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Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPlease join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023! Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.
Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic CFP: COUNTERDISCOURSES OF FAMILY: UNDOING (THE) TIES in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn this thematic issue of Journal 2i we explore the images and the discourses of the family that circulate in literature and cultural production. The articles in this volume, therefore, will offer a broad vision of non-normative families, past or present. Some of the topics to be explored in this issue include:
- Representations of chosen…
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real” in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoZunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]
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William Viestenz started the topic CFP: 19th North American Catalan Society Colloquium in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
The 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society will be held April 18-20, 2024, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Please see the attached CFP for more information on how to submit an abstract or panel proposal.
All best,
Bill Viestenz
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]
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Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North and South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]
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Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North & South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anticolonial Digital Humanities in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Una nota maragalliana de Guillem Viladot in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAnalysis of he influence of Joan Maragall in the writing of Guillem Viladot
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Ellen Cressman Frye started the topic Welcome to Antarctic Studies!!! in the discussion
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoWith a lifetime of passion for studying other cultures, followed by a Ph.D. in Spanish and now nearly a decade of research, conference papers, and publications about Antarctica, I am most excited to bring Antarctica to North Amercia, via the Modern Language Association.
The Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences of Antarctica have always been…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 2024 CLCS-18th Century Panels — Deadline Extended in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMarch 20, 2023 is the deadline to apply to the CLCS-18th Century Forum’s panels at next year’s MLA in Philadelphia.
I. Comparative Media Histories
Recent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen…[Read more]
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Raquel Patricia Chiquillo started the topic CFP: for Journal Humanities – on Twenty-First Century Central American Novel in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoBuenas tardes, colegas: quisiera invitarlos a subir sus artículos sobre la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI para consideración de ser publicadas en la revista académica “Humanities.” La fecha de entrega es el 31 de marzo pero se puede extender. Me han dicho que el APC no se va a cobrar. Se aceptan manuscritos en español y en inglés. Por favo…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] -
Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoIt has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoRecent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen an interest in non-print media, queer and trans book history, speculative archives, and critical making, among other approaches. This panel seeks con…[Read more]
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