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Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation (with Creative Common License) in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe presentation is a Powerpoint slide show that covers the new MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. The presentation covers the nine core elements, with brief explanations and examples of how to properly use them in writing citations.
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis presentation is a slide-show introduction to MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. Reasons for citing, core elements of MLA8 format, and examples are included in the Powerpoint.
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Barbara J. Eckstein deposited Carbon and Conferences (Again): The Austin MLA in the Flood of 2016 in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Carbon and Conferences (Again)” offers one person’s experience of trying to get to the Austin MLA conference by a means other than airplanes. It asks fellow MLA members for more collective, mindful attention to the carbon footprint of the conference generally. While acknowledging the intellectual and personal joy in face to face encounters, it…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited The Syllabus as Scholarship in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoOne of a series of blog posts reflecting on #HumetricsHSS, the work of the Humane Metrics for the Humanities team at the Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute in 2016.
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Candace Barrington deposited Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks' The Anniad in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoIn this brief paper, I first introduce Gwendolyn Brook’s “The Anniad,” a 43-stanza ballad at the center of her 1949 Pulitzer-prize winning collection, Annie Allen. Next, I make a case that “The Anniad” is informed by a medievalism combining Brooks’ girlhood reading and the physical environment of Bronzeville, her Chicago neighborhood. Finally, I…[Read more]
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Myrto Drizou started the topic CFP- Volume on Edith Wharton (Critical Insights-Salem Press) in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers
Critical Insights
Edith Wharton
Please see below the call for essays for a forthcoming volume on Edith Wharton. The volume is part of the series Critical Insights (Salem Press) and will appear in fall 2017. More information can be found here:http://www.salempress.com/critical_insights.html
Following the guidelines for the…[Read more]
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Ruby Tapia posted an update in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago2017 MLA Panels Sponsored by the Forum on Race and Ethnicity Studies
Session 28. 05-JAN-17. Writing (against) the Prison, 12:00 noon – 1:15 p.m. Franklin 13, Philadelphia Marriott.
Presiding: Ruby Tapia, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1. “The Life of Paper: Imprisoned,” Sharon Luk, Univ. of Oregon
2. “You (Shall) Have the Body: Ghostly…[Read more]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic NeMLA Panel seeking abstracts, deadline 9/30 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoNeMLA Panel: The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The goal of “The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed” panel is to explore the Rocky franchise’s place in illuminating Italian Americans’ anxiety about whiteness in a post-Civil Rights era and black millennials’ continual struggle for autonomy in the post-9/11 twenty-…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic NeMLA Panel seeking abstracts; Deadline September 30 in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoFor NeMLA: The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The goal of “The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed” panel is to explore the Rocky franchise’s place in illuminating Italian Americans’ anxiety about whiteness in a post-Civil Rights era and black millennials’ continual struggle for autonomy in the post-9/11 twenty-…[Read more]
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Darwin Tsen started the topic CFP Postsocialist Literature and Culture Under Comparative Lenses in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoProposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)Organizer:
Darwin H. Tsen, The Pennsylvania State University
A few nations still claim the socialist mantle today, but their practices paint a different picture. How do we, then, in an age where…[Read more]
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Adam Toth started the topic CFP Race Theory and Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoProposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)Organizers:
Pauline Moret-Jankus, Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena
Adam J. Toth, The Pennsylvania State UniversityRace Theory and Literature Emerging out of the practices of…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling International Conference University of Toronto, C in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling
International Conference
University of Toronto, Canada
May 24–26, 2017
How can one begin to apprehend that which is not of the order of representation, that which cannot be communicated in any way whatsoever, and that which cannot be rendered immanent through literature, cinema, painting, or by a…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of lite…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic File deposit: Whiting Rich and Strange in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI am notifying the Race and Ethnicity group that I have deposited a short story titled Whiting Rich and Strange. I have written six stories so far set in the Rust belt, a site of post-colonial activity. In my hometown of East Chicago. one census recorded 82 nationalities. Our part of Indiana is not known to the rest of the US, except as high cr…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Whiting Rich and Strange in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTitle of short story: WHITING RICH AND STRANGE
A story of ethnic people in an oil refinery town in NW Indiana.
Comments are most welcome. This is part of a series of stories based in the industrial part of Chicago’s Indiana suburbs.I am also placing the story in the Shakespeare group because–after all–it is a Romeo and Juliet story.…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited The Status of African American Faculty Members in English in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe article addresses a topic of pressing but long-standing concern to many in the higher education community: the disproportionately low number of African American faculty members in English, assessing the facts of the situation and how they might be addressed effectively.
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