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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Oct Meeting, NYC Chapter of The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissanc in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe 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 th…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP ASLE 2017: Comics, Graphic Novels, and the Environment (June 20-24 2017) in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThis panel for the next ASLE Conference seeks to offer a range of explorations of environmental and ecological themes in comics and graphic novels. Whereas the conference’s “Rust/Resistance” special topic should provide cohesion to the panel, papers that expand the study of comics and graphic novels from any environmental lens are also welco…[Read more]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to 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]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Literary Criticism 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]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Henry Bowles started the topic CFP: ACLA 2017, "Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind" in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 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, psychoanalysi…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoREVISED WELCOME:
Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature (RBL) group. NOTE: We are calling for formation of a panel on RBL at next MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust B…[Read more]
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Monica Cure started the topic CFP Travel, Religion, and Interpretation ACLA 2017 Netherlands, Deadline Sep. 23 in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.
If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper
Religion has…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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James Gifford deposited Anarchist Surrealism & Canadian Apocalyptic Modernism: Allusive Political Praxis in Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThis article gestures to the 1930s through 1950s international anarchist literary networks that ran from Paris to London and Athens, Cairo and Alexandria, Shanghai, Oxford and Cambridge, New York and San Francisco, and finally Big Sur and Vancouver. The distribution across these nodes was intense and sustained, but this project only hints at t…[Read more]
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: Crossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide Seminar at ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 2017 in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCrossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide: Modernist Women Writers and Artists beyond Frontiers
A Seminar at ACLA 2017 (6th-9th July, Utrecht)
Organizers: Esther Sánchez-Pardo (esanchez_pardo@filol.ucm.es) & Renée Silverman (silvermr@fiu.edu)
Proposals due Sept. 23, 2016
Apply online: http://www.acla.org/crossing-anglo-hispanic-divide-mode…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCertainly! We can also include Northern Mexico’s mining and steel areas.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]
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Maria Lujan Figueredo replied to the topic News to share? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello,
Thank you for this message. I recently won an award and I would like to have this news shared with other MLA members in the Commons Newsletter to be included in the September issue!
Professor Maria Figueredo wins 2016 President’s University-Wide Teaching Award
(Full-Time Faculty Category)
This prestigious award is an important recognit…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHi again @gloriamla,
I just wanted to pass on a message from @okala35shimobi that ended up in the Commons inbox:
Dear Gloria Lee McMillan,
Could you tell me how to get a copy of the stories? Though neither a resident nor specialist on the Rust Belt, I’m nonetheless interested in reading a story that uses post-colonialism to represent the e…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoApologies to DANE for saying Diane!
I have uploaded my story to CORE and thank you, Nicky.
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Whiting Rich and Strange in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTitle 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]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago@gloriamla, you can also upload a copy of the story to CORE, the MLA’s Open Access repository for member work. You’ll get a DOI (permanent link) to share with anyone—not just MLA members—and download statistics, and as CORE is a library-quality archive, your work will also be ensured longevity!
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