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Jervette Ward started the topic 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe attached documents provide a list with links to the 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels.
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Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Sessions! in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoIf you’re at MLA, I hope to see you at the TC Adaptation Studies Forum-sponsored panels later this week!
(Apologies for the strange formatting below!)–Julie Grossman (current chair, TC Adaptation Studies MLA Forum Executive Board)
- Streaming Adaptation: How Stories Adapt, How We Adapt on 7 January 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Presider: Julie…[Read more]
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Shiao-ling Yu deposited From Religious Rituals to Popular Theatre: Evolution of the Mulian Legend in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoAbstract
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Shiao-ling Yu deposited Tradition and Modernity: Two Modern Adaptations of the Chinese Opera Hezhu’s Match in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoAbstract
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Shiao-ling Yu deposited The Orphan of Zhao: Chinese Revenge Drama and European Adaptations in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoAbstract of the article uploaded.
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic André Tournon, “Rire pour comprendre…” now available from Classiques Garnier in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoPlease see the attached prospectus from Garnier Frères (forwarded to our Forum by Ned Duval)
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIntroduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza” in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoOften described as an open-air prison, the citizens of the Gaza Strip have long resisted a subaltern existence. Conditions in Gaza, and specifically since the Second Intifada of 2000, have increasingly worsened. With the advent of Hamas in 2006-2007, a complete blockade was imposed on the Strip. A deafening silence by the world has resulted in…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point ’68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to “Works & Days” in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]
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Kathleen M. Lubey started the topic LLC Restoration and Early 18th C Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello colleagues! I’m happy to be nominated to the executive commitee for the LLC Early Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century forum, and I hope you’ll consider a vote in my direction. I’ve posted a short bio and CV on my Humanities Commons page –have a glance if you’d like to know more about me and my work. Thanks, and here’s wishing you all…[Read more]
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Rich Willis deposited “Three instances of “it” made “more agreeable” in “As You Like It” breathed abroad are: in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago“As You Like It” breathed abroad is as in an understanding of compare to the treatment of Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander” in the name of Sir Thomas Walsingham and his wife Lady Audrey.
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman replied to the topic MLA Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCongrats on your nomination, Katherine! I am so happy to learn about your interesting work, and very much look forward to meeting (in whatever form) before too long! All best wishes, Julie Grossman
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Katherine Gillen replied to the topic MLA Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHi everyone! I’m also candidate for the Adaptation Forum’s executive committee, so I wanted to introduce myself. I’m honored to have been nominated alongside Joyce, whose work I greatly admire!
I teach Shakespeare, early modern lit, and drama at Texas A&M University–San Antonio, and I emphasize adaptation/appropriation throughout these cour…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman replied to the topic MLA Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoExcited about your nomination, Joyce–and thank you for your interest in expanding adaptation studies within the MLA! All best wishes, Julie Grossman
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Thomas Leitch posted an update in the group
Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoWelcome, Joyce! It’s great to have you aboard. Even though 2020 seems likely to add Most Unlikely Year for Adaptation Studies to Expand to its many other distinctions, I hope that the new energy and focus you bring to the area will make us all stronger. I look forward to meeting you wherever and whenever the fates allow.
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