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Laura E. Savu started the topic CFP: The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. Please take a look at the brief description of the topic and the research questions below. Feel free to add any other comments and questions and let me know if you are i…[Read more]
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Selma R. S. Vital replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHi Dennis,
I would love to participate of this workshop, but unfortunately I cannot go to Ohio at this time. Please, keep us informed about any other similar event in the east coast. Due to our big load of work in the last week of classes, Marion and I were not able to put together a panel for Toronto. I still believe we can do something to make…[Read more]
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Lisa Brown started the topic CFP: Comparative Media, PAMLA 2015 in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoIf, as Marshall McLuhan famously asserts, media act as prosthesis, then our increasingly haptic relationship to digital technologies (think the nearly ubiquitous touchscreen interface of tablets and smart phones, as well as the rise of immersive VR as evidenced by Facebook’s recently announced acquisition of Oculus) seems only natural. What, then,…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
I receive these posts as a member of this discussion group in my capacity as a faculty member of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. Since January 2014, I have assumed the directorship of ADFL and in that new capacity I write to announce a workshop connected with the topic Selma and Marion are discussing. At the ADFL s…[Read more]
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Marion Gehlker replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoHi Selma,
I’d be interested. What topics did you have in mind? I teach German and include literature at all levels of language instruction.
Thanks,
Marion
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Selma R. S. Vital started the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoI am proposing a round table discussing new ways/approaches and successfull strategies integrating the literary text into the language class. The subject is not new, however a lot has been changing in this particular “field”. If interested, please, contact me as soon as you can, since the deadline for submissions is approaching. The convention…[Read more]
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Jeremy Douglass started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Literature in Weird Media in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThis panel explores theoretical implications and analytical challenges of literary works in ‘weird’ non-print forms. 500-word abstract and two-page vita in one PDF. by 15 March 2014; Jason Camlot (jason.camlot@concordia.ca).
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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Jeremy Douglass started the topic CFP MLA 2014: Literary and Social Media, Past and Present in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 11 months agoMedia and Literature’s session CFP for MLA2014 is out — please circulate widely. Proposals are due March 12.
Literary Social Media, Past and Present
Relationships between social media (broadly conceived) and literary history, including networks of production / dissemination as mediated in any genre / period. 300 word abstracts. by 12 Mar…[Read more]
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