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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic MLA election to CLCS-Medieval in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHi everyone, My name is Shirin Khanmohamadi and I’m honored to have been nominated for election to the executive committee of CLCS- Medieval and wanted to introduce myself a bit here. I am an Associate Professor of premodern literature in the Comparative and World Literature department at San Francisco State University, where I’ve been teac…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline to submit your proposal for the conference “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” is Friday, November 30, 2018. The keynote speakers will be Catriona Seth and Pura Fernández. We’re looking forward to seeing you all at Cal State, Long Beach in…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoReads William of Rubruck’s mission to Asia as an instance of premodern ethnographic representation and the shape of the precolonial European ethnographic gaze upon Asia.
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Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago“‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles deposited Activismo, literatura y cambio social en el Caribe hispano: aproximación en tres movimientos in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis essay calls for a reflection on the links between literature, activism, and social change in the Hispanic Caribbean, privileging certain interventions led by women, who have contributed to the defense of better living conditions and a more equitable social pact. Taking into account the diversity and mobility that characterizes the Caribbean…[Read more]
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Amy Kahrmann Huseby deposited “Half Poets” and “Whole Democrats”: The Politics of Poetic Aggregation in Aurora Leigh in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoElizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh seeks to redress the divisive work of women’s democratic political representation by way of poetic form to ask whether women must always be regarded as partial citizens. Women are not counted as integral units—ones—politically or culturally. Barrett Browning connects women’s ability to produce writing a…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoI look to the ways material text studies might be prompted by, and improve upon, thinking in new materialism. The result is that paper could be read for how histories and narratives seep into the paper record and require accounts of agentic materiality lest they be lost or muted. In what follows, I use stories about rag paper as points of…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited Before the Right to Remain Silent: The Examinations of Anne Askew and Elizabeth Young in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoIn recent years, Anne Askew has attained something of celebrity status among scholars of Tudor women’s writing and, more generally, of Tudor Reformation history. In the course of privileging Askew’s examinations above those of other female defendants (such as Elizabeth Young), scholars sometimes equate Askew’s rhetorical expertise with legal exper…[Read more]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Help Us Brainstorm in the discussion
Connected Academics on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoAs we at GS AutoFiction continue to expand our online initiatives, we’d like to hear from you about how we can best use this platform. Do you have ideas for posts relevant to the autofiction community and discipline? Who should we talk to? Do you want to guest post for us? Let us know!
1- What pressing issues in the field of Autofiction s…[Read more]
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Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso started the topic CfP NeMLA 19| Contesting the Gaze: Gender & Genre in Hispanic Women’s Filmmaking in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoContesting the Gaze: Gender and Genre in Hispanic Women’s Filmmaking
(Proposed Roundtable for NeMLA 2019 in Washington, D.C.)In Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger notes that the idea of gaze has been traditionally defined as masculine, for there is an underlying assumption that “men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselv…[Read more]
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