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Marlene Manoff deposited The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information by Paul Dourish in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoA book review of The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017) by John Dourish
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Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months ago“Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet” offers a timely reminder about the dangers of imposing a reformulated national myth on international Shakespeare productions. Focusing on a London performance of Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s shamanized Hamlet, this case study invites far broader consideration of the readability of glo…[Read more]
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Armando Maggi started the topic Concept of "Ruins" in Contemporary Culture in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoI’m interested in investigating the concept of ‘ruins’ in its broadest connotations, certainly not limited to its most common sense of ancient or modern ‘ruined’ building.
I am proposing a seminar at the next ACLA conference, and proposals for this seminar can be posted until the end of October 2020. This is a link to the seminar “Ruins: Marvel,…[Read more]
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Jen McConnel started the topic Connecting with the community in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHello everyone! I have been nominated as a candidate for the forum on Teaching as a Profession, and I wanted to introduce myself before the voting window opens next week. I’m a long-time teacher-researcher, and recently I began my position as an assistant professor of English education at Longwood University in Virginia.
My work centers around s…[Read more]
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Anna Castillo started the topic Thank you for the nomination! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHello to all! Many thanks for the recent nomination for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum. I’m a newcomer to the MLA Commons, so let me introduce myself. I am the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, where I research and teach contemporary literature and…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Social Justice: Performing Reparative Shakespeare against Vocal Disability.” Adaptation, October 2020: 1-19 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoMany screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in literature’s reparative merit, a preconceived notion that performing the canon can make one a better person. Inspirational narratives, in particular, have instrumentalized the canon to serve socially reparative purposes. Social recuperation of disabled…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoGlobal studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoGlobal studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]
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Benigno Trigo started the topic Introduction and many thanks! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHello, everyone! I’ve been nominated for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC Puerto Rican Forum Panel, so I’d like to tell you a little about myself. My research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American and Caribbean Literature; Women’s Writing; Psychoanalysis and Autobiography. My publications include Malady a…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP – Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (12/2/2020) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe peer-reviewed and open access Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now accepting submissions for its upcoming General Issue with a Forum on Teaching in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic edited by Nicole Zeftel (SUNY Buffalo), Alexis Larsson (CUNY Graduate Center) and Teresa Ober (University of Notre Dame).
JITP’s mission is to pr…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic Invitation Book Presentation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
I would like to invite you to the presentation of the English translation of Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Pixel Flesh (Carne de Píxel) by my dear colleague and friend Zachary Rockwell Ludington.
The Embassy of Spain will host an online presentation and reading on Friday, October 9 at 3pm EST. Zachary will be joined by Agu…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: College Teaching (with) Unflattening (edited volume) in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoUnfurling Unflattening: Tracing Pedagogical Possibilities within Higher Education (Round Two)
Link here: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/09/08/unfurling-unflattening-tracing-pedagogical-possibilities-within-higher-educationdeadline for submissions: October 30, 2020
full name / name of organization: Janine Utell
contact em…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad’s Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoKaren Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues:
I’d like to invite you to submit a proposal for the seminar at ACLA that I am organizing together with Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.
Title: The Shaping of Afro-Spaniard Identities: From the Colonial View to Counternarratives of Blackness within Spanish Culture (1920-2020)
Description: The numerous protests against systemic racism…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited CFP – Graphic Medicine at PCA 2021 in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoIn conjunction with the Popular Culture Association (PCA) holding their 2021 conference in Boston, contributors and attendees of the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Virtual Summit are proposing a slate of programming that now is welcoming additional participants.
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A. David Lewis deposited CFP – Graphic Medicine at PCA 2021 in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoIn conjunction with the Popular Culture Association (PCA) holding their 2021 conference in Boston, contributors and attendees of the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Virtual Summit are proposing a slate of programming that now is welcoming additional participants.
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Kate Pond started the topic seeking participants for my thesis project in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoI’m attempting to collect a number of micro-stories in order to deconstruct them by their morphological functions and rebuild one story from the crowd-sourced content. I am hopeful for a diverse representation, but looking for more voices. I would really appreciate if you have 30 minutes or so, that you help contribute to my…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Labor day and Swiftian sature Sep. 7, 2020 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoQUOTED from “Rust Belt Literature” Project at ResearchGate. My script for All the Old Familiar Places can be had by writing to:
gmcmilla@email.arizona.eduDear Colleagues,
I studied Jonathan Swift and the Augustan writer (Alexander Pope, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson) at Indiana Univ. NW Campus Gary, Indiana. My Swiftian satire, All the…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference Oct. 17-18, '20 in the discussion
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoTheme: Coping with Change Guest Speaker & Workshop Facilitator: Laura Apol, Lansing poet laureate Location: on-line, through Zoom (as hosted by Michigan State University writing faculty)
Since our last conference in October 2019, COVID-19 has struck, changing our lives and disproportionately affecting people of color. Then there was the<…[Read more]
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