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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum (please excuse the cross-forum advertising):
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 (Chicago) Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum (please excuse the cross-forum advertising):
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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James Kyung-Jin Lee started the topic CFP: Transpacific Transactions in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPapers that analyze transpacific exchanges in literature from a critical perspective informed by scholarship on transnationalism, diaspora, and the Pacific. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2018; Jeehyun Lim (jeehyunl@buffalo.edu).
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James Kyung-Jin Lee started the topic New Approaches to Asian American Non-Fiction in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPapers that consider both recent and historical Asian American non-fiction with particular critical attention to the contemporary memoir boom. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2018; James Kyung-Jin Lee (jkl@uci.edu).
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Jonathan Abel posted an update in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP:
Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in East Asian LiteratureAn LLC EAST ASIAN Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
How have Asian digital networks (e.g. Line, Weibo, and KakaoTalk) impacted the circulation of poetry and prose? And do these new literary transactions correlate with…[Read more]
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Jonathan Abel posted an update in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP:
Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in East Asian LiteratureA Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
How have Asian digital networks (e.g. Line, Weibo, and KakaoTalk) impacted the circulation of poetry and prose? And do these new literary transactions correlate with heightened…[Read more]
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Kelly Y. Jeong started the topic CFP: Literature and Film in Neoliberal East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoCFP: Literature and Film in Neoliberal East Asia
A Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
In recent decades East Asian societies have felt the reach of neoliberalism as a culture, a set of economic policies, and political agenda, which has informed people’s lives in various ways. This guaranteed panel for Mod…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoGood Morning!
In the fall you’ll see my name on the ballot. I am a candidate to represent the TM Forum on Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography. I am thrilled to join the executive committee and to help to raise the profile of this group in its recently reconfigured form. Thus, I am writing to ask you for your support as well as i…[Read more] -
Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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Michael Hancher posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoImaging wood blocks: manipulable 3-D digital representations of three 19th-c. wood engravings, including a “Bewick” and one for Dickens. https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mh/home/miscellany/imaging-wood-blocks
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Petrus Liu posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 8 years agoBU visiting position
Visiting Assistant Professor position in Chinese Lit. at Boston University
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/10781
The Department of World Languages & Literatures (WLL) invites applications for a one-year non-tenure track Visiting Assistant Professor position in Chinese literature for the 2018-2019 academic year…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 8 years agoReconsidering Family Relations in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
A Forum Session at the 2018 MLA in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019.
Family relations over the past 120 years in Chinese society(ies) have changed dramatically, and some would argue that the emergence of individualism as a modern, atomized, subjective formation has risen in inverse…[Read more]
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Eleanor F. Shevlin posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP 2019 TM Book, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Title: Cut, Copy, Paste, TrackHow do we study the expansion, contraction, and development of material texts and corpora? Papers sought that explore erasure, cancellation, deletion, supplementation, and textual change. 350-word proposals cvs by 10 March 2018; Eleanor F. Shevlin (eshevlin@wcupa.edu)…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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Fahri Öz deposited “‘To Take Were to Purloin’: Sexuality in the Narrative Poems by Christina Rossetti” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoChristina Rossetti, sexuality, narrative poems
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Fahri Öz deposited Drum-Taps: Whitman’s Problematic Legacy as a War Poet in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis paper analyzes Walt Whitman’s American Civil War poems in his collection Drum-Taps
in comparison with the poetry written by British soldier-poets of WWI. These poems present
Whitman as a problematic model for future generations of war poets since he hardly ever
questions the meaninglessness of bloodshed in the battlefield, a trait which i…[Read more] - Load More
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