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Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with a Spanish-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics (excelencias) of the Jewish…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .pdf format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Colonial Latin American HAPPY HOUR in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear friends,
Please join the LLC Colonial Latin American Forum Happy Hour. As she usually does, Lisa Voigt has picked the coolest place: The Belmont Bar. https://www.belmontseattle.com/January 10th, 8:00 pm at the Belmont Bar.
518 Pike StreetSeattle 98122 206-557-0733
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Colonial Latin American Sessions in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago46. Colonial Translation: Rendering Indigenous and Western Exchanges
Organizer and Chair: Galen Brokaw
THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 1:45 PM-3:00 PM, 203 (WSCC)
- Marlena Cravens, U of Texas, “Quechua Dictionaries: Catholicism and Tribute in the Wake of Castilian Conquest, 1535-1620”
- Ben Post, Murray State U, “Calderón reducido: Theological Drama in…
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Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoPanels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5
THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[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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John Garrison replied to the topic CLCS RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThank you, Donna. I am the other nominee and will take this opportunity to introduce myself, too.I am an Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College, where I teach courses on early modern literature and culture as well as courses on gender and sexuality. I was honored to be nominated for the forum, and I’d love to bring the perspective of…[Read more]
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John Garrison replied to the topic CLCS RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThank you, Donna. I am the other nominee and will take this opportunity to introduce myself, too.
I am an Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College, where I teach courses on early modern literature and culture as well as courses on gender and sexuality. I was honored to be nominated for the forum, and I’d love to bring the perspective of…[Read more]
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Domna C. Stanton started the topic CLCS RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum I am very pleased to be nominated for election to our Forum Executive Committee. This continues to be an exciting, innovative time for early modern studies, not only because of the global turn in our field but also because we are making major contributions to emerging areas in the Humanities: environmental…[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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Jason Frydman deposited Scheherezade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDrawing on Arabic textual traditions and foregrounding the liminal time and space of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation, Muslim slave narratives deserve recognition as generative forebears of transnational, multicultural literature in both England and the United States. Yet these forebears were…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Kafka, the Caribbean, and the Holocaust in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis essay reexamines the figure of Franz Kafka (1883–1924) in light of his largely ignored, recursive links to circum-Caribbean and Black Atlantic processes of racialized exploitation and corporal punishment. When we centre Kafka’s extensive biographical and literary engagements with these processes, the persistent debate over Kafka’s statu…[Read more]
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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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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic Forum Exec Ctte Election — Christopher Lupke Statement in the discussion
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues:
I am running for the TC Anthropology and Literature Forum Exec Ctte and am asking for your vote! Here is a little information about me. As a Chinese specialist, I may be unfamiliar to most of you but I’ve actually been a member of the MLA for 30 years and now am a Life Member. I am Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies and Chair…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern 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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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]
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