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Olivia Jones Choplin started the topic CFP: American Council of Quebec Studies Biennial Conference 4/15/16 deadline in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCONVERSATIONS-COMMERCE-COMMUNAUTÉS–CONVERSATIONS-COMMERCE-COMMUNITIES
Le 20e colloque bisannuel de l’ACQS / The 20th biennial conference of the ACQS:
du 3 au 6 novembre, 2016, au Westin Harborview Hotel, Portland, ME
L’American Council for Québec Studies sollicite des propositions de communication pour notre prochain congrès en 2016. Si le thèm…[Read more] -
Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Alien Lines in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoAlien Lines: Science Fiction Comics
The medium of comics—often dominated by genres bound to contemporary concerns or enduring conventions—remains marginal in the study of science fiction. Likewise, the oldest questions driving science fiction scholarship—identity and difference, self and other, chance and futurity—have not been central to comics…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Adaptation in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoDrawing the Line: Comics and Adaptation
While comics adaptations have frequently been derided for “dumbing down” great works of literature through adaptation, recent movie adaptations of comics have conquered the box office and brought new attention to the medium. These intriguing developments beg the questions—How might comics be trans…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Temporality in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoGraphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality
Whether we consider the fragmentation of time in the Dr. Manhattan chapter of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, or Art Spiegleman’s intermingling of his father’s WWII past with his present as narrator in Maus, rendering time as space has been one of the most unique and commented upon formal aspect…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoSixth Biennial Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 1 March 2016.
This conference, sponsored by The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, looks at stories, histories,…[Read more] -
Lissette Lopez Szwydky started the topic CFP2017: Adaptation, Transmediation in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoCFP: MLA2017 Adaptation, Transmediation: The Narrative Boundaries of Genre, Medium, and Time
Special Session
How do adaptation and transmediation push the boundaries and possibilities of literature? Transnational and transhistorical perspectives especially welcome. CV and 500-word abstracts by 11 March 2016; Lissette Lopez Szwydky (lissette@uark.edu). -
Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]
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Cesar Braga-Pinto started the topic CFP 2017: Luso Brazilian Graphic Narratives in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoLuso Brazilian Graphic Narratives
Description: This panel explores different forms of graphic narrative from the Luso-Brazilian world, including, but not limited to political cartoons, graphic novels, comic strips and graffiti.
Deadline for submissions: 14 March 2016Submission requirements:
250 word abstractsContact person information
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Martha B. Kuhlman started the topic CFP 2017 Graphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoComics and Graphic Narrative Forum Modern Language Association Panel 2017:
Graphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality
Whether we consider the fragmentation of time in the Dr. Manhattan chapter of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, or Art Spiegleman’s intermingling of his father’s WWII past with his present as narrator in Maus, rende…[Read more]
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Patrick Whitmarsh started the topic CFP: Lovecraft's Weird Modernism (MLA 2017 Special Session) in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoLovecraft’s relationship to modernism/modernity; Lovecraft and race; Lovecraft and science/technology; Lovecraft and modernist gothic; modernism and weird fiction. Abstracts, 200-300 words by 1 March 2016; Patrick Whitmarsh (pwhitmar@bu.edu).
Link: https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_8647
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Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Transl. the esoteric – Soul in Metamorphosis. in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoAnyone who is interested in digging DEEP into Kafka’s esoteric dimension and connecting his works of t r a n s f o r m a t i o n — to Plato, John the Evangelist and other romantics is encouraged to join the KAFKA group >> the proof, of course >> is in the pudding!
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Peter J. Kalliney deposited Modernism in a Global Context (introduction) in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 10 years agoExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ‘global turn’ in contemporary Modernist Studies.
Topics covered include:
– Transnational literary exchange
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Peter J. Kalliney deposited Modernism in a Global Context (introduction) in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years agoExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ‘global turn’ in contemporary Modernist Studies.
Topics covered include:
– Transnational literary exchange
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Zahi A. Zalloua started the topic CFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoWe welcome contributions that examine the notion of catastrophe in comparative studies and literary theory. Thinking catastrophe today raises multiple questions. What constitutes a catastrophe? How do we bear witness to a catastrophe? What historical catastrophes serve an exemplary or paradigmatic function? Whose catastrophe is heard and whose…[Read more]
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Ivy Schweitzer deposited “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential” in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years agoMy talk at the round table on Service Learning in Literary Studies about the necessity of failure in experiential learning.
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Philip Smith replied to the topic Discuss Philip Smith's CORE uploads in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoThanks Nicky,
I only just joined MLA Commons and didn’t realise notice of my uploads would be emailed directly to the group. Sorry if it seemed like spam – quite unintentional.
If anyone does have any thoughts on my papers I would love to hear your feedback.
Best wishes,
Phil
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Nicky Agate started the topic Discuss Philip Smith's CORE uploads in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoAs you may have seen, Philip Smith uploaded several comics-related articles to CORE, the MLA repository, yesterday. Should the group wish to respond or comment on the articles—or any others—please feel free to use this thread to do so.
To view the articles, either click on CORE at the top of the page, or on Deposits in the left-hand menu.
Thanks!
Nicky
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