy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! The University of Virginia is thrilled to announce a new interdisciplinary PhD fellowship in Indigenous Studies, beginning Fall 2021. Any student admitted to a PhD program in the College of Arts & Sciences who intends to work in Indigenous Studies (art history, environmental science, history, religious studies,…[Read more]
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Armando Maggi started the topic Concept of "Ruins" in Contemporary Culture in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoI’m interested in investigating the concept of ‘ruins’ in its broadest connotations, certainly not limited to its most common sense of ancient or modern ‘ruined’ building.
I am proposing a seminar at the next ACLA conference, and proposals for this seminar can be posted until the end of October 2020. This is a link to the seminar “Ruins: Marvel,…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[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
TC Postcolonial Studies 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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John Savarese deposited Psyche’s “Whisp’ring Fan” and Keats’s Genealogy of the Secular in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhile scholars have long considered John Keats’s Ode to Psyche a document of secularization, the poem’s precise relationship to the secular needs further attention. This essay engages with recent critiques of secularism, by Gil Anidjar and others, which challenge readings of Keats that make secularism or “toleration” a hallmark of his radical…[Read more]
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John Savarese deposited Ossian’s Folk Psychology in the group
LLC English Romantic on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhen James Macpherson turned to the popular poetry of ancient Scotland, he found in it what philosophers now call folk psychology: a commonsense theory about how minds work. Yet because his poems were largely forgeries, Macpherson winds up importing more recent physiology into his portrayal of ancient, pagan materialism. As a result, the poems’ v…[Read more]
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Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBringing together theoretical writing on objects, testimony, and trauma to develop the category of the “nonhuman witness,” this essay considers the narrative, ethical, and ecological work performed by peripheral objects in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974). Coetzee’s insistent object catalogues acquire narrative agency and provide material for a c…[Read more]
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Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoHenrietta Rose-Innes’s novel Nineveh (2011) catalogs the activities of a humane pest expert as she discovers, on an estate under construction outside Cape Town, how human and insect actors undermine the spatial expectations of post-apartheid South Africa. Rose-Innes advances a vision of interspecies connection by recasting controversial themes…[Read more]
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