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Steven Aoun deposited Reviews of Lord of the Rings (Return of the King), Passion of Christ and Schindlers List in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoA very critical overview of seemingly disparate films
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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoExtra- and non-anthropocentric subjects of the Global South, notably the Caribbean. Who/ what is the human-animal-other subject? Narratives/poetics extrinsic to the colonial mind/body split? Old materialisms ‘with soul’. 300 word abstract and 1 page CV by 3/15 to Jennifer M. Wilks (jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu) and Rosemary J. Jolly (rjj14@psu.edu).
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Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is the peer-reviewed submission version of the essay, which focuses on the role that digital communication platforms can play in teaching and engaging with Wallace’s work.
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Bill Hughes deposited In the Company of Wolves: Wolves, Werewolves, and Wild Children, ed. Sam George & Bill Hughes – Book Launch and Film Screening, 29 February 2020, Odyssey Cinema, St Albans, UK in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoYou are cordially invited to a special event to celebrate ten years of the Open Graves, Open Minds project and to launch our new book In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children.
In the Company of Wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety…[Read more] -
Jay Rajiva deposited “Secrecy, Sacrifice, and God on the Island: Christianity and Colonialism in Coetzee’s Foe and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis essay argues that the tension in Coetzee’s reading of Robinson Crusoe springs from the exposure of the Christian secret in both the colonial enterprises of the characters and the authorial presences of Defoe and Coetzee. My argument draws on Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death, which outlines how Christianity tacitly incorporates (but doe…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literary Studies: Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoDespite a strong pedigree of textual scholarship in literary studies, the study of contemporary literature often eschews such methods on the grounds that there is an insufficient archive to fully comprehend the production of just-published work. In this article I argue for a turn to textual scholarship in the field of contemporary literary studies…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Joanne Bernardi deposited “Re-Envisioning Japan” DH project overview – MLA2020 Collaborative Round Table (DH in Japan & Korea Studies: Approaches and Challenges) in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoPowerpoint presentation for the MLA2020 collaborative roundtable “Digital Humanities in Japan and Korea: Approaches and Challenges,” organized by the LLC Korean and LLC Japanese since 1900 Forums. This brief introduction to “Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture” was one of seven presentations by…[Read more]
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Cynthia Chase replied to the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention via email on MLA Commons 6 years agoNo, thank you.
Cynthia Chase
From: Xiaowen Xu [mailto:noreply@hcommons-staging.org]
Sent: mardi 14 janvier 2020 17:08
To: Cynthia Chase
Subject: [MLA Commons] Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum… (2019 MLA Convention) -
Xiaowen Xu started the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC Pre-14th Forum is calling for your volunteering to be an alternate candidate for the executive committee 2021 to 2026. Please contact Xiaowen Xu (xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca) or Benjamin Ridgway (brdgwa1@swarthmore.edu) if you are interested. Or you could reply to this thread directly.
We would need four forum members who are…
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Xiaowen Xu started the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC Pre-14th Forum is calling for your volunteering to be an alternate candidate for the executive committee 2021 to 2026. Please contact Xiaowen Xu (xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca) or Benjamin Ridgway (brdgwa1@swarthmore.edu) if you are interested. Or you could reply to this thread directly.
We would need four forum members who are…
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Edwin Culp deposited El discreto (y cómico) encanto de la sobremesa in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoEl texto explora el uso del tiempo y la producción de lo cómico en “El discreto encanto de la burguesía” (“Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie”, Luis Buñuel, Francia, 1972) y Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, Estados Unidos/Japón/Italia, 2003).
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Vincent Bruyere deposited Chauvet II, Locaux IV, Planet B in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis paper is about an ongoing experiment in ecocriticism that trades the reference to oikos–the inhabited world–for a choreography ushering bodies that cannot exist together anymore as a public through their resurrection to collective existence at the hand of three-dimensional replicas of prehistoric caves: Chauvet II and Lascaux IV. What the…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Information Labour and Shame in Farmer and Chevli’s Abortion Eve in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis article conducts the first in-depth political-aesthetic analysis of Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli’s Abortion Eve. In this article we argue that Abortion Eve uses its visual form in a way that cuts between the contexts of later forms of graphic medicine and feminist comix, and in so doing contributed to a political culture of feminist i…[Read more]
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cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] - Load More
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