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Lisa Zunshine deposited Groucho, Harpo, and Narrative Theory in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis short piece on _Duck Soup_ (1933) and narrative theory is a response to Jim Phelan’s target essay “Authors, Resources, Audiences,” published in the double-issue of _Style_ (52.1 & 52.2).
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A. Lewis deposited The Ancestral Lands of Black Panther and Killmonger Unburied in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis is one of a series of film reviews of Black Panther (2018), directed by Ryan Coogler.
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Laurence Hooper deposited Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Eng 260 Introduction to Women Writers, or,Books That Cook! Syllabus in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCourse syllabus for Eng 260: Introduction to Women Writers focused on the theme of food fiction. Taught at Central Oregon Community College as a general education course. We are on the quarter system which limits the number of readings. The course will require that students complete a collaborative digital project.
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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic IPPS Miami 2019 Call for Session Proposals in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTHE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL PIERS PLOWMAN CONFERENCE
April 4-7, 2019
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida (Co-sponsored by the University of Miami and Florida International University)
The Programming Committee invites you to submit Session Proposals by May 15, 2018. Please send proposals (150-300 words) to ippsmiami2019@gmail.com
Session…[Read more]
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Madhurima Chakraborty posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: South Asian Literatures in the World
South Asian Literary Association Annual Conference
January 6-7, 2019
The Wits Hotel, Chicago, ILThe South Asian Literary Association invites papers, panels, and roundtable proposals for the 2019 annual conference to be held in Chicago January 6-7 on the topic “South Asian Literatures in the World.” We…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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A. Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAnd interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).
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Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoWould anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a Romantic? — If a deeper reading of F.K. is of interest, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange such a session–indeed, not just a Romantic but esoterically a Christian….
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Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Textual Trans Actions: Queering Kinship
We seek paper proposals for a special session at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore trans actions/transactions in kinning narratives and/or other representations in any mode (including the visual) or genre. These include…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
We seek paper proposals for a special session “Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore nar…[Read more]
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Ian Cornelius deposited Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter [abstract] in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years agoA two-page abstract of the book.
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Andrea Charise posted an update in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoHello everyone,
Here’s the CFP for the MLA forum “Medical Humanities and Health Studies” (guaranteed panel for MLA 2019). Please consider submitting or spreading the word:
Health Humanities and Digital Life
Short (10-15min) papers for guaranteed roundtable on health / illness / medicine / wellbeing and the digital realm. Diverse proje…[Read more] -
Lauren Coats started the topic GS Travel Writing: CFP MLA 2019: Commemorating Travel in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe CFP for this forum’s 2019 MLA panel is out. Please consider submitting:
*Commemorating Travel*
The circulations, aesthetics, politics of material artefacts of travel and travel writing throughout history: books and blogs, photos and Facebook, Tshirts and mementos. 250-word abstracts, cv by 12 March 2018; Lauren Coats (lac@lsu.edu). -
Brandon Walsh deposited In, Out, Across, With: Collaborative Education and Digital Humanities (A Job Talk) in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe text of the job talk that I gave for my position as Head of Graduate Programs in the Scholars’ Lab at the UVA Library. The talk argued that the position as advocate for graduate students and facilitator of collaborative DH pedagogy required a person to think in terms of prepositions. Such a position requires making connections across the…[Read more]
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Remy Attig deposited Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish: Common Considerations for the English Translator of Two Peripheral Lects in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the natural order of language development orality precedes literary production, but elements of the oral tradition do often appear in literature. In this presentation I will look at orality in some Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish texts to see how the study of these two lects together may better inform the translator. Though both are lects of…[Read more]
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