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Amelie Daigle started the topic CFP: Transnational Families, Transnational Novels in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoJuly 12-13, 2019: Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (London, England)
From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasizes the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market…[Read more]
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Amelie Daigle started the topic CFP: Transnational Families, Transnational Novels in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoJuly 12-13, 2019: Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (London, England)
From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasizes the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic CFPs for Global South forum panels at the 2020 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoRace, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South
Papers on the intersections between indigeneity, postcoloniality, creolization, and discourses of race in the Global South. How does migration affect understandings of sovereignty/belonging? What are the powers/limitations of a globalized concept of indigeneity? 250-word…[Read more] -
Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic LLC Francophone Calls for Papers — Seattle 2020 in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoCinéma-monde francophone
Papers addressing scholarly debates around cinéma-monde through analysis of recent cinematic texts from throughout the Francophone world. 250-word abstracts to Denis Provencher (denisprovencher@email.arizona.edu) by Thursday, March 7, 2019.
The Multilingual Maghreb (in collaboration with LLC Arabic)
Papers addressing m…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoAs the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.
Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoAs the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.
Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoAs the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.
Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]
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Jennifer Stoever started the topic MS Sound Forum CFP is live on the MLA website! in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 7 years agoDecolonizing Sound
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This panel explores sound and decolonizing Western methodologies, epistemologies, and archives, and the necessity of decolonizing sound studies. Intersectional scholarship encouraged; non-English and pre-20th century research welcomed. 250-word abstracts to MLAMediaSound@gmail.com by 15 March 2019.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Sarah Ruth Jacobs started the topic CFP: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, May 15, 2019 in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe peer-reviewed and open access Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now accepting submissions for its upcoming general issue, edited by Shelly Eversley (Baruch College) and Krystyna Michael (The Graduate Center, CUNY). JITP’s mission is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of technology in teaching,…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Access, Computational Analysis, and Fair Use in the Digitized Nineteenth- Century Press in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis essay looks to the near history of copyright, commercially licensed resources, and fair use that shapes digital scholarship on nineteenth-century periodicals today. Using the digitization of British Library newspapers as a case study, I demonstrate how arguments about access to public domain materials do not fully account for the complex…[Read more]
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Matthew K. Gold deposited Issues of Labor, Credit, and Care in Peer-to-Peer Review Processes in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis talk focuses on peer review models, considering issues of labor and credit within them. It then turns to the ethos of care to discuss how peer-to-peer review processes can be structure with care to ensure that participant labor is valued. The talk ends with a focus on the nature of the labor in peer-to-peer review, arguing that it is…[Read more]
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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic Invitation to Serve on the Exec Com of LLC Pre-1990 African Literature Forum in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe Executive Committee of the Pre-1990 African Literature Forum is always looking for people willing and able to serve on the committee, as it is a four-year commitment with one person rotating off each year. The main responsibility of committee members is hosting two to four panels on pre-1990 African literature, so the labor is not onerous. It…[Read more]
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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic Invitation to Mentor Members in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
The MLA is looking for ways to improve year-round engagement in the forums, and it has identified professional development as a critical area of need for many of our members. If you would be willing to mentor another member of the LLC Pre-1990 African Literature forum, please reply to this post here or email Wendy Belcher at…[Read more] -
Tom Mazanec deposited Chinese 211: Bibliography and Research Methods in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThe purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to the tools, methods, and history of sinology. Sinology refers to the study of China as performed in a philological manner. Philology refers to the historical study of language and literature in its fullest context. It is inherently interdisciplinary. It draws on the fields of…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine (HUM450AJ.O) syllabus in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoAt the intersection of comics and medicine is the rise of the Graphic Medicine scholarship field. This course examines the ways in which the sequentialized hybrid of word and image is bringing new insights to patient, healthcare, and clinical experiences.
In any manner of ways, the comics medium (whether known as comic books, graphic novels,…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine (HUM450AJ.O) syllabus in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoAt the intersection of comics and medicine is the rise of the Graphic Medicine scholarship field. This course examines the ways in which the sequentialized hybrid of word and image is bringing new insights to patient, healthcare, and clinical experiences.
In any manner of ways, the comics medium (whether known as comic books, graphic novels,…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic Global South panels at the 2019 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThe Global South forum’s sponsored panel at this year’s MLA, “Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South,” will take place on Thursday, Jan 3 from 3:30 – 4:45pm (Hyatt Regency – Grand Suit 5). We hope to see you there.
You might also be interested in the panel “The Global South Novel,” organized by Anne Garland Mahler (out-going member of…[Read more]
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