Groups – Activity – Risa Applegarth

Myrto Drizou started the topic CFP- Volume on Edith Wharton (Critical Insights-Salem Press) in the discussion Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

Call for Papers
Critical Insights
Edith Wharton
Please see below the call for essays for a forthcoming volume on Edith Wharton. The volume is part of the series Critical Insights (Salem Press) and will appear in fall 2017. More information can be found here:

http://www.salempress.com/critical_insights.html

Following the guidelines for the…[Read more]
Cristina León Alfar started the topic Oct Meeting NYC Chapter of The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

The New York City Chapter
of
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
presents:
ROYA BIGGIE
“Inter-Elemental Sympathies and
Cross-Species Compassion:
Caring for the Hybrid Body in Titus Andronicus”
ROYA BIGGIE, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, is also a PhD Candidate in English at the Gradu…[Read more]
Ruby Tapia posted an update in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

2017 MLA Panels Sponsored by the Forum on Race and Ethnicity Studies

Session 28. 05-JAN-17. Writing (against) the Prison, 12:00 noon – 1:15 p.m. Franklin 13, Philadelphia Marriott.

Presiding: Ruby Tapia, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. “The Life of Paper: Imprisoned,” Sharon Luk, Univ. of Oregon

2. “You (Shall) Have the Body: Ghostly…[Read more]
LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”

The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
Nancy Caronia started the topic NeMLA Panel seeking abstracts, deadline 9/30 in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

NeMLA Panel: The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed

The goal of “The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed” panel is to explore the Rocky franchise’s place in illuminating Italian Americans’ anxiety about whiteness in a post-Civil Rights era and black millennials’ continual struggle for autonomy in the post-9/11 twenty-…[Read more]
Darwin Tsen started the topic CFP Postsocialist Literature and Culture Under Comparative Lenses in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

Proposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)

Organizer:

Darwin H. Tsen, The Pennsylvania State University

A few nations still claim the socialist mantle today, but their practices paint a different picture. How do we, then, in an age where…[Read more]
Adam Toth started the topic CFP Race Theory and Literature in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

Proposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)

Organizers:
Pauline Moret-Jankus, Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena
Adam J. Toth, The Pennsylvania State University

Race Theory and Literature Emerging out of the practices of…[Read more]
Henry Bowles started the topic CFP: "Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind" (ACLA 2017) in the discussion History and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

“Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)

Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysis, and…[Read more]
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.

This group will host discussions of all types of lite…[Read more]
Cristina León Alfar started the topic Sept Meeting, NYC Chapter of Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

The first meeting of the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance will take place on Thursday, September 15, from 6:00-7:30pm in room 9207 of the CUNY Graduate Center. Francesca Canadé Sautman (French, Hunter and Graduate Center) will speak on “Offstage Direction: French Women and the Shaping of the Renaissance Theater.” Have a look at t…[Read more]
Val Dumond replied to the topic Member news to share? in the discussion The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

After a five year struggle, my book, American-English: The Official Guide, has been published and is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle. Not a “rule” book, it is aimed at writers and emphasizes the benefits of creating Your Style Manual and recording personal choices of grammar and punctuation usage. A special section offers…[Read more]
Pamela Herron replied to the topic Member news to share? in the discussion The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

My chapter “East to West – The Inter-Connectedness of All Things Created” will be published in the forthcoming book Sustainability in/and Writing Intensive Courses as part of the Lexington Books’ Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series. The book should be out by MLA 2017.

Thanks!

Pam
Nicky Agate started the topic Member news to share? in the discussion The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

Have you recently published a book, presented a project, or won an award? Share your news with other MLA members in the Commons Newsletter. Message me your news here on the Commons (@terrainsvagues) or e-mailcommons@mla.org over the next couple of days to be included in the September issue!
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic File deposit: Whiting Rich and Strange in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

I am notifying the Race and Ethnicity group that I have deposited a short story titled Whiting Rich and Strange. I have written six stories so far set in the Rust belt, a site of post-colonial activity. In my hometown of East Chicago. one census recorded 82 nationalities. Our part of Indiana is not known to the rest of the US, except as high cr…[Read more]
Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Whiting Rich and Strange in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

Title of short story: WHITING RICH AND STRANGE

A story of ethnic people in an oil refinery town in NW Indiana.
Comments are most welcome. This is part of a series of stories based in the industrial part of Chicago’s Indiana suburbs.

I am also placing the story in the Shakespeare group because–after all–it is a Romeo and Juliet story.…[Read more]
Doug Steward deposited Data on Humanities Doctorate Recipients and Faculty Members by Race and Ethnicity in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

The members of the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada noted at a recent meeting that they often make generalizations about humanities doctorate recipients and faculty members of color that would benefit from the light that systematic national data might shed on them. This report responds to the…[Read more]
Carrie Johnston started the topic Deadline Approaching: Gender & the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West in the discussion Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

Dear Colleagues,

The Sept. 1 deadline for the Studies in the Novel special issue, “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupation of the American West” is approaching. Full CFP and submission guidelines below.

Call for Papers: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West

Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a s…[Read more]
Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
Julien Jacques Simon started the topic CfP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab (Abstracts Due Aug. 31st) in the discussion Literature and Science on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

Call for Papers
Symposium: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
21-23 October 2016
Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science
http://elinas.fau.de/
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

– Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado
– H. Port…[Read more]
Alexa Huang deposited The Blotted Line | An Interview with Alexa Huang in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

An Interview with Alexa Huang, George Washington University | The Blotted Line

“I am proud to have answered my calling to tell stories and to show others how to listen for silenced voices. Story-telling makes us human because it…[Read more]
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Risa Applegarth

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Risa Applegarth

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