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Roland Greene deposited Interamerican Obversals: Haroldo de Campos and Allen Ginsberg Circa 1960 on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago
This essay compares two mid-twentieth century poets of the Americas, Allen Ginsberg and Haroldo de Campos, in view of how their work circa 1960 intersects despite the differences in their poetics. It introduces the notion of the obversal, or the identity among poems through a common history.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Deadline fast approaching for travel grants in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoPart-time faculty and other contingent faculty are eligible for travel grants to attend the convention in Austin.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New documentary release yesterday! in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoFreeway Fliers can be found here. It contains very interesting observations, including a point about the tenure process now being very much complicit in the de-radicalization of the professoriate!
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: Between the Public and its Privates (MLA Subconference) in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoThe Public and its Privates
Submission deadline: October 16, 2015
Submit to: mlasubconference@gmail.comBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books
January 6-7, 2016
Location: Studium Art Space
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: The Public and its Privates in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum BooksJanuary 6-7, 2016 (FREE)
Location: Studium Art Space (FREE)
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702As the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA subconference call for papers in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoAs the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to propose sessions somewhere “Between the Public and its Privates”.
Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public without uncovering its uncanny twin–the private. Consider Google’s Han…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic The "Institutional Boycott" and the MLA Bibliography in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoBDS proponents claim only an “institutional boycott” is at stake that will not be directed against individuals. That distinction between institution and individual is untenable, as has been argued elsewhere.
But let’s assume–just for the sake of argument in this post–that one could have an exclusively “institutional boycott” that somehow s…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic Boycott as Incitement in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoBDS proponents downplay the likely practical consequences of the boycott. They claim it will only prohibit the institution (e.g. the MLA) from collaborating with Israeli universities and will not impinge on the scholarly life of individuals. Let us leave aside here the ambiguity of individual vs. institution (would the chair of a literature…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic British Activists Oppose BDS in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCheck this out.
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Rosemary Feal replied to the topic Ethnic Studies Division Endorses the Boycott Resolution in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoPlease see this link:
http://www.mla.org/policies_for_divisio
Divisions
Definition. The MLA divisions encompass the primary scholarly and professional concerns of the association, with each division representing a major area of membership interest. The divisions are not autonomous organizations but are an integral part of the MLA; they have no…[Read more] -
Rosemary Feal replied to the topic Ethnic Studies Division Endorses the Boycott Resolution in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoThe members of these divisions have not voted to endorse a resolution, nor is it their purview to do so. Executive committee members of divisions have no authority to speak for the division’s members, and only the MLA Executive Council may speak on behalf of the association in any way. I will be contacting the executive committees of the divisions…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New Initiative for articulating support for contingent faculty in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoI hope members of his discussion group can utilize the MLA site for registering one’s support for contingent faculty both within the MLA and in one’s department, union, and institution. Here’s the…[Read more]
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Rosemary G. Feal posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago
Have you read Profession on the Commons recently? http://profession.mla.hcommons-staging.org
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