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Nancy Caronia started the topic LLA Italian American CFPs for MLA 2017 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoPlease see below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
DigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People
The Italian American Literature Forum is seeking panelists to present transmedia perspectives and projects (oral histories, photos, artifacts, home movies etc.) on the Italian…[Read more] -
Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Martha Nell Smith started the topic 3 CFPs for TC Sexuality Studies Forum MLA 2017!!! in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoQueer Hamilton
Forum: TC Sexuality Studies and GS Drama and Performance
Musical theatre, performance, Broadway, dance, history, cross-periodization, American Revolution, Founding Fathers, colonial, empire, race, ethnicity, Latina/o, African-American, hip-hop, sexuality, gender, Caribbean, immigration. 250 word abstracts, CVs by 15 February…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Re-visioning Romantic-Era Gothicism: An Introduction to Key Works and Themes in the Study of H.P. Lovecraft in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoHoward Phillips Lovecraft was an author, letter writer and poet who lived between 1890 and 1937. His works blend science fiction with Gothic themes. Lovecraft was, by the majority of accounts (including his own), a bad writer. He was also an outspoken racist for the majority of his life to a degree which makes much of his work, to a modern reader,…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoArgues that the documentary Paper Clips exemplifies the ways in which Holocaust education can unwittingly foster competing victimization narratives between blacks and Jews, sanitize both European and U.S. history, and serve subtle
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Maria DiFrancesco started the topic Summer Fellowship Opportunity: NeMLA in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe NeMLA Summer Fellowship Program Summer fellowships up to $1,500 are intended to defray the cost of traveling incurred by researchers in pursuing their work-in-progress over the summer. Fellowships primarily support untenured junior faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars. All applicants will be notified before the convention.…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic 817. Is the Short Story Queer? in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoAbstracts, and the short stories that will be discussed, at Special Session (roundtable) 817, “Is the Short Story Queer,” have been posted to an MLA Commons site:
https://session817.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
Please join us on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1:45-3:00 p.m., in 9B, Austin Convention Center.
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Extended Deadline for 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoExtended Deadline!
Call for Papers
The 21st Summer Meeting
of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
June 2-5, 2016
The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
During an extended period of self-imposed isolation following his graduation from Bowdoin, Hawthorne embarked on a tour of New England and the Hudson Valley. In 1832, he visited Burlington,…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal Book & Film Reviews in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoChiricú Journal is seeking reviewers for our first issue on Latina/o film. We have several books and films available for review. Please see our review page (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/chiricu/pages/view/reviews) for more information and contact our issue editor, Jonathan Risner (jtrisner@indiana.edu) to request a review copy.
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic CFP w/ extended deadline for Hawthorne ALA panels in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago*Extended Deadlines!*
Calls for Papers: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Sessions, American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016.
“Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood”
Proposals for papers on the topic of “Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood” are sought for a Nathaniel Hawthorne Society session at the American Literature Associat…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic St. John's University-New York: MLA: English in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agohttps://apply.interfolio.com/32882
We invite applications for an advanced to senior professor of English with research specialization in any area of writing, rhetoric, or pedagogy studies. Applications with junior academic standing will also be considered. The position combines joining the faculty of our dynamic MA- and PhD- granting graduate…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic CFP: (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)
De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer
Colloque international
84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir
Université du Québec à Montréal
11, 12, 13 mai 2016
En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysis…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Open Rank English Job at St. John's University in the discussion
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal Call for Submissions: Extended Deadline 1/15/2016 in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe Latino Studies Program at Indiana University and the Indiana University Press announce an extended deadline for the inaugural issue of Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. A new venue for Latina/o humanities, our Fall 2016 issue will focus on Latina/o film, including all aspects of artistic production, repr…[Read more]
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Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic CfP "Human Rights in the Americas," October 4-6, 2016, UCSB in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDear Friends, Colleagues, Inter-Americanists, Theorists, Arab, Asian, Chicana/o, Decolonial, Ethnic, Hemispheric, Jewish, Latin American, Latina/o studies devotees and supporters I invite you to participate in the conference “Human Rights in the Americas” that will take place October 4 – 6, 2016, at the University of California, Santa Barba…[Read more]
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Shiao-ling S. Yu deposited Politics and Theatre in the PRC: Fifty Years of Teahouse on the Chinese Stage in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoEver since its introduction to China in the early twentieth century, spoken drama (huaju) has been at the forefront of social and political changes. Its realistic portrayal of life and use of spoken dialogue made it an ideal vehicle to promote social reforms and to serve politics. This study investigates the relationship between politics and…[Read more]
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Aparna Dharwadker started the topic Dharwadker Statement Drama Performance Election in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues:
As a candidate for election to the Executive Committee of the recently renamed MLA Forum on Drama and Performance, I am taking up the invitation from the Executive Director’s office to communicate with the Forum membership about my interests and goals.
My doctoral work was in British theatre of the long eighteenth century, but t…[Read more]
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Suzanne England deposited Driving Miss Daisy as Memory Theatre in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAlfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Driving Miss Daisy (1986) is examined as a site of memory including: Uhry’s own memories upon which the characters and the play itself are based; the role of memory stories, settings and objects in the unfolding of the relationship be-tween its main characters, Daisy Wertham and her chauffeur, Hoke Col…[Read more]
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Geraldine Heng deposited The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages”—a two-part article—questions the widely held belief in critical race theory that “race” is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries—chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon l…[Read more]
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