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Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Colleagues,The 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 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Colleagues,The 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 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Crystal Anne Chemris started the topic MLA Discount on The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Colleagues,
Attached is a flyer for an MLA discount on my book, The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: Writing on Constellation.
Crystal Chemris
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Raj Chetty started the topic CLCS Caribbean Forum panel at MLA 2024 (in-person, Philadelphia) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years agoHey all!
Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
- Friday, 5 January 2024
- 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)
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Sarah Kay replied to the topic Seeking nominations for the Medieval French executive committee! in the discussion
LLC Medieval French via email on MLA Commons 2 years agoHi Julie
I’m no longer an MLA member but I recommend you consider two of my former NYU students now on the tenure track, Joe Johnson (Georgetown) and Tina Montenegro (Boston College).
Best wishes
Sarah
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> On Jan 2, 2024 at 8:30 PM, <Julie E. Singer (mailto:noreply@hcommons-staging.org)> wrote:
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Julie E. Singer started the topic Seeking nominations for the Medieval French executive committee! in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 2 years agoHello, Medieval French forum members! The current members of the Executive Committee (Charlie Samuelson, Andreea Marculescu, Christine Bourgeois, Alani Hicks-Bartlett, and I) are seeking nominations for the next committee member. This is a five-year commitment, with each member serving as Secretary in their fourth year and Chair in their fifth…[Read more]
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Karin E. Westman replied to the topic Updates from the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum Exec Committee in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years agoCorrection to the meeting time! The Forum meeting will be Weds Jan 10, 2:00pm ET / 1:00pm CT.
Register for the Zoom link at https://tinyurl.com/mlachildlitexec2024
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Karin E. Westman started the topic Updates from the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum Exec Committee in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years agoGreetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!
Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 4-7).
At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2025 in New Orleans (Jan 9-12).
So we can ensure r…[Read more]
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Michael Subialka started the topic Call for Submissions, PSA Vol 36 (2024) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the next volume (36) of PSA, the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the Pirandello Society of America (https://www.pirandellosociety.org/). This is an open topic issue – any work on or relating to Luigi Pirandello is invited. The volume will be published in 2024…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please write t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness,” Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoInclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness,” Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoInclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]
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Darren J. Borg replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoOur panel, #733–“What is a life worth living?: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life– does not have a specific focus on psychoanalysis, but my paper, “Towards a Psychoanalysis of the Time-Traveller,” does. Please share!
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThe Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature invites you to attend our panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia!
We have two interesting and timely sessions this year:
194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti
Friday, 5 January 2024, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Generative AI as Shadow Publics in an Inquiry-Driven Society, Symposium on Digital Scholarship. Hong Kong Baptist University, October 27, 2023 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoGenerative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, simulate human writing and complicate the inquiry-driven culture we live in. These tools use singular first-person pronouns in their textual outputs and are often associated with anthropomorphic qualities. Within the humanities, conversations tend to focus on detecting new forms of plagiarism. What is missing…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Plenary: “Are There Transgender Characters in Shakespeare?” Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia, November 4, 2023. in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoVideo recording of Alexa Alice Joubin’s plenary is available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/8P5nNv86goQ There are certainly non-binary actors on stage, but are there Shakespearean characters who can be read as trans? The answer is yes. To ask whether there are transgender characters is to ask questions about the performance of gender roles. We are…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Plenary: “Are There Transgender Characters in Shakespeare?” Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia, November 4, 2023. in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoVideo recording of Alexa Alice Joubin’s plenary is available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/8P5nNv86goQ There are certainly non-binary actors on stage, but are there Shakespearean characters who can be read as trans? The answer is yes. To ask whether there are transgender characters is to ask questions about the performance of gender roles. We are…[Read more]
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Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook 20: Pericles, ed. Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Deanne Williams in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis volume focuses on Pericles, Prince of Tyre, whose narrative of refugee suffering, familial loss, emotional distancing, people-trafficking, and eventual, joyous recovery speaks strikingly to our historical moment. The play’s internationalist reach, its images of cross-cultural relations, and its Eastern Mediterranean setting also promote a r…[Read more]
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