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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Redesigning Modernities Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of t…[Read more]
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Lauren Russell started the topic “Neurodivergent Poetics: Extending the Choreography” Roundtable Tonight, 7 PM in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello All,
Happy New Year! If you are attending the MLA conference this week, whether virtually or in person, please consider joining us tonight at 7 PM for Neurodivergent Poetics: Extending the Choreography, a virtual roundtable with Chris Martin, Joel Dias-Porter, Hannah Emerson, Estee Klar, Adam Wolfond, and Julia Miele Rodas, moderated…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited ‘Coming Out’ Teaching Guide in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoA teaching guide to accompany the East German film “Coming Out” (1989, directed by Heiner Carow).
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johnpendergast started the topic CfP NEMLA 2022: Enduring Influence: Classical Exemplars from the Medieval to the in the discussion
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe Classics have exerted a profound influence on world culture from the medieval period to the present day. Scores of literary works have drawn upon the intellectual and literary models of Classical authors as well as the rich trove of pagan legends and myths. This appropriation of classical and mythological themes and personalities allows…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIsraeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]
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Petra S. McGillen deposited More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei, MLA 2022 (Abstracts) in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the Two-Panel Series “More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022.
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Jessie M. Labov started the topic LLC Hungarian Forum CFP for abstracts: MLA 2022 (Washington DC, Jan 6-9) in the discussion
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoHungarian gastronomy and terroir as a source of national identity
300 word abstract (and bio) on the culinary traditions of the nation; the effects of immigration, transnationalism, tourism, globalization, capital on Hungarian gastronomy; emerging gastro-revolution and haute cuisine; Hungary’s place in the world of wine Deadline for s…[Read more] -
Carl Gelderloos deposited Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics in Weimar Germany—Helmuth Plessner in Translation (review essay) in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this short essay I discuss two new translations of Helmuth Plessner’s work, “Political Anthropology,” translated by Nils F. Schott (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and “Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology,” translated by Millay Hyatt (Fordham University Press, 2019).
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter’s Tale in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoShakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Introduction to Marx & Critical Theory | Spring 2020 in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThis is the syllabus for an introductory course on Marx and critical theory that I taught at Binghamton University in the spring semester, 2020. It revises and expands an earlier iteration of the course that I had taught in spring, 2018, also at Binghamton University.
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: D’Annunzio as World Literature (MLA Symposium) in the discussion
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoHi everyone,
From a colleague. If interested, please contact Elisa.Segnini@glasgow.ac.uk
We are organizing a project titled ‘D’Annunzio as World Literature’, which includes a panel at the MLA symposium in Glasgow (June 17-19 2021, https://symposium.mla.org/glasgow/being-hospitable/?utm_campaign=symposiumsubjuly20&utm_medium=email&utm_sour…[Read more]
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Petra McGillen started the topic CFP: Women & Language in the discussion
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Object-Oriented Disability: The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThough the verbal icon has a long and robust multisensory history extending beyond Milton, my goal here is to challenge ableist readings of Milton’s poetry by linking his poetic ekphrasis to the politics and aesthetics of disability.
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Virtual Space: Palestinians Negotiate a Lost Homeland in Film in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIn his seminal study, Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, Eyal Weizman argues how the Israeli occupation has forced a new imagined space to emerge, which is at once confining to the Palestinians and increases their sense of marginalization and loss. Changing the landscape through imposing architecture construction is a way to…[Read more]
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Stephen P. Knadler deleted the file: Introduction as Candidate for TC Disability Studies Executive Committee: Stephen Knadler, Spelman College from
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Stephen P. Knadler uploaded the file: Introduction as Candidate for TC Disability Studies Executive Committee: Stephen Knadler, Spelman College to
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoCandidate bio for MLA executive committee election.
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Disability 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
TC Disability 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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Melanie Jones started the topic CFP: Mad Scholars Anthology in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoRecently, there has been an avalanche of news articles about spikes in mental illness on campus. Seminal works like Margaret Price’s Mad at School (2011) have begun to expose the ableism inherent in the university and prompted more open discussion surrounding the politics of disclosure.
As interest in this crucial topic grows, we are seeking o…[Read more]
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