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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Collaborative Rhizomatic Learning and Global Shakespeares,” Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning through Collaboration, ed. Liam E. Semler, Claire Hansen, and Jacqueline Manuel (Cambridge University Press, 2023), 225-238 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoCollaborative learning as a pedagogical method effectively reflects the communal character of the performing arts. By creating knowledge about Shakespearean performance collaboratively, students and educators lay claim to the ethics and ownership of that knowledge, an act that is particularly urgent and meaningful in the age of COVID-19 when we…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Translingual Shakespeare: An Afterword,” Shakespeare in Succession: Translation and Time, ed. Michael Saenger and Sergio Costola (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023), 298-307 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoLiterary translations work with, rather than out of, the space between languages. Translations evolve not only across linguistic and cultural borders but also across time. It is notable that Shakespeare’s own play texts feature translational properties that can be amplified in translation. This translingual property makes Shakespeare’s text inh…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum CFPs for MLA 2024 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFor the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.
1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSalaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]
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Sean Mark started the topic new book on Pound and Pasolini in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear group members,
I’m pleased to announce that my book on Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1
The Introduction and a translation of the Pasolini-Pound interview of 1967 are available for free download in th…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoThis chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic Call for Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic Call for Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 3 years agoHi everyone,
I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 25th with your nominations. Thanks!
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Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP Conference: USES OF MODERNISM (Ghent, Belgium – 20-22 September 2023) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.
CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023
The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]
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Eleanor R. Ty started the topic Nominate yourself to the Canadian Literature committee in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are currently seeking one new member for the Canadian Forum. Executive committees serve for five years and help choose the topics for the conference. Please send your nominations to Graham Jensen ghjensen@uvic.ca by Friday, Jan 20, 2023 at noon. Thank you.
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Faye Hammill deposited The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years agoTransatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships’ libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the…[Read more]
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Faye Hammill deposited Canadian Literature syllabus in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years agoSyllabus for final-year undergraduate one-semester course on anglophone Canadian literature
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Nesrine Chahine started the topic Nominations for CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are seeking nominations for the Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum at the MLA. We are also seeking nominations for a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly on behalf of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum. Both appointments would begin after the MLA Convention in 2024. Please email all nominations…[Read more]
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Anna Ziajka Stanton started the topic Seeking Nominees for Executive Committee + Delegate Assembly Rep (CLCS GAAM) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are seeking nominations for the Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum at the MLA. We are also seeking nominations for a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly on behalf of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum. Both appointments would begin after the MLA Convention in 2024. Please email all nominations…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]
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Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic Nominations for the Prose Fiction Forum executive committee in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe welcome nominations from our membership. Please feel free to email ylee@wellesley.edu before Jan. 17, 2023.
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TOMORROW SUNDAY: Panel “Words on Food” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us tomorrow Sunday for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee, “Words on Food.” Proust’s madeleine conjures pleasure and memories. What of food in French literature and thought since then, especially in times of scarcity or hunger? How to interpret food that is odd, inedible, absent?
Sunday, J…[Read more]
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Jack W. Chen started the topic Executive Forum Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years agoP14 Chinese Forum members, we are in the process of soliciting nominations for the forum executive committee. We are particularly interested in midlevel senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world literary methodologies. Please send all nominations, including…[Read more]
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TODAY: Panel “French Eyes on California” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us today for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee. Panelists will examine the role, symbol, and landscapes of California in 20th- and 21st-century French literature and thought.
Saturday, January 7
3:30pm – 4:45pm
Marriott Marquis – Nob Hill C (Lower B2 Level)
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