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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Oct Meeting NYC Chapter of The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe New York City Chapter
of
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
presents:
ROYA BIGGIE
“Inter-Elemental Sympathies and
Cross-Species Compassion:
Caring for the Hybrid Body in Titus Andronicus”
ROYA BIGGIE, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, is also a PhD Candidate in English at the Gradu…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar started the topic Sept Meeting, NYC Chapter of Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe first meeting of the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance will take place on Thursday, September 15, from 6:00-7:30pm in room 9207 of the CUNY Graduate Center. Francesca Canadé Sautman (French, Hunter and Graduate Center) will speak on “Offstage Direction: French Women and the Shaping of the Renaissance Theater.” Have a look at t…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic Deadline Approaching: Gender & the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Sept. 1 deadline for the Studies in the Novel special issue, “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupation of the American West” is approaching. Full CFP and submission guidelines below.
Call for Papers: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a s…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP: Society of Early Americanists 2017, Tulsa OK in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRoundtable: (Early) American Disgust
Expressed both publicly and privately, disgust is often a response to the new and the different, whether referring to people, food, behaviors, or ideologies, and this was no less true in the early Americas than it is today. Because disgust is historically and culturally constructed, early texts…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited The Blotted Line | An Interview with Alexa Huang in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn Interview with Alexa Huang, George Washington University | The Blotted Line
“I am proud to have answered my calling to tell stories and to show others how to listen for silenced voices. Story-telling makes us human because it…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoIn 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into t…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Global Women's Conference: Understanding and Preventing Violence in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoChristopher Newport University
College of Arts and Humanities
Call for Papers
Global Status of Women and Girls:
“Understanding, Defining, and Preventing Violence”
March 24-26, 2017
to be held at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to foster inquiries into the complex and mul…[Read more]
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Alison Booth deposited Responsible Parties in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoFor an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]
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John MacKay deposited Christ Among the Herdsmen: From Refugee to Propagandist (1918-1922) in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoVertov’s early years in film: the Kino-Nedelia newsreels, the work on the agitational trains, the anti-religious propaganda films.
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John MacKay deposited The Beating Pulse of Living Life: Musical, Futurist and Newsreel Matrices (1916-18) in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoVertov in 1917, and an investigation of some of his shaping contexts: musical practice, Futurist poetry, early non-fiction filmmaking, and Marxism.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new examinations of her entire body…[Read more]
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Anna M. Klobucka started the topic Call for submissions for the Journal of Feminist Scholarship in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research. The journal can be found at http://www.jfsonline.org/.
The editors of JFS invite submissions on a…[Read more]
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Kathryn J. McKnight replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoDear Rosemary and Erin,
Thank you both! Your posts are so helpful. Erin, I have downloaded the report on Baccalaureate Health Humanities programs and I look forward to the special issue. Rosemary, yes, I would love to see materials. I will email you separately.
Thank you,
Kathy
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Erin Lamb replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHi Kathryn and Rosemary,
Kathryn, I’m intrigued by your inquiry: “I am interesting in studying whether awareness of this linkage would have a positive impact on their engagement in learning critical textual analysis as well as whether it would encourage them to enroll in additional literature/culture classes.” I don’t know anyone else who is…[Read more]
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Rosemary Ila Weatherston replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHi Kathryn,
I have been looking at similar questions in my own courses and research and have found some success adapting required general education literature courses for undergraduate health professions students. These modified courses draw on the discipline of narrative medicine for their framework and combine a general study of fiction and l…[Read more]
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