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Catherine Barbour started the topic CfP guaranteed panel Philadelphia, Jan 2024 in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoCfP guaranteed panel Philadelphia, Jan 2024: ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to Galician Im/Migration’
Submissions invited for guaranteed panel on Galician im/migration at MLA Convention in Philadelphia, 4 to 7 January 2024. Please submit 250 word proposal + short bio to Catherine Barbour (barbourc@tcd.ie) and Nicola Bermingham…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Hutton started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies CFP for MLA 2024: Literacies of self-care in the discussion
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe RCWS Literacy Studies forum committee invites 250-word proposals addressing the MLA 2024 conference theme of celebration: joy and sorrow, with a focus on self-care literacies. What are the varied ways that instructors, artists, students, scholars, writers and readers enact and enable literacies of self-care? How do such literacies commemorate,…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
LSL Language and Society via email on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This
guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for
languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc.
Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially
encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more] -
Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years agoThis chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Nominations for the Executive Committee of LSL Global English in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear Colleagues,
It’s that time of year, when MLA forums collect nominations (including self-nominations) for future Executive Committee members. If you would be interested in being on the LSL Global English forum’s Executive Committee from January 2024-January 2029, or if you know someone who could be a good fit, please email me with any…[Read more]
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Carla Suhr started the topic Calls for Papers: LSL Romance Linguistics Forum in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Romance Linguistics Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics to its 2024 panel. We invite abstracts exploring any area of Romance Linguistics, especially those involving real-world interfaces such as fieldwork, digital data, interdisciplinary projects or courses, and…[Read more]
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Carla Suhr started the topic Nominations Sought for the LSL Romance Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDear member of the LSL Romance Linguistics MLA Forum,
It´s that time of the year again! The Romance Linguistics Forum is currently seeking candidates to participate in the group’s governance. Nominees will have a chance to decide the forum’s priorities, organize panels, and interact with other standing member organizations of the MLA. The term…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoLaura Lesta García and Catherine Barbour
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. 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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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. 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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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. 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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Holly A. Yanacek started the topic Seeking Nominations for the Language & Society Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoDear Colleagues,
The MLA LSL Language & Society Forum Executive Committee is seeking candidates interested in serving on this committee for a five-year term from January 2023- January 2028. Forum executive committee members typically meet once per year at or around the time of the MLA Convention to decide the forum’s priorities and plan f…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoContrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic CFP: Youth Theatre and Performance in Regional, Minority, and Minoritised Langs in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoA conference will be held on the theme of ‘Youth Theatre and Performance in Regional, Minority, and Minoritised Languages’ on 23-25 March 2023, hosted by the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, University College Dublin, Ireland. The deadline for submission of 250 word abstracts is Friday, 28 October 2022. Further information about the…[Read more]
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Matthew Giancarlo started the topic Language Theory Session CFP topics posted for MLA 2023: invitation to submit in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMembers of the Language Theory group,
The Call for Papers topics for the 2023 MLA Annual Convention have been posted here: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Session13763.html
Please consider submitting a paper proposal for one of the topics, and please circulate them to interested colleagues!
The deadline for submissions is…[Read more]
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Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Carla Suhr started the topic Nominations Sought for the LSL Romance Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 4 years agoDear member of the LSL Romance Linguistics MLA Forum,
The Romance Linguistics Forum is currently seeking candidates to participate in the group’s governance. Nominees will have a chance to decide the forum’s priorities, organize panels, and interact with other standing member organizations of the MLA. The terms are generally for five yea…[Read more]
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Francisco Antonio Montaño started the topic Call for Papers: LSL Romance Linguistics Forum in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 4 years agoCall for Papers:
The Romance Linguistics Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics to its 2023 panel. We invite abstracts exploring any area of Romance Linguistics (theoretical, socio-pragmatic, or applied) within any variation framework for the 2023 MLA Convention.…[Read more]
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