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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor, Queer and Sexuality Studies, UW-Milwaukee in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoWomen’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in Queer and Sexuality Studies for 2022-2023. Must be able to teach Queer Theory and Feminist Theory courses. Apply by April 10, 2022 to ensure consideration. https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/33994
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies (UVA) in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Please help us share the news with early career scholars in your networks. Maltyox chawe’/Thank you very much! — Allison. You can find the original job ad here: https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Tenure-track-Assistant-Professor—Native-American-and-Indigenous-Studies_R0030413. I’ve also pasted i…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to ask for your help in spreading the word about a search for an Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas, to be a joint appointment in the Carter G. Woodson Department of African American and African Studies and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University…[Read more]
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Leigh Gilmore started the topic Job Opportunity in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoPosition No. 00005756. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInvited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoReview of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg started the topic CFP: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies” in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies”
Sept 30 — Oct 1, 2022
Elmira, NY
The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College is hosting its annual Quarry Farm Symposium during the Fall 2022 semester, from September 30th to October 1st, organized around the theme of Abolition Studies. This year’s Keynote Address will…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Making Queer Comics in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figu…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers (please share)
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers (please share)
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Comics and ImageText in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoGraduate seminar syllabus: In this seminar, we will explore the contemporary comic, considering literary and cultural works across a range of platforms and markets. Comics are still frequently (and historically) associated with popular culture, and linked to children’s literature and mass media, even as they loom large through big and small screen…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago*Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]
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