Melanie R. Wattenbarger
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on South Asia and South Asian Diasporic in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoPlease see cfps for 2 panels, and consider submitting an abstract. Thanks!
Transnational Memories: 9/11 and South Asians (Guaranteed panel)
Papers that engage with racial injury, anger, trauma, and grief of South Asians in post-9/11 US, Canada, and Britain; representations of 9/11 in fiction, cinema, memoirs, etc. produced in South Asia and in…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages (Allied Organization) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoQueers Read LGBT Literature
This panel explores the state of contemporary LGBT literature and the value of a LGBT literary canon. Calling for papers that ask: what is LGBT literature now? Abstracts by 15 March 2015; Shanté Paradigm Smalls (smallss@stjohns.edu) and Ramzi Fawaz (fawaz@wisc.edu) -
Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSession type: Special Session
Title of session: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures
Submission requirements: Abstract of about 250 words.
Deadline for submissions: 20 March 2015
Description: Utopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual ar…[Read more] -
Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoUtopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual arts welcome.
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoUtopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual arts welcome.
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic MLA 2016 CFP: Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a 300-word abstract to this CFP for the 2016 MLA convention.
Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature.
Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. This panel seeks papers that discuss how archiving the HIV epidemic shapes our…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a 300-word abstract to my CFP for the 2016 MLA convention, “Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature.”
Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. This panel seeks papers that discuss how archiving the HIV epidemic shapes our relationships…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro started the topic CFP: Forum on Global Hispanophone in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoThe new MLA Forum on Global Hispanophone is delighted to invite submissions for our inaugural session/s, which will take place at the MLA Annual Convention in Austin, Texas, on 7-10 January, 2016. (Note: these Calls for Papers are also available on the MLA website).
Hispanophone Literatures and Postcolonial Theory
The term ‘Hispanophone li…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded the combination of humor, hyperbole, a…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic MLA 2016 Special Session CFP Comparing Literary Historiography in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoMLA 2016, Special Session
Organizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston)
Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this spe…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum: Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-a…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum: Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-a…[Read more]
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Martha Nell Smith started the topic CFPs MLA2016 – Queer Proximities, Vaqueer@s, Queer Crips Across Time in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoHere are CFPs for 3 different sessions we’re sponsoring for MLA2016 in Austin:
Forum: TC Sexuality Studies
Explorations of the sensorium; texture, sensation, affect, touch; spacing and relationscape; distance and distancing, nearness, seclusion; relationalities, withdrawal, fusion; transpecies, human; bonds and bonding, i…[Read more]
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Michael LeMahieu started the topic ASAP/7: "Arts & the Public" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoASAP/7: Arts & the Public
September 24-27, 2015
Hosted by Clemson University at the Hyatt Regency in Greenville, SC
Call for Papers
ASAP/7 invites proposals from scholars and artists on the relations between the public—broadly conceived – and contemporary visual, literary, performing, musical, and media arts. From parks, schools, and mus…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
Deadline extended: January 31st -
María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
Deadline extension: January 31st -
María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic CFP: “Considering the Western Sahara. in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Papers. “Considering the Western Sahara: Multi-Discipinary Approaches to Post-Colonialism”Special Issue on the Western Sahara for the Journal
Transmodernity, co-edited “y Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo and Jill Robbins.
Call for Papers:
This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary assessment of the representations of the unreso…[Read more]
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