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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] -
Georgia Kathryn Johnston started the topic Greeting to Members in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues:
I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to update you as to some of the activities of the MLA GS Life Writing Forum.
As you may know, last year MLA replaced most of the former divisions and discussion groups with forums in a new organizational structure. The Division on Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing has…[Read more]
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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP for MLA: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Gay 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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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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Mark Pedretti started the topic CFP: Doris Lessing Studies (5/15/16) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDoris Lessing Studies Call for Papers: “Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Comparative Readings of Doris Lessing’s Historical and Speculative Fiction”
Building upon the Doris Lessing Society’s panel at MLA 2016, this special issue of Doris Lessing Studies seeks article submissions comparing Lessing’s historical…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Adolescence in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoCFP for Special Session to be proposed for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
Re-constituting, re-imagining, or re-negotiating adolescence in culture, memory, age studies, or literature. Abstracts by 7 March 2016; Nancy C. Backes (backesnc@gmail.com)
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Age Studies CFP for MLA 2017, non-guaranteed session in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoCFP for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia, for a non-guaranteed session proposed by the MLA Age Studies Forum:
The Boundaries of Literary Age Studies
What are/should be the parameters of age studies in literature? How should literary age studies intersect and interact with other age-focused disciplines? What are the unique contributions of literary age…[Read more]
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Martha Nell Smith started the topic 3 CFPs for TC Sexuality Studies Forum MLA 2017!!! in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoQueer Hamilton
Forum: TC Sexuality Studies and GS Drama and Performance
Musical theatre, performance, Broadway, dance, history, cross-periodization, American Revolution, Founding Fathers, colonial, empire, race, ethnicity, Latina/o, African-American, hip-hop, sexuality, gender, Caribbean, immigration. 250 word abstracts, CVs by 15 February…[Read more]
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Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Peter J. Kalliney deposited Modernism in a Global Context (introduction) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years agoExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ‘global turn’ in contemporary Modernist Studies.
Topics covered include:
– Transnational literary exchange
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Gayle Rogers deposited Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (Introduction) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years agoIntroduction to Modernism: Evolution of an Idea, which traces the emergence and coherence of the term “modernism”, and the field of modernist studies, from the late 1800s to the present.
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Laraine R. Fergenson deposited Final Report of the MLA Committee on Diversity and Tolerance in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe ad hoc Committee on Diversity and Tolerance was formed in response to a motion passed by the Delegate Assembly in 1999 calling for the reconstitution of what had been the Task Force against Campus Bigotry. The new committee was to be charged with “working to establish a climate in which all students, faculty, and other college employees, no m…[Read more]
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Sue Rowe Doe deposited Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty Members: Strategies for Establishing Due Process in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis presentation explored the implications of constraints on due process and academic freedom in light of contingent faculty hiring.
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Glen G. MacLeod started the topic Teaching Wallace Stevens in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP: Teaching Wallace Stevens (Special Issue of The Wallace Stevens Journal)
**DEADLINE EXTENDED**
Over twenty years have passed since John N. Serio and B. J. Leggett published their collection, Teaching Wallace Stevens (1994). Since then the teaching landscape has been undergoing significant change. Are there new challenges and o…[Read more]
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Shazia Rahman deposited Rachna Mara’s Cosmopolitan (Yet Partial) Feminisms in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis article shows how Rachna Mara’s collection of short stories Of Customs and Excise puts forth a cosmopolitan feminism that reveals the losses and gains of diaspora in an arena of partiality and relationality.
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited "Write YOUR Story" children's writing workshop in the news! in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIn this free workshop, children and preteens (age 8-12) creatively explore and expand their sense of self by thinking and writing about their life – past, present, and future. Group activities, games, solitary writing, and illustrating provide for a fun and productive setting. Students will receive individual attention and gradually realize how…[Read more]
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Shazia Sadaf deposited Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Dying Men in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDaniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is reflection of Pakistani masculinity in a metamorphosed state. A disturbingly masculine vocabulary frames the appearance and actions of the female characters. In contrast, the speech and thought of the male characters is minified in words of loss and regret. Their material ambitions and the r…[Read more]
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