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Hilary Sarat-St. Peter started the topic Candidate for Election to RCWS Pedagogies Forum in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoAs I have been nominated to run for the election for the RCWS pedagogies forum executive committee, I would like to introduce myself via this forum.
I’m an associate professor of professional/technical writing in the department of English and Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, the largest nonprofit arts college in the US. Much of my o…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Miller started the topic Call for Papers: Anales Galdosianos Monographic Issue in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoI am pleased to share the call for papers for Anales Galdosianos’s monographic issue, “Contagion and Illness in the Time of Galdós” / “Contagios y enfermedades en los tiempos de Galdós“.
Proposal Submission Deadline (250 words): November 30, 2020
Article Submission Deadline (maximum 10,000 words): April 16, 2021
Expected Publication Date: Novem…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Miller started the topic Call for Papers: Anales Galdosianos Monographic Issue in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoI am pleased to share the call for papers for Anales Galdosianos’s monographic issue, “Contagion and Illness in the Time of Galdós” / “Contagios y enfermedades en los tiempos de Galdós“.
Proposal Submission Deadline (250 words): November 30, 2020
Article Submission Deadline (maximum 10,000 words): April 16, 2021
Expected Publication Date: Novem…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Miller started the topic Call for Papers: Anales Galdosianos Monographic Issue in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoI am pleased to share the call for papers for Anales Galdosianos’s monographic issue, “Contagion and Illness in the Time of Galdós” / “Contagios y enfermedades en los tiempos de Galdós“.
Proposal Submission Deadline (250 words): November 30, 2020
Article Submission Deadline (maximum 10,000 words): April 16, 2021
Expected Publication Date: Novem…[Read more]
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Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Espacios de la memoria. Marcel Proust y Juan Benet in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn recent years it has been recognized that Proust profoundly influences different Spanish narrators (see H. Craig, also for Latin American literature), and in this work it is shown how in the syntax, the type of narrator, the construction of the scene and other aspects in Juan Benet’s narrative show the Prustian influence.
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Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Kafka en España: unas notas sobre Carmen Martín Gaite y Enrique Vila-Matas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFranz Kafka is one of the most influential writers in Spanish narrative since the post-war period, from the beginnings of the work of Carmen Martín Gaite, to Enrique Vila-Matas, one of the most widely translated and well-known current novelists.
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Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPrior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic Invitation Book Presentation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
I would like to invite you to the presentation of the English translation of Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Pixel Flesh (Carne de Píxel) by my dear colleague and friend Zachary Rockwell Ludington.
The Embassy of Spain will host an online presentation and reading on Friday, October 9 at 3pm EST. Zachary will be joined by Agu…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues:
I’d like to invite you to submit a proposal for the seminar at ACLA that I am organizing together with Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.
Title: The Shaping of Afro-Spaniard Identities: From the Colonial View to Counternarratives of Blackness within Spanish Culture (1920-2020)
Description: The numerous protests against systemic racism…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoPlease see the announcement and call for papers for Diasporic Italy.
Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies AssociationInaugural Volume (2021) – Call for Papers Description:Diasporic Italy is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Italian American / Diaspora studies, focusing on timely a…[Read more]
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Erin K. Hogan started the topic CFP due Oct 31st for ACLA online April 8-11, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoColegas, I would like to invite you to submit to an ACLA seminar that I’m proposing. The conference will be held virtually between April 8-11. I include the CFP below. I hope that you will consider submitting! Salud y saludos, Erin
Spanish Society Must Be Defended?: Revisiting Foucault, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty Today This proposed seminar rev…[Read more]
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Carmen Moreno-Diaz started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
Please find attached the CFP for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference that this year will take place online.
We look forward to your participation!
Saludos a todxs, y buen comienzo de semestre!
Carmen.
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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “What Thoughts I Have of You Tonight, Walt Whitman” Continuity and Innovation in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoIn his essay “The Poet,” Emerson called for the poet who would sing the burgeoning nation of the United States of America. The answer to his request far exceeded all his expectations in the form of a ground-breaking volume of poems where Walt Whitman sang not only a nation, but the people who inhabited it as the people incarnated the values, str…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoPrevious studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic New Issue of "Decimonónica" in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the release of issue 17.2 (Summer 2020) of Decimonónica: Revista de Producción Cultural Hispánica. Its contents are available at http://www.decimononica.org/
Saludos,
Luis
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Matthew K. Gold deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities Syllabus in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn this introduction to the digital humanities (DH), we will approach the field via a Caribbean Studies lens, exploring how an understanding of the digital based in the growing area of digital Caribbean studies might shape the larger field of DH.
The course aims to provide a landscape view of DH, paying attention to how its various approaches…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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William Nichols deposited Viajes al futuro y sociedad del simulacro: Modernidad, Disneyficación y ruinas de la resistencia en Quinteto de Buenos Aires de Manuel Vázquez Montalban in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoA lo largo de la obra de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, tanto en las obras dentro de la serie Carvalho como fuera y en la producción de libros no-ficción, el viaje sirve para como ímpetu narrativo además de eje temático para indagar las contradicciones de la globalización y explorar la memoria como estrategia de resistencia. Por un lado, el viaje o…[Read more]
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Akiko Tsuchiya started the topic Publication announcement in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoI am pleased to announce that the collective volume, “Unsettling Colonialism: Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World” (SUNY P, 2019) will be available in paperback edition in July 2020 and can be pre-ordered through the SUNY Press website (or Amazon). For further information, please see: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6794-unse…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic New Publication on Unamuno in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues,
I hope you are doing well in these difficult times. I am pleased to announce the publication of a collective volume on Miguel de Unamuno as part of the MLA series “Approaches to Teaching Word Literature.” For more information, please follow this…[Read more]
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