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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Latest Issue of Decimonónica in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the recent publication of issue 17.1 (Winter 2020) of Decimonónica: Revista de Producción Cultural Hispánica. Its contents are available for free at http://www.decimononica.org/
Saludos,
Luis
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Kelly Aliano started the topic Looking for Participants for a Roundtable for MLA Conference 2021 in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years agoI am looking for participants for a roundtable for the 2021 MLA Conference. The description for the session is pasted below. Please reach out to me directly (kel.irene.aliano@gmail.com) with any questions or to submit a proposal.
Putting Writing and Performance in Conversation
This panel welcomes abstracts (max. 300 words) that explore the…[Read more]
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Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere. I too am looking forward to more information!
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Beth Widmaier Capo replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis sounds fantastic. Do you have instructions (deadline, length, address) for abstract submissions?
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Shannon Herbert started the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoIn 2017, when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to use the hashtag #metoo if they’d ever “been sexually harassed or assaulted” social media feeds were suddenly flooded with the phrase. People were quick to point out that #metoo did not originate with Milano, but with Tarana Burke, a social worker and activist who proposed the phrase in 2006. Since…[Read more]
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Cynthia Chase replied to the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention via email on MLA Commons 6 years agoNo, thank you.
Cynthia Chase
From: Xiaowen Xu [mailto:noreply@hcommons-staging.org]
Sent: mardi 14 janvier 2020 17:08
To: Cynthia Chase
Subject: [MLA Commons] Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum… (2019 MLA Convention) -
Xiaowen Xu started the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC Pre-14th Forum is calling for your volunteering to be an alternate candidate for the executive committee 2021 to 2026. Please contact Xiaowen Xu (xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca) or Benjamin Ridgway (brdgwa1@swarthmore.edu) if you are interested. Or you could reply to this thread directly.
We would need four forum members who are…
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Isabel Jaén-Portillo replied to the topic Award-Winning Filmmaker Almudena Carracedo participating tonight in Session 178 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear all,
I am attaching a coupon to obtain Almudena Carracedo’s film The Silence of Others with a MLA discount.
Best regards,
Isabel
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Francesco Ardolino deposited ‘Our environment is modernising’ in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years agoA Joan Maragall Dictionary should be written. It would contain a relatively limited number of lexemes—Fifty? Sixty?—and, in the first place, the approaches that the author himself had made to those words should be added, despite being contradictory….
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Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Award-Winning Filmmaker Almudena Carracedo participating tonight in Session 178 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear colleagues,
Just a quick reminder that Spanish film director Almudena Carracedo, 2019 Goya winner for Best Documentary Feature, will be participating tonight Thursday, 9 January 2020 in Session 178 The Silence of Others and the Fight for the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain.
Here is the link to her award-winning film https://thesilence…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic LLC 18th-19th Century Spanish and Iberian MLA 2020 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago265 Visualizing Catalunya
Forum: LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian & LLC Catalan Studies
Friday, January 10, 202010:15 AM – 11:30 AMWSCC, 201
Presider: Leigh Mercer, University of Washington, Seattle
Presentations:
Nick Wolters, Wake Forest University, “The Catalan Cut: Tailoring Bourgeois Identities in Nineteenth-Century B…[Read more]
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Tanja Stampfl started the topic Tenure Track Position in Composition and Rhetoric in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Department of English at the University of the Incarnate Word invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Composition and Rhetoric (tenure-track, 4-4 teaching load) beginning August 2020. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric, specialize in the teaching of Composition, and demonstrate a proven…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
<a title=”Original URL:
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]
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Mary Ann Tobin started the topic Announcing Candidacy – HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’m honored to have been nominated to serve on the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum Executive Committee, and I write to introduce myself and my qualifications beyond the information that you’ll find in my MLA Commons Profile or at my personal web site. In brief, as a member of the executive committee, I’d like to expand my e…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Job posting: Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe Department of Religion and the Medical Humanities Program at Montclair State University seeks an Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities.
Job Description
The Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities will teach and conduct research at the intersections of religion/culture and medicine/healthcare, such as…[Read more]
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Jessica DeSpain started the topic Teaching of Literature Executive Forum Nominee in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoI have been nominated to serve on the Teaching of Literature Executive Forum, and I wanted to share a few details about my experiences and my goals with forum members. I am a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where I’ve worked since 2008. I specialize in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature, book history, and the d…[Read more]
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited “In a Language That Was Not His Own”: On Ahlām Mustaghānamī’s Dhākirat al-jasad and Its French Translation Mémoires de la chair in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAbstract
This paper argues that Ah!lam Mustaghanami’s novel Dhakirat al-jasad (Memories of the Flesh)
enacts a break with Algeria’s Francophone literary past, multiply staging its affiliation with the
Arabic language. !e novel positions itself as part of an Algerian linguistic drama that, once
translated into French as Mémoires de la chai…[Read more] - Load More
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