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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies" in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis is a short introductory essay for _The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies_, published in 2015. The areas covered by _The Handbook_ include cognitive historicism, cognitive narratology, cognitive queer theory, neuroaesthetics, cognitive postcolonial studies, studies in emotions and empathy, decision theory, cognitive disability…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Gender and Teaching Jewish American Literature in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMLA Call For Proposals:
Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature
Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic Candidate Statement: Women in the Profession in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored and excited to have been nominated for the special delegate position of “Women in the Profession”. Since entering the job market four years ago I have consistently experienced and witnessed the corporatization of our profession. This is especially concerning for women and other minority groups, as we tend to be in the majority in the…[Read more]
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Marilyn Edelstein started the topic Candidate statement for exec. comm. for this forum on Women's and Gender Studies in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored to have been nominated for the executive committee for the Forum on Women’s and Gender Studies, given my lifelong commitment to these areas of scholarship and teaching. I’ve published on such feminist theorists as bell hooks and Julia Kristeva, and regularly teach courses on Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory and on Women and Lit…[Read more]
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Majda R. Atieh deposited The Revelation of the Veiled in Toni Morrison's Paradise: The Whirling Dervishes in the Harem of the Convent in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMuslim women’s perspective on liberatory Islamic orality (or empowerment via the oral traditions within Islam) is vastly accentuated in Fatema Mernissi’s and Leila Ahmed’s examinations of the harem structure. These harem narratives celebrate Sufism, a mystical Islamic theosophy that foregrounds orality and invites a constant search toward divine…[Read more]
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Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
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Catherine Young deposited 'A Very Good Act for an Unimportant Place': Animals, Ambivalence and Abuse in Big-Time Vaudeville" in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAt the height of their popularity, performing animals appeared in over half of all big-time vaudeville bills and were highly significant to its business model. They were booked to draw children and their mothers to matinee performances and, as consistent sources of novelty, to create crucial word-of-mouth interest in the bill’s weekly line-up. V…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Maragall a Itàlia al voltant de 1947 in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJust after the Second World War two Italian writers chose to look at the poetry of Joan Maragall. Montale’s version of the “Spiritual
Canto” has led to a variety of debates and interpretations, while the publication of a modest anthology of Catalan poets by Pasolini
remained unknown for a long time until rediscovered in the third mille…[Read more] -
Loren Kruger deposited Chicago / Johannesburg in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJohannesburg, Chicago of South Africa
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Mario Santana started the topic News on translation in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoUnder a program of the American Literary Translators Association, a translating mentorship has been created which includes Catalan. Currently, the experienced translator Ronald Puppo of the Universitat de Vic is helping the emerging translator Scott Shanahan with a translation of Mercè Rodoreda’s “Viatges i flors.” A mentorship lasts for one y…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Swanstrom started the topic CFP "Small Screen Fictions" in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoParadoxa, Issue in Preparation
Volume 29, “Small Screen Fictions”
Anticipated publication date: December, 2017Editors:
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales)
Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland)
Lisa Swanstrom (Florida-Atlantic, Boca Raton, Florida, USA)In the last few decades, digital technologies have dram…[Read more]
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Elisa Martí-López started the topic Escriptor de l'Any 2016-2017 in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoEscriptor de l’Any
Organitzat per Roser Caminals, Novel.lista i professora de Llengua i Literatura Espanyoles (Hood College)
Escriptor de l’Any és un projecte dissenyat per incrementar la divulgació al Canadà i als Estats Units de la literatura catalana en traducció anglesa. Actualment, els esforços editorials son esporàdics, costosos i…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic ESSE 2016: cfp in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago13th ESSE CONFERENCE
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016.
CFP: SEMINAR ON “GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE”
Conveners: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (U of Huelva, Spain, picuder@dfing.uhu.es)
Cinta Ramblado-Minero (U of Limerick, Ireland, cinta.ramblado@ul.ie)
One of the characteristics of postmodernity is the glob…[Read more]
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Elisa Martí-López replied to the topic NACS Conference Barcelona 2015 in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHola a tots,
Us faig cinc cèntims del Col·loqui de la NACS que es va celebrar a Barcelona a començament d’estiu. M’alegra poder dir que va anar molt bé perquè es va constatar la fortalesa i varietat de la catalanística. A continuació us en faig un resum. Per aquells que no vau poder assistir-hi, al resum trobareu els enllaços que reprodu…[Read more]
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Tarshia Stanley posted an update in the group
TC Popular Culture 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] -
Gretchen Head started the topic CfP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the proposed ACLA seminar below:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mi…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic MLA Volume on Unamuno in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago<div class=”activity-inner”>
Dear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a s…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic Call for Abstracts: ICLA Conference 2016 in Vienna; Comparative Gender/Queer in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature 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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