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Kenric K. Tsethlikai started the topic Kenric – LSL App Ling Exec Committee in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear LSL Applied Linguistics Colleague,
This year, I am on the ballot for the executive committee of the Language Studies and Linguistics (LSL) Applied Linguistics forum of the MLA – that’s all of you in this MLA Commons forum.
With hope for your support, I’m sending this brief message about me and my motivation for the Forum. My name is Kenric T…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for Next Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoSince the term of this forum’s current Delegate Assembly representative will expire in January 2018, the next forum delegate election is scheduled for the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive com…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Request for Membership Suggestions for the Fall 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe next scheduled election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is req…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoOceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on March 31-April…[Read more] -
Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic Britto — Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the LLC Francophone Forum,
I am honored to have been nominated by the current members of our executive committee to stand for election to the committee this year.
I am an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where I teach francophone and anglophone literatures of…[Read more]
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John Walsh started the topic Walsh – candidate for forum executive committee in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Fellow LLC Francophone Forum members, I’m running for a seat on our executive committee, so please allow me to tell you a little about my work.
My name is John Walsh, and I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. My teaching and research include the literature and history of Haiti and t…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Breaking Open Utopia: Science Fiction as Critique in the GDR in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this article I offer a reading of Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s novel Andymon (1982) in order to show how science fiction was able to function as critique in the German Democratic Republic. Andymon, a popular novel in a popular genre, establishes an extended analogy between spatial closure and temporal foreclosure to challenge the re…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Simply Reproducing Reality – Brecht, Benjamin, and Renger-Patzsch on Photography in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article reads Albert Renger-Patzsch’s photographic theory and practice in the context of Benjamin’s and Brecht’s dismissals of his work in order to recover the paradoxical interplay between documentation and perceptual training central to debates about photography as a specifically modern medium during the 1920s. I argue that, rather than…[Read more]
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John Walsh started the topic CFP: Migrations of Cultures – Undergraduate Conference at Pitt in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Migrations of Cultures” – Undergraduate Conference in the Modern Languages
To be held at the University of Pittsburgh, March 30-31, 2017
Calling all Advisors, spread the word to your students!
Do you want to share your ideas with other undergraduate students? Or get feedback on a paper? Maybe you are considering graduate school in one of the…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo started the topic CFP/Convocatoria: Latin American Speculative Fiction in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers (anticipated publication date early 2018; español sigue abajo)
Volume 31 Latin American Speculative Fiction (www.paradoxa.com)
Editors: Debra Ann Castillo (debra.castillo@gmail.com) and Liliana Colanzi (lc566@cornell.edu)
Speculative fiction provides complex perspectives on the changes that technological advances produce in…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Appel de communications Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling Colloque international in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoAppel de communications
Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling
Colloque international
Université de Toronto, Canada
24–26 mai 2017
L’affect est avant tout, dans l’ordre du corps, un phénomène physique et psychique, à la fois en-deçà et au-delà de la représentation, qui mobilise l’expérience concrète de soi, celle de l’autre et celle du monde. En…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee deposited Introduction: Departures, Emanations, Intersections in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThis is the introduction to the book German Literature as World Literature published by Bloomsbury Press in 2014.
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Susan Slyomovics deposited Visual Ethnography, Stereotypes, and Photographing Algeria in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoVisual Ethnography, Stereotypes, and Photographing Algeria
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Susan Slyomovics deposited Algerian Women’s Būqālah Poetry: Oral Literature, Cultural Politics, and Anti-Colonial Resistance in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoBūqālah refers both to a ceramic pitcher as well as to poems ritually embedded in the traditional, favorite, divinatory pastime associated with women city dwellers of specific Algerian towns such as Blida,Cherchell, Tlemcen, Constantine, and Algiers. This essay considers the shift from orality to a written archive of French and Algerian c…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: What is German Literature? (30.09.16) NEMLA in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis panel at the NEMLA Annual Convenion in Baltimore, 23-26 March 2017, will consider the question of how “German” literature has been conceived in the past, and of how such conceptions may be changing as we head into the future. We begin with the polyvalence of the adjective “German,” which can refer either to the language, or to an ethnic…[Read more]
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Nicole Grewling started the topic CfP: Writing Spaces – Landscapes and/in German Travel Writing (NeMLA 2017) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoCfP: Writing Spaces – Landscapes and/in German Travel Writing (Panel)
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA)
March 23-26, 2017
Baltimore, MD
Submission deadline: Sept.30, 2016
The desire to conquer hostile landscapes and explore unknown places has long constituted an essential aspect of traveling and hence also of co…[Read more] -
Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
This review only analyzes the work as a u…[Read more] -
Laila Amine deposited Double Exposure: The Family Album and Alternate Memories in Leïla Sebbar's The Seine was Red in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAmine’s essay explores memory-making and highlights a paradox in
Leı¨la Sebbar’s The Seine was Red, a novel that describes the conflicting memories of the police massacre of Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. Structured as a family album with captioned identities, place, and time, Sebbar’s novel employs a mode of remembrance that convent…[Read more] -
Laila Amine deposited The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis essay maps out a six-year literary transformation of Paris noir from 1957 to 1963 that overlaps with the Algerian war for independence from France (1954–1962). In this journey that transits from Parisian utopianism to postcolonial criticism, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin’s love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner S…[Read more]
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Yasser Elhariry started the topic CFP: Cultures of Mysticism (Expressions maghrébines) in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoExpressions maghrébines
Revue de la coordination internationale des chercheurs sur les littératures du Maghreb
http://www.ub.edu/cdona/emVol. 16, No. 2, Winter 2017: Call for Papers
Cultures of Mysticism
Edited by Yasser ElhariryFinal Papers Submission Deadline: 31 January 2017
Publication: December 2017The mystical strains of religious cultures p…[Read more]
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