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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Bottles of ink, and reams of paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Cultue of Print in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis essay argues that greater attention to the significance of the material culture of print, especially in early African American print culture, shows how technologies of racialization emerge in conjunction with technologies of printed words and images. The stereotype is perhaps the most familiar case. In one sense it offers quick reproduction…[Read more]
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Nicholas Birns deposited The Horizon’s Hoop: Emerson’s “Monadnoc” in Contingency and History in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoWhen it is spoken of at all, Emerson’s “Monadnoc” is described as a solicitation of natural sublimity. But a close rhetorical analysis of the poem reveals greater ambivalence about this sublimity than is apparent—linking it to later American philosophic poems by Frost, Stevens, Ammons, and Kinnell that at once solicit and question natural plenitu…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Awards Announcement — Ralph Waldo Emerson Society in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2016
<div class=”column”>The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2016) or the…[Read more] -
Andrea Kaston Tange replied to the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIt is great to know you are running, Pamela! Thank you.
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Pamela K. Gilbert started the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am not quite sure what the protocol is for these statements now that we are on a blog format, but here goes. I am Pamela K. Gilbert, Albert Brick Professor at the University of Florida, and I am on the ballot for the executive committee of the division, representing our interests to the MLA. You can all google if you are interested in s…[Read more]
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Sören Fröhlich started the topic CFP C19, "Unsettling Medicine." in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago“Unsettling Medicine: Politics, Society, and Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Medical Practice.”
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Sari Altschuler
Deadline: August 16, 2015.
This panel is looking for papers that expand the political, social, and economic con…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English 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 19th-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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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded the combination of humor, hyperbole, a…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic Sustainability and Population in American Literary History in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSpecial Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying nineteenth-century American literature. The panel is on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in 116 VCC West. More information about the panelists and papers can be found at ht…[Read more]
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Brad Evans started the topic MLA Vancouver, Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoSpecial Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon
http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening
In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an e…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson started the topic ANN: 2015 Futures of American Studies Institute: Questions Worth Asking in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDARTMOUTH COLLEGE ANNOUNCES A ONE WEEK SUMMER INSTITUTE
THE FUTURES OF AMERICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE: QUESTIONS WORTH ASKING
MONDAY, JUNE 22 — SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2015Director: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
Co-Directors: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University), Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern U…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic CFP Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2015 Conference in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoSSAWW Triennial Conference November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Call for Proposals
Due Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2015 for all proposals.
For the 201…[Read more]
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Jon Smith started the topic CFP: The South in the North (MLA pre-conf 6-7 Jan 2015) in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoThe South in the North
A Pre-MLA Mini-conference
January 6-7, 2015
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne Duck, Jennifer Greeson, Matthew Lassi…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Free E-Review Copy of "Romances of George Sand" in the forum
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[Read more]
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Richard Kopley started the topic CFP for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoProposals are invited for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, to be held in New York City at the Roosevelt Hotel on 45th Street near Madison Avenue (http://www.theroosevelthotel.com/) Thursday, February 26th, to Sunday, March 1st, 2015. Our PSA-sponsored conferences have been located at cities where Poe lived and worked; we have…[Read more]
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Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoFrom Sharon Aronofsky Weltman:
Applications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7,…[Read more] -
Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere are the Victorian Division’s calls for papers for MLA 2015:
Victorian Animals
Human and nonhuman animals; reflections on the in-, non-, post-human. Papers welcome on the state of the field and on new methods and modes of inquiry. One-page abstracts and CVs by 1 March 2014; William A. Cohen (wcohen@umd.edu).
Victorian…[Read more]
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Brad Evans started the topic Possible Changes to MLA Divisions in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Members of the Division of Nineteenth Century American Literature:
During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century American Literature executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels…[Read more]
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