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Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPrior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[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, 4 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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Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Mindreading and Social Status in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWould you like to get better at mindreading (i.e., at inferring people’s beliefs, desires, and intentions, based on their behavior)? As it turns out, all you would have to do is lower your relative social status. Studies have shown that people in weaker social positions engage in more active and perceptive mindreading than do people in stronger s…[Read more]
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Kate Marshall started the topic Women and Language CFP in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHello,
Can you please share the Women & Language CFP with the MLA GS Prose Fiction Forum? I’ve pasted it below, but it’s also available online here.
Thanks,Leland G. Spencer, Editor
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami UniversityWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal pub…[Read more]
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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
GS Prose Fiction 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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Janine M. Utell started the topic S340: The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years agoMelody Nixon will be unable to join us for S340: “The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism: Theorizing, Writing, and Publishing Critical-Creative Hybrids” (Friday 3:30–4:45). She requests that those interested review her comments (attached) and consider her questions/prompts/provocations. Please join us in Sheraton Rav…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Panel "Beyond the Individual" in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoBeyond the Individual #763
Sunday, January 12 2020
1:45pm-3pm
Sheraton — Willow BPresiding: Daniel Hack
- Character Networks and Collectivity Scott Selisker, U of Arizona
- Characterization and Combination Andrea Kelly Henderson, U of California, Irvine
- Mohsin Hamid’s Global Direct Address Benjamin Mangrum, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Roundtable: Fictions of Belonging in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoFriday, 10 January 2020
10:15am-11:30am
Sheraton — Willow BSpeakers address theories and histories about modes of belonging in relation to fiction, including blackness, imperial subjects, migrancy and the diaspora, intimate archives, transhistorical and future audiences, queer theory, utopian politics, and…
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Megan Brown started the topic Call for Papers: “Un/Bound” Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers: “Un/Bound”
Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
36.3 Autumn 2021
http://www.tandfonline.com/rautSubmissions Deadline: February 1, 2020
Memoirs and other auto/biographical genres that describe selfhoods at, on, or over borders have long been a subject of scholarly interest but have recently acquired greater urgency. Border cro…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric 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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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Contingency, Staff, Anxious Pedagogy — and Love in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores the role of love, as defined by bell hooks, in pedagogy as well as how it plays into anxiety in our current moment.
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Nicole B. Wallack started the topic CFP: Reminder–Edinburgh Companion to the Essay in the discussion
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoCall for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay [Extended Deadline]Overview:
The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay provides an overview of the theories, histories, contexts and forms of the essay as well as of current debates around the genre and its extensions. The co-editors seek brief (300-word) proposals for chapters that p…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited CFP: ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of
‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’.
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Flavio Gregori uploaded the file: CFP Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel to
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. We shall be happy to consider essays that address and probl…[Read more]
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Peggy D. Otto started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Call for Proposals MLA Convention 2020 – Please share in the discussion
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLiteracy Transactions: People, Practices, and Texts The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum invites proposals on how literacies are exchanged between people and contexts. How do people, their literacy practices, and texts change as a result of this transaction? Submit 250-350 word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 April 2019 Peggy D.…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited CFP: Routledge Companion to Literature and Class in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoRoutledge is doing a series of literature companions. I have been requested to build a proposal for a Literature and Social Class companion text. You are most welcome to pass on this CFP to colleagues. Please see details in attached file. Questions?
Many thanks,
Gloria McMillan, Editor
Email for ideas, communications, and drafts
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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