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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoThank you so much! — Best, NST
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Vimala C. Pasupathi replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis place: a https://www.friedmansrestaurant.com/
“…The original store opened in 2009 in the Chelsea Market. One of the pioneers Vanessa had been diagnosed with celiac disease and had to eat gluten-free. So when the first location opened she was vocal about making it a gluten-free safe haven for her and her celiac peers. She was adamant that t…[Read more]
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoThanks to everyone who has recommended places to eat — on behalf of me and others with dietary restrictions, could someone be so kind as to recommend places with good gluten-free options?
(And by that I mean at least two or three entrées that meet gluten-free restrictions; ideally in places with separate preparing spaces but even if shared…[Read more]
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Vimala C. Pasupathi replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoI hesitate to tell people all of this because I’d like for my favorite spaces to be free of crowds.
If you want cheap and delicious food, you should go to Queens, particularly Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, & Flushing. Golden Mall in Flushing if you’re cool on walking down some steps into a basement mall & ordering super cheap and a…[Read more]
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Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Ritualization as pragmatic deployment of revolutionary consciousness in the drama of Femi Osofisan in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 8 years agoEarly works of dramatic criticism seeking to draw parallels between ritual and drama in Africa concentrated on examining the dramatic characteristics of ritual to see how drama evolved from ritual. However, a closer application of the theories of Girard, Schechner, Smith, Hubert Mauss and Turner reveal new perspectives on the interaction between…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Textbook for SPAN 341: Hispanic Culture Through Literature: Polemics and Debates (1100-1600) in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years agoSyllabus and Course Reader (Creative Commons Licensed) of survey course of premodern Hispanic literature and culture taught as a series of debates on social questions (see https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/12/14/survey4/)
Course description: This class introduces students to a variety of texts written in Spain and the New World from 1100-1600…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Textbook for SPAN 341: Hispanic Culture Through Literature: Polemics and Debates (1100-1600) in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years agoSyllabus and Course Reader (Creative Commons Licensed) of survey course of premodern Hispanic literature and culture taught as a series of debates on social questions (see https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/12/14/survey4/)
Course description: This class introduces students to a variety of texts written in Spain and the New World from 1100-1600…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Fairies and pagan mythologies in the medieval Spanish ballad in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years agoReading of two medieval Spanish ballads featuring fairies in light of ethnographic evidence of fairy consciousness in Spain
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Dont’ Miss the RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2018! in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoRCWS Literacy Studies Sponsored Sessions:
402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders
FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, CONCOURSE D (HILTON)
Sponsoring Entity: RCWS Literacy Studies
Presentations
1. Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies, Jennifer Stone (U of Alaska,… -
Hatem Akil started the topic Please Join us for GAAM’s Sessions at MLA 2018 in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear Colleague,
Please join the Global Arab and Arab American forum at the following sessions during MLA 2018. This is a very crucial time for those engaged in Arab and Islamic topics at the MLA – and our solidarity is more essential than ever.
44A: Global Arab Precarity and the Contemporary US Academy: Race, Religion, Profession: …[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Have 45 minutes at the convention? Help us improve CORE! in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThursday, Jan 4 at 2:30pm in the Sheraton
We will be hosting a focus group to find out more about MLA member use of CORE, our open-access repository for sharing scholarship and increasing the impact of your work. If you are free on Thursday, January 4 at 2:30pm, please consider taking part in this group and helping us improve the CORE platform. I…[Read more]
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Heekyoung Cho posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoYou are cordially invited to Korean Forum Reception at the MLA Convention!
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Korean Forum Reception
Sponsored by the Center for Korean Research, Columbia UniversityDate: Saturday, 6 January
Time: 8:45-10:00 p.m.
Place: Murray Hill East, Hilton, New York, NY
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoIf you’d like to know more about MLA Commons/Humanities Commons and how to make the most of them, consider attending our workshop in NYC: Friday, January 05, 2018, 03:30 PM – 04:45 PM, Hilton – Hudson (session 362)
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWhat is the significance of post-9/11 American poetry sixteen years after the attack? It would be great if this topic is introduced in 2018 Covention under the forum head 20th and 21st century American. Interested MLA members are requested to talk to me on this point.
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George Prokhorov deposited A MIXTURE OF PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVITY, OR TRAVELOGUE AS A GENRE in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn the article, we trace some aspects of development of eventivity and narrativity in Medieval and early Modern Era travel literature. Dissecting episodes of Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), A Travel of Anonimous Citizen of Suzdal to The Council of Florence (15th century), Russian Primary Chronicle (12th century), and…[Read more]
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Michelle M. Hamilton deposited Retelling the Future: Don Juan Manuel’s “Exenplo XI” and the Power of Fiction in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn this paper I look at how “Exenplo XI” is both product and reflection of the various traditions and cultures of medieval Iberia and how Juan Manuel forges a new version of this story from these inherited traditions in order to showcase problems of concern to his fourteenth-century audience, namely, the tension between ecclesiastical and And…[Read more]
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Michelle M. Hamilton deposited The Sephardic Past in the Digital Future in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis study imagines a Sephardic archive not as a physical site that houses the artifacts, texts, and history of a nation-state or Empire, but one that allows us to access those objects (or exposes their absence) and to bring artifacts from different official archives into dialogue in a different, virtual space, thus creating an additional, but not…[Read more]
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A. Lewis deposited In a New Crop of Religious Books, Belief is Unbound in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNew scholarly books in religious studies defy easy labels and reflect the eagerness of publishers to widen academic discourse and to upset conventional wisdom in the name of new knowledge—in science, across genders, between faiths, and around the world.
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