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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Call for Nominations: GLQ Caucus Awards in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe GL/Q Caucus of the MLA invites nominations for each of our three annual awards: the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, The Crompton Noll Award for Best Essay, The Michael Lynch Service Award, and a NEW award: The Audre Lorde Graduate Student Essay Award. Descriptions and instructions for the prizes are below. All nominations are due November 2,…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: DueTomorrow. CFP Literature and Cartography (Americas) in the discussion
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Please consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard…[Read more]
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Tarshia Stanley started the topic Octavia E. Butler: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy – February 26-28, 2016 in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoOctavia E. Butler: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy – February 26-28, 2016 – Spelman College
February 24, 2016 will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Octavia E. Butler. To commemorate her contributions to the world of letters, the Octavia E. Butler Society solicits papers for a special conference to be hosted by Spelman College Feb…[Read more] -
Tarshia Stanley posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoOCTAVIA E. BUTLER: CELEBRATING LETTERS, LIFE, and LEGACY
February 26-28, 2016
Spelman College
Atlanta GA
February 24, 2016 will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Octavia E. Butler. To commemorate her contributions to the world of letters, the Octavia E. Butler Society solicits papers for a special conference to be hosted by Spelman…[Read more] -
Alan Lopez deposited "Kindred Spirits: Fanon's Postcolonialism" in the group
Black American Literature and Culture 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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Alan Lopez deposited "Emerson's Bayonet" in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe essay reads Ralph Waldo Emerson’s argument for a “nation of friends,” in “Politics,” as Emerson’s response to his lament, also in “Politics,” that the “power of love, as the basis of the State, has never been tried.” By a careful reading of that essay, which includes locating “Politics” within the debate in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan be…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP ICLA 2016 in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts relationally rather than…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism 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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone 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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American 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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Ulrike Hill deposited Mathilde Blind’s Contribution to Victorian Cosmopolitanism in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoBlind’s autonomous cosmopolitanism is in four distinct layers. The first layer is her unusual everyday family background in the transition from Jewish tradition to the life of European revolutionaries in the 1840s and exile in Britain. The second layer is Blind’s mental and moral development under Friederike’s care and educational guidance accor…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Twentieth-Century American Literature Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on working…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Infinite Summer: Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network in the group
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis chapter explores the Infinite Summer reading project, in which a group of bloggers read and discussed David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in dialogue with one another and with a wide readership, arguing that such social reading projects present the potential for developing crucial kinds of ethical human connection (of which the novel depicts…[Read more]
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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Michael Lackey started the topic CFP for book about Styron's Nat Turner Novel in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoRevisiting William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner:
Fifty Years Later
Editor: Michael Lackey
The University of Virginia Press has expressed interest in publishing a collection of essays commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner, which was published in 1967. So that the boo…[Read more] -
Patricia Oman started the topic CFP: "The Midwestern Moment: Essays in Early 20th c. Midwestern Regionalism" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoHastings College Press welcomes proposals for chapters for an edited volume focused on Midwestern regionalism during the first half of the twentieth century. The volume is tentatively entitled “The Midwestern Moment: Essays in Early-Twentieth Century Midwestern Regionalism.” Midwestern regionalism includes writers, artists, publishers, int…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Baal and Thoth: Unwelcome Apparitions in J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg and Disgrace in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoIn his seminar, Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida discusses how one of the essential qualities of the specter is his ability to appear incessantly. The inability to know when the specter may appear, however, not only enforces its haunting quality but also conveys a despairing sense of what Derrida refers to as empty Messianism from which emits…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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