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John Garrison replied to the topic Call for Participants on a Guaranteed Roundtable: “New Rules” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoProposals due by March 14. Thank you!
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John Garrison started the topic Call for Participants on a Guaranteed Roundtable: “New Rules” in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years ago“New Rules” (Guaranteed roundtable sponsored by CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern)
Proposed new guidelines for conducting research, sharing work, and supporting the profession as we address the realities of systemic social inequity, climate change, the expansion of the adjunct labor force, and drastic shifts in institutional support for the…[Read more]
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Noah Guynn started the topic Medieval French CFP, MLA 2023: Feminist/Queer Reading in Honor of Simon Gaunt in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 4 years agoNew Directions in Feminist and Queer Readings of Medieval French Literature: a Session in Honor of Simon Gaunt
Simon Gaunt’s research interests were remarkably varied: from Romance philology to psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, and beyond. This panel honors one important part of his legacy: his groundbreaking feminist and queer readings of m…[Read more]
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Noah Guynn started the topic Medieval French CFP, MLA 2023: Fictions of the Sacred in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe omnipresence of religious rhetoric in medieval French culture is among the most salient and often among the most alienating cultural juggernauts faced by students and scholars alike. Yet, sacred biography–hagiographical, Marian, and Christological–has not fully found its place in the discipline of medieval French studies. As a corpus at onc…[Read more]
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Teaching Queer Theory beyond the Western Classroom in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis article develops a theory of postcolonial queer pedagogy through reflections on teaching nineteenth-century literature at the National University of Singapore. Students draw on their experiences living in a culture torn between liberal and illiberal tendencies and recognize that such contradictions exist in both the Western and non-Western world.
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: US Literatures and Psychoanalysis (MLA 2023) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat does psychoanalysis do for theory, criticism, and scholarship in US literatures today? Conversely, how do US literatures intervene on psychoanalysis?
The MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature has noted extraordinary scholarly interest in these questions recently. We therefore invite a…[Read more]
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Emily Friedman deposited “Let people tell their stories their own way”: Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years agoIn the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]
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Luis Restrepo started the topic Executive Committee Nominations — CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years agoCLCS Renaissance and Early Modern invites nominations for our Executive Committee. Self-nominations welcomed and encouraged. The Executive Committee is fully committed to including and amplifying the wide range of perspectives, voices, and languages that are crucial to our field. We are also committed to representing a diverse range of…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2023 through the close of the January 2028 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members also include…[Read more]
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Ellen Welch started the topic On behalf of LLC 16th-century in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoWith apologies for cross-posting, please see information about the LLC 16th-century French forum’s sessions at this weekend’s conference below:
· From the LLC French Sixteenth-Century Forum at the MLA:Please join us via the MLA Confex portal (if you are registered) for most sessions; and for free worldwide on Zoom for our Saturday sessio…[Read more]
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Corinne NOIROT replied to the topic MLA Sessions: 16c French Sessions in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoSpecial Zoom room for “French Drama in Context (1498–1610): Beyond Boundaries” (NOW VIRTUAL)
– ZOOM meeting ID: 895 2890 9673
– Passcode: theatrehttps://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89528909673?pwd=WEJCUlRiYm5nTHhLK0FsalVtNVBwQT09
Saturday 8 January ; noon–1:15 PM EST
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Masano Yamashita started the topic Appointment to Executive Committee LLC 18th-century French in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease consider nominating yourself or a colleague for the opening seat on the LLC French 18th-century Forum Executive Committee. The MLA is shifting away from elections toward an appointment model. This means that nominations from the membership are more important than ever. Please email your suggestions to masano.yamashita@colorado.edu by…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic MLA Sessions: 16c French Sessions in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello everyone,
Here is an updated list of our 16c French sessions for MLA, which is now essentially online (all times are Eastern):
- Putting Sensory Worlds into Words in Sixteenth-Century France on 6 January 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM [online]
- Joachim Du Bellay at Five Hundred Years on 6 January 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM [online]
- French Drama in Context…
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. Drawing on the work of authors including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that p…[Read more]
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Corinne NOIROT replied to the topic 16c French Executive Committee: Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoI would like to nominate Alison Calhoun.
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Ellen Welch started the topic Update on 17th-c French sessions and call for executive committee nominations in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello friends,
A quick update in preparation for the MLA convention starting on Thursday. At this point, all of the sessions organized by the LLC 17th-French Forum have gone online or been postponed to next year:
- Friday, 7 January 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM. 179V Francophonie and the Early Modern: Intertextual Connections [online]
- Friday, 7…
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