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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Teaching Memory Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Members of the Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing Group,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:
Teaching Memory Studies
Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hinds…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2016, Special Session Comparing Literary Historiography in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoOrganizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston)
Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this special session of MLA 2016 at…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoThanks Amy!
Patti Marxsen
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Amy Rubens replied to the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoPatti,
Your angle is not off-point at all. What I’m interested in–and this intentionally connects with the conference theme–is the way that these imagined/reconstructed notions of patients’ experiences might shape public behavior (via public health initiatives) or public thought. Exploring how textual representations of TB might shape mu…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoMy forthcoming biography of Helene Schweitzer (1879-1957), wife of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, addresses Helene’s struggle with TB throughout most of her life. It certainly shaped her image of “frailty”, thereby strengthening her husband’s persona of a larger-than-life, invincible male “hero.” Not sure if this is what you are looking for, Amy, as my “a…[Read more]
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Amy Rubens started the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Special session proposal for the MLA 2016.
“Circulating Notions of TB”Papers examining the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis. How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with or actively shape prevailing public health initiatives?
Send 300-word abstracts to Amy Rubens, PhD at arubens@fmarion.edu by March 15.
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Session 257. Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir in the forum
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoHere are abstracts for session 257: “Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir”:
Friday, 9 January: S. 257 Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir
10:15–11:30 a.m., West 210, VCC West
Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association
Presiding: Stacey Lee Donohue, Central Oregon Community Co…[Read more]
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories byKeith Oatley (2012). About the psychology and emotions of fiction.
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Sabina Knight replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoI would recommend the following books for your worthwhile list:
Jonathan Culler, _Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction_ (OUP, 1998 and updated).
Sabina Knight, _Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction_ (OUP, 2012)
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months ago5th Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference with the title of “Body, Memory, Trauma”, an interdisciplinary academic event open to every interested scholar. The conference will take place on March 6th and 7th in College Station/Bryan (Texas), together with an Italian-Argentinean artistic exhibition with the title of “Water, Art, Women, Life”, devoted…[Read more]
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