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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic New Chaucer Society: Call for Future Forward Session for summer Expo 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years agoNCS Expo, Future Forward Call for Nominees, #NCSExpo2021
Organisers: Seeta Chaganti; Bobby Meyer-Lee; Emily Steiner.
Whether in the context of long-term social justice commitments or in response to shifts in global politics over the last few years, medievalists have found themselves facing questions about the relation – or lack thereof – betw…[Read more]
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aecklund started the topic Engaging Literature Students in the Virtual Classroom with the MLA Bibliography in the discussion
Bibliographic Instruction Materials Group on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoLast Wednesday’s webinar on using the MLA International Bibliography in the virtual classroom, hosted by Library Journal, is now available as a recording. Register here to view the recording at any time: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/2828627/53D250B9352103D18AA7D5DA574AABBD?partnerref=LJSPNSREBSCO121620
The webinar focuses on using the MLA…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoVARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U
Critics have long discerned what we might call post-trau…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFor Session 660: Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, please see the attached abstracts.
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U
Critics have long discerned what we might call post-tr…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U
Critics have long discerned what we might call post-tr…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoPlease take note of the following sessions sponsored by the Middle English Forum at virtual MLA 2021!
205. Medieval Abstraction, Friday, 8 January, 10:15-11:30 am
Presider: Julie Orlemanski, U of Chicago
Speakers: Danielle Allor, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Clint Morrison, Ohio State U, Columbus; Matthew Boyd Goldie, Rider U; Kellie Robertson, U…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues tha…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoPlease see the announcement and call for papers for Diasporic Italy.
Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies AssociationInaugural Volume (2021) – Call for Papers Description:Diasporic Italy is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Italian American / Diaspora studies, focusing on timely a…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhat would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhat would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]
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Katsuyo Motoyoshi started the topic Tutorial Video “What is the MLA International Bibliography?” is now in Korean in the discussion
Bibliographic Instruction Materials Group on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe MLA International Bibliography is an online database that covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also…[Read more]
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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Call for Papers – Women & Language (Journal) in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues, (apologies for previous multiple posts; a website glitch, now fixed), I have been asked to share this call for papers. You can also see it here: https://www.womenandlanguage.org/submissions
Call for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an internation…[Read more]
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Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Women & Language CFP (on behalf of Leland G. Spencer) in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoShared on behalf of Leland G. Spencer, PhD, editor of Women and Language:
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical,…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWhat’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]
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Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Calls for Papers: Old English for MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIsidore of Seville and the Persistence of Classical Antiquity in Iberia and the British Isles during the Middle Ages--Collaborative session with LLC Old English and LLC Medieval IberianMLA official CFP page: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Paper12918.html Papers on the dissemination of Isidore ́s works across Western Europe d…[Read more]
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIn the fall of 1966, Ḥiwār magazine published al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s novel Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl [ Season of Migration to the North ]. Arabic literary critics both hailed the novel in the Arabic press and mourned that it had been published by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom’s Ḥiwār, part of a global covert cultural front of the C…[Read more]
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