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Louise Geddes deposited “Give me your hands if we be friends”: collaborative authority in Shakespeare fan fiction in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoDue to the interactive affordances of twenty-first century technologies, the relationship between readers and texts is often repositioned as part of a communal experience of consumption and reproduction. Inclusive in this expanding culture are user-generated adaptations of Shakespeare, most saliently fanfic. The fanfic universe prolifically…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Binod Paudyal deposited "Reimagining Transnational Identities in Lahiri’s The Namesake" in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis essay demonstrates that Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake goes beyond conventional wisdom about immigrant experiences in so far as it explores how the South Asian diaspora participates in transnational connections, shaping and transforming the notion of American identity in the contemporary global era. Lahiri’s novel offers us a striking acc…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks replied to the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI enthusiastically support the formation of this forum.
Charlotte Eubanks
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Crystal Parikh started the topic Remdiner, Due Today: CFPs for the 2017 MLA, LLC Asian American in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Forum in Asian American Literature has posted four CFPs for the 2017 MLA. Please consider whether you might have a paper that fits one!
1. Boundary Conditions and Complexities in Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita
Forum: LLC Asian American
Papers on pedagogical practices and concerns in teaching the works of Karen Tei Yamashita. 250…[Read more] -
Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease sign the petition to help establish a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum.
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Crystal Parikh started the topic CFPs for the 2017 MLA: LLC Asian American Forum in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Forum in Asian American Literature has posted four CFPs for the 2017 MLA. Please consider whether you might have a paper that fits one!
1. Boundary Conditions and Complexities in Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita
Forum: LLC Asian American
Papers on pedagogical practices and concerns in teaching the works of Karen Tei Yamashita. 2…[Read more] -
Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Alien Lines in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAlien Lines: Science Fiction Comics
The medium of comics—often dominated by genres bound to contemporary concerns or enduring conventions—remains marginal in the study of science fiction. Likewise, the oldest questions driving science fiction scholarship—identity and difference, self and other, chance and futurity—have not been central to comics…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Adaptation in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDrawing the Line: Comics and Adaptation
While comics adaptations have frequently been derided for “dumbing down” great works of literature through adaptation, recent movie adaptations of comics have conquered the box office and brought new attention to the medium. These intriguing developments beg the questions—How might comics be trans…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Temporality in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoGraphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality
Whether we consider the fragmentation of time in the Dr. Manhattan chapter of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, or Art Spiegleman’s intermingling of his father’s WWII past with his present as narrator in Maus, rendering time as space has been one of the most unique and commented upon formal aspect…[Read more]
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Saul Noam Zaritt started the topic Second Annual Call for Submissions: In geveb, A Journal of Yiddish Studies in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn geveb is pleased to announce its Second Annual Call for Submissions for our Fall 2016 publishing cycle.
In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.
In geveb began…[Read more]
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Saul Noam Zaritt started the topic Second Annual Call for Submissions—In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn geveb is pleased to announce its Second Annual Call for Submissions for our Fall 2016 publishing cycle.
In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.
In geveb began…[Read more]
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Lissette Lopez Szwydky started the topic CFP2017: Adaptation, Transmediation in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoCFP: MLA2017 Adaptation, Transmediation: The Narrative Boundaries of Genre, Medium, and Time
Special Session
How do adaptation and transmediation push the boundaries and possibilities of literature? Transnational and transhistorical perspectives especially welcome. CV and 500-word abstracts by 11 March 2016; Lissette Lopez Szwydky (lissette@uark.edu). -
Cesar Braga-Pinto started the topic CFP 2017: Luso Brazilian Graphic Narratives in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoLuso Brazilian Graphic Narratives
Description: This panel explores different forms of graphic narrative from the Luso-Brazilian world, including, but not limited to political cartoons, graphic novels, comic strips and graffiti.
Deadline for submissions: 14 March 2016Submission requirements:
250 word abstractsContact person information
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Martha B. Kuhlman started the topic CFP 2017 Graphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoComics and Graphic Narrative Forum Modern Language Association Panel 2017:
Graphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality
Whether we consider the fragmentation of time in the Dr. Manhattan chapter of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, or Art Spiegleman’s intermingling of his father’s WWII past with his present as narrator in Maus, rende…[Read more]
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Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Deadline February 15th: MLA Teaching Options in Jewish American Literature in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years 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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Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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