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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: Season 1 now complete! in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoNovel Dialogue, a podcast sponsored by the Society of Novel Studies, has just completed its first season. We bring critics and novelists together for fun and sophisticated conversations about novels – how they are made and what to make of them.
For a full list of episodes, please check out https://noveldialogue.org/
Or subscribe at Apple…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Bringing Superheroes into the Fight against COVID-19 Misinformation in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOver the past year, artists, doctors, medical professionals, and international agencies such as the World Health Organisation have been using comics to communicate the risks of the SARS-CoV2 virus. The visual economy and a near-universal language of lines, balloons, and panels in comics makes them well suited to disseminate epidemic-related…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers (please share)
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward started the topic Roque Moreno, novela histórica peruana de Teresa González de Fanning (nueva ed.) in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThomas Ward, Spanish Professor at Loyola University Maryland has published a critical edition of Roque Moreno, a historical novel Teresa González de Fanning (1836-1913), Peruvian educator and novelist, published in 1905. The novel portrays the chaos that characterized Peru in the years immediately after Independence. The plot revolves around two…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward uploaded the file: COLONIALITY AND THE RISE OF LIBERATION THINKING DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (Book flyer) to
Colonial Latin America on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoPublished by Arc-Humanities Press, COLONIALITY AND THE RISE OF LIBERATION THINKING DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY first explores the types of subordination in the New World, chattel slavery, the encomienda, peonage, and the disrespect for Christ’s axiom about separating Caesar and God. It then explores anti-hegemonic thought from Northern Europe,…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIsraeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAttention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Comics and ImageText in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoGraduate seminar syllabus: In this seminar, we will explore the contemporary comic, considering literary and cultural works across a range of platforms and markets. Comics are still frequently (and historically) associated with popular culture, and linked to children’s literature and mass media, even as they loom large through big and small screen…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global mediation: Performing Shakespeare in the age of networked and digital cultures,” The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance, ed. Peter Kirwan and Kathryn Prince (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 132-150 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPerforming Shakespeare in modern times is an act of mediation between characters and actors, creating channels between geocultural spaces and time periods. The multiplicity of the plural term global Shakespeares helps us push back against deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare’s ubiquitous presence. Adaptations accrue nuanced meanings as t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Fulbright Snapshot: Snapshot: Shakespeare & East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin, March 24, 2021 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoShakespeare and East Asia (Oxford, 2021) explores distinctive themes in post-1950s Asian-themed performances and adaptations of Shakespeare. In this Snapshot, Alexa Alice Joubin discusses the book and the importance of wider research into Global Shakespeares.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.” George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCOVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is ins…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Los modos literarios flexibles de ‘Vísceras de la ciudad’ (1935) de Rosa Arciniega in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.
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Susan Larson deposited La gramática de la ‘Hispanidad’: Retórica de imperio y arquitectura historicista en los discursos públicos de J.C. Nichols in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe purpose of this essay is to better understand the motives of the real estate mogul and construction magnate -J.C.Nichols- responsible for the construction of the first non-centrally located shopping mall in the United States in Kansas City in the 1920s. Specifically, this study focuses on why and how Nichols resorted to a pastiche of…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited The Campus After COVID-19 in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay compares the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at two universities on opposite sides of the world: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States. It argues that the pandemic has revealed the extent to which campuses have reorganized their institutional…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic CFP – Global South Cinephilias – Modernism/Modernity Print Plus Cluster in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoModernism/Modernity Print Plus Cluster – Global South Cinephilias
While the term cinephilia simply refers to a love of cinema, conventionally it has been understood as a rarified appreciation of film, rooted in the imperative to legitimate the medium as a quintessentially modern art and reliant on sophisticated knowledge of its history and its…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic Call for Abstracts: Multilingualism in Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2022) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoDescription & Requirements: Abstracts (250 words) on the following topics: multilingualism in literature, visual and performing arts; multilingualism and history; multilingualism’s challenges to national literatures; revitalization of African/Indigenous languages; multilingual DH. Comparative/interdisciplinary approaches preferred. Submission D…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Margaret Hillenbrand. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. Chinese Literature Today 9.2 (2020): 89-90 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWestern observers often attribute Chinese suppression of undesirable information to state crackdowns on dissidents, pervasive censorship apparatus, and even self-censorship. For contemporary Chinese citizens under a certain age, Tiananmen Square protests allegedly did not happen. The PRC leadership’s private lives are shrouded in secrecies, m…[Read more]
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Scott Newman started the topic CFP African Sound Studies in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers
A Panel on “African Sound Studies” at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
November 16 – 20, 2021
Sound studies has exploded over the past decade, drawing heightened attention to how sound and sonic media shape both the everyday and the exceptional. But even as sound studies has attended closely to qu…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Familiar Ambiguity: The Value of the Humanities in a Globalized World,” Signal House 10 (March 2021) in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe world needs good question askers as much as it needs good problem solvers. Before solving problems, we need to first identify the problems. Great stories are often strangers at home. The best of them defamiliarize banal experiences and everyday utterances while offering something recognizable through a new language and form.…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSpecial issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.
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