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Anne Donlon started the topic AHA-MLA THATCamp, January 2nd in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWill you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.
Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]
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Steven J. Meyer deposited Re. 2018 election for MLA executive committee of TC Philosophy and Literature Forum [closes Monday Dec 10] in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPhilosophical interests of Steven Meyer, Washington University in St. Louis, candidate for 2018 election
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Marisa Verna deposited Review of Anne Simon, Trafics de Proust. Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Deleuze, Barthes in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoReview of the recent book of Anne Simon, about Proust and / with philosophers
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Chat with an Editor: Professional Development Opportunity from CELJ in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Chat with an Editor event takes place at the MLA each year. This professional development opportunity, sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, gives advanced doctoral candidates, postdocs, and new faculty the opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Modernism/modern…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Trave…[Read more]
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Andrea Charise started the topic MLA 2019: Health Humanities & Digital Life Roundtable – abstracts/presenter info in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPlease see the presenter info and abstracts for the MLA 2019 Roundtable, “Health Humanities and Digital Life.”
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203: Health Humanities and Digital Life
Time: 8:30AM-9:45AM – Friday Jan 4 2019
Location: Hyatt Regency – Columbus H
Description: This interdisciplinary roundtable is a critical exploration of the intersection of medical and hea…[Read more] -
Lisa Zunshine started the topic MLA panel on cognition and literature: Lying Minds, Social MInds in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoFor those of you interested in cognitive approaches to literature, don’t miss our panel on the last day of the conference:
740: Lying Minds, Social Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Chinese Literature
Date: Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Time: 1:45 PM–3:00 PM
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Jamil Mustafa replied to the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA chance to revisit Chicago when the weather is much improved!
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. Te…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited Scientific Discourse in Italian Literature in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoVersion (MA level) of a course I taught in several iterations at the University of Pittsburgh between 1995 and 2006.
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Dennis Looney deposited Science and Literature, Italian Style in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoVersion (BA level) of a course I taught at the University of Pittsburgh over several iterations between 1995 and 2006. Team taught in 2006 with Peter Machamer, professor in HPS at Pitt.
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Nathan Gorelick started the topic Nomination to Forum Executive Committee — Candidate Statement in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature,
I am writing to request your support for my nomination to the forum’s Executive Committee. If elected, I would join the committee after the 2019 convention in January.
For three years (2016-2018), I served as the forum’s representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly, which…[Read more]
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Patrick Colm Hogan started the topic Literary Universals Workshop at the University of Connecticut in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLITERARY UNIVERSALS WORKSHOP
The University of Connecticut, Storrs24 May 2019
Announcement and Call for Papers
Literary universals include properties and structures ranging, for example, from genre patterns through metaphor and imagery, and from ethical or political themes through formal features of prosody. Technically, literary universals are…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLate medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThank you, Tana Jean! –Tom
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCorrection: Submit 250- to 500-word abstracts and a CV, by January 5, 2019, to Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University College of Medicine, at tana.welch@med.fsu.edu
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Preetha Mani deposited Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores an unprecedented distinction between literary and popular writing that emerged in debates in Maṇikkoṭi and Āṉanta Vikaṭaṉ, two well-known Tamil magazines that were launched in the 1930s. Through short stories and critical essays, the writers who contributed to these magazines attempted to create new lenses through which to v…[Read more]
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