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Lennie Amores started the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years agoMLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section
The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit their proposals for the following panels:
Iberian Exteriorities
What are the dynamics at play in the historical, political, and theoretical configurations of Spai…[Read more] -
Christine Y Lupton started the topic Seeking Nominations for committee members in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years agoWe’d very much like nominations for our new committee member. The term would begin Jan 25 and run for three years. Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee. Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas (self nomination totally OK!): c.lupton@warwick.ac.uk. DEADLINE: Jan 15th 2024.
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Sarah Benharrech started the topic MLA 18th century French Forum dinner on Saturday January 6th at 8:00pm in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear MLA members and 18th century enthusiasts,
You are invited to attend the 18c French Forum dinner on Saturday, January 6th at 8:00pm.
The dinner will take place at Caribou Café (1126 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107), which is a short walk from the PA Convention Center and the Downtown Marriott. The chef, Olivier Desaintmar…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic MLA 2024 Convention session on modern Spanish memoir and autofiction in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoYou are cordially invited to a session sponsored by the Religion and Literature forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:
#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)
Presider: Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCentering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRegistered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[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
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months 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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Sarah Benharrech started the topic Assistant Professor of French at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Tennessee flagship campus in Knoxville is seeking applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in early modern French studies, with a focus on the 18th century, to begin August 1, 2024. To broaden our programs, innovative and…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Franklin Lewis started the topic Ibero-Amercian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Coloquio Virtual 8 de nov. in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoIbero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Invita al 1º Coloquio Virtual IASECS
La Leyenda Negra de España y su imperio en el siglo XVIII
Presentada por Karen Stolley y Cathy Jaffe, con la colaboración de Antonio Calvo Maturana (Universidad de Málaga) y otros autores del volumen de próxima aparición
el miércoles, 8 de noviemb…[Read more]
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Angela Acosta started the topic CFP Spanish Sapphic Modernity – Feminist Modernist Studies in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoCFP: Spanish Sapphic Modernity, Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies
Article proposals (250-300 words) and short bios (50-75 words) due by November 15.
Co-editors: Angela Acosta (Davidson College) and Rebecca Haidt (The Ohio State University)
Given the relative dearth of scholarship exploring sapphic modernism in Spain, Europe, and…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic CFP: COUNTERDISCOURSES OF FAMILY: UNDOING (THE) TIES in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn this thematic issue of Journal 2i we explore the images and the discourses of the family that circulate in literature and cultural production. The articles in this volume, therefore, will offer a broad vision of non-normative families, past or present. Some of the topics to be explored in this issue include:
- Representations of chosen…
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real” in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoZunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures (Introduction) in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAlarmist demography often situates older people as natural
disasters: images of the “gray flood” and “silver tsunami” imbue
senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This
Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative
shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children,
but of one…[Read more] -
William Viestenz started the topic CFP: 19th North American Catalan Society Colloquium in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
The 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society will be held April 18-20, 2024, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Please see the attached CFP for more information on how to submit an abstract or panel proposal.
All best,
Bill Viestenz
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Journeys across fragmented lands: Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K and Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSolidarity between South Africa and Palestine has a long history, and often times, a comparison is drawn between the apartheid system in South Africa and the Israeli occupation and settler-colonial project in Palestine. In 1997, the late South African President, Nelson Mandela, said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete without t…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 2024 CLCS-18th Century Panels — Deadline Extended in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMarch 20, 2023 is the deadline to apply to the CLCS-18th Century Forum’s panels at next year’s MLA in Philadelphia.
I. Comparative Media Histories
Recent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen…[Read more]
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Tracy Rutler posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCFP: 2024 MLA in Philadelphia
There is still time to submit a proposal for these three panels organized by the LLC 18th-century France (including one non-guaranteed panel co-organized with LLC 17th-century France)!
France in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
This panel invites contributions on the intersections between France and…[Read more] -
Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] -
Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] - Load More
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