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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFPs: Translation Studies Forum Sessions, MLA 2020 Seattle in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoDear Translation Studies scholars,
The CFPs for our Translation Studies Forum have been posted, and I repeat them here for your convenience and invite you to send proposals or abstracts:
(1) Translatability and World Literature: How best to acknowledge translation as a mediating factor in world literature? Incommensurability vs.…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Race in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months ago“Race” offers a compelling study of ideas related to race throughout history. Its breadth of coverage, both geographically and temporally, provides readers with an expansive, global understanding of the term from the classical period onwards: Intersections of Race and Gender // Race and Social Theory Identity // Ethnicity, and Immigration //…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness.” chapter 5 of Race by Alexa Alice Joubin and Martin Orkin. New Critical Idiom series (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 193-227 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis chapter examines narratives that reflect the impact of epistemologies of otherness upon our understanding of race. Race intersects with other social factors such as class, cultural citizenship, and gender. This chapter draws on case studies of artists in exile or diaspora who interrogate their own identities, because exile brings racial…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness.” chapter 5 of Race by Alexa Alice Joubin and Martin Orkin. New Critical Idiom series (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 193-227 in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis chapter examines narratives that reflect the impact of epistemologies of otherness upon our understanding of race. Race intersects with other social factors such as class, cultural citizenship, and gender. This chapter draws on case studies of artists in exile or diaspora who interrogate their own identities, because exile brings racial…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: “Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in SE Asia” in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years agoMLA 2020 (Jan 9-12, Seattle) CFP for Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
“Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in Southeast Asia”
In Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media, and Daily Life (2011: 1-2), Elizabeth Evans defines transmediality as “the increasingly p…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: "Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in SE Asia" in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoMLA 2020 (Jan 9-12, Seattle) CFP for Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
“Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in Southeast Asia”
In Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media, and Daily Life (2011: 1-2), Elizabeth Evans defines transmediality as “the increasingly popular i…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium – Talk on Sonny Liew in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoI’ll be giving a talk on Sonny Liew’s Eisner Award-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye at the 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium, and there are other fascinating talks on graphic novels lined up too. The event takes place on Friday April 12 at the Mandel Humanities Center, Brandeis University.
Below is the program and a link to the BNS web…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium – Talk on Sonny Liew in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoI’ll be giving a talk on Sonny Liew’s Eisner Award-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye at the 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium, and there are other fascinating talks on graphic novels lined up too. The event takes place on Friday April 12 at the Mandel Humanities Center, Brandeis University.
Below is the program and a link to the BNS web…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century 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 in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic 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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Nathan Faries started the topic CALL FOR CALLS FOR PAPERS in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe executive committee for the forum strongly encourages all of our forum members to post their Calls for Papers session proposals on Ming/Qing topics by February 28!
Feel free to contact me (nfaries@bates.edu) or any other committee member if you want your proposal to be considered for official forum sponsorship…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP for EuroSEAS 2019: "Southeast Asian Travelogues and Global Asia" in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP for EuroSEAS 2019: “Southeast Asian travelogues and global Asia”
This laboratory considers the ways in which travelogues by Southeast Asians articulated the concept of inter-Asian connections, thus prefiguring the term ‘global Asia.’ Examples include the study of early modern India and Southeast Asia by Chinese-language Nanyang (South Sea…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP MLA2020 "At the Borders of the Human in Japanese Lit and Culture since 1900" in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP MLA 2020 Panel Theme LLC Japanese Literature Since 1900
Guaranteed Panel: “At the Borders of the Human in Japanese Literature and Culture since 1900”
Following the MLA Presidential Theme of “Being Human,” the LLC Forum Japanese since 1900 executive committee invites submissions for proposals for our guaranteed panel on the theme of “Boundar…[Read more]
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Molly Des Jardin deposited Constructing Our Canon(s): Reprinting & Digitizing Literary Heritage in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhen it comes to Japanese literary heritage, why and how are we able to access it? The shape of what is preserved and available is driven by and in turn dictates the shape of our canon(s). Yet we often do not think of the labor and social networks behind the reprinting and digitizing that allows us to access literature in the first place, whether…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards replied to the topic Article from Kyoto Review of SEAsia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is a really helpful resource. Thanks, Weihsin!
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Article from Kyoto Review of SEAsia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHere’s an interesting article I thought I’d share with everyone, published December 2018 in the _Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia_.
Lee Jun Jie. “Colonialism and ASEAN Identity: Inherited ‘Mental Barriers’ Hindering the Formation of a Collective ASEAN Identity.”
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