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Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAttention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]
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aecklund started the topic New recorded presentation from the Charleston Library Conference, November 2020 in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoMLA staff member and University of Scranton instructor Dan Connor shares his recent experience teaching with the MLA International Bibliography in this recorded presentation from the November 2020 Charleston Library Conference.
View the recording on Vimeo here: Searching to Engage: Teaching with the MLA International Bibliography
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Victoria E. Szabo started the topic Teaching DH in the Time of COVID in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoRoundtable Discussion at MLA 2022!
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Comics and ImageText in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoGraduate seminar syllabus: In this seminar, we will explore the contemporary comic, considering literary and cultural works across a range of platforms and markets. Comics are still frequently (and historically) associated with popular culture, and linked to children’s literature and mass media, even as they loom large through big and small screen…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic "Aproximaciones Interdisciplinarias a la Literatura Áurea" in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoEstimados colegas:
Les escribo para invitarlos al coloquio internacional “Aproximaciones Interdisciplinarias a la Literatura Áurea” que tendrá lugar vía Zoom el 9 de abril de 2021. El programa así como la información para participar vía Zoom se encuentran aquí…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Los modos literarios flexibles de ‘Vísceras de la ciudad’ (1935) de Rosa Arciniega in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.
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Kim Adams started the topic "Eugenics and the Body" MLA 2022 CFP in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoI’m writing to share a CFP for a special session at MLA 2022, that may be of interest to scholars in of literature and science. Please note that the abstract deadline is this Friday, March 26th.
“Eugenics and the Body” MLA 2022
How has eugenics—a discourse of bodily perfection that centers reproduction—influenced perceptions of (non-)human…[Read more] -
Susan Larson deposited La gramática de la ‘Hispanidad’: Retórica de imperio y arquitectura historicista en los discursos públicos de J.C. Nichols in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe purpose of this essay is to better understand the motives of the real estate mogul and construction magnate -J.C.Nichols- responsible for the construction of the first non-centrally located shopping mall in the United States in Kansas City in the 1920s. Specifically, this study focuses on why and how Nichols resorted to a pastiche of…[Read more]
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Daniela D'Eugenio started the topic Jane Tylus_What Does it Take to Make a Saint Medieval Women, Yesterday and Today in the discussion
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Italian Program at the University of Arkansas would like to invite you to a lecture by Prof. Jane Tylus (Yale University), “What Does it Take to Make a Saint? Medieval Women, Yesterday and Today,” on Monday, March 22, at 6:00pm CST.
All are welcome! Please register in advance for the event Register here. All registered par…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Intermedialidad e intertextualidad en _Cinematógrafo_ (1936) de Andrés Carranque de Ríos in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoEn la década de 1990, el concepto ‘intermedialidad’ puso en contacto distintas disciplinas académicas (estudios literarios, estudios mediáticos, sociología, estudios cinematográficos e historia del arte) desde la intención por encarar y mejor comprender el ambiente cultural visual/escrito/auditivo que caracterizó los comienzos del siglo XX. Conect…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited The Campus After COVID-19 in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay compares the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at two universities on opposite sides of the world: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States. It argues that the pandemic has revealed the extent to which campuses have reorganized their institutional…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago*Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original post. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original post. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Multilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoMultilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context
MLA Call: This session explores the use of language–Italian, Italian dialects, regionalism, Italiese, or even foreign languages–within the context of Italian American e/o Italian diasporic studies. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions from literary to visual and performative…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Challenging the (Italian) American Canon: Past to Present in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWhat makes a canon? More importantly, what is the confines, political and literary, faced by installing a canon? By destroying the canon as scholars, do we end up doing more good than bad? What is the future of ethnic writers when considering the canon?
Italian American studies scholar Mary Jo Bona claims that “many factors contributed to the e…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic MLA Working Group in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoMLA Working Group
Transgenerational Trauma in Italian-American Literary, Visual, and Performative Texts
From the shellshock victims of the First World War to adopting the term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma studies cover a wide-ranging area, from psychiatry to transgenerational trauma. In The Traumatic Imagination, Eugene Arva…[Read more] -
Ana León-Távora started the topic CFP Volume on Agustín Fernández Mallo in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for papers: Essay proposals for a volume on the work of Spanish poet, novelist, and essayist Agustín Fernández Mallo, to be edited by Ana León-Távora (Salem College) and Zachary Rockwell Ludington (U of Maine).
Following our MLA 2021 panel, “General Trash Heap of Theory: Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Iconoclastic Aesthetics,” we invite abst…[Read more]
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