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Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited Building Humanities Data Sets for Research in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited Big Data Discrimination in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited Data within & without in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoMarie Darrieussecq’s Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel’s “bad” language is a foil for Darrieussecq’s larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through…[Read more]
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Peter M. Logan deposited Let's Get Real: The Victorian Novel in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoSyllabus for an advanced graduate course on realism and the Victorian novel taught at Temple University in Fall 2015.
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Revisiting E. E. Cummings' Paintings at Brockport in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe article focuses on the restoration of the collections of paintings and drawings of E. E. Cummings in Brockport, New York. It is inferred that the Hildegarde Lasell Watson Collection has sustained a mass of damage over the last 25 years, and that efforts for its conservation have consistently been delayed. It discusses the contents and the…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited The Presence of Digital Process in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited Data Envy in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited Data Envy in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: What Is Critical Bibliography? in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoWe are excited to announce our first panel for MLA 2017 in Philadephia and provide the abstracts. Be sure to add this session to your convention schedule!
Chair: Ryan Cordell
Respondent: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (University of Virginia and Director, Rare Book School)
Barbara Heritage (University of Virginia), “Literature as Artifact: Critical…[Read more] -
Daniela Goldfine started the topic CFP Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCall for Proposals
Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production
The editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexu…[Read more] -
Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the NovelSpecial Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West”
Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more] -
Paul Fyfe deposited Interpretive Machines in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis syllabus describes an interdisciplinary course for first-year students in the NC State University Honors program in Fall 2015. “Interpretive Machines” offers a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit our cultural inheritance and ideas. The course also…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Reading Literature in the Digital Age in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis syllabus describes a first-year interdisciplinary honors course undertaken in fall 2014 at NC State University. It welcomes students into a hands-on environment for thinking about and practicing with new and old platforms for reading, interpretation, and understanding. It attempts to bridge book history and digital humanities into an…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe started the topic CFP for Special Session, "Archival Boundaries" in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPosting this on behalf of colleagues – a special session called “Archival Boundaries” that will have the format of a roundtable discussion. Please consult the CFP: https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_9146. Abstracts due by Friday, March 18.
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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP for MLA: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:
Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern
Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic MLA Sessions through Italian American LLC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago<h2 class=”title”>The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of rac…[Read more] -
Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses Crowne Plaza
Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 15 March 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]
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