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Fabio Liberto started the topic CfP: "Shakespeare and the Object" in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoCall for Paper: Shakespeare and the Object
In the year of the four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare (1616-2016), the first issue of the journal Costellazioni will be devoted to Shakespearean drama, considered from a particular perspective that aims to analyze the role and function of the object in the texts, in stagings…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am one of those “brave souls” that Benjamin Schreier dared to throw their hat in the ring for membership to the Executive Committee, so here goes. I’m a US-born, UK-educated, and French-inclined academic currently based at Durham University. No, that is not a generic college near Duke, but rather the UK’s third oldest university that you’ve…[Read more]
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Jeehyun Lim started the topic Candidate statement for Executive Committee, Asian American Forum in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored to be nominated for the Asian American Forum’s Executive Committee. Asian American literature and culture are central to my research and teaching interests. As executive committee member of the forum I will try to represent current topics, issues, and directions in Asian American literature and criticism in designing the MLA forum…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Personal Identity and Literary Personae: A Study in Historical Psychology in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis comparative study in the evolution of subjectivity in European literature during the Renaissance ascribes it to the impact of the Reformation on the public representation of authorial identity, differing from Stephen Greenblatt’s later application of Foucault to six Tudor authors.
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Suzanne England deposited Driving Miss Daisy as Memory Theatre in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAlfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Driving Miss Daisy (1986) is examined as a site of memory including: Uhry’s own memories upon which the characters and the play itself are based; the role of memory stories, settings and objects in the unfolding of the relationship be-tween its main characters, Daisy Wertham and her chauffeur, Hoke Col…[Read more]
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Geraldine Heng deposited The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages”—a two-part article—questions the widely held belief in critical race theory that “race” is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries—chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon l…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited ‘‘The New Americans’’ : The Creation of a Typology of Vietnamese-American Identity in Children’s Literature in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe influx of Vietnamese refugees, ‘‘boat people,’’ and immigrants into the United States after April 1975 has led to the establishment of a significant Vietnamese-American community. There is a body of literature written for children and young adults that creates and delineates this new community within the topography of a welcoming and immigra…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Enjoying "King Lear" in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“King Lear,” like all great tragedies, is surely designed to entertain and illuminate, not to depress an audience – as too many interpretations argue. Lear abdicates to ensure the future of Cordelia, from excessive love of virtue and justice, the violation of which initially drives him mad – with rage – but he progressively goes sane, learning t…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News? in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoMembers of the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum:
In October, the Commons Wire will return with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a new position, or received a promotion, please let us know by e-mail or private message (to @terrainvagues) by 25 Septemb…[Read more]
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Heidi Kaufman started the topic CFP: ACLA Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures
We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: http://www.acla…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited “Trespass and Forgiveness in William Shakespeare’s King Lear” in the group
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis article reads the problem of trespass within William Shakespeare’s King Lear. I draw upon eighteenth-century jurist William Blackstone’s notion of trespass, sixteenth-century jurist Jean Bodin’s notion of sovereignty, in order to understand the question of property rights that emerges in Lear’s abdication of his sovereignty.
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited “When I Cannot Still the Longing of My Heart”; Third-Culture Displacement and the Image of the Child in Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey in the group
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThis article examines Allen Say’s use of cultural displacement in his books Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say is an award-winning, Japanese-American, picture book author and illustrator.
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Shakespeare 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 Jewish 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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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: American Comic Books and the AIDS Crisis in the group
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoPrepared in partial completion for the Master’s degree in American Studies at UMass Boston. Abstract: Between 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…[Read more]
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Laura R. Braunstein started the topic deadline extended! CFP: Illustration, Comics, & Animation Conference @ Dartmouth in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDeadline extended to March 20!
General Call for Papers
Illustration, Comics, and Animation ConferenceMay 8-10, 2015, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
*What is the future of illustration studies?
*What can comics scholars learn from animation studies and vice versa?
*Do illustrated books or graphic novels resist the supposed obsolescence of the…[Read more] -
Christopher M. Kuipers started the topic AX Anime Symposium Apr. 15 CFP, L.A. July 2-5, 2015 in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoIn conjunction with AX Anime Expo in Los Angeles, July 2-5, 2015, the largest anime convention in North America, the AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium is seeking presentations on topics related to Japanese visual culture and the worldwide popularity and impact of anime and manga. Participation in the symposium also includes a complimentary…[Read more]
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Lisa Stein Haven started the topic MAD Magazine Special Offer AHSA in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago***SPECIAL OFFER***
Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—
“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”
a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time
For new members, or members who were not m…[Read more] -
Kristen Abbott Bennett started the topic Using online Shakespeare Sources in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoI’m starting to get some great information from the first round of responses to the “Using Online Shakespeare Sources” survey I created as part of my SAA ’15 workshop (“Using Data in Shakespeare Studies”). If you’ve already responded: THANK YOU! If you haven’t yet, I’d be grateful if you could answer a few quick questions and please share the link…[Read more]
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Kristen Abbott Bennett started the topic Using online Shakespeare Sources in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoI’m starting to get some great information from the first round of responses to the “Using Online Shakespeare Sources” survey I created as part of my SAA ’15 workshop (“Using Data in Shakespeare Studies). If you’ve already responded: THANK YOU! If you haven’t yet, I’d be grateful if you could answer a few quick questions and please share the link…[Read more]
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