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David Alff started the topic MLA 2023 CFP — Anglo-Dutch Exchanges in the 17c-18c World in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoAnglo-Dutch Exchanges in the 17-18c World (CFP, MLA 2023)
How did two nations separated by ninety miles of salt water establish rival patterns of resource extraction, settler conquest, capital finance, and maritime logistics that came to govern life the world over? This roundtable addresses the global impress of Anglo-Dutch relations in the 1600 a…[Read more] -
Adrienne Brown started the topic Visual Culture MLA Convention CFPs in the discussion
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoBelow you’ll find four CFP’s for proposed panels sponsored by the Visual Culture Forum for this year’s MLA. Please do circulate widely and consider contributing.
1- Visual Culture Forum seeks proposals for guaranteed MLA session, Women and Frames of Violence. How do women engage, practice and perform violence in visual culture? Considerations b…[Read more]
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John Garrison started the topic CFP MLA 2023: “Race, Gender, & Consent in the Global Early Modern” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoRace, Gender, and Consent in the Global Early Modern
Guaranteed roundtable on race, gender, and consent in the prose, poetry, and drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. How do the intersections of these terms illuminate cultural formations, social privileges, and legal rights? Comparative and transnational perspectives especially welcome. Brief CV…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Luis Restrepo started the topic CFP MLA 2023 Panel CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum / LLC Africa to 1900 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCHEAP’ NATURE, ‘CHEAP’ LABOR, AND THE EARLY MODERN CAPITALOCENE
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Examining early modern/colonial literary, ethical, ecological reflections on the European capitalist violent expansion in search of ‘cheap’ nature and labor inaugurating the capitalocene era and emerging notions of nature and the human. One page abstracts…[Read more] -
Carol Chiodo deposited De nostri temporis studiorum ratione and the Digital Humanities in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoTaking a page from eighteenth century philosopher Gianbattista Vico, this is a brief reflection on how Italian Studies scholars might view their work differently in light of the digital turn.
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Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoThis syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]
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John Garrison replied to the topic Call for Participants on a Guaranteed Roundtable: “New Rules” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years agoProposals due by March 14. Thank you!
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John Garrison started the topic Call for Participants on a Guaranteed Roundtable: “New Rules” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years ago“New Rules” (Guaranteed roundtable sponsored by CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern)
Proposed new guidelines for conducting research, sharing work, and supporting the profession as we address the realities of systemic social inequity, climate change, the expansion of the adjunct labor force, and drastic shifts in institutional support for the…[Read more]
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Rielle Navitski started the topic Call for Session Proposals in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Screen Arts and Culture Forum Committee is seeking proposals from the membership for two of our yearly panel slots (one guaranteed, one non-guaranteed).
If you are posting a CFP for your session on the MLA site, the deadline is February 28.
We will consider proposals for sessions up through March 15. Please email your proposals, including…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Rachel Floyd started the topic Dissertation Research on Professional Development in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello! My name is Rachel Floyd and I’m currently working on my dissertation research in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. I’m researching the current professional learning needs of recent alumni from graduate foreign language programs, including those no longer in academia. Would you be interested in sup…[Read more]
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Rhona Trauvitch started the topic Join the Executive Committee of LSL Linguistics and Literature in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoGreetings to the membership of LSL Linguistics and Literature!
Each year our Executive Committee says farewell to its longest-serving member and welcomes a new one. The time has come (the Walrus said) for us to appoint a new EC member who would begin their service in January 2023. Our appointment form is due in one week, and we seek…[Read more]
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Emily Friedman deposited “Let people tell their stories their own way”: Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years agoIn the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]
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Emily Friedman deposited “Let people tell their stories their own way”: Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years agoIn the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]
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Luis Restrepo started the topic Executive Committee Nominations — CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years agoCLCS Renaissance and Early Modern invites nominations for our Executive Committee. Self-nominations welcomed and encouraged. The Executive Committee is fully committed to including and amplifying the wide range of perspectives, voices, and languages that are crucial to our field. We are also committed to representing a diverse range of…[Read more]
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