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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSeminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)
Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]
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Jay Rajiva deposited ‘The instant of waking from the nightmare’: Emergence Theory and Postcolonial Experience in Season of Migration to the North in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article positions agency as a necessarily lacunal aspect of Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. By allowing the theatricality of doubling and metaphor to overdetermine Mustafa’s narrative, the novel implicitly challenges both the substitution of symbol for material experience and the rational logic of causation. The disruptive pot…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited “With Teeth:” Beyond Theoretical Violence in Gothic Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article collides St. Apollonia’s medieval passion narratives – manuscript illustrations, church screens, and paintings by Francisco De Zurbarán and Carlo Dolci – with A.L. Kennedy’s contemporary short story “Story of My Life” to find out what happens when we move beyond the theoretical violence imposed by traditional approaches to gothic studies.
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Carol Chiodo posted an update in the group
Women in Italian on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoI am looking for information about this online project on Italian Women Writers at the University of Chicago Libraries. Any information about the history of the project, its data and current plans for development (or obsolescence) are much appreciated. http://artflsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/efts/textdbs/iww/authoridx.pl?sortorder=auth_century
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis rhetorical analysis of the phrase “The Rust Belt” asks the question Is The Rust Belt real or mythical? Does Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Subaltern’ caste now inhabit the (so-called) Rust Belt? Why can’t Rust Belt writers be heard?
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic IASA Conference at UIC: Oct 18-20, 2018. CfPs Due This Friday in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months ago<b>— Call for Papers —</b>
“The Conflicts of Immigration Past and Present:
The Position[ing] of Italians and the Diaspora”
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<b>October 18-20, 2018</b>
<b>Submission Deadline: Friday, April 27, 2018</b>
<b>Upload/submit proposals to Submittable:</b>
<b>https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit</b>
<b>For inquirie…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Fulbright Lecturership in Italian American Studies in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please see the attached opportunity for those who work in Italian American
Studies. This is a wonderful opportunity for scholars of any rank. For more
information, see the link below or write directly to Margherita Ganeri.A new Fulbright Lectureship in Italian American Culture and Literature has
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Peter M. Logan deposited PRIMITIVE CRITICISM AND THE NOVEL: G. H. LEWES AND HIPPOLYTE TAINE ON DICKENS in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoAn analysis of criticism of Charles Dickens by his contemporaries G. H. Lewes and Hippolyte Taine. Both assessments address Dickens’s popularity by relying on commonplace concepts from Victorian anthropology. However, Lewes argues for a new form of critical practice addressed to popular fiction and addresses the inadequacy of existing critical…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo posted an update in the group
Women in Italian on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis mapping project, by the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, is an interesting teaching tool to explore Italian immigrant populations in the U.S. over time. It can be used in conjunction with Melania Mazzucco’s 2003 novel _Vita_ (also available in English translation from Picador), or Edvige Giunta’s edited 2002 collection…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 51ST ANNUAL IASA CONFERENCE AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO in the discussion
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited POEM: Tpbert Frost and Carl Sandburg in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA Robert Brownian Dramatic Dialogue
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Laurie Ringer deposited Entangled States: Putting Affect Theory into Play with Nnedi Okorafor and Ann Leckie in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWhatever your theory and whatever your fandom, you don’t have to abandon it to do affect theory. This is because affect theory isn’t about telling you which side to pick in an agonistic contest; it’s about finding out what a body can do as it moves with other bodies in entangled states, whether or not we notice them. Affect theory offers more…[Read more]
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Laurence Hooper deposited Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: Working Group on Italian American/Canadian in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoItalian American and Italian Canadian Is Multi-Ethnic Too
Class, gender, migration, history, diaspora, ethnicity, politics, radicals, working class, cinema, foodways, literature, media, popular culture, cultural studies, theory, 250-word abstract. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville (calabret@uak.edu); Alan Gravano, Rocky…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo started the topic Calls for papers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 – deadline March 15, 2018
Please consider submitting an abstract for one of two sessions proposed by the Dante Society of America for the next Modern Language Association Convention, to be held in Chicago on Jan. 3-6, 2019.
The calls for papers are below. Abstracts and short bios are requested by March 15, 2018. Please
note that all…[Read more] -
Carol Chiodo started the topic Calls for papers in the discussion
Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 – deadline March 15, 2018
Please consider submitting an abstract for one of two sessions proposed by the Dante Society of America for the next Modern Language Association Convention, to be held in Chicago on Jan. 3-6, 2019.
The calls for papers are below. Abstracts and short bios are requested by March 15, 2018. Please
note that all…[Read more] -
Carol Chiodo started the topic Calls for papers in the discussion
Women in Italian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 – deadline March 15, 2018
Please consider submitting an abstract for one of two sessions proposed by the Dante Society of America for the next Modern Language Association Convention, to be held in Chicago on Jan. 3-6, 2019.
The calls for papers are below. Abstracts and short bios are requested by March 15, 2018. Please
note that all pre…[Read more] -
Carol Chiodo posted an update in the group
Women in Italian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoColumbia University’s Women Film Pioneers in Film project has a profile in English on Neapolitan writer, journalist and screenwriter Matilde Serao https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-matilde-serao/
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Carol Chiodo posted an update in the group
Women in Italian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWelcome! I am developing several units on women’s voices for the intermediate and advanced language classroom. Here is one on Alina Marazzi’s documentary “Vogliamo anche le rose” and the sexual revolution in Italy. Feel free to share, comment or add your ideas!…[Read more]
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