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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP: MLA 2015/journal special issue in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disciplines,” its promise…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic 2015 Divisional CFPs in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<p class=”MsoNormal”>QUEER ARCHIVES.
Remembering, forgetting; loss, abandonment, preservation, invention; foundations, authorities; remainders, survivals, salvages; epistemic arrangements, derangements, reorderings; material and immaterial archives; future archives; archive fever; presence, place, trace. 250-word abstracts, 1-page CV by 15 March…[Read more] -
Cheryl A. Higashida posted an update in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoEthnic Studies Division CFPs for MLA 2015:
Violence on the Borders
Intersections of memory, gender, race, ethnicity, and geography— Indigenous Indignities, The (New) Jim Crow, Cuidad Juárez, Highway of Tears, Japanese Internment, etc. 300-word abstract and one-page CV by 15 March 2014; Penelope Kelsey (penelope.kelsey@colorado.edu) and Am…[Read more] -
Sören Fröhlich started the topic CFP – JLDCS Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips” in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoJournal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Call for Papers
Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips”
Guest Editors: Michael Davidson (UCSD) and Sören Fröhlich (UCSD)Since the HIV/AIDS blood feuds of the 1990s, scholarship into social and cultural definitions of blood has provided much-needed insights into statis…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic CFP: MLA15 Teaching Memoir in the forum
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoReading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir: MLA 2015 Vancouver BC
Stacey Lee Donohue/CCHA Allied Member of the MLA
Autobiography and memoir have become canonical staples, but also contested sites for discussing the boundaries of fictional and non-fictional self-representation. Presentations invited exploring the…[Read more]
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Susannah Mary Chewning started the topic Committee for the Community College MLA 2015 Calls for Papers in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Committee for the Community College is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA Convention in Vancouver in January of 2015:
The End of Remediation? Papers can address issues related to the future of Developmental studies, including but not limited to accelerated learning, performance-based funding, the Common Core, and the completion agenda.…[Read more]
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Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015 (a jointly sponosored-session: Chicana/o Lit Division together with Latin America, 20th Century)
Latino/a-merican Canada. Considering the conference’s location in Vancouver, we invite papers that examine writings by the Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Latin American diaspora in Canada. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; S…[Read more]
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Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoMLA 2015 (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division Panel)
Chicano Narrative at 25. Papers that examine how Ramón Saldívar’s classic work has shaped the field and/or how critics have extended or departed from its major claims. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; Sandra K. Soto (sotos@email.arizona.edu). -
Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoMLA 2015 (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division Panel)
Recovering the 70s. What connections can be drawn among art forms of the 1970s Chicana/o Renaissance and the moment they were produced? Why remember this renaissance? 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; Sandra K. Soto (sotos@email.arizona.edu). -
Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoMLA 2015 CFP (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division Panel)
Queering Chican@ Utopias: Remembering José Esteban Muñoz. Innovative presentations in Chican@ Studies that exemplify or call for Muñoz’s queer, world-building work. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; Sandra K. Soto (sotos@email.arizona.edu). -
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great stuff! are you publishing this somewhere?
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Hello, the paper is by Thom Bryce (@tbryce); I merely posted it on his behalf. Please do get in touch with him on the Commons! Apologies for the confusion.
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thanks, Katina! will do!
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I’m struck by the juxtaposition here of Thom Bryce’s paper on grindr and Cheryl Higashida’s earlier cfp for the special issue on ‘Sexing the Left’. Arguably, the former demonstrates the timeliness, and urgency, of the latter.
Thom’s conclusion – that, despite some reservations, a commercial, profit-driven form of new communication such as grind…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers uploaded the file: Load More Guys: Queered Space and the Politics of Grindr to
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago[Originally uploaded by Thom Bryce on 10 January 2014.] A script from the roundtable discussion at the MLA on \”Digital Queers\”
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Robin E. Visel started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Doris Lessing Studies in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis may be of interest to Women’s Studies members.
Call for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 19…[Read more] -
Aureliano DeSoto started the topic CFP MLA 2015: The Works of Rigoberto González in the forum
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoSpecial Session
A panel on the works of Rigoberto González: topical analyses, theory, genres (poetry, memoir, essays, YA, criticism), Chicana/o lit influences, impact(s). 250-word abstracts and 1-page CV by 9 March 2014; Aureliano DeSoto (aureliano.desoto@metrostate.edu). -
Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies Association (Nov. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA) in the forum
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference. We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions through studies of less canonical figures. The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel in downtown P…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic CFP: Sexing the Left/ English Language Notes in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago“Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)
Sex is everywhere – even on the left. Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it? Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed encount…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic CFP "Sexing the Left"/ English Language Notes in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP: “Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)
Sex is everywhere – even on the left. Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it? Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C. in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more] -
Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about contingent and PTF in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI Encourage folks to read this important issue of the ADE bulletin, and contribute to the conversation about the issues raised by posting in this forum!
Here’s the link:
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