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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP MLA 2021: Crossing Borders in N. Amer. Jewish Writing – proposals due 3/15 in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe Forum in LLC: Jewish American is sponsoring a panel that asks: How have US borders figured in Jewish writing? How have Jewish authors, texts, and discourses circulated across them? Papers will theorize and remap Jewish borderlands in the diaspora. 250 abstracts and brief CV requested. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15 March 2020 Dean Jo…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP MLA 2021: Antisemitism Beyond Zionism – proposals due 3/15 in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe Forum on LLC: Jewish American is sponsoring a panel on Jewish American literary engagements with antisemitism apart from or prior to Zionism including antisemitism in 19th c. literature, diaspora and national identity, and counter-histories. Papers may theorize the topic. 250 words, CV. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15 March 2020 Dean J…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic MLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is for a special session proposal, not a guaranteed panel.
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoMLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century
What methodologies and/or texts best help us make sense of our current bodily relationship to health, illness, and medicine? Papers utilizing posthumanism, new materialism, feminist science studies, or other philosophical tools are welcome. All literary genres and time p…[Read more] -
Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: V LALISA Conference Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear colleagues,
Please find attached the CFP for the V LALISA Conference Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon.
We look forward to your participation!
Best regards,
Isabel
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Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference Call for Papers (CFP) in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference
Call for Papers
MARCH 26-28, 2020
[Deadline: January 10, 2020]Graphic Medicine is a genre, a field, a tool, a community, and a cause. It is large enough to accommodate all health and medical experiences, from that of the doctor to that of the patient – from that of a microbe to that of a p…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Job posting: Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Department of Religion and the Medical Humanities Program at Montclair State University seeks an Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities.
Job Description
The Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities will teach and conduct research at the intersections of religion/culture and medicine/healthcare, such as…[Read more]
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Lorenzo Servitje started the topic TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
My name is Lorenzo Servitje, and I am assistant professor of literature and medicine at Lehigh University. I work in the English Department and the Health, Medicine, and Society Program. I am running for the TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum because I am committed to fostering the development, community, and…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic University of Florida – Spanish Graduate Program in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
The Spanish graduate program at the University of Florida is accepting applications for the MA and PhD degrees in either Spanish Literatures and Cultures or Hispanic Linguistics. Please circulate the attached brochure among any interested parties.
Inquiries can be addressed to: grad-coord@spanish.ufl.edu
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A. David Lewis deposited Policy Analysis: Follow-Up Care for Refugees in Massachusetts in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoWhat actions should the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI) undertake to ensure proper follow-up for identified physical and mental health issues among Muslim refugees?
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Melanie Jones started the topic CFP: Mad Scholars Anthology in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoRecently, there has been an avalanche of news articles about spikes in mental illness on campus. Seminal works like Margaret Price’s Mad at School (2011) have begun to expose the ableism inherent in the university and prompted more open discussion surrounding the politics of disclosure.
As interest in this crucial topic grows, we are seeking o…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWe have passed peer review. Please consider writing an essay for our text.
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A. David Lewis deposited Cancer and Comic Books: Distinguishing the Subgenre [Poster] in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoFor at least the last twenty years, scholarly attention has been drawn to the numerous depictions of cancer in comic books as well as oncology’s use of the comics medium (Rhode and Connor, 2012). However, little in the way of comprehensive analysis has been attempted, especially in terms of the various genres addressed. In this presentation, a ca…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Diagnosis Deafness in Cancer Comics in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoA brief piece on what I call “diagnosis deafness.” In short, to depict the sudden disorientation and shock of being diagnosed with cancer, comics artists frequently employ a visual rhetoric usually reserved for instances of deafness. At least momentarily – during an immensely significant moment in the life of the character – words fail, dev…[Read more]
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