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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Monica Lopez Lerma started the topic MLA 2023, CFP: LLC 20th- and 21st-century Spanish and Iberian in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoLaw’s Violence in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions or case-studies examining the relationship between law and violence, implicit or explicit, from a cultural studies approach. Please submit 250-word abstract and short bio to Mónica López Lerma (monlopez@reed.edu) by March 15, 2022.
Medical Humanities in Contemporar…[Read more]
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Paloma Duong started the topic Forum Sessions Call for papers for MLA 2023 (abstracts due 3/11) in the discussion
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years agoArchipelagic Feminisms: Cuban and Cuban-Diasporic Feminist Practices
Intersectional feminism in discourses, practices, and modes of representation in, and feminist approaches to, Cuban and Cuban diasporic culture from any period, including transnational/transregional perspectives. Send 250-word abstracts by 3/11.
Cuba Disassembled: New…[Read more]
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Paloma Duong started the topic Seeking self-nominations for Forum Executive Committee and Assembly Delegate in the discussion
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years agoDear colleagues, the Cuban and Cuban Diasporic Forum is seeking self-nominations from our members. If you are interested in getting more involved, please write to any of the members of the executive committee (group admins) or directly to Paloma Duong (pduong@mit.edu) before January 21, 2022. There are two ways to participate:
- Would you like to…
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic MLA Round Table on Unamuno – Moved Online in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years agoDear colleagues,
In order to keep convention panelists and attendees safe, the round table “Miguel de Unamuno’s Resurgence in Contemporary Spanish Culture” (MLA session 652V) has been moved online. I hope you can join us virtually on Sunday, January 9, at 10:15 am EST.
Kind regards,
Luis Álvarez-Castro
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.
We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited La vanguardia en la arquitectura española (1920-1936): ¿proyecto inacabado o proyecto indefinido? in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years agoEste ensayo entra en el debate en España sobre el alcance que tuvo, entre 1920 y 1239, una posible “vanguardia arquitectónica”. Identificando “vanguardia” con “modernidad” y confundiendo lo que pudo ser un debate teórico con “signos” de los nuevos tiempos, la mayoría de lo que ya se ha escrito sobre el tema queda patente como fueron muchos temp…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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William Nichols deposited Telling the story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of convergence and the defense of the Humanities in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWhile many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm. Specifically, the…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Miller started the topic Call for Papers: 2022 Monographic Issue of Anales Galdosianos in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract for consideration for Anales Galdosianos‘ 2022 Monographic Issue:
Pardo Bazán y Pérez Galdós: consonancias y convergencias con ocasión de dos centenarios.
ANALES GALDOSIANOS 57 (2022)
Número monográfico: Pardo Bazán y Pérez Galdós: consonancias y convergencias con ocasión de dos centenari…[Read more]
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Leigh Gilmore started the topic Job Opportunity in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoPosition No. 00005756. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInvited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoBuilding on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume examines Spanish cinema through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age. Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film brings together the scholarship of an…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)? in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHow does one understand a filmmaker like José Antonio Nieves Conde, a Falangist whose films with strong neorealist tendencies were radically altered by the Francoist censors for being too critical of the economic injustices inherent to daily urban life after the Spanish Civil War? Many film critics have asked this question and this essay looks…[Read more]
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Lisa Nalbone started the topic La Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas: 1ra Feria del Libro in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoNos place anunciar la primera Feria del Libro de la Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas, el viernes, 5 de noviembre
3-4:15 pm Eastern Time (USA) / 20-21:15 h peninsular / 19-20:15 h Canarias. Para inscribirse, visite: https://tinyurl.com/kpv6apps -
Susan Larson deposited Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoReview of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Nature, the Monumental and Urban Technological Networks in Víctor Moreno’s Edificio España (2012) and La ciudad oculta (2018) / Naturaleza, lo monumental y las redes tecnológicas urbanas en Edificio España (2012) y La ciudad oculta (2018) de Víctor Moreno in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoIf we affirmatively answer Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw’s invitation to think beyond the ‘fetishization of the modern city’ as the pinnacle of human-centered progress and achievement in order to consider the urban as both a process of transformed nature and the metabolic and social transformation of nature through human labor, the city becom…[Read more]
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