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Kimberly Mack started the topic GS Life Writing Forum Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear All–My name is Kimberly Mack, and I am running to serve on the executive committee of the GS Life Writing forum. I would like to share a little bit about my work and, if elected, what I would hope to contribute to the GS Life Writing Forum over the next few years. I am very excited about this opportunity, and I look forward to getting to…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]
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Melanie Jones replied to the topic “Global Dostoevskys,” North American Dostoevsky Society in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoUPDATE: The deadline for abstracts and submissions is now rolling.
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInvited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoReview of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Melanie Jones started the topic “Global Dostoevskys,” North American Dostoevsky Society in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe North American Dostoevsky Society invites proposals for blog posts on the topic of “Global Dostoevskys: Influences and Receptions” for our official blog The Bloggers Karamazov. Posts for this limited series should focus on an aspect of Dostoevsky’s influence and reception outside of Russia. Less researched sites of influence and unexp…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg started the topic CFP: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies” in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies”
Sept 30 — Oct 1, 2022
Elmira, NY
The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College is hosting its annual Quarry Farm Symposium during the Fall 2022 semester, from September 30th to October 1st, organized around the theme of Abolition Studies. This year’s Keynote Address will…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoScholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
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Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoPublished in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Ann Komaromi started the topic Delegate Assembly Representative – Call for nominations in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoWe are seeking a candidate suggested by the membership of the Russian and Eurasian Forum to be our Delegate Assembly representative (info on the position can be found here: https://governance.mla.hcommons-staging.org). Members may nominate themselves for this position. Please send your name or the name of the member suggested, affiliation,…[Read more]
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Spencer Hawkins started the topic CFP: “The (Self)translation of Knowledge: Scholarship in Migration.” in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHello colleagues,
I am writing to announce our call for papers for the special issue 36 of the journal Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. The title of the special issue, edited by Lavinia Heller and Spencer Hawkins, is “The (Self)translation of Knowledge: Scholarship in Migration.” Please see the following link for details:
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers (please share)
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited Scott’s Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIt is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott’s adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]
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Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic March 25 deadline for CFPs–Please join us! in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPlease read the three CFPs below and send in an abstract by March 25 to be a part of the following sessions at MLA 2022. We would appreciate your forwarding the CFPs to colleagues as well. Much appreciation for your time and help.
Building Bridges and Breaking Down Walls: The Teaching of World Literature in English
Studying world languages and…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago*Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]
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Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoUniversity of Pennsylvania, Jewish Studies Program:
“On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”
Steven J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
Registration Required: Click here to registerMore information on the Jewish Studies Program website
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