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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Otherbreath: Bare Life and the Limits of Self in Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’ in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 6 years agoFor the “Extreme Texts” special issue of Jacket2, edited by Divya Victor (2019)
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Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Award-Winning Filmmaker Almudena Carracedo participating tonight in Session 178 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear colleagues,
Just a quick reminder that Spanish film director Almudena Carracedo, 2019 Goya winner for Best Documentary Feature, will be participating tonight Thursday, 9 January 2020 in Session 178 The Silence of Others and the Fight for the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain.
Here is the link to her award-winning film https://thesilence…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic LLC 18th-19th Century Spanish and Iberian MLA 2020 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years ago265 Visualizing Catalunya
Forum: LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian & LLC Catalan Studies
Friday, January 10, 202010:15 AM – 11:30 AMWSCC, 201
Presider: Leigh Mercer, University of Washington, Seattle
Presentations:
Nick Wolters, Wake Forest University, “The Catalan Cut: Tailoring Bourgeois Identities in Nineteenth-Century B…[Read more]
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Meredith Martin started the topic POETRY PANELS OF INTEREST AT MLA 2020 including GS Poetry & Poetics Panels in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoGuide to Poetry & Poetics at #MLA2020 Seattle, 9 Jan – 12 Jan, 2020
By the GS Poetry and Poetics Forum
In Seattle, make some time to visit Open Books: A Poem Emporiumhttp://www.openpoetrybooks.com/
GS Poetry and Poetics Forum Sponsored Sessions Thursday, 9 January
- Poetics and Lineation
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 607, WSCC
Saturday, 11 J…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited How Poetry Became Meditation in Late-Ninth-Century China in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoIn late-ninth-century China, poetry and meditation became equated — not just metaphorically, but as two equally valid means of achieving stillness and insight. This article discusses how several strands in literary and Buddhist discourses fed into an assertion about such a unity by the poet-monk Qiji 齊己 (864–937?). One strand was the aesthet…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
<a title=”Original URL:
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic Convocatoria Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoConvocatorias https://www.madrid-ias.eu/es/convocatoria/convocatorias/novedad/nuevas-convocatorias-del-mias/
El MIAS invita a investigadores de todas las nacionalidades. Admitido en abril de 2019 como miembro de pleno derecho de la prestigiosa red NetIAS (Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study), el MIAS tiene como objetivo reforzar e…[Read more]
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Nicolás Fernández-Medina started the topic Candidate Introduction for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoEstimados/as colegas,
I hope all is well! I will be running for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum executive committee. With the voting period right around the corner, I wanted to introduce myself briefly.
I am Associate Professor of Spanish and Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. My training is in Spanish literature…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic University of Florida – Spanish Graduate Program in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
The Spanish graduate program at the University of Florida is accepting applications for the MA and PhD degrees in either Spanish Literatures and Cultures or Hispanic Linguistics. Please circulate the attached brochure among any interested parties.
Inquiries can be addressed to: grad-coord@spanish.ufl.edu
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic University of Florida – Spanish Graduate Program in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
The Spanish graduate program at the University of Florida is accepting applications for the MA and PhD degrees in either Spanish Literatures and Cultures or Hispanic Linguistics. Please circulate the attached flyer among any interested parties.
Inquiries can be addressed to: grad-coord@spanish.ufl.edu
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP •• Edited Collection •• The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume *The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830* and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*Call for Proposals*
*The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830*
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited “Excellence in Execution” and “Fitness for Teaching”: Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months ago“Excellence in Execution” and “Fitness for Teaching”: Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Seminar proposal ALCESSXXI: Artes discursivas, neoliberalismo y crisis in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoConvocatoria. Queridas/os colegas, estoy preparando un seminario para ALCESXXI en Uviéu / Oviedo del 13 al 15 de julio de 2020. Más abajo agrego información. Interesados escribirme a aribascasasayas@scu.edu. Información sobre la conferencia en http://www.alcesxxi.org/home/ Hay que ser miembro de ALCESXXI para poder participar. Favor de difundir a per…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]
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