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David A. Wacks deposited Whose Spain is it, anyway? in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Iberian Peninsula during the Latin Middle Ages was home to large populations of Muslims and Jews. During the period we like to call the Middle Ages, much of the Iberian Peninsula was under Muslim rule. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, the entire peninsula was under Christian rule, and Judaism and Islam were officially banned.…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic Special Issue Journal Spanish Cultural Studies Entering the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoNew double special issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Vol 20 Issues 1-2 (May 2019) entitled “Entering the Global Hispanophone”, edited by Benita Sampedro Vizcaya and Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, and with contributions by Alberto López Martín, Eric Calderwood, Paula C. Park, Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger, Inés Plasencia Camps, Balta…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoSepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
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Michael Ullyot deposited Course Outline: Revenge Tragedy in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoEnglish 412 is, in its official description, “A survey of drama from 1558 to 1603, including works by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.” In this version from 2017, students focused on six revenge tragedies, the blockbuster genre of the Elizabethan theatre: plays filled with bloody violence, elevated rhetoric, and ghosts imploring…[Read more]
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Jean Dangler started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Spanish Literatures and Cultures in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoPlease encourage your graduate students and others to apply for our newly created position in Modern Spanish Literatures and Cultures: apply.interfolio.com/62058. We are interested in applicants whose work takes up the literary and cultural connections between Spain and North Africa.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Spanish Literatures and…[Read more]
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Eric Calderwood started the topic CFP: Reel Iberia (March 27-28, 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear members of the Global Hispanophone Forum:
I’m writing to let you know about an exciting conference that I’m organizing with my colleague Javier Irigoyen-García. The conference, scheduled for March 2020, will explore film and television representations of Iberian history. We are hoping for a diverse group of papers, covering many geogra…[Read more]
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Baltasar Fra-Molinero started the topic CFP Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis session seeks proposals that address the study of the Global Hispanophone as a mode of inquiry thatde-centers national narratives as well as regional ones (Latin America vs Spain) and reviews and critique past and present literary canons. We want to pay close attention to geographic/historical peripheries and cultural practices that challenge…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2019 MLA Panels in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoStudents learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoTeaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more] -
Stefania Licata replied to the topic Session Proposal:Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone arts in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
the session is for the 2019 ALA (African Literature Association) Conference, which will take place at Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel, from May 15 to May 18, 2019.
Thank you very much
Stefania
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Marisa Verna deposited Lire, une histoire simple in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis book constitutes the result of a pedagogical experimentation, that I conducted for the Master in Linguistic and Literary Sciences of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, during the academic year 2017-2018. The critical essays that are here collected have been written by some students of my class, and show clearly enough that…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Pour une pédagogie créative de la littérature. Enseigner la littérature au musée, « La Nuova Secondaria », 3 Novembre 2018, pp. 87-89. in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis article describes a pedagogical project that took place between 2015 and 2016, and involved my students of the French Literature class, third year of Bachelor of Arts (foreign languages). The intersection and interrelation between figurative art and poetry were at the centre of the theoretical insight, whereas the necessity of adapting our…[Read more]
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Mahan Ellison started the topic Call for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Assoc. in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (LHCALA) Subsequent to the ALA general call for papers for the 45th Annual Conference to be held in Columbus Ohio, May 15-May 18, 2019, the LusoHispanophone Caucus (LHCALA) extends an invitation to its members and friends to propose papers, panels, and r…[Read more]
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Barbara Riess started the topic Lost Voices: MLA International Symposium 2019 Call for Papers: Cuba in the discussion
Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoPanel title: Remembering Voices Lost: Visions of the Cuban Revolution
This panel explores voices marginalized from the international literary or cultural landscape due to their particular relationship to the Cuban Revolution. Since before its official political existence in 1959 through its self-preserving transformations at various pivotal…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe peer reviewed journal iMex. Interdisciplinary Mexico, ISSN 2193-9756 is currently accepting original, unpublished articles on the subjects of haunting and spectrality in contemporary Mexican cultures for its special issue Spectral Mexico. Original call for papers available here:…[Read more]
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Eric Calderwood started the topic New journal of interest to Global Hispanophone scholars in the discussion
Global Hispanophone via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDear Global Hispanophone colleagues,
I hope that you’re all having a great summer! I’m writing to let you know
about a new journal that might be of interest to the members of this list.The Argentine writer Santiago De Luca is currently serving as Argentina’s
cultural attaché to Morocco. In that role, he has founded a new journa…[Read more] - Load More