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Amanda Caleb started the topic TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum election in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
My name is Amanda Caleb, and I am Professor of Medical Humanities at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, having previously served as founding director and Professor of Medical and Health Humanities and Professor of English at Misericordia University. Although formally trained in Victorian studies and at the intersections…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Bassam Sidiki started the topic TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election 2021 in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGreetings!
My name is Bassam Sidiki and I am a PhD Candidate in English and Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan. I also hold an MA in Medical Humanities and Bioethics from Northwestern University. I work at the intersections of health humanities, postcolonial studies, and disability studies. My dissertati0n/first book, “Parasitic…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited “The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac” in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoBuilding on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).
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Erin Lamb started the topic Health Humanities Syllabus Repository Now Available in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoGreetings Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum!
The Health Humanities Consortium, in collaboration with the Medical Futures Lab at Rice University, is pleased to introduce the Health Humanities Syllabus Repository, a new curricular resource for medical/health humanities educators working in academic, professional, and public settings.
The…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited #Alt-Academy: Alternative Careers for Academic Scholars in the group
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis e-book is the first volume of the online publication #Alt-Academy. Edited by Bethany Nowviskie, this volume contains all 24 essays published by the 32 authors who contributed to #Alt-Academy’s initial collection. The following text, also by Nowviskie, is from the 2011 website launch:
#Alt-Academy was created by and for people with deep…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Interiority and Expression in Dickinson’s Lyrics in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe argument in this essay is that Dickinson’s poetics of inner life makes us see anew the long-standing philosophical problem of expression. Dickinson’s poetry invests itself in an understanding of subjectivity that rearranges the anchors we often turn to in thinking about how lives and identities take on shape in expressive forms. Poetry for…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: Season 1 now complete! in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoNovel Dialogue, a podcast sponsored by the Society of Novel Studies, has just completed its first season. We bring critics and novelists together for fun and sophisticated conversations about novels – how they are made and what to make of them.
For a full list of episodes, please check out https://noveldialogue.org/
Or subscribe at Apple…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Bringing Superheroes into the Fight against COVID-19 Misinformation in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies 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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Ed Finn started the topic Announcing Everything Change, Vol. III in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’m writing to share that today, in honor of Earth Day, Arizona State University’s Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative has published a new book: Everything Change, Volume III, an anthology of short fiction collecting the winners of our global contest in 2020. The anthology is free to download in a variety of digital forma…[Read more]
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Kim Adams started the topic "Eugenics and the Body" MLA 2022 CFP in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoI’m writing to share a CFP for a special session at MLA 2022, that may be of interest to scholars in of literature and science. Please note that the abstract deadline is this Friday, March 26th.
“Eugenics and the Body” MLA 2022
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Kim Adams started the topic "Eugenics and the Body" MLA 2022 CFP in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoI’m writing to share a CFP for a special session at MLA 2022 in Washington, DC, that may be of interest to scholars in health humanities. Please note that the abstract deadline is this Friday, March 26th.
“Eugenics and the Body” MLA 2022
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Resistance Literature and Occupied Palestine in Cold War Beirut in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFREE ACCESS: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0377919X.2020.1855933
For the last decade of his life, the Palestinian intellectual, author, and editor Ghassan Kanafani (d. 1972) was deeply immersed in theorizing, lecturing, and publishing on Palestinian resistance literature from Beirut. A refugee of the 1948 war, Kanafani presented…[Read more] - Load More
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