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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.
Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8
Thanks,
Elena Machado Sáez
Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
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Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: MLA 2022 (6-9 January, Washington, D.C.)
Romanian Forum’s Guaranteed Panel
Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema
2021 marks two decades since the symbolic launch of Romanian New Wave cinema, a movement that has received important recognition at international film festivals. The Romanian Forum of th…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoCall for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited “The Dark Mirror of Our Lives”: Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices, and Auto/biography in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years agoFirst presented as a paper at the 2018 SAMLA Convention in Atlanta, this article will become a chapter of my book in progress on the photobooks of the 1930s and 1940s illustrated with the photographs of the Farm Security Administration.
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Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Attached please find a call for nominations for the fourth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2019 and 2020 are due March 15, 2021. For more information about the nomination…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 – Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C Approaches to the Material Text in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years agoSyllabus for spring 2021 graduate seminar, “Approaches to the Material Text.” Readings survey in history of the book and related fields. Includes prose introductions synthesizing each week’s readings.
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoRitual and Representation in East Asian Literature We are inviting proposals for papers featuring ritual as a theme or structuring device in East Asian (including diasporic) literature in relation to belief, kinship, and/or community. This will be a collaborative session between the TC Anthropology and Literature and TC Religion and Literature…[Read more]
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Sarah Thomas started the topic MLA 2022 Forum Panels in 20th/21st Century Spanish & Iberian: Circulate & Apply! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoGender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
What radical acts of visibility and resistance are being mobilized by the work of Afro-descendants in Spain? What genres, visual and verbal imagery are used to subvert gender and racial categories to redefine Spain today?Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Benita Sampedro…[Read more]
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Sarah Thomas started the topic MLA 2022 Forum Panels in 20th/21st Century Spanish & Iberian: Circulate & Apply! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoGender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
What radical acts of visibility and resistance are being mobilized by the work of Afro-descendants in Spain? What genres, visual and verbal imagery are used to subvert gender and racial categories to redefine Spain today?Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Benita Sampedro…[Read more]
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Mary Kate Donovan started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: The Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone
Multilingualism within the Global Hispanophone signals the past colonial routes and present migratory flows that complicate the social cohesion national literatures purport to consolidate. Issues of translation, therefore, are steeped in both national and regional tensions,…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry started the topic The Black Mediterranean / CFP / MLA 2022 Guaranteed Session in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers
MLA Annual Convention
6–9 January 2022
Washington DC
Guaranteed Forum Session
Sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean
The Black Mediterranean
Michelle Murray (Vanderbilt University), presiding
The subordinations of racial disparity, conflict, and death are persistent traits of the Mediterranean and its d…[Read more]
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Jason Boyd deposited Narrative in a Digital Age (Winter 2021) in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years agoSyllabus for the English ENG921 course, “Narrative in a Digital Age” for the Winter 2021 semester, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
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Lisa Nalbone started the topic 1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 5 years agoYou are cordially invited to attend the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies“, January 28 (7:00pm) to January 30 (5:00pm), hosted by the University of Tampa, themed “Envisaging José Martí in 2021: History, Culture and Education“. Program and registration appear: 1st Biannual Conference Registration | University of Tampa (ut.edu)
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2021 conference in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats. The Society is keen to welcome new participants and encourage…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic CfP MLA2022 Translingual Iberia: Peripheries and Mobilities in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease send 250 word abstracts for a proposed panel at MLA2022 on trans- and multilingualism in cultural production of the Iberian Peninsula. Studies of works by migrant cultural producers and/or in non-state languages particularly encouraged.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 15, 2021 to Catherine Barbour, University of Surrey…[Read more]
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