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Martha Nell Smith started the topic Queer Archives, Counterarchives, Queer Canada, and Performing the Archive in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoCheck out our sessions and related sessions for MLA 2015 by visiting our blog entry. We look forward to seeing you at the sessions and also to continuing the conversation online!
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Stuart C. F. Christie replied to the topic Establishing a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoI support the proposal for a new forum in Modern and Contemporary Chinese.
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic Establishing a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoIf there are colleagues interested in signing the petition to establish a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese, kindly go to it under “Prospective Forums” and under “Petitions” you can add your name by simply leaving a brief statement of support for the new Forum. We are close to finalizing a proposal, so please do so soon! Keep in mind that…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic Establishing a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoIf there are colleagues interested in signing the petition to establish a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese, kindly go to it under “Prospective Forums” and under “Petitions” you can add your name by simply leaving a brief statement of support for the new Forum.
We are close to finalizing a proposal, so please do so soon! Keep in mind that…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic JFA Books Received in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe print titles listed below are now available for review in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. If you are interested in one (or more), drop me a line at <Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu>. We ask for reviews of between 1200 and 1500 words within approximately three months of receipt of the book.
Since it is often the case that I get…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic JFA Books Received in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe print titles listed below are now available for review in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. If you are interested in one (or more), drop me a line at <Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu>. We ask for reviews of between 1200 and 1500 words within approximately three months of receipt of the book.
Since it is often the case that I get multiple…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Call for Nominations: THE MICHAEL LYNCH SERVICE AWARD in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoHelp us acknowledge LGBTQ activism by academics; deadline extended to November 30.
THE MICHAEL LYNCH SERVICE AWARD
This award serves not only to honor an LGBTQ academic activist every year, but also, in Eve Sedgwick’s words, “to publicize and celebrate—and as widely as possible—the range, the forms, the energy, and the history of queer act…[Read more] -
Alexandra Berlina started the topic A fantastic play? in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear all,
could you perhaps suggest a play that could be seen as fantastic in Todorov’s sense? (Yes, I know he didn’t want to include anyting but prose, but even Hamlet has its moments — the ghost is too clearly present on stage to be truly “fantastic” in the sense of ambiguous, though…)
Thank you!
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Linda Salem started the topic CFP Children's Literature Society at American Literature Association 2015 in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Children’s Literature Society
American Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02116-5798The Politics and Morality of Children’s Literature: From Left to Right
Authors use children’s literature to communicate their political and moral viewp…[Read more]
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Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and A…[Read more]
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Monica C. Miller started the topic 2014 Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages Awards in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoThe Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages
welcomes submissions for its annual awards.The 2014 Florence Howe Award
Each year, the Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship recognizes two outstanding essays by feminist scholars, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language. Each recipient receives $250 and is honored at an e…[Read more] -
David Del Principe replied to the topic CFP SF/F Area at the 2013 Mid-Atlantic P/ACA Confernce in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoA new critical field merging the Ecocritical and the Gothic
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Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century
(Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)
For…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Free E-Review Copy of "Romances of George Sand" in the forum
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[Read more]
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Leigha McReynolds started the topic Call for Papers: Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Conference in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers MAPACA 2014
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY AREAThe Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) invites academics, graduate and undergraduate students, independent scholars, and artists to submit papers for the annual conference, to be held in Baltimore, November 6-8, 2014. Those interested in presenting at the…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic Comparative Children's Lit panel at MLA 2015 in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoWatch for this exciting panel, which has just been approved, at the 2015 meeting!
“Writing the Future”
The East Asia to 1900 and East Asia after 1900 divisions have selected for a collaborative session four short papers that focus on the ways in which literature written for children addressed the often turbulent transitions to modernity in East…[Read more] -
Annabelle Dolidon replied to the topic French science-fiction in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoI will. Grace is in our group, of course, and she brings good students to our discussion. I will pass on your greetings :).
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic French science-fiction in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months ago“At Portland State University,…”
OMG, Grace Dillon, one of the essayists in our collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars, teaches at your school.
You get old enough (let’s just say a couple years beyond 60) and you start to *know everybody*! Tell Grace I said “Hi” and “Milli gwetch”–that “thanks” in Anishinaabe. -Glo
==================Bio o…[Read more]
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Joshua Begley replied to the topic Science Fiction Readers Demographics in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoI don’t know as much about Latin American fantastic literature as I’d like, so I’m very interested in what you had to say, Silvia. In general, it always strikes me as odd how conservative academics can be. And in a broader sense, the whole concept of “legitimate” is troublesome because of the power issues underlying who decides what is and is not,…[Read more]
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