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Joyce Tolliver replied to the topic Honoring Emilia Pardo Bazán: An International Campaign in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian via email on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI certainly support this initiative.
Cheers,
Joyce Tolliver
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignJOYCE TOLLIVER
DIRECTOR
Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies
Associate Professor, Spanish
Affiliate in EU Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, and Translation & Interpreting Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign4080 FLB |…[Read more]
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Francisca González-Arias replied to the topic Honoring Emilia Pardo Bazán: An International Campaign in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI fully support efforts to celebrate Emilia Pardo Bazán’s life and work by facilitating entry into the Pazo de Meirás.
I would like to point out that A Casa-Museo Emilia Pardo Bazán already exists in A Coruña, on the site of Pardo Bazán’s residence. Ideally, the Pazo de Meirás will add to and enhance the holdings in the Casa-…[Read more]
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Rebecca Haidt replied to the topic Honoring Emilia Pardo Bazán: An International Campaign in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian via email on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoPlease do include my name and affiliation in support: Rebecca Haidt, Ohio State University
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic Honoring Emilia Pardo Bazán: An International Campaign in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
I take the liberty to ask, on behalf of a group of historians, literary scholars and Spanish citizens, your support for this initiative to set up a museum in the memory of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Those who want to support it, please send your names and affiliations as soon as possible. The fate of the building will be decided in the…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic CFP: Multilingualism in the Global Mediterranean (MLA – 6–9 January 2022: Washin in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoProposals are sought for “Multilingualism in the Global Mediterranean,” a non-Guaranteed, joint Forum Session sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean and CLCS Global Arab and Arab American.
Interplay of Arabic and European languages in the literary and cultural production of the Mediterranean in light of the region’s long-standing history of mob…[Read more]
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Lisa Nalbone started the topic Harriet S. Turner Book Subvention Grants in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas/International Association of Galdós Scholars announces a new initiative: the Harriet S. Turner Book Subvention Grants.
The Harriet S. Turner Book Subvention Grants in the amount of up to $2,000.00 are offered annually, on a competitive basis, to AIG members requiring subventions to publish their b…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoDear Colleagues,
Attached please find a call for nominations for the fourth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2019 and 2020 are due March 15, 2021. For more information about the nomination…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Sarah Thomas started the topic MLA 2022 Forum Panels in 20th/21st Century Spanish & Iberian: Circulate & Apply! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoGender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
What radical acts of visibility and resistance are being mobilized by the work of Afro-descendants in Spain? What genres, visual and verbal imagery are used to subvert gender and racial categories to redefine Spain today?Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Benita Sampedro…[Read more]
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Sarah Thomas started the topic MLA 2022 Forum Panels in 20th/21st Century Spanish & Iberian: Circulate & Apply! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoGender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
What radical acts of visibility and resistance are being mobilized by the work of Afro-descendants in Spain? What genres, visual and verbal imagery are used to subvert gender and racial categories to redefine Spain today?Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Benita Sampedro…[Read more]
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Mary Kate Donovan started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: The Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone
Multilingualism within the Global Hispanophone signals the past colonial routes and present migratory flows that complicate the social cohesion national literatures purport to consolidate. Issues of translation, therefore, are steeped in both national and regional tensions,…[Read more]
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Mary Kate Donovan started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: The Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone
Multilingualism within the Global Hispanophone signals the past colonial routes and present migratory flows that complicate the social cohesion national literatures purport to consolidate. Issues of translation, therefore, are steeped in both national and regional tensions,…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic MLA 2022: When the MLA Went Global: What is Global in the Global Hispanophone? in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoWhen the MLA Went Global: What is Global in the Global Hispanophone?
The Global Hispanophone Forum is organizing a round table with seven participants representing the different global forums in the MLA
This panel seeks to interrogate the notion of the global from different angles. What is global in the Global Hispanophone, Lusophone,…[Read more] -
Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic CFP MLA 2022 Washington, D.C. in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoCFP MLA Forum LLC 18th & 19th Century Spanish and Iberian sessions for MLA 2022:
Scientific Myth and Mythic Science in 18th-19thC Iberia
Concepts of scientific practice, development, and knowledge in dialogue with, or opposition to, myth, folklore, superstition, magic, prophecy, and traditional belief/wisdom. Brief CV & 200-word abstracts. Deadline…[Read more] -
Catherine Barbour started the topic CfP MLA2022 Translingual Iberia: Peripheries and Mobilities in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease send 250 word abstracts for a proposed panel at MLA2022 on trans- and multilingualism in cultural production of the Iberian Peninsula. Studies of works by migrant cultural producers and/or in non-state languages particularly encouraged.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 15, 2021 to Catherine Barbour, University of Surrey…[Read more]
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Megan M. Ferry deposited Language Programs’ Post-pandemic Future in Designing a Sustainable Life in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 5 years agoCollegiate language programs faced challenges for survival long before COVID-19 hit the US. Now with the impending financial fallout from having to move online, colleges and universities will be scrutinizing even more so the value and viability of supporting language departments. This presentation will present a snapshot of where language programs…[Read more]
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Michael A. Burke deposited “Double the Fun: Implementing “Multiple Measures” and Accelerated Learning Program Simultaneously” in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis discusses the multi-year process of implementing co-requisite composition courses and establishing a multiple measures placement mechanism to determine which students need what kinds of developmental course work, if any. The end result was an increase in course pass rates and an increase in retention.
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic MLA 2021 Global Hispanophone Sessions in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years ago441 – Scholarship and Activism in the Global Hispanophone
Saturday, 9 January 2021
12:00 PM – 1:15 PMSession organizer (and moderating): Elisa Rizo, Iowa State U.
Presentations
Toward the Black Mediterranean
N. Michelle Murray, Vanderbilt UTranslation as Activism in the Global Hispanophone
Anna Tybinko, Duke U‘This Book Is O…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoVARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
VARIEDADES offers communicative activities…[Read more] - Load More