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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 1 year, 11 months 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] -
Tekla Babyak started the topic My virtual talk on bringing in disabled guest speakers in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
My name is Tekla Babyak (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014)—I’m an independent scholar and disability activist with multiple sclerosis. As an MLA Delegate Assembly Member representing Disability in the Profession, I’m committed to fighting against ableism in academia.
To that end, I’m writing to let you know about my upcoming v…[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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Maren T. Linett started the topic Members’ suggestions for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoAt (and after) the January convention, the TC Disability Studies executive committee will need to appoint a new member to the executive committee. Please let us know if you want to self-nominate or nominate someone else and we will consider all nominations at our meeting. Thank you!
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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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Maren T. Linett replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThank you Leigh! Who has a nomination or self-nomination for someone to run for a term of service on the delegate assembly for TC Disability Studies? The Executive Committee, as Leigh notes, will be considering nominees at our meeting at the January MLA.
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Ryan Lee Cartwright deposited Sissies, Loafers, and the Feebleminded in the group
Disability Coalition Network – Group One on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoFocusing on rural white communities in the early twentieth century, this article examines how disability, queerness, and economic estrangement were intertwined in American eugenic assessments of the “unfit.” In doing so, it attends to the knotty relations of power by which such communities were simultaneously adjudged deviant and bestowed with the…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak deposited Teaching Music and Disability Through Disclosure-Oriented Pedagogy in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this paper, presented at the 2022 H-Net Teaching Conference, I describe how I teach undergraduate students about disability in music through what I call disclosure-oriented pedagogy. This practice involves demonstrating cross-historical comparisons between my lived experiences of disability and the representations of disability in 19th-century…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoAbstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.
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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, 5 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Katya Vrtis started the topic First Meeting Access Needs in the discussion
Disability Coalition Network – Group 4 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago<p style=”text-align: left;”>As we plan our first meeting, does anyone have access needs that Zoom doesn’t meet?
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Clare Mullaney started the topic Disability Coalition this Friday, 4/11 at 1 p.m. EST in the discussion
Disability Coalition Network – Group 8 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoHi all,
It looks like this Friday at 1 p.m. EST will be the most convenient time to have our first Disability Coalition Meeting.
We’ll meet at this Zoom link: https://clemson.zoom.us/j/9580757580
If you can’t attend, no problem — I’m happy to circulate some notes post meeting. And, as always, if you run into any access issues, please don’t…[Read more]
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Clare Mullaney started the topic Disability Coalition Network — First Meeting in the discussion
Disability Coalition Network – Group 8 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoHi all,
I hope this message finds you well. In my role as a group liaison, I’m writing to schedule our first Disability Coalition Network meeting as part of the MLA’s Committee on Disability Issues.
I’ve made a When2Meet poll so we can note our availability during the second week in April (4/11-4/15). If you run into any accessibility issues…[Read more]
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Claire Reinhardt replied to the topic schedule our first meeting in the discussion
Disability Coalition Network – Group 4 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoI am in California — Pacific Time Zone
I am available pretty steadily: Mon, Wed, Sat, Sun.
8am-5pm are ideal but I could meet later if needed
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Claire Reinhardt started the topic schedule our first meeting in the discussion
Disability Coalition Network – Group 4 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoHi everyone!
Looking forward to connecting to discuss disability issues. I know everyone has busy lives, so maybe we can share time zones we are in, best days (certain days, weekdays, weekends) and times that work for us.
I can also send out a poll if that’s easier.
Best,
Claire
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