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Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel, Writing in a Jewish language in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoHow do writers make languages Jewish or inject Jewishness into language? English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, etc. as Jewish languages; Anglish/Yinglish and other Jewish lexicons; Hebrew-Arabic crossovers; language as hybridity. 250-word abstracts and short bios to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk. Deadline: March 8, 2021
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Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel–Contagion in/around Jewish literature in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoSubmissions exploring diverse approaches to contagion in Jewish literature and culture; interpreting contagion, infectious affects and ideas, transnational/linguistic transmission, thematic proliferations, infodemics and political contaminations, illness/disease narratives. 250-word abstracts and short bio to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk. Deadline: March 8, 2021
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Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel–Contagion in/around Jewish literature in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoSubmissions exploring diverse approaches to contagion in Jewish literature and culture; interpreting contagion, infectious affects and ideas, transnational/linguistic transmission, thematic proliferations, infodemics and political contaminations, illness/disease narratives. 250-word abstracts and short bio to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk
Deadline: March 8, 2021
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews
We seek submissions exploring diverse approaches to myth in Jewish literature/culture; literary/cultural myths about Jews; language; feminist readings; gender critiques; contemporary myths; temporality; race; Memory Studies; Holocaust Studies; all genres, including…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews
We seek submissions exploring diverse approaches to myth in Jewish literature/culture; literary/cultural myths about Jews; language; feminist readings; gender critiques; contemporary myths; temporality; race; Memory Studies; Holocaust Studies; all genres, including…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas
We seek submissions for a forum panel exploring hybrid languages, identities, genres, cultures, genders, in prose/poetry by most recent Jewish immigrant writers; diverse approaches welcome: comparative with 1881-1924 Jewish literature; hemispheric, multilingual,…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas
We seek submissions for a forum panel exploring hybrid languages, identities, genres, cultures, genders, in prose/poetry by most recent Jewish immigrant writers; diverse approaches welcome: comparative with 1881-1924 Jewish literature; hemispheric, multilingual,…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: Maus at 30 Years (CLCS Global Jewish and LLC Jewish American) in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: Maus at 30 Years (a collaboration between the CLCS Global Jewish forum and LLC Jewish American forum)
We seek submissions for a roundtable, 30 years later, on Maus’s enduring influence; teaching and/or scholarship on/around Maus; diverse approaches wanted, eg., Memory Studies, Comics Studies, Autobiography Studies, Holocaust Studies, in…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Textual Scholarship 2021 conference "Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions" in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats.
The Society hopes to attract participation in this conference from…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Andrew C. Parker deposited Derrida and Victorian Studies – slides for roundtable discussion in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis is the PowerPoint presentation to accompany my comments for the Theoretical Foundations of Victorian Studies roundtable on January 7, 2021.
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George Phillips deposited Are trees forms? On formalism, material feminism, and historical literature in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis essay draws on formalist cultural studies and material feminism to argue for a new approach in modernist studies, which I call formalist materialism, an approach that reads ecological forms alongside aesthetic forms. Such an approach may have distinct advantages. Formalist materialism illuminates a new direction for formalists by connecting…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited Are trees forms? On formalism, material feminism, and historical literature in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis essay draws on formalist cultural studies and material feminism to argue for a new approach in modernist studies, which I call formalist materialism, an approach that reads ecological forms alongside aesthetic forms. Such an approach may have distinct advantages. Formalist materialism illuminates a new direction for formalists by connecting…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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Dennis Denisoff started the topic Election for the Victorian and Early-Twentieth Century Forum in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Thank you for considering me for the position on the Executive Committee of the Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. The MLA has supported and inspired me since I was a graduate student in the queer ’90s, and I would greatly appreciate this opportunity to serve the MLA and its members in return—especially in add…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay started the topic MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to stand for election to the Executive Committee of the MLA’s Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. A role on that Committee demands real attention to a host of responsibilities, chief among them the responsibility to ensure that all of the Forum’s convention panels, roundtables, and workshops refle…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Gender and Genre Bias: Women Writers & Networks in Latin America in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIt is well known that the literary history of Latin America and its canon has been/is written by a patriarchal Eurocentric society that controls what constitutes national literature. It is also established that (colonial/contemporary) Latin American subjects in the periphery of the urban republic of letters are not included due to their gender…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Secular Women Writers of Colonial Spanish America.” in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoNew directions of research in colonial women’s studies on gender roles, periphery and margins, and discursive practices that expand the notion of “literary text” (Adorno 177), indicate that the textual corpus of colonial women’s writings continues to increase. This emergent group of texts reveals patterns of rhetorical strategies and recurre…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]
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