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Paul Fyfe deposited Access, Computational Analysis, and Fair Use in the Digitized Nineteenth- Century Press in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis essay looks to the near history of copyright, commercially licensed resources, and fair use that shapes digital scholarship on nineteenth-century periodicals today. Using the digitization of British Library newspapers as a case study, I demonstrate how arguments about access to public domain materials do not fully account for the complex…[Read more]
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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Age Studies Events at the Chicago MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoCome and join other age studies scholars at these remaining Chicago events. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Session 555. New Voices at the Intersection of Drama, Performance, and Age Studies
Saturday, 5 January 3:30-4:45 p.m., Columbian Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel
Program arranged by the forums TC Age Studies and GS Drama and P…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Honoring Margaret Morganroth Gullette in Chicago in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoI am very pleased to let you know that Margaret Morganroth Gullette is being awarded the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars for her book, Ending Ageism; Or, How Not To Shoot Old People. This honor will be presented at the MLA Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 5 January, at 7:00 p.m. in the Sheraton Ballroom I-IV of the Sheraton Grand Hotel. Margaret’s…[Read more]
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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Age Studies Sessions at MLA 2019, Chicago in the discussion
TC Age Studies via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoHere are the sessions at MLA 2019 that pertain to Age Studies. Looking
forward to seeing you there!*Age Studies Panels at the MLA Convention in Chicago*
*3-6 January 2019*
*Session 38. Aging, Care, and Humor*
Thursday, 3 January
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Toronto Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel
Program arranged by the forum TC Age…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoRoutledge Auto/Biography Studies
Series Editor: Ricia Anne Chansky
The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series publishes outstanding new work from preeminent scholars and emerging voices in autobiography, biography, life writing, life narrative, and identity studies. This series is an interdisciplinary project that maintains interest in all…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Palgrave Series in Life Writing in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing Brant, C. (Ed), Saunders, M. (Ed) This series features books that address key concepts and subjects, with an emphasis on new and emergent approaches. It offers specialist but accessible studies of contemporary and historical topics, with a focus on connecting life writing to themes with cross-disciplinary appeal.…[Read more] -
Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Special Issue — The Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical
Following the founding colloquium of the IABA Africa chapter in October 2017, this special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies will both explore and provisionally consolidate examples of contemporary scholarship on the varied forms of ‘auto/biogrAfrical’ life storying that emerge from (and in rel…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: International Auto/Biography Association Americas Conference – Jamaica in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoLives in Transition: Negotiating the Currents in a Changing World
The 4th Biennial Conference of the IABA Americas Chapter
The conference conveners invite papers that explore the means by which auto/biographical subjects explore lives ‘in transition’ and/or in the process of ‘transitioning.’ How do life narratives explore the kinds of adjustm…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Women and Language in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Nathan Gorelick started the topic Nomination to Forum Executive Committee — Candidate Statement in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoDear members of the Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature,
I am writing to request your support for my nomination to the forum’s Executive Committee. If elected, I would join the committee after the 2019 convention in January.
For three years (2016-2018), I served as the forum’s representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly, which…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP — North American Network in Aging Studies conference paper deadline 11/1 in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues in Age Studies,
We are happy to announce that the joint international conference of the North American and European Networks in Aging Studies hosted by the Trent Center for Aging & Society in Peterborough, ON, is coming closer, and conference preparations are already in full swing!
And now, it’s time to add one of the most i…[Read more]
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Maren T. Linett started the topic introduction, candidate for executive committee in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear all,
I’m currently on the ballot for the executive committee of the TC Disability Studies, and I wanted to introduce myself to the members of the group. I’m a professor of English at Purdue University, and the founding director of Purdue’s Critical Disability Studies program, which runs an undergraduate minor and brings in one speaker per y…[Read more] -
Jeremiah Mercurio deposited Faithful Infidelity: Charles Ricketts’s Illustrations for Two of Oscar Wilde’s Poems in Prose in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe artist, collector, and critic Charles Ricketts (1866–1931) has often been characterised as a reactionary voice in early-twentieth-century debates about modern art. Although he responded conservatively to modern-art developments such as those embodied by the term ‘Post-Impressionism’, his work in book design and illustration exemplifies p…[Read more]
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Nancy C. Backes started the topic Nominations for the 2019 TC: Age Studies Executive Committee Election in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis is an invitation for you to nominate someone–self nominations welcome–for a position on the TC: Age Studies executive committee. When the executive committee meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago, it will take up the matter of nominations for the executive committee elections that will be held in fall 2019. One nominee will be…[Read more]
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Caroline Wilkinson deposited The Handmade Landscape: Manual Labor and the Construction of Eden in Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoIn his 1843 novel, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens used the pastoral mode to deliver a strong message about labor. To communicate this message, he employed the mode’s many traits, including its retreat into and return from the rural landscape and its focus on the country worker, traditionally the shepherd. This essay follows the novel’s pastoral ret…[Read more]
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Caroline Wilkinson deposited The “Former Sun” in the Sidereal Clock: The Kabbalistic Heavens and Time in The Spanish Gypsy and Daniel Deronda in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoIn both her epic poem The Spanish Gypsy and her final novel Daniel Deronda, Eliot drew upon kabbalistic concepts of the heavens through the characters of Jewish mystics. In the later novel, Eliot moved the mystic, Mordecai, from the narrative’s periphery to its center. This change, symbolically equated within the novel to a shift from…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Scale in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoEntry for the special Keywords issue of the Journal of Victorian Literature and Culture.
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Thomas Hardy’s Impulse: Context and the Counterfactual Imagination in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoFocusing on the impulsive act, this essay analyzes the relationship between the temporality of decision making and the determination of social context in Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873), The Woodlanders (1887), and Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891). While critics often note the entrapment of Hardy’s characters in contexts such as social class…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Suspenseful Speculation and the Pleasure of Waiting in Little Dorrit in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article argues that the language used to describe financial speculation in the nineteenth century overlapped with the moral charge of novelistic temporality: the repeated injunction against “getting rich quick” was countered by the way suspense encouraged racing or skipping through a novel to reach the end. Charles Dickens’s novel Littl…[Read more]
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