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Sharon O'Dair replied to the topic Your Friendly Neighborhood LLC Shax Forum Secretary: AMA (Ask Me Anything) in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoHi Sujata! A good idea to use the Commons, but I find–and have always found–the site frustrating to use. Why isn’t there just one way to log in, for instance? And just now I clicked on your posted set of abstracts for 2022 and was told by the site that I should try deleting cookies. Which I did. Returned to the site and received the same me…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair replied to the topic Your Friendly Neighborhood LLC Shax Forum Secretary: AMA (Ask Me Anything) in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoHi Sujata! A good idea to use the Commons, but I find–and have always found–the site frustrating to use. Why isn’t there just one way to log in, for instance? And just now I clicked on your posted set of abstracts for 2022 and was told by the site that I should try deleting cookies. Which I did. Returned to the site and received the same me…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic Your Friendly Neighborhood LLC Shax Forum Secretary: AMA (Ask Me Anything) in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoOpen thread for anyone curious about what it’s like being on the LLC Shax Forum Committee! If I don’t know the answer to your question, I know whom to ask to find out!
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic LLC Shakespeare is not cancelled 😉 in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoI am pleased to report that the MLA Executive has approved the renewal of the LLC Shakespeare Forum for another five years, following a successful review. (Ignore my clickbait subject header: this is a ROUTINE review that ALL groups must undergo regularly.)
I’m attaching the report so that the membership can see the suggestions made from the…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic LLC Shakespeare is not cancelled 😉 in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoI am pleased to report that the MLA Executive has approved the renewal of the LLC Shakespeare Forum for another five years, following a successful review. (Ignore my clickbait subject header: this is a ROUTINE review that ALL groups must undergo regularly.)
I’m attaching the report so that the membership can see the suggestions made from the…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited An Index to The Tuneful Yankee and Melody Magazine in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis volume collects the complete bibliographic information for the contents of The Tuneful Yankee and Melody Magazine (1917-1930), including sheet music and articles.
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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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Sujata Iyengar deposited Some Practices for Publishing the Precariat in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIn this paper, in a panel co-sponsored by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession and the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, I summarize some of the structural and practical problems that challenge contingent scholars when they try to publish their work in scholarly journals. I share the record of the online, multimedia,…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Some Practices for Publishing the Precariat in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIn this paper, in a panel co-sponsored by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession and the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, I summarize some of the structural and practical problems that challenge contingent scholars when they try to publish their work in scholarly journals. I share the record of the online, multimedia,…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘Maiden Blossoms’: Shakespeare and Climate Grief in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis reflective paper contextualizes my own climate grief in light of botanical and geological references to sorrow in Shakespeare’s plays and to habitat and climate change in the North Georgia Piedmont.
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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘Maiden Blossoms’: Shakespeare and Climate Grief in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis reflective paper contextualizes my own climate grief in light of botanical and geological references to sorrow in Shakespeare’s plays and to habitat and climate change in the North Georgia Piedmont.
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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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Sujata Iyengar created the doc Template Ack letter for MLA 2022 in the group
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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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