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Liam Corley started the topic Religion in the Contact Zones (MLA 2017 Guaranteed Session) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWhat is created where religions meet? Explore borderlands (geographical, linguistic, identitarian), interplays syncretic to agonistic, medieval to modern, animistic to orthodox. CV and 300-word abstract by 15 March 2016; Adrienne Williams Boyarin (aboyarin@uvic.ca).
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin started the topic Creative Mysticism CFP in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI draw your attention to this MLA 2017 special session CFP, which may be of interest to some:
Creative Mysticism
Practices of mystical writing and reading in any language, genre, or tradition. Possible topics: comparisons, commentarial traditions, modern re-creations of earlier works, other forms of art. 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March…[Read more] -
Brooke Carlson deposited Expository Writing in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“The short story is better suited to the demands of modern life than the novel.” Simon Prosser, Publishing Director, Hamish Hamilton
Expository Writing is crafted to help students learn to write and think critically. In an effort to hone our critical minds and strengthen our writing, we will focus on the learned skills of summarizing, par…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Volume on Teaching Karen Tei Yamashita: Survey and CFP in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) and help shape a new volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017 Division Forum. You are encouraged to submit to…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o Forum CFP's in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.
1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of wr…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla started the topic CFPs: MLA 2017 Chicana/o Lit Forum in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“Liberty Crack’d”
What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).
2. “La Raza y Gaza”
Papers engaging the political resonances of Palesti…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic “Writing? Authoring? Scribbling: Fuller, Hawthorne, and Their Contemporaries” in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWe welcome proposals on biographical/contextual relations; representations of women; intertextuality; trans-Atlantic/trans-American treatments; race, gender, class, and sexuality, etc.
Please send 250-word abstracts to Ivonne Garcia (garciai@kenyon.edu) and Charlene Avallone (avallone000@gmail.com) by March 15, 2016.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Space to Discuss CORE Deposits in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSome members of this group have sent insightful comments about CORE deposits shared with the TC Literary Criticism forum (see the left hand menu on this page) to the MLA Commons e-mail address. Please use this space to respond or discuss items uploaded to CORE so that everyone—including the author—can benefit from your insight.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin started the topic Religion & Literature Syllabus Prize (15 Mar 2016) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThis will be of interest to many:
ANNOUNCEMENT: DEADLINE EXTENDED
The journal Religion and Literature is soliciting submissions for its second annual syllabus prize. Syllabi should address both religion and literature in a substantial manner, and should encourage reflection on the many possible relations between them.
To submit a syllabus for…[Read more]
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Is there Tunisian literature? Emergent writing and fractal proliferation of minor voices in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years agoIs There Tunisian Literature? Emergent Writing and Fractal Proliferation of Minor Voices.
The article presents the Tunisian literature from the non-local perspective of the global literary market and the circulation of translated literature. The minor status of the studied phenomenon becomes obvious even when the Tunisian literature is compared…[Read more] -
Nancy Caronia started the topic CFPs: MLA 2017 Italian American Lit Forum in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoSee below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
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 co…[Read more]
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Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Ecologies of Hawthorne MLA 2017 CFP in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoOrganization: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Title of session: Ecologies of Hawthorne
Submission requirements: Send 250-word abstracts.
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2016
Description: Consider representations of space and place, land and landscape, the “natural” and “unnatural,” environmental “transgressions,” “dev…[Read more] -
Zahi A. Zalloua started the topic CFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist
We welcome contributions that examine the notion of catastrophe in comparative studies and literary theory. Thinking catastrophe today raises multiple questions. What constitutes a catastrophe? How do we bear witness to a catastrophe? What historical catastrophes serve an exemplary or paradigmatic…[Read more] -
Lisa Zunshine deposited "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis primer in “cognitive cultural studies” explores the cultural fantasy of perfect access to mind through body. It shows that different genres and media—movies, novels, classic Chinese operas, medieval ribald tales, musicals, paintings, documentaries, stand-up comedy, and photography—have different strategies for making us think that we have ju…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Re-visioning Romantic-Era Gothicism: An Introduction to Key Works and Themes in the Study of H.P. Lovecraft in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoHoward Phillips Lovecraft was an author, letter writer and poet who lived between 1890 and 1937. His works blend science fiction with Gothic themes. Lovecraft was, by the majority of accounts (including his own), a bad writer. He was also an outspoken racist for the majority of his life to a degree which makes much of his work, to a modern reader,…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis paper offers a synthesis and critique of the existing academic literature on Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese and an overview of Asian American alternative comics. It examines the range of literary and linguistic sources which Yang draws upon in his collage of Chinoiserie and Japonism. It presents the argument that existing criticism h…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited 'We have experienced a tragedy which words cannot properly describe’: Representations of Trauma in Post-9⁄11 Superhero Comics in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis paper explores the manifestation of trauma in superhero comics following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11. These texts are considered from the perspectives of clinical psychology and Silverman’s concept of historical trauma. The paper first examines the genre as a whole, followed by an exploration of elements c…[Read more]
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