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Stefania Irene Sini posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoEnthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature
Issues 15 and 16 (2016)
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Crystal Parikh started the topic The MLA and the boycott of Israeli academic institutions in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<div>In April, 2013, the Association for Asian American Studies became the first academic organization within the US to pass a resolution calling for the academic boycott of Israel for its systematic and wholesale violation of the rights of Palestinians in all areas of life, including education. In December 2013, the American Studies Association…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Join us for the Age Studies events at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoMLA Sessions Relevant to Age Studies
Note: All of the sessions below relate to the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions
Thursday 5 January
Session 9
“Reimagining Adolescence: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”
12 noon-1:15 p.m.
102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Session 96
“Out of Narrative Bounds: Medica…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Conditions for Palestinian Higher Education: MLA Members Report in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIn June, 2016 a group of six MLA members traveled together to the West Bank and Israel to find out what it was like for Palestinian academics and students trying to study, teach, and research at universities in the occupied territories and within Israel itself. In addition to learning about academic conditions under occupation, the group also wa…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic MLA GS Life Writing 2017 Social in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSaturday, January 7, 2017 6 pm to 7:30 pm
Take some time out to enjoy the annual MLA GS Life Writing Forum social. To be held at the Marriott Philadelphia Courtyard Downtown, 21 North Juniper Street. Check back on Jan 5 for suite number. Hope to see you there!
Sponsored by a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic MLA GS Life Writing 2017 Social in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSaturday, January 7, 2017 6 pm to 7:30 pm
<span class=”_4n-j _3cht fsl”>Take some time out to enjoy the annual MLA GS Life Writing Forum social. To be held at the Marriott Philadelphia Courtyard Downtown, 21 North Juniper Street. Check back on Jan 5 for suite number. Hope to see you there!</span>
Sponsored by a/b: Auto/Biography…[Read more]
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Mark Sample deposited Interactive Digital Narratives Syllabus (Davidson College 2016) in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSyllabus for FMS 321 (Interactive Digital Narratives) at Davidson College, Fall 2016.
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia posted an update in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
International Seminar on
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL
UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
(Canary Islands, Spain)
June 21st-23rd 2017
Romance novels have often been dismissed by critics because of their nature as a popular genre and for being written and read largely by women. However, in the last…[Read more] -
Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
International Seminar on
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL
UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
(Canary Islands, Spain)
June 21st-23rd 2017
Romance novels have often been dismissed by critics because of their nature as a popular genre and for being written and read largely by women. However, in the last…[Read more] -
Subarno Chattarji deposited 'The Chameleon War': Passing Time and the Remembrance of the Vietnam War in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe article offers an analysis of W.D. Ehrhart’s memoir Passing Time.
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic Executive Committee Candidate Statement: Tana Jean Welch in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoGreetings! I have been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies, so I thought I’d take a moment to introduce myself and outline some of my interests and goals. I currently serve as assistant professor of medical humanities at the Florida State University College of Medicine. D…[Read more]
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Elizabeth J. Donaldson started the topic CFP: Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (15 Jan 2017) in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWe are seeking essay proposals for a peer-reviewed edited volume, Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health, which will be submitted to the Literary Disability Studies book series at Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave.com/us/series/14821). The volume will collect disability studies essays that focus on mental health,…[Read more]
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