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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSalaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to discuss what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. With the aim of inspiring the larger community to contemplate how we might reshape our thinking as we grow a…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to discuss what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. With the aim of inspiring the larger community to contemplate how we might reshape our thinking as we grow a…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to discuss what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. With the aim of inspiring the larger community to contemplate how we might reshape our thinking as we grow a…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to discuss what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. Below, we capture concisely each of the “rules” —guidelines, thinking points, and suggested practic…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to think about what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. Below, we capture concisely each of the “rules” —guidelines, thinking points, and suggested practic…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSee attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.
“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores tra…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic Reminder – CFP 2024 MLA Philadelphia in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoMLA 2024 – Philadelphia
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama announces the following CFP:
Session 1: Translating and Staging Spanish Early Modern Plays Throughout Time
Submissions on staging early modern Spanish plays in languages other than Spanish exploring the interplay of language, translation, and emotions. 250–300-word abs…[Read more] -
David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoStories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoStories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[Read more]
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John Garrison started the topic CFP for MLA 2024: Renaissance Eating: Routes, Representations Re-Creations in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed session for CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern!
Papers of no more than 10 minutes for a roundtable on new insights into the cultures of early modern eating and food. How did the circulation of food carry with it encounters with new ideas and new people? How did changing culinary practices and tastes both reflect and influence cultural…[Read more]
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Darren J. Borg started the topic CFP: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoWhat is a life worth living?Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of prolonging it, whether artificially or by providing warnings against our current behavior in order to preserve the life that already exists. The fact that death and…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Series in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoThe Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather SeriesTaormina, SicilyJuly 10-12, 2023 Sponsored by the University of Arkansas and Società cooperativa Taormina immagine Celebrating over 50 years of fandom, join us and commemorate Francis Ford Coppola’s series- The Godfather (March 15, 1972), The Godfather Part II (December 20, 19…[Read more]
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Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP Conference: USES OF MODERNISM (Ghent, Belgium – 20-22 September 2023) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.
CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023
The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited learning to see nothing: new and recent work on paper and canvas in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years agoExhibition Catalog for “learning to see nothing: new and recent work on paper and canvas,” by Steven Schroeder. Eleanor Hayes Art Gallery, Kinzer Performing Arts Center, Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa, Oklahoma, 4 September – 18 October 2018.
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Steven Schroeder deposited in the path of totality in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe forty poems in this collection have percolated through more than forty years of meditation on “city” that began when I was an undergraduate studying with Richard Luecke at Valparaiso University. The title, In the Path of Totality, references a phrase made familiar by media coverage leading up to the total solar eclipse that was visible acr…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited fallen prose in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years agoChina is the occasion, not the subject or the object, of the forty-seven poems collected in Steven Schroeder’s Fallen Prose – lyrical glimpses of the “new” city in Southern light. Most of the poems in the collection are set in Shenzhen, a few in Zhuhai, Macao, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong – and one or two a bit further west, in Kunming. All attend…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited the imperfection of the eye in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years agoThere is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here and now of the seventy-one poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection is most often Chicago,…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years agoIn the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award (Nominations Due 3.15.2023) in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear Colleagues,
The faculty of English at Idaho State University invites nominations for the fifth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2021 and 2022 are due March 15, 2023. For more information…[Read more]
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