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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP: MLA 2015/journal special issue in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton replied to the topic CFPs for MLA 2015! in the forum
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoAnd one more:
New approaches to Crime and Punishment
Panel proposed by the International Dostoevsky Society
New approaches to Dostoevsky’s novel welcome. How well do existing socio-political, religious, biographical, and psychoanalytic readings serve this text? Abstracts, maximum one page, by 15 March 2014 to Susan McReynolds (susan.mcreynolds@gmail.com). -
Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFPs for MLA 2015! in the forum
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Cold War and Experimental Fiction
Panel proposed by the Slavic and East European Literatures Division
In what ways did the Cold War generate experimental narratives? What impact did the Cold War discourse have on unofficial literature? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2014 to Julia Vaingurt (vaingurt@uic.edu).Central and Eastern Europe in…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic Call For Papers: MLA Convention 2015 Transnational Adoption in Film in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015
The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the adoption…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014<…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE Translating Social Movements Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014 The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as the…[Read more]