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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 5 years agoBirds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic CFP MLA 2022 Washington, D.C. in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoCFP MLA Forum LLC 18th & 19th Century Spanish and Iberian sessions for MLA 2022:
Scientific Myth and Mythic Science in 18th-19thC Iberia
Concepts of scientific practice, development, and knowledge in dialogue with, or opposition to, myth, folklore, superstition, magic, prophecy, and traditional belief/wisdom. Brief CV & 200-word abstracts. Deadline…[Read more] -
Catherine Barbour started the topic CfP MLA2022 Translingual Iberia: Peripheries and Mobilities in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease send 250 word abstracts for a proposed panel at MLA2022 on trans- and multilingualism in cultural production of the Iberian Peninsula. Studies of works by migrant cultural producers and/or in non-state languages particularly encouraged.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 15, 2021 to Catherine Barbour, University of Surrey…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic 19th-century French at this year's convention in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years agoHappy New Year to all on behalf of the Modern Language Association LLC 19th-century French committee members!
In case you’re finding Confex a bit daunting, we have compiled below a list of sessions pertinent to nineteenth-century French studies (broadly writ). If your paper/panel is not featured, please feel free to reply to the list so…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited So, do I need to tell you how much I love the communication, the friendship you give me? in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn the letter Maragall sends to Salvador Albert, this question may seem like an attempt to escape thesubject or, at least, to divert the conversation, which focused on the value of the friend’s book, towards an a bit more generic praise of the critique. And maybe it is.
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic MLA 2021 Global Hispanophone Sessions in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month ago441 – Scholarship and Activism in the Global Hispanophone
Saturday, 9 January 2021
12:00 PM – 1:15 PMSession organizer (and moderating): Elisa Rizo, Iowa State U.
Presentations
Toward the Black Mediterranean
N. Michelle Murray, Vanderbilt UTranslation as Activism in the Global Hispanophone
Anna Tybinko, Duke U‘This Book Is O…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CELJ professional development/mentoring opportunity: Chat with an Editor in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoSharing in my role of Secretary of CELJ…please disseminate widely to graduate students and ECRs… ~ Janine Utell
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is hosting its annual Chat with an Editor program, in an expanded edition and in conjunction with the virtual Modern Language Association Convention. The Chat provides 20-minute time…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoVARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
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Anastasia Salter deposited Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn this paper we examine the representation of crafts in video games, particularly in “crafting systems” – collections of mechanics that are described as crafting within a game’s narrative. Real world crafting practitioners value creativity, expression, and mastery of material, but the act of crafting itself is often viewed by society as repro…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza” in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoOften described as an open-air prison, the citizens of the Gaza Strip have long resisted a subaltern existence. Conditions in Gaza, and specifically since the Second Intifada of 2000, have increasingly worsened. With the advent of Hamas in 2006-2007, a complete blockade was imposed on the Strip. A deafening silence by the world has resulted in…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Miller started the topic Call for Papers: Anales Galdosianos Monographic Issue in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoI am pleased to share the call for papers for Anales Galdosianos’s monographic issue, “Contagion and Illness in the Time of Galdós” / “Contagios y enfermedades en los tiempos de Galdós“.
Proposal Submission Deadline (250 words): November 30, 2020
Article Submission Deadline (maximum 10,000 words): April 16, 2021
Expected Publication Date: Novem…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Miller started the topic Call for Papers: Anales Galdosianos Monographic Issue in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoI am pleased to share the call for papers for Anales Galdosianos’s monographic issue, “Contagion and Illness in the Time of Galdós” / “Contagios y enfermedades en los tiempos de Galdós“.
Proposal Submission Deadline (250 words): November 30, 2020
Article Submission Deadline (maximum 10,000 words): April 16, 2021
Expected Publication Date: Novem…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Miller started the topic Call for Papers: Anales Galdosianos Monographic Issue in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoI am pleased to share the call for papers for Anales Galdosianos’s monographic issue, “Contagion and Illness in the Time of Galdós” / “Contagios y enfermedades en los tiempos de Galdós“.
Proposal Submission Deadline (250 words): November 30, 2020
Article Submission Deadline (maximum 10,000 words): April 16, 2021
Expected Publication Date: Novem…[Read more]
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFamily and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics
Call for Articles, Interviews, and Comics
Even though family relationships are at the heart of many graphic narratives, particularly relationships between parents and children (one can think of examples like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman’s Maus), few s…[Read more]
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Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Espacios de la memoria. Marcel Proust y Juan Benet in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn recent years it has been recognized that Proust profoundly influences different Spanish narrators (see H. Craig, also for Latin American literature), and in this work it is shown how in the syntax, the type of narrator, the construction of the scene and other aspects in Juan Benet’s narrative show the Prustian influence.
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Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Kafka en España: unas notas sobre Carmen Martín Gaite y Enrique Vila-Matas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFranz Kafka is one of the most influential writers in Spanish narrative since the post-war period, from the beginnings of the work of Carmen Martín Gaite, to Enrique Vila-Matas, one of the most widely translated and well-known current novelists.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century Latin American 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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Esha Sil uploaded the file: Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 to
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
“SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations”
(late 18th – early 20th centuries)
10-12 May 2021
Live in Helsinki and online
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues tha…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic NCFS Resource and Exchange Network in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoWorking on topics related to 19th-c France? Having trouble accessing library materials while teaching online and/or away from the library? Colleagues affiliated with the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association have created an ad hoc resource exchange network to try to help one another locate materials.
Feel free to signup in order to…[Read more]
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