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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Afghanistan in Post-9/11 American Poetry: A Creative Response to Orientalism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoOn the basis of the assumption that poetic response to Edward Said’s Orientalism is
rare, this article seeks to read three post-9/11 American poems on Afghanistan – “The Weavers” and
“Burka Women” by Gerald Wheeler, and “Kabul 2002 (From Dislocations)” by Dr. Bronwyn Winter – as a
significant intellectual departure from the standpoint alle…[Read more] -
Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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Claire Nettleton posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Viral Culture: How CRISPR Genome Editing and the Microbiome are Reshaping Humanity and the Humanities. This will be a daylong, interdisciplinary symposium at Pomona College in Claremont, California on April 27th, 2018 on the relationship between biotechnology (CRISPR, interventions into microbiome and the history of medical innovation) and…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years agoCfP for MEHAT 2018, for graduate students. If you have/know graduate students, please encourage them to apply:
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars about the Middle…[Read more] -
Andrea Charise posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies 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…[Read more] -
Kathryn J. McKnight posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoWill there be a CFP for MLA 2019 for Medical Humanities & Health Sciences?
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Hi Kathryn,
We will have at least two — one on digital health humanities, and one on graphic medicine. I’m pasting in a draft of the graphic medicine one below. We would love to encourage forum members to collaborate and propose multiple health humanities themed panels.
Erin Lamb
Short Version for MLA Website (limited to 35 words)
Graphic…[Read more]
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Carolyn McCue Goffman deposited Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis presentation explores ethical dilemmas for graduate school educators in programs that prepare M.A. students to teach English in community colleges. Such graduate programs attract students and produce strong, enthusiastic teachers, and university administrators value the programs because they draw tuition; however, the job prospects for…[Read more]
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Fahri Öz deposited “‘To Take Were to Purloin’: Sexuality in the Narrative Poems by Christina Rossetti” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoChristina Rossetti, sexuality, narrative poems
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Fahri Öz deposited Drum-Taps: Whitman’s Problematic Legacy as a War Poet in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis paper analyzes Walt Whitman’s American Civil War poems in his collection Drum-Taps
in comparison with the poetry written by British soldier-poets of WWI. These poems present
Whitman as a problematic model for future generations of war poets since he hardly ever
questions the meaninglessness of bloodshed in the battlefield, a trait which i…[Read more] - Load More
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