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A. David Lewis deposited 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference Call for Papers (CFP) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference
Call for Papers
MARCH 26-28, 2020
[Deadline: January 10, 2020]Graphic Medicine is a genre, a field, a tool, a community, and a cause. It is large enough to accommodate all health and medical experiences, from that of the doctor to that of the patient – from that of a microbe to that of a p…[Read more]
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Tanja Stampfl started the topic Tenure Track Position in Global Anglophone Literature and Composition in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Department of English at the University of the Incarnate Word seeks applications for an Assistant Professor position in Composition and Global Anglophone Literature with an emphasis on social justice issues (tenure-track, 4-4 teaching load) beginning August 2020. Ph.D. is required prior to the appointment start date. The successful candidate…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone, I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Minni Sawhney deposited Ambivalent Fundamentalists and Reluctant Detectives: Living on the Edge in the Global South in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis article discusses the confluence of the war on drugs and the war on terror with an analysis of the novels of Elmer Mendoza, (Balas de plata, Prueba de ácido, Nombre de perro, Besar al detective) Don Winslow (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel) and Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist)
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited “Poor Black Squares”: Afterimages of the Floppy Disk in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoChapter 21 of The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence, ed. Mark J.P. Wolf (New York and London: Routledge, 2019): 296-310.
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic University of Florida – Spanish Graduate Program in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
The Spanish graduate program at the University of Florida is accepting applications for the MA and PhD degrees in either Spanish Literatures and Cultures or Hispanic Linguistics. Please circulate the attached brochure among any interested parties.
Inquiries can be addressed to: grad-coord@spanish.ufl.edu
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited But Does Pikachu Love You? Reproductive Labor in Casual and Hardcore Games in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoSince the first Pokémon game launched in Japan in 1996, the series has been a balancing act between casual and hardcore gaming. While the first iteration and “core” series has emphasized a modified, accessible version of traditional JRPG mechanics, other titles have frequently emphasized so-called casual play; most recently, Pokémon Go lured in a…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited Major Author: Margaret Atwood in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis undergraduate seminar on author Margaret Atwood fulfills the Major Author course at Stevenson University. Students will read A Trio of Tall Tales and The Year of the Flood, as well as both read and watch The Handmaid’s Tale. The course assignments include live-tweeting, creating a webtext, and an intertextual analysis essay.
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Syllabus) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Study Guide) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited The Afrofuturist Historical Novel in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe recent surge of interest in Afrofuturism has resulted in some groundbreaking work looking at the ways technology and race intersect in film, fashion, music and literature, as is evidenced by the important collection of essays “Afrofuturism 2.0” (2016), edited by Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones. However there has not yet been an aca…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited Excentric Affects in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Nadie me verá llorar in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this article I try to show how the Mexican Revolution was not only national in nature but also helped ordinary individuals break down barriers in their personal lives. The protagonist of Nadie me verá llorar was considered a madwoman in Porfirian society and with the Revolution she comes into her own and finds a space in post revolutionary Mexico D.F.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Stories on the Margins of History : Spanish Immigrants and the Mexican Revolution in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe lives of Spanish immigrants during the Mexican Revolution, their participation therein.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Mexican U.S. Border Literature and the Narco Novel in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAnalysis of Border literature, Narco novels in the U.S. and Mexico
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Minni Sawhney deposited La ciudad como protagonista: México D.F. y la literatura mexicana in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoEl retrato de la Ciudad de México en la literatura.
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