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Julia Elsky started the topic CFP – Romanian Forum panel on Eugene Ionesco in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThe Romanian Forum of the MLA invites proposals for presentations on its guaranteed panel at the 2021 Convention of the Modern Language Association (Toronto, January 7-10, 2021):
Eugène Ionesco’s Theater of Language
The year 2021 will mark the seventieth anniversary of the first performance of Eugène Ionesco’s classic work of the Theater of th…[Read more]
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Edward B. Kamens replied to the topic CFP for MLA2021: Text and/in/as Image and Vice-Versa in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoDear Glynne (if I may): Thank you for proposing such a capacious topic. I am sure you will receive many fine paper proposals. Having served on the MLA program committee for three years recently, I am aware of how few strong panel proposals that originate in or can accommodate papers from the pre-1900 part of the Japanese literary studies field…[Read more]
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Glynne Walley started the topic CFP for MLA2021: Text and/in/as Image and Vice-Versa in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoWe invite papers exploring relationships between text and image (broadly defined) in premodern Japan. Scholars from a variety of disciplines welcome. 250-word abstracts to Glynne Walley (glynne@uoregon.edu) by February 29, 2020.
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Ben Streeter deposited Reparation in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoW. G. Sebald and Patrick Modiano are two contemporary authors who share similar themes and literary practices. They are both fastidiously or even obsessively historical in their narrative development. And they seem preoccupied with the sins of World War II. Critics have divided feelings about their accomplishments. Skeptics say their trauma…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Candidates: Japanese since 1900 Executive Committee Election in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Japanese since 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations, including self nominations, for candidates and alternate candidates to stand for election on the committee. This year we need to fill two positions (term 2020-2025 and 2021-2026) so please consider self-nominating as a way to help promote East Asian presence in MLA. Please c…[Read more]
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Amanda L. French deposited Alcott’s “Rigmarole”: The Composition and Publication History of Little Women in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years ago_Little Women_ is a work composed piecemeal and narrated in more than one generic mode. Alcott’s complete financial dependence on what she could earn from her writing, her ambivalence toward conventional narratives for women, and, most importantly, her alternating submission to and rebellion against the demands (real and imagined) of her readers…[Read more]
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Caroline Winter deposited The Future is Meta: Five Revolutionary Ideas for Cataloguing and Metadata in Libraries and Archives in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoA job talk given as part of an interview for a faculty librarian position
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Joanne Bernardi deposited “Re-Envisioning Japan” DH project overview – MLA2020 Collaborative Round Table (DH in Japan & Korea Studies: Approaches and Challenges) in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 6 years agoPowerpoint presentation for the MLA2020 collaborative roundtable “Digital Humanities in Japan and Korea: Approaches and Challenges,” organized by the LLC Korean and LLC Japanese since 1900 Forums. This brief introduction to “Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture” was one of seven presentations by…[Read more]
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Naomi Fukumori started the topic Call for Candidates: Japan to 1900 Executive Committee Election in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Japan to 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations (self-nominations are welcome!) for alternate candidates to stand for election for the 2021-2026 term on the committee. Please contact Naomi Fukumori (fukumori.1@osu.edu) by January 24. The election will be held at the end of 2020, with results announced in December.
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Benjamin Mangrum started the topic MLA 2021 Panel for CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century forum in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century forum is sponsoring a panel on “Comparative Environmentalisms” at the MLA 2021 conference in Toronto. CFP is below:
Comparative Environmentalisms
This panel explores environmentalisms across linguistic, indigenous, and national frameworks. Challenges to the idea of “environmentalism” are welcome. Abstracts of 2…[Read more]
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [remarks] in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoSince the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]
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Naomi Fukumori started the topic MLA 2020: Open Business Meeting, Saturday, Jan. 11, 10:15-11 in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Japanese to 1900 forum will hold an open business meeting on Saturday, Jan. 11, 10:15-11, at the Greenwood, in the Sheraton. All members of the forum are cordially invited.
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [slides] in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoSince the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]
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Madeline Gangnes replied to the topic MLA 2020: Bibliopedagogy in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years agoIf it’s of interest to anyone, I livetweeted this excellent panel: https://twitter.com/maddohere/status/1215367439988350976
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Madeline Gangnes started the topic MLA 2020 Panel #265 "Databases and Print Culture Studies" Livetweet Thread in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years agoI was asked by the moderator of this morning’s MLA session #265 “Databases and Print Culture Studies” panel, so here is the link: https://twitter.com/maddohere/status/1215697238107750404. (Official panel info found here: https://www.sharpweb.org/main/mla-2020-sharp-session-databases-and-print-culture-studies/) I hope it will be of some use to the…[Read more]
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Cynthia Chase started the topic Voice: Remediated Embodiments, #414, arranged by MS,Opera&Musical Performance in the discussion
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years ago“‘Allo, c’est toi?’: Questioning the Telephone in La Voix Humaine” — by Jeremy Glazier
“The Diva as Hologram: opera, liveness, and audiovisual remediation” — by Joao Pedro Cachopo, U. of Lisbon
“The Pitch of the Voice: Beckett and Feldman’s Antiopera Neither” by Sydney Boyd
Followed by discussion — Come to Willow A, Sheraton, at 5:15…[Read more]
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Otherbreath: Bare Life and the Limits of Self in Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’ in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoFor the “Extreme Texts” special issue of Jacket2, edited by Divya Victor (2019)
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2020: Bibliopedagogy in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease consider attending our forum’s session on “Bibliopedagogy” at MLA in Seattle on Thursday, 9 January in WSCC – 401. Our panel features three presentations:
“Student-Scribe: A Hands-On Approach to Codicology and Book History” — Sarah J. Sprouse and Sarah Banschbach Valles
“Rewriting the Canon: Cultivating Student Creativity in the…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” This epigraph comes from the 1850 translation of The Communist Manifesto by Helen Macfarlane, and this special feature in The New Americanist assumes that a similarly frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre fiction, too. Fantasy as a genre is haunted…[Read more]
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