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Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP “Insecurity and Dissent in Middle Eastern Cinema”
What are the aesthetics that Middle Eastern filmmakers have deployed to express dissent and challenge the security of the regimes under which they live? What forms do such films employ to represent the insecurities of resistance? Please send abstracts (max. 250 words) and CVs to R. Shareah…[Read more] -
Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Medieval States of Insecurity panel”
We invite proposals for a proposed session on Medieval States of Insecurity cosponsored by the Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture LLC and the Arabic Forum at the MLA annual conference in New York (2018). We welcome proposals that explore how insecurity—political and social, real or i…[Read more] -
Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Speculative Futures in Arab/ic Literature”
We invite proposals that explore literary topoi, themes, and imagery of apocalypse, eschatology, science fiction, dystopia, utopia, (non)futurity, or fantasy in Arab/ic literature. We are particularly interested in papers that problematize the genres of magical realist, speculative, fantastical,…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Palestine, Ethics, and World Literature”
We invite proposals that examine BDS and the ethical engagement with literature, as well as Palestine and World Literature. We welcome critical engagements with Edward Said’s work, and papers that explore other boycott movements, state and academic institutions, as well as MLA and the production, c…[Read more]
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Lauren Coats started the topic GS Travel Writing: CFP MLA 2018, "Papers, Please" in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the Travel Writing forum’s guaranteed session at MLA 2018. Details below.
<h1>“Papers, please”: Travel Documents and Travel Writing</h1>
<div> Forum: GS Travel Writing</div>
Critical approaches to how travel documents (of lack of) shape travel writing and mobility in a globalized world. 250 word abstr…[Read more] -
Richard A. Strier started the topic DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR LEAR SEMINAR in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoTHE DEADLINE FOR THE NEH SUMMER SEMINAR ON KING LEAR DIRECTED BY RICHARD STRIER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THIS SUMMER (JULY 10-28) IS MARCH 1. NON-TENURE TRACK AS WELL AS TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK INSTRUCTORS ARE WELCOME TO APPLY. STIPEND IS $2700. DETAILS ON THE SEMINAR AND THE APPLICATION PROCESS CAN BE FOUND AT: [Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR LEAR SEMINAR in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p style=”background: white;”><span style=”font-family: Georgia; color: #333333;”>DEAR FOLKS,</span></p>
<p style=”background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;”><span style=”font-family: Georgia; color: #333333;”>THE…[Read more] -
Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election: Solicitation of Membership Suggestions in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWhen this forum’s executive committee meets during the upcoming convention in Philadelphia, it will take up the matter of nominations for the fall 2017 election of a new Delegate Assembly representative for the forum. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has be…[Read more]
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A. E. B. Coldiron started the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture (on translation and Edmund Spenser) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHi, all; at the risk of self promotion, I forward this:
[The following comes to us from Dr Jane Grogan.]
Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions Needed for 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Suggestions
This forum will need to hold an election for a Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. The executive committee is responsible for making nominations, b…[Read more]
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Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Call for papers in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana” invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017).
“Aula lírica” is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays, notes, and reviews, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, on all periods, movements, and app…[Read more] -
Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Adapting Desires in Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBetween 1694 and 1757, there were at least five adaptations of Behn’s “The History of the Nun; or The Fair Vow Breaker”. Modern critics have focused on Thomas Southerne’s play, “The Fatal Marriage: or, the Innocent Adultery” (1694), David Garrick’s 1757 revision of Southerne’s play into the tragedy, “Isabella: or, the Fatal Marriage,” and Jane…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited Self-Censorship in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article discusses changes that Mary Kingsley made to her 1897 Travels in West Africa when she abridged the text for a general audience.
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Lila Marz Harper deposited Intertextual Approaches to Teaching The Tempest in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper describes approaches I use to teach Shakespeare’s The Tempest using intertextuality in the undergraduate introductory literature course.
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