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Anita Harris Satkunananthan started the topic CFP: Interrogating Folklore and the Literary Fairy-tale in the Anthropocene in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoApologies, a repost because the formatting was messed up on my previous post!
Dear Everyone,
My co-editors and I will be submitting a book proposal on the topic above to a university press. Please do consider contributing a chapter!
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2020
Full name / name of organization: Dr. Anita Harris Satkunananthan,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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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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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years agoLLC African American will be soliciting suggestions for our panels for MLA 2021 via Humanities/MLA Commons — Stay Tuned!!!
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Otherbreath: Bare Life and the Limits of Self in Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’ in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoFor the “Extreme Texts” special issue of Jacket2, edited by Divya Victor (2019)
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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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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group
MS Visual Culture on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]
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Shane Graham started the topic CFP: Langston Hughes Review Special Issue—"'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' at 100" in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoLangston Hughes Review
Guest Editor: Shane Graham
Expected Publication: May 2021In June 1921, Crisis published Langston Hughes’ first adult poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” In many ways it contained the blueprint for the poet’s entire subsequent career, and established many of his key themes: black pride and self-assertion; the validat…[Read more]
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Tanja Stampfl started the topic Tenure Track Position in Global Anglophone Literature and Composition in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Department of English at the University of the Incarnate Word seeks applications for an Assistant Professor position in Composition and Global Anglophone Literature with an emphasis on social justice issues (tenure-track, 4-4 teaching load) beginning August 2020. Ph.D. is required prior to the appointment start date. The successful candidate…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone, I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]
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Katrina Dunn started the topic Reimagining Theatre Education in the Era of Climate Crisis in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoPlease consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues.
What might we teach Swedish student activist Greta Thunberg if she were to choose post-secondary education in theatre? As she says, she has no reason to fear speaking the truth: what approach to acting and theatre-making might we take with…[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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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP — Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume* The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830* and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.Call for Proposals
*The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830*
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río PiedrasTraditional…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Commemoration: The Cultural Politics of Locating Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare.” Asian Theatre Journal 36.2 (Fall 2019): 275-280 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCultural memory is actively constructed through embodied and political performances. Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare, two “national poets” of unequal global stature, have recently become vehicles for British and Chinese cultural diplomacy and exchange during their quatercentenary in 2016. The culture of commemoration is a key factor in Tang’s…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon deposited Introduction to Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIntroduction to four poems written by Langston Hughes during the Spanish Civil War, published in the Little-Known Documents section of PMLA.
The introduction alongside the text of the four poems can be found on the PMLA’s site: https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.562.
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