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Michelle R. Warren deposited Diversity in Every Course, Cross-Cultural Encounters in Every Classroom in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoRound Table on Diversity and Teaching Medieval Studies sponsored by Graduate Student Council. Session title: “Tearing Down Walls, Building Bridges:
Medieval Diversity and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Syllabus Design and Teaching.” This paper is about two courses that illustrate the principle “Diversity in Every Course Title” and several…[Read more] -
Jayashree Kamble deposited From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoReading the representation of New York City in J.D. Robb’s/Nora Roberts’s sci-fi detective romance In Death series via Andrew Karmen’s critique of the 1990s’ New York crime wave/crash narrative pushed by Giuiliani and Bratton’s “broken windows” policing.
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Sophia Booth Magnone deposited Finding Ferality in the Anthropocene: Marie Darrieussecq’s “My Mother Told Me Monsters Do Not Exist” in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoWhat will it take to undomesticate the world—to begin to loosen humanity’s tight grasp on the planet’s spaces, structures, resources, and populations? Marie Darrieussecq’s short story “My Mother Told Me Monsters Do Not Exist” describes the intrusion of an unidentifiable creature into a fastidious woman’s apartment home, a modest but powerful scen…[Read more]
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Sophia Booth Magnone deposited Microbial Zoopoetics in Octavia Butler’s Clay’s Ark in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper reads Octavia Butler’s 1984 novel Clay’s Ark as a speculative handbook for living collaboratively in a more-than-human world. Drawing on Aaron Moe’s theory of zoopoetics, as well as emerging research on the effects of the human microbiome on health, behavior, and personality, I consider how the novel’s “villain,” an infectious…[Read more]
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Well, I just learned a new word. Good way to start the day.
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThe LA Times just gave it quite the review. I can’t wait to start it, but I’m reading Cryptonomicon right now, and have to finish that first (almost there…)!
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Sophia Booth Magnone replied to the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoOh, and I’m looking forward to learning more about Borne at a reading Vandermeer is doing here in a couple weeks.
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Sophia Booth Magnone replied to the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI was totally entranced by the Southern Reach trilogy. I’ve been thinking about how I’d like to teach it—probably just the first book, since the trilogy’s so long. If anyone has put it on a syllabus, I’d be really interested to hear how that went!
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Nicky Agate started the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoMy copy of Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne arrived this morning in the mail. Has anyone else read or taught it (or his Southern Reach Trilogy)?
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Brent Ryan Bellamy replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoHi All,
I’m just finishing Invisible Planets ed. Ken Liu. It’s fantastic! I esp. recommend it to people reading The Three Body Problem as Cixin Liu has a short story in the collection.
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla deposited “Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIntroduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.
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Hatem Akil started the topic Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities – MLA 2018 CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Areas to consider for this panel might include: contexts and environmental flashpoints:…[Read more]
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Kaitlin Mondello started the topic CFP MLA 2018: "Dark Ecology" in 19th-century British Literature in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>In </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Ecological Thought</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>, Timothy Morton defines his eponymous title as “the thinking of interconnectedness” (1,7), with the recognition that this interconnection also “has a dark side” (EWN 184). This idea of “dark ecology”…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoOh, @camillahoel, I would love to read that article when you’re feeling ready to share! And yes, I agree that Octavia Butler feels not-quite-speculative enough in 2017. Le sigh.
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Camilla Hoel replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHello!
I am actually working on an article on those two Harkaway novels! Though it is not my friend at the moment, so I have put it aside for some Victorian stuff.I just finished The Three Body Problem! It took an odd turn (felt a little like going from a political police procedural to Stanislaw Lem quite suddenly), but I liked it. I do not…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic MLA 2018, NYC–Call for Working Group Participants in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPosted on behalf of Sophia Dawn Christman-Lavin.
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Our working group seeks participants whose scholarship reflects on the notion of ecological citizenship.
The goals of the group include (1) contemplating the diverse ways in which ecological citizenship is revealed in literary works (any period), as well as through its various modes of pu…[Read more]
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sebastien doubinsky replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHi! I am reading Cixin Liu’s fabulous trilogy, “The three-body problem”, “The Dark Forest” and “Death’s end” – which I very highly recommend. I don’t know if Berit Elligsen’s “Empty City” would fit in, but it’s a very interesting read and can be considered as a speculative vision of future cities.
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoI’ll start!
I’ve just finished The Obelisk Gate, the second book in NK Jemisin‘s Broken Earth trilogy, and enjoyed it even more than last year’s Hugo-winning The Fifth Season. I find Jemisin’s world building to be remarkable, and am more than a little sad that the final installment doesn’t come out until the fall. February also saw me finally…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoWelcome to the Humanities Commons speculative fiction group! I’m envisaging this as a place to share scholarship and events, of course, but also as a source of recommendations and discussion of contemporary speculative and science fiction. So… what are you reading? What would you recommend?
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Martin J. Ponce started the topic CFPs: MLA 2018, Race and Ethnicity Forum in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCarceral States of Exception and Insecurity
Critical, theoretical, cultural engagements with the prison, detention, punishment, and their representations. National, international, and/or comparative contexts. Brief CV & 300-word abstract by 13 March 2017; Ruby Tapia (rtapia@umich.edu).<hr />
Interdisciplinary Palestine
Palestine’s s…[Read more] - Load More
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