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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Dramatic Monologue Panel & Trends in Literature for Children Panel for AWP 2015 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Friends,
I’m organizing two panels for the AWP Conference in Minneapolis in 2015 (April 8-11, 2015): 1) The Dramatic Monologue in Current Poetry and 2) Recent Trends in Literature for Children. The application deadline is May 1, 2014. Are you willing to be on these panels? If so, please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you for your c…[Read more]
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Michelle B. Slater started the topic Mayapple Center is offering a summer course taught by Deak Nabors in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDeak Nabors, “The Aesthetic Tradition of Perpetual War”
August 11-15th at the Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities, Stamford, CT ($1200.00 includes tuition ($800) and room & board ($400.00) Apply now at mayapplecenter.slideroom.com
Commentators have longed noted that the United States has remained more or less persistently at war since…[Read more]
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Joseph Paul Fisher started the topic CFP: Music behind Bars: Articulating Incarceration and Popular Music in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPopular music’s relationship with incarceration has been a long and complicated one. The musician Lead Belly spent long stretches in prison for murder and other crimes but was eventually turned into a musical legend by folklorists John and Alan Lomax. In 1957, Elvis Presley had a number one hit with the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition “…[Read more]
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Ted Atkinson started the topic CFP: SLDG @ MLA 2015 in the forum
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015 in Vancouver, January 8-11
Region and its (Dis)Contents
Participants sought for a roundtable assessing the meaning, value, and/or limitations of region as a framework for U.S. literary and cultural studies. What is “region”? How have notions of region been deployed in literary or other histories? How have the meanings of region or…[Read more]
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George Louis Scheper replied to the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoSplendidn — for Litrerature and the Other arts, here is another NEH summer Institute fellowship opportunity
NEH Fellowship Opportunity
<b>Pictorial Histories and Myth-Histories: “Graphic Novels” of the Mixtecs and Aztecs</b>
<p align=”center”> A Summer Institute in Oaxaca, Cholula, and Mexico City. June 29 – July 26, 2014</p>
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Transnational Adoption in Film in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its guaranteed session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015
The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic CFP MLA 2015: "Arthur Miller: Reflections on the American Dream" in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago2015 is the centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth. As part of the celebration of this event, the Arthur Miller Society is organizing a session at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver on a central theme in Miller’s literary work and his career as a public intellectual: the elusiveness of the American Dream, the Dream’s foundations in what often are…[Read more]
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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies Association (Nov. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA) in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference. We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions. The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 6-9, 2014. Hosted by D…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic Deadline Extended CFP: Pauline Hopkins in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more] -
Benjamin Mangrum started the topic 75th Anniversary of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear colleagues,
Several faculty and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently launched Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics (http://ethosreview.org). This digital project, which is supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, features weekly essays abou…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic CFPs: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<b>Call for Papers</b>
<b>American Literature Association</b>
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill
<b>Sessions Sponsored By</b>
<b>The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society</b>
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<b>Panel 1: Pauline Hopkins and </b><b>Washington</b><b> </b><b>D.C.</b>
As a writer with a keen interest in national…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI would like to invite anyone interested in theater, psychological or philosophical issues in literature, narratology, or cognitive approaches to literary analysis to consider attending the following MLA special-session round-table discussion sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society. We plan to allow at least 25 minutes of this 75-minute session for…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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Ana Simon uploaded the file: Pre-Civil War (1936) Images of Iberian Masculinity(ies). Nemla 2014 to
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoThis panel will discuss different types of male hegemonic discourses which circulated in Spain until 1936. Panelists will analyze types of masculinities that did not adhere to archetypical hegemonic models, but that shared the same spheres of influence, and had similar visual and textual expression. Topics to be discussed include, but are not…[Read more]
Open access, open source, open to all
Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]