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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 ACLA: Exotic Europe (deadline 09/23) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoProposal submissions at: http://www.acla.org/seminar/exotic-europe
This seminar will discuss and compare a variety of cultures of Europe beyond the “usual suspects” of Central and Western Europe that have shaped its dominant discourse and carried off most of the international literary prizes.
Culturally, the quilt of Europe is vast and exo…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Kindred Spirits: Fanon's Postcolonialism" in the group
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis essay concerns the significance of phenomenology in Frantz Fanon’s thought and its influence on the autobiographic and ethnographic contours of his study, Black Skin, White Masks. Of note is Fanon’s movement between metaphor and phenomenology, especially as concerns figures of the hand and the body, and how his narratological treatment of…[Read more]
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene
http://www.acla.org/seminar/writing-disaster-era-anthropocene
Location: Harvard University
Date: March 17-20, 2016
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 23rd, 2015 (http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper)
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Nicole Seymour started the topic Masculinity and Environment in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoDear All:
I’m co-organizing a February 2016 workshop titled “Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change” at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany. Our CfP deadline is tomorrow, but if you have interest and need more time, please contact me at nseymour@fullerton.edu. See our CfP at:…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more] -
Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoPlease attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, for your classes. Help your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future.
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Siendou Konaté started the topic CFP Hegemony and Domination in Translation Studies in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCahiers Ivoiriens d’Etudes Comparées (CIEC)/ Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies (IJCS)
Volume 2 Numéro 1
Hégémonie et domination en traductologie
La traduction a été perçue comme la “reproduction du message” du texte original dans la langue-culture cible par Eugene Nida et Charles Taber (Theory and Practice of Translation, Leiden: E.J.…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoSpecial Issue for Postcolonial Text
CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue
(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)
In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compil…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Comments on the Commons Newswire in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoHi all,
I just wanted to alert this group’s members to the fact that there have been a couple of comments on the Commons Newswire piece on your work. I thought one of you might like to respond.
https://thewire.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ecocriticism-environmental-humanities/
Yours,
Nicky
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThank you Simon Richter for uploading the latest syllabus. Your course on Waterworlds looks terrific!
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Simon Richter uploaded the file: Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise & Catastrophic Flooding to
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoAs a result of climate change, the world that will take shape in the course of this century will be more water inundated than we’re accustomed to. The polar ice caps are melting, glaciers are retreating, ocean levels are rising, polar bear habitat is disappearing, countries are jockeying for control over a new Arctic passage, while low-lying c…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic CFP: After Transnational American Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago“After Transnational American Studies” (MLA 2016): What does it mean to come after Transnational American Studies? Papers may consider transnationality, Americanity, globality, planetarity, empire, and/or the anthropocene. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2015 to Abby Goode (abby.l.goode@gmail.com).
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: Comparing Doris Lessing's Historical & Speculative Fiction, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoLooking Backward, Looking Forward: Comparative Readings of Doris Lessing’s Historical and Speculative Fiction
for the MLA Convention in Austin, 2016.Seeking comparisons of Lessing’s historical-realist-autobiographical to her speculative novels or stories, as these are often considered by critics to be separate areas or phases of Lessing’s wo…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic CFP — Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis session looks terrifically good — what a timely and important topic. Thanks for posting the CFP here.
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Nicole Seymour started the topic CFP — Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHi All,
Please see the CFP below for an MLA 2016 panel I’m organizing with Clare Echterling. Circulate as you see fit. Thanks!
Best, Nicole
Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities
For this panel, organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, we invite proposals for papers that place…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded the combination of humor, hyperbole, a…[Read more]
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