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Rania Huntington started the topic Soliciting ideas for panel sessions, MLA 2025 in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 2 years agoAs you may know, every year our forum has two guaranteed panel sessions for the MLA convention. The Executive Committee of the forum would like to consider ideas from as broad a range of our membership as possible. Please share your ideas for these sessions for the 2025 convention in New Orleans. At this stage it can be a general idea, without a…[Read more]
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Rania Huntington started the topic Suggestions for Executive Committee membership in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 2 years agoThe Ming-Qing forum Executive Committee welcomes member suggestions, including self-nominations, for a new members of the Committee with a term beginning in 2024. Committee members must be MLA members, not a member of another forum’s Excutive Committee unless that position ends in 2024, and have not been an executive committee member of our forum…[Read more]
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Rania Huntington started the topic Chinese and East Asian Literature reception, Friday January 5, 2024 in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 2 years agoPlease join us for the Chinese and East Asian Literature reception at MLA 2024 in Philadelphia, co- sponsored by the forums on Ming and Qing Chinese literature, pre-1400 Chinese literature, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, and East Asian Literature.
Time: Friday, January 5, 7:15-8:30 PM
Location: Marriott Grand A
Thanks to the…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please click this l…[Read more]
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Rania Huntington started the topic Geiss-Hsu Travel Grant for MLA 2024 participants in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThanks to the generous support of the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, the Executive Committee of the Ming-Qing Forum of the Modern Languages Association is pleased to announce the Geiss-Hsu Travel Grant to support participation in the 2024 MLA annual convention by scholars of the Ming and adjacent periods. Convention participants (…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoMakes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Book Chapters: Memory Studies: An Anthology of Perspectives in the discussion
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoChapter proposals are invited for a volume on contemporary memory and literary studies edited by Dr. D. Sudha Rani ( VNRVJIET ), Dr. Rachel Irdaya Raj ( VNRVJIET ), Dr.Shashibhusan Nayak (MLA).
Memory studies is an increasingly diverse, interdisciplinary, and dynamic field of knowledge that spans multiple disciplines. Sociologists, psychologists,…[Read more]
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Katherine Elkins started the topic CFP: Special Issue on Good and Evil in Fairytales (and folktales) in the discussion
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoHello,
I’m guest editing a special issue of humanities and we have room for a few more essays. The due date for final drafts will be a year from this August in 2024. The CFP is attached.
If you’re interested, please send me a 250-word abstract by August 2023 to elkinsk@kenyon.edu. I’m also happy to answer any questions/inquiries.
We have a g…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoVery excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle
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Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]
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Stef Craps started the topic Call for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory in the discussion
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory
London, UK, 27-29 June 2023
The eleventh Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by King’s College London, the University of Westminster, and Goldsmiths, University of London from Tuesday 27 to Thursday 29 June 2023, and will take place on-site at King’s College London and the Regent’s Stre…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
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Rania Huntington started the topic Last minute participant for a panel on mapping and fiction (San Francisco 2023? in the discussion
Literary Geography on MLA Commons 3 years agoThis hasn’t been a very active group but I’m trying to cast a wide net.
One of our panelists for an in-person panel at MLA 2023 in San Francisco will not be able to attend. We can make a last-minute addition to the program as long as the presenter is already registered for the conference and not already appearing in the program twice. The panel…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited “Writing about War”: Dương Thu Hương’s Representations of the Vietnam-American War in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoWhile 30 April 1975 represented the end of hostilities between North and South Vietnam, it was not the end of internecine conflicts. The victorious communists treated Southerners with contempt and subjected them to humiliation and violence, including incarceration in so-called re-education camps. Dương Thu Hương served in the Women’s Youth Briga…[Read more]
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Evan Chaloupka deposited Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThis talk introduces the concept of “prosthetic narration,” a narrative technique that mediates the engagement of disabled cognition such that the reader is invited to reimagine how one thinks and perceives. In his essay, “The Novel,” Émile Zola establishes the “intimate union” between the author and “the reality of the scene” as a premise of fic…[Read more]
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis is a slightly revised version of the text of a talk that I (Seo-Young Chu) gave as part of the Fall 2014 Franke Lectures in the Humanities at Yale University. I’m sharing the text here to make the lecture more accessible. Topics include: North Korea/the DPRK, the “uncanny body politic,” the uncanny valley, “dystopian poetics,” what it means…[Read more]
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