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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, 5 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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Alan Lopez deposited "Kindred Spirits: Fanon's Postcolonialism" in the group
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis essay concerns the significance of phenomenology in Frantz Fanon’s thought and its influence on the autobiographic and ethnographic contours of his study, Black Skin, White Masks. Of note is Fanon’s movement between metaphor and phenomenology, especially as concerns figures of the hand and the body, and how his narratological treatment of…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CFP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoDear all,
Please consider submitting to our ACLA seminar on the intersection of life writing and the city:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
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Carol DeBoer-Langworthy started the topic Last Call: CFP for Lifewriting & Islam in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoFor Volume 5, Lifewriting Annual seeks critical and scholarly essays and reviews for a special section dedicated to lifewriting as it intersects with Islam across time and the world. We seek submissions that engage with representations of Islam and Islamic culture in/through biography, autobiography, essays, memoirs, journals, diaries, and letters…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThursday, 7 January
120. Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies
Presiding: Susan Antebi, Univ. of Toronto
1. “The Biopolitics of Disability,” David Mitchell, George Washington Univ.; Sharon Snyder, George Washington Univ.
2. “Crip Figures: Disability, Austerity, and As…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Disability and Interdependence, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoFriday, 8 January
325. Disability and Interdependence
1:45–3:00 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies
Presiding: Elizabeth Bearden, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Disforming Cure,” Katherine Schaap Williams, New York Univ., Abu Dhabi
2. “‘The Servant . . . Formed Himself into a Sort of Crutch’: Disability, Dependency, an…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Queer Crips across Time, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoSaturday, 9 January
619. Queer Crips across Time
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies
Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.
Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP: LASA2016, DS Pedagogies and the Global South in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoPanel for the Latin American Studies Association, XXXIV International Congress
New York City, May 27-30, 2016Title of panel: Disability Studies Pedagogies and the Global South
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, LASA is organizing its annual congress around broad themes of the “evolution of Latin American studies,” the “challenges of cr…[Read more] -
Subramanian Shankar started the topic CFP–Caste and Life Narratives: Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoGuest Editors: Dr. S. Shankar, Department of English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA, and Dr. Charu Gupta, Department of History, University of Delhi, India.
Submit: 400-word abstracts to S. Shankar (subraman@hawaii.edu) and Charu Gupta (charu7@hotmail.com) by September 15, 2015
Life Narratives (biographies, autobiographies, Fa…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb replied to the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoNicky – thank you so very, very much!
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoI’ve crossposted this in the news section of the Commons Newswire.
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Erin Lamb started the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoHello,
I am writing to request your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies. I am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only b…[Read more] -
Erin Lamb started the topic Seeking educators of undergrads who address aging in the classroom in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoGreetings colleagues,
I am writing to ask for your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies. I am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate c…[Read more] -
Allison Hobgood started the topic cfp: Disability and Interdependence, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDisability and Interdependence
What are alternatives to the binary of independence/dependence in disability discourse? How might rhetorics of care illuminate and intervene in disability’s perception/representation? 250 word abstract and 1 page CV by 15 March 2015; Elizabeth Bearden (ebearden@wisc.edu).
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Michelle A. Massé started the topic CFP Extension: Age Studies Forum panel, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.
What difference does age make in…[Read more]
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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Teaching Memory Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Members of the Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing Group,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:
Teaching Memory Studies
Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hinds…[Read more]
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Cynthia R. Port started the topic Age Studies CFPs for MLA 2016 in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoAn exciting range of panels seeking papers for MLA 2016:
The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_7484
Ageism and Activism: EngAging the Public http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_8111
Reading Over Time http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_8109
Time, Youth, and Age in Renaissance Literature http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_7886
The…[Read more] - Load More
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