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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoCall For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of our Times
Editors: Ananya Roy Pratihar(IMIS,Bhubaneswar), Saswat Samay Das (IIT, Kharagpur) & Shashibhushan Nayak(GP Nayagarh)
The biopolitical schemas for restructuring machinic networks of Media, Digital, and cinema do not stand as…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier replied to the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century English via email on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Professor Su Fan Ng,
I might be willing to help out, BUT I have to tell you that I no longer attend MLA, and could only work virtually.
Richard Strier
Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Editor, Modern Philology, 2004-2016
Department of English
University of…[Read more] -
Su Fang Ng started the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear all:We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC 17th-Century English. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements…[Read more]
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Eva Cherniavsky started the topic Updates from the Forum Executive Committee 12/28/23 in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,
I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]
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Dennis Wise deposited A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThis essay explains the background for two famous essays on the alliterative meter by the Inklings, “The Alliterative Metre” (C.S. Lewis) and “On Translating Beowulf” (J.R.R. Tolkien). The latter essay, I argue, owes its final published form to a sense of academic urgency that Lewis’s own publication had unwittingly instilled in his friend Tolkien.
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Sarah Benharrech started the topic MLA 18th century French Forum dinner on Saturday January 6th at 8:00pm in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear MLA members and 18th century enthusiasts,
You are invited to attend the 18c French Forum dinner on Saturday, January 6th at 8:00pm.
The dinner will take place at Caribou Café (1126 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107), which is a short walk from the PA Convention Center and the Downtown Marriott. The chef, Olivier Desaintmar…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Women, Gender, & Film in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoLove for Share: Historias de mujeres y de Sumisión: https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/loveforshare.pdf
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Dennis Wise deposited Delving into Gnome Man’s Land: Two Traditions in Baum and Tolkien in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDetails the usages of “gnomes” in L. Frank Baum and J.R.R. Tolkien
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Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more] -
Dennis Wise deposited Depth, Globalization, and the Domestic Hero: The Postmodern Transformation of Tolkien’s Bard in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Films in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoAlthough Marxist critics, including Frederic Jameson, have found little to admire about fantasy literature in general or J. R. R. Tolkien specifically, one of the prime qualities of Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937) is its instantiation of depth—the serious treatment of the conflict between the ancient world and modern. As such, works such as The Hob…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Experimental Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDomínguez Cáceres, Roberto. (Escuela de Humanidades y Educación, Tecnológico de Monterrey). “La intertextualidad metaficcional como crítica del cine y sus creaciones.” In Encuadres del discurso cinematográfico. Puebla and Nuevo León: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla / Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades ‘Alfonso Vélez Pliego’ /…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Books in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoGutiérrez Estupiñán, Raquel G., Jaime Villareal and Miguel Sáenz, eds. Encuadres del discurso cinematográfico. Puebla and Nuevo León: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla / Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades ‘Alfonso Vélez Pliego’ / Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2021. Online at Academia.* https://www.academia.edu/110133…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Women, Gender, & Film in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoMargarethe von Trotta, ‘Hannah Arendt’: Rara película sobre filósofa https://www.academia.edu/27998792/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Science Fiction Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRetropost, 2013: Never Let Me Go https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/neverletmego.pdf
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept… in the discussion
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
We would like to announce the publication of our new article titled “The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept in the Housewife Poems of Ziya Gökalp and Halide Nusret Zorlutuna” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies.
It is possible to download the article from the following link for fre…[Read more] -
Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature 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 write t…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society 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 creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
TC Popular 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 the…[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
TC Women’s and Gender Studies 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] - Load More
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