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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to discuss what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. With the aim of inspiring the larger community to contemplate how we might reshape our thinking as we grow a…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to discuss what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. Below, we capture concisely each of the “rules” —guidelines, thinking points, and suggested practic…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to think about what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. Below, we capture concisely each of the “rules” —guidelines, thinking points, and suggested practic…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Middle English Forum sessions in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoHere are the CFPs for the Middle English Forum’s two sessions, along with a third that’s a collaborative session with the Chaucer Forum.
Adapting Middle English Literature
Organizers: Susan Nakley and Ruen-chuan Ma
This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng started the topic CFP MLA LLC 16c English: “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” at the MLA 2024 conference in Philadelphia (4-7 Jan. 2024). We welcome submissions and inquiries from scholars at all career stages.
Call for Papers: How might we study disability aesthetics alo…[Read more]
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John Garrison started the topic CFP for MLA 2024: Renaissance Eating: Routes, Representations Re-Creations in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoGuaranteed session for CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern!
Papers of no more than 10 minutes for a roundtable on new insights into the cultures of early modern eating and food. How did the circulation of food carry with it encounters with new ideas and new people? How did changing culinary practices and tastes both reflect and influence cultural…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited From War Crimes to ‘Truce Thinking’ in Shakespeare’s Henry V in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years agoShakespeare’s Henry V (1600) concludes with a treaty between England and France, enabled through the marriage of King Henry and Princess Katherine, the compromises of France and Burgundy, Queen Isabella’s advocacy and even Henry’s own willingness to let his delegates speak on his behalf. Although the final scene dramatizes the historical treat…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘It was the best butter’: Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years agoSeries of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘It was the best butter’: Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years agoSeries of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Local Habitations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shakespeare Bulletin 40.3 (Fall 2022): pp. 417-437. in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe metatheatricality of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has invited recent directors to tell particular kinds of socially progressive stories. This article uses the notion of “social reparation” to theorize remedial uses of Shakespeare in adaptations that give artists and audiences more moral agency. By imagining more inclusive local habitations and s…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic MLA 2023 Middle English Forum Convention Sessions and Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDear Middle English Forum members,
Below is the information for the three sessions that our forum is sponsoring or cosponsoring, with links to session abstracts.
We are also seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Middle English Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Shakespeare as a Digital Nomad: An Afterword,” Digital Shakespeares from the Global South, ed. Amrita Sen (New York: Palgrave, 2022), pp. 93-104. in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe rise of global Shakespeare as an industry and cultural practice—the incorporation of Shakespearean performance in cultural diplomacy and in the cultural marketplace—is aided by digital tools of dissemination and digital forms of artistic expression. Shakespeare has evolved from a cultural nomad in the past centuries—a body of works with no pe…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Interfacing Shakespeare Onscreen,” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface (2023), ed. Clifford Werier and Paul Budra, pp. 332-344 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe screen as an interface immerses audiences in an alternate universe. As a result, that interface seems transparent. Through analyses of performances that call attention to filmic genres, such as Edgar Wright’s parody film, Hot Fuzz (2007), and the Wooster Group’s multimedia production, Hamlet (2007), as well as (meta)theatrical operations on…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoWhat follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe Research Society for Victorian Periodicals should work to protect multiple runs of actual Victorian periodicals, which are potentially at risk in “collective collections” organized by academic libraries.
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