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Kristin Moriah started the topic Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoUn-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives
This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]
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Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”
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Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years agoHi everyone,I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 16th with your nominations. Thanks!
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SBussey started the topic Philadelphia plans in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoLooking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year’s Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please click this l…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more] -
Epifanio San Juan deposited CHALLENGING AMERICAN STUDIES in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoCritique of orthodox American Studies in the last quarter of the twentieth=century.
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Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoVery happy to share that my article on Kracauer’s “Photography” essay (1927) and its weird use of Bachofen’s theory of the archaic matriarchy has just been published in The Germanic Review. E-prints here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CNSXEEHMUQYSFFXG3TZ9/full?target=10.1080/00168890.2023.2232511
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoMakes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.
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Katherine Elkins started the topic CFP: Special Issue on Good and Evil in Fairytales (and folktales) in the discussion
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoHello,
I’m guest editing a special issue of humanities and we have room for a few more essays. The due date for final drafts will be a year from this August in 2024. The CFP is attached.
If you’re interested, please send me a 250-word abstract by August 2023 to elkinsk@kenyon.edu. I’m also happy to answer any questions/inquiries.
We have a g…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoVery excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoVery excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle
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Raquel Patricia Chiquillo started the topic CFP: for Journal Humanities – on Twenty-First Century Central American Novel in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoBuenas tardes, colegas: quisiera invitarlos a subir sus artículos sobre la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI para consideración de ser publicadas en la revista académica “Humanities.” La fecha de entrega es el 31 de marzo pero se puede extender. Me han dicho que el APC no se va a cobrar. Se aceptan manuscritos en español y en inglés. Por favo…[Read more]
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Andrea R. Malone replied to the topic CFP for MLA Convention 2024 in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoTo clarify, this session is sponsored by the Libraries and Research forum.
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Doris Hambuch deposited Bridges within the Arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoTracing the collaboration between Dylan and Scorsese from the 1960s on to the Netflix original ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ (2019), this article argues that the mutual respect of the two artists rests on a shared contestation of borders between fact and fiction. In the spirit of romanticism, both Dylan and…[Read more]
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