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Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Caroline Winter deposited The Future is Meta: Five Revolutionary Ideas for Cataloguing and Metadata in Libraries and Archives in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoA job talk given as part of an interview for a faculty librarian position
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Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere. I too am looking forward to more information!
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Beth Widmaier Capo replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis sounds fantastic. Do you have instructions (deadline, length, address) for abstract submissions?
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Shannon Herbert started the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoIn 2017, when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to use the hashtag #metoo if they’d ever “been sexually harassed or assaulted” social media feeds were suddenly flooded with the phrase. People were quick to point out that #metoo did not originate with Milano, but with Tarana Burke, a social worker and activist who proposed the phrase in 2006. Since…[Read more]
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cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
Cynthia Chase started the topic Voice: Remediated Embodiments, #414, arranged by MS,Opera&Musical Performance in the discussion
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years ago“‘Allo, c’est toi?’: Questioning the Telephone in La Voix Humaine” — by Jeremy Glazier
“The Diva as Hologram: opera, liveness, and audiovisual remediation” — by Joao Pedro Cachopo, U. of Lisbon
“The Pitch of the Voice: Beckett and Feldman’s Antiopera Neither” by Sydney Boyd
Followed by discussion — Come to Willow A, Sheraton, at 5:15…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic 19th-Century French at 2020 MLA + meetup in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 6 years agoBonne année!
If you are attending this week’s MLA Convention in Seattle, please feel free to join forum delegates and other 19th-century colleagues at the Friday night cash bar co-hosted by Women in French, which has organized a number of 19th-century sessions.
Jan 10, 2020, 7:15 PM–8:30 PM (Sheraton – Metropolitan B)
- Cash Bar Arranged by th…
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender 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.
<a title=”Original URL:
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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