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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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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Age Studies Events at the Chicago MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCome and join other age studies scholars at these remaining Chicago events. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Session 555. New Voices at the Intersection of Drama, Performance, and Age Studies
Saturday, 5 January 3:30-4:45 p.m., Columbian Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel
Program arranged by the forums TC Age Studies and GS Drama and P…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe are creating an invited proposal based upon my performance as a reviewer of another text.
Essays are to be about 8,000 words each.I have a model and this text will be an scholarly companion to literature using the tools of rhetorical or
cultural studies analysis (possibly other types of analysis). The Companion to Victorian Literature
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic European Beat Studies Network 2019 Conf – Oct 9-12, 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFrom the EBSN: The European Beat Studies Network is a vibrant association of scholars that holds annual conferences in Europe. Past conferences have been held in Tangier, Brussels, Paris, and Vienna, among other cities. The 2019 conference will be in Cyprus, October 9-12, 2019.
The call for papers for the 2019 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, has…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Transnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTransnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 — stop by if you are around!
Saturday 23 March 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Transnational Beat Generation
Chair: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University
Location: Woodrow Wilson Ballroom A (Media Equipped)
American & Cultural Studies and Media Studies
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Honoring Margaret Morganroth Gullette in Chicago in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoI am very pleased to let you know that Margaret Morganroth Gullette is being awarded the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars for her book, Ending Ageism; Or, How Not To Shoot Old People. This honor will be presented at the MLA Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 5 January, at 7:00 p.m. in the Sheraton Ballroom I-IV of the Sheraton Grand Hotel. Margaret’s…[Read more]
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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Age Studies Sessions at MLA 2019, Chicago in the discussion
TC Age Studies via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHere are the sessions at MLA 2019 that pertain to Age Studies. Looking
forward to seeing you there!*Age Studies Panels at the MLA Convention in Chicago*
*3-6 January 2019*
*Session 38. Aging, Care, and Humor*
Thursday, 3 January
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Toronto Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel
Program arranged by the forum TC Age…[Read more]
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Nathan Gorelick started the topic Nomination to Forum Executive Committee — Candidate Statement in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoDear members of the Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature,
I am writing to request your support for my nomination to the forum’s Executive Committee. If elected, I would join the committee after the 2019 convention in January.
For three years (2016-2018), I served as the forum’s representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly, which…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverppol University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms, and ecological processes are vastly under-theorized. I…[Read more]
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Ben Streeter deposited Karl Ove Knausgaard Literary Celebrity in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoTo make sense of Knausgaard’s meteoric rise, we need to see that his prestige preceded his consecration in the Anglophone literary press.
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP — North American Network in Aging Studies conference paper deadline 11/1 in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues in Age Studies,
We are happy to announce that the joint international conference of the North American and European Networks in Aging Studies hosted by the Trent Center for Aging & Society in Peterborough, ON, is coming closer, and conference preparations are already in full swing!
And now, it’s time to add one of the most i…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Sympathy and Cosmopolitanism: Affective Limits in Cosmopolitan Reading in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis paper argues that contemporary understandings of cosmopolitan literature are significantly limited by their dependence on sympathetic attachments as constitutive of cosmopolitan practice. I trace a genealogy of the connection between sympathy, cosmopolitanism, and the novel that extends from Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant to Martha Nussbaum and…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited J. M. Coetzee’s Literature of Hospice in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines scenes portrayingcare for the aging, ill, and dying across J.M. Coetzee’s fiction. Even as Coetzee’s work models an ideal of hospice that resonates with Derrida’s conception of unconditional hospitality, it also attends to how this ideal is constrained by a global neoliberal regime that conceives of dying as a crisis to be ma…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis paper examines cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief (2007) and Open City (2011). The protagonists of both texts maintain cosmopolitan identities largely by embracing an international literary culture in which elite cosmopolitan fiction relays the experiences of marginalized cosmopolitan subjects such as migrant workers a…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited “To Be from the Country of People Who Gave”: National Allegory and the United States of Adichie’s Americanah in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCurrent debates about Afropolitan literature alternately value it for challenging western stereotypes about Africa and critique it for embracing western capitalism. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) complicates these debates by articulating a Nigerian dream that, while imbued with the class mobility of its American counterpart, d…[Read more]
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Oana Popescu-Sandu deposited “Translingualism as Dialogism in Romanian-American Poetry” in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis essay examines how translingual poetry by immigrant Romanian writers who live in or travel to the United States requires a transnational community framing rather than a national one and raises new questions about cultural and linguistic identity formation that reflect on both national and world literature issues. This analysis of the…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim started the topic CFP: Drafting Monique Wittig, Yale University, October 3-4, 2019 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers: Drafting Monique Wittig
Conference organized by Morgane Cadieu (Yale) and Annabel Kim (Harvard)
October 3–4, 2019
Yale UniversityThis conference, to be held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, both marks the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the publication of Wittig’s landmark novel, Les Guérillères, and showc…[Read more]
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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Nominations for the 2019 TC: Age Studies Executive Committee Election in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis is an invitation for you to nominate someone–self nominations welcome–for a position on the TC: Age Studies executive committee. When the executive committee meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago, it will take up the matter of nominations for the executive committee elections that will be held in fall 2019. One nominee will be…[Read more]
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