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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoAs the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.
Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP MLA2020 "At the Borders of the Human in Japanese Lit and Culture since 1900" in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP MLA 2020 Panel Theme LLC Japanese Literature Since 1900
Guaranteed Panel: “At the Borders of the Human in Japanese Literature and Culture since 1900”
Following the MLA Presidential Theme of “Being Human,” the LLC Forum Japanese since 1900 executive committee invites submissions for proposals for our guaranteed panel on the theme of “Boundar…[Read more]
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Molly Des Jardin deposited Constructing Our Canon(s): Reprinting & Digitizing Literary Heritage in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhen it comes to Japanese literary heritage, why and how are we able to access it? The shape of what is preserved and available is driven by and in turn dictates the shape of our canon(s). Yet we often do not think of the labor and social networks behind the reprinting and digitizing that allows us to access literature in the first place, whether…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited Chinese 211: Bibliography and Research Methods in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to the tools, methods, and history of sinology. Sinology refers to the study of China as performed in a philological manner. Philology refers to the historical study of language and literature in its fullest context. It is inherently interdisciplinary. It draws on the fields of…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited Chinese 101B: Introduction to Classical Chinese II (Winter 2019) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis course introduces students to the grammar and vocabulary of Classical Chinese. Readings cover a range of texts and genres from the early and medieval periods, with a few examples from later periods. Students should already have some familiarity with Chinese characters (Hànzì 漢字, Kanji, Hanja), whether through Mandarin Chinese or another East…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Social Hour for East Asianists Thurs night 1/3/19 – *free drinks* free books* in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHope to see everyone there! Please share this with all your colleagues!
*First 60 people get a free drink ticket, and everyone has a chance at the door-prize raffle for new books.*
177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC…[Read more]
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Nathan Faries started the topic WELCOME! EAST ASIA SOCIAL EVENT: THURSDAY, JANUARY 3–8:45 p.m.-10:00 p.m. in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHope to see everyone there! Please share this with all your colleagues!
First 60 people get a free drink ticket, and everyone has a chance at the door-prize raffle for new books.
177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC…[Read more]
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Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature abstract deadline extended in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 2019 conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, to be held from July 17-19, 2019, on the campus of Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China. The deadline for receipt of abstracts has been extended to January 7. The ACCL welcomes papers on a…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Bernard C. Aresu started the topic Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoI am happy to contribute this brief statement in connection with my nomination as candidate to the executive committee of the MLA’s LLC Francophone.
Currently, I am Laurence H. Favrot Professor emeritus at Rice University whence I just retired from teaching to turn to full time research.
My current book project, The Self in Dissidence: Me…[Read more]
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Tobias Warner started the topic Warner — Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the LLC Francophone Forum,
I am honored to have been nominated by the current members of our executive committee to stand for election to the committee this year.
I am an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Davis where I teach literature and film from West Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Korean on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited Lyricism, the Veneration of Feeling, and Narrative Techniques in the Poetry Talks of the Southern Society in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper examines the voluminous “poetry talks” (shihua) written by Southern Society (Nanshe) members and focuses on two tendencies in these discourses: The general cult of sentimentality and the narrative strategy on women’s poetry. These poetic discourses succeeded the language of traditional literary criticism, but also exhibited ideals of th…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited From Poetic Revolution to the Southern Society: The Birth of Classicist Poetry in Modern China in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper examines the birth of classicist poetry by paying attention to the Southern Society’s (Nanshe) diachronic succession of the late Qing Poetic Revolution. It provides a careful analysis on the novelty of Huang Zunxian’s poetry and shows how the Southern Society transformed Huang’s Europeanized innovation into something that was roote…[Read more]
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Molly Des Jardin started the topic CFP: SHARP 2019 (Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book) in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHi all,
Forgive this non-MLA post (cross-posting on top of it!) but I was thinking of proposing something for SHARP 2019 in Amherst, MA. If anyone has interest in doing a panel on Japanese book history, I’d love to hear from you. Here is the very broad CFP, entitled Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Language and Culture of Quebec in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDetailed Syllabus and outline for a 7-week course in the history of the language and culture of Quebec.
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Alexa Joubin deposited “‘To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores’: Shakespeare in the World.” The Score : An Insider’s Guide to the Performing Arts (New York: Lincoln Center, June 28, 2018) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn the centuries since William Shakespeare’s death, numerous stage and, more recently, film and television adaptations of his work have emerged to inspire, comfort, and provoke audiences in far-flung corners of the globe. As early as 1619, for example, Hamlet was performed in colonial Indonesia to entertain European expatriates. In 1845, U.S. Army…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Ces traîtres qui affament notre peuple. Argent et antisémitisme dans la « Recherche » proustienne in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe Jewish ‘question’ is treated in the Recherche by way of the Dreyfus Affaire, which is not spoken of but scattered in the discourses of different characters. Definitions, opinions, even facts are, therefore, spread in the ubiquity of social instability, so that it is impossible for the reader to identify any of Proust’s ideologies.In our paper…[Read more]
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Geraldine Fiss started the topic CFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms
MLA 2019 LLC East Asian Forum Session Call for Papers
MLA 2019 Convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
Modern and contemporary East Asian women writers, poets and filmmakers contribute in unique and significant ways to cultural change, while both embodying and transcending feminist concerns. Many women…[Read more]
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