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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: MLA 2024–Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers. Queer theory embraces p…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations For Assembly Delegate in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe TC Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Running for Delegate is a good way to become more involved in Forum activities and to make connections with colleagues who share your scholarly interests. To forward your own or a colleague’s name, or to…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2023 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature is pleased to announce five panels at MLA 2023 (including some postponed from 2022). The full list can be accessed at this link. We hope to see you there!
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Maren T. Linett started the topic Members’ suggestions for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAt (and after) the January convention, the TC Disability Studies executive committee will need to appoint a new member to the executive committee. Please let us know if you want to self-nominate or nominate someone else and we will consider all nominations at our meeting. Thank you!
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Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoVirginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]
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Maren T. Linett replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThank you Leigh! Who has a nomination or self-nomination for someone to run for a term of service on the delegate assembly for TC Disability Studies? The Executive Committee, as Leigh notes, will be considering nominees at our meeting at the January MLA.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article traces the developme…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more] -
Tekla Babyak deposited Teaching Music and Disability Through Disclosure-Oriented Pedagogy in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this paper, presented at the 2022 H-Net Teaching Conference, I describe how I teach undergraduate students about disability in music through what I call disclosure-oriented pedagogy. This practice involves demonstrating cross-historical comparisons between my lived experiences of disability and the representations of disability in 19th-century…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThe Research Society for Victorian Periodicals should work to protect multiple runs of actual Victorian periodicals, which are potentially at risk in “collective collections” organized by academic libraries.
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Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoAbstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.
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Seo-Young Chu deposited “Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence” by Seo-Young Chu in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn 2000 a Stanford professor raped me. My rape is now older than I was. (I’m still not as old as he was.) The more time passes the more I’m struck by Stanford’s apathy and fecklessness about sexual violence. I wrote a letter asking Stanford to stop compounding the abuse and to reckon with its rape culture. This letter—including the “Incomp…[Read more]
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Mirosław Miernik started the topic CFP: Volume on Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo), “Hadrian the Seventh” in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoWe are seeking submissions for an upcoming volume on the work of Frederick Rolfe, also known as Baron Corvo, with particular emphasis placed on his novel Hadrian the Seventh. The book will be published by Lexington Books in 2024. The chapters should be around 7,500 words. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- The politics…
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoDream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism
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