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Lennie Amores started the topic Call For Papers MLA 2025 Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoMLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section. The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit proposals:
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions, personal or pedagogical practices, and case studies on the relation between d…[Read more] -
Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years agoFrom Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.
This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence,” MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years agoWhat a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence,” MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years agoWhat a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]
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Laura G. Gutierrez replied to the topic Nominations for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture via email on MLA Commons 2 years agoI have gotten this email close to 20 times. I am also no longer a member of MLA so I don’t have an active account and don’t know how to unsubscribe. Make it stop please
From: Alenda Chang <noreply@hcommons-staging.org>
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 1:11 PM
To: Gutierrez, Laura G <lauragutierrez@utexas.edu>
Subject: [MLA Commons] MS Scr…[Read more] -
Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Christine Y Lupton started the topic Seeking Nominations for committee members in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoWe’d very much like nominations for our new committee member. The term would begin Jan 25 and run for three years. Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee. Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas (self nomination totally OK!): c.lupton@warwick.ac.uk. DEADLINE: Jan 15th 2024.
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Alenda Chang started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture sessions at MLA 2024 in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoHi everyone! As this year’s forum executive committee chair for MS Screen Arts and Culture, I just wanted to alert everyone to the sessions that our forum has organized/sponsored. Thanks to our committee members for their hard work.
Organized by yours truly, tomorrow (THU) at 3:30PM we kick off with #92 “The Micropolitics of Environmental Media”…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic CLCS Caribbean Forum panel at MLA 2024 (in-person, Philadelphia) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoHey all!
Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
- Friday, 5 January 2024
- 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)
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Karin E. Westman replied to the topic Updates from the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum Exec Committee in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCorrection to the meeting time! The Forum meeting will be Weds Jan 10, 2:00pm ET / 1:00pm CT.
Register for the Zoom link at https://tinyurl.com/mlachildlitexec2024
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Karin E. Westman started the topic Updates from the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum Exec Committee in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoGreetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!
Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 4-7).
At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2025 in New Orleans (Jan 9-12).
So we can ensure r…[Read more]
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Stacey Amo started the topic Discussion Group on What Contingency Means to You in the discussion
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoJoin members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by the…[Read more]
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Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”
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Golam Rabbani deposited Media and Peeping Tom Culture: Violating Familial Privacy and Communal Responsibility in the Evolution of Voyeurism in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoIn the name of visual pleasure, there are different entertainments in today’s media that instigate voyeurism among common viewers. In this study, the author intends to focus on two phases where the spectators are turning voyeurs without their consent. In the first phase, the study reveals the process where film influences voyeuristic behavior. T…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness,” Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoInclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s “It Must be Heaven” and Panah Panahi’s “Hit the Road” in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAbstract | The final scene of Elia Suleiman’s film, It Must be Heaven (2019), ends with the actor/director sitting in an Arab bar in the city of Haifa, while the young crowd is dancing to “Arabyon Ana” (2000) by Lebanese singer Yuri Mrakadi. The Arabic music is a testimony to a Palestinian-Arab culture that resists erasure.
The songs in Sulei…[Read more]
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