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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Call for essays in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Women’s Studies in Language and Literature Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on wo…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar started the topic CFP–Caste and Life Narratives: Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoGuest Editors: Dr. S. Shankar, Department of English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA, and Dr. Charu Gupta, Department of History, University of Delhi, India.
Submit: 400-word abstracts to S. Shankar (subraman@hawaii.edu) and Charu Gupta (charu7@hotmail.com) by September 15, 2015
Life Narratives (biographies, autobiographies, Fa…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic Proposed Panel Abstracts: "Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics" in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoBelow are the abstracts for the proposed MLA 2016 Special Session Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics.
David Román (University of Southern California) will serve as respondent to the following three panelists.
Octavio R. Gonzalez (Wellesley College), “The ACT UP Boston Archive: the Bio-Politics of Early Clinical Trials for AIDS Tr…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic WGSC NeMLA cfp for panels, Hartford, 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers – NeMLA Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus
47th Annual NeMLA Convention
March 17-20, 2016 Hartford, CT
Hosted by the University of Connecticut
Session Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2015
Call for Papers Begins: June 15, 2015
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2015
All submissions are online at: http://www.buffalo.edu/ne…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoPlease attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, for your classes. Help your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future.
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Erin Lamb replied to the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoNicky – thank you so very, very much!
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoI’ve crossposted this in the news section of the Commons Newswire.
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic MLA 2016 Panel: Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the MLA 2016 panel, “Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics,” will be posted here prior to the convention.
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Matt Brim started the topic CFP: Queer Methods http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/current-call-papers in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoWSQ, Call for Papers: Special Issue
QUEER METHODS
Guest Editors:
Amin Ghaziani, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Matt Brim, Associate Professor of Queer Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Queer Studies is experiencing a methodological renaissance. In both the humanities and the social sciences, scholars…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic Do you teach about aging to undergraduate students? in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoGood morning colleagues,
I am conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or…[Read more] -
Erin Lamb started the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoHello,
I am writing to request your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies. I am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only b…[Read more] -
Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. Oct. 16 and Sat. Oct. 17, 2015 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme: Conflicts and ResolutionsFeatured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec Foster
Location: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512
We live in a society that has c…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWe are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While Morrison’s novels examine m…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoFamilial/Communal Structures
Black Motherhood
The Presence of the ancestor
Other Mothering
Collective Memory/Cultural Trauma
Mothering-Controlled Reproduction (racialized maternity)
Language Theory (Julia Kristeva)
Violence
Cultural/Individual Meaning of Motherhood
Relationships between mothers and daughters/sons
Mothers & Sexual…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic [Deadline extended to March 18th!] HIV/AIDS and the Literary/Cinematic Archive in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago[The deadline for this panel has been extended to March 18th!]
MLA 2016 Special Session: HIV/AIDS and the Literary/Cinematic Archive
Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. With the current proliferation of theories and conceptualizations pertaining to archive studies, how can the literary o…[Read more]
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