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Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
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Natalie Crohn Schmitt deposited Dissimulation in the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCommedia dell’Arte was the most influential and widespread theatre movement in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe. A considerable part of its popularity can be accounted for by its comic representation of stressful occurrences within everyday life in early modern Europe, including in its representation of the period’s widespread dis…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic Ethnic Studies Division Panels, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoThe following are panels sponsored by the Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division at MLA 2016:
113, Social Death and Citizenship, is scheduled to take place at 3:30+4:45 p.m. on 07-JAN-16 in 7, ACC.
568, Archival Legibility and Invisibility, is scheduled to take place at 12:00 noon+1:15 p.m. on 09-JAN-16 in 311, JW Marriott.
618,…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic 568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility Selected for Presidential Theme in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division Panel 568 on Archival Legibility and Invisibility has been selected for inclusion in this year’s Presidential theme, Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future.”
Saturday, 9 January, 2016
568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Program arranged by the Fo…[Read more]
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Martha Nell Smith started the topic Queer Panels, GLQ Caucus & Reception for MLA 2016 in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCheck out and join us for these exciting sessions and at the GLQ Caucus & Reception!!!
Thursday, 7 January
Queer Proximities 1:45–3:00 p.m. – Selected for inclusion in the Presidential Theme, “Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, Future”
Friday, 8 January
Vaqueeras/os 10:15–11:30 a.m.
Saturday, 9 January
Queer Crips ac…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic MLA 2016: 113. Social Death and Citizenship in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThursday, 7 January 2016
113. Social Death and Citizenship
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Presiding: Stephen P. Knadler, Spelman Coll.; Amritjit Singh, Ohio Univ., Athens
1. “Declaration of Independence: Origin of American Social Death in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Sally Hemings,” Michael Lackey, Uni…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Queer Crips across Time, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoSaturday, 9 January
619. Queer Crips across Time
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies
Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.
Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]
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Adam Dexter started the topic CFP: Queer Theory in French in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago47th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
17 March – 20 March 2016SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2015
Although French-language theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Monique Wittig have been fundamental in thinking about queer theory in English, queer theory’s…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP ICLA Congress in Vienna; Committee on Comparative Queer/Gender Studies in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago<u>Call</u> <u>for</u> <u>Abstracts</u>
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts…[Read more]
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Todd W. Reeser started the topic CFP: Doing the Body in the 21st Century, U of Pittsburgh in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoBodies can be collective, material, medicalized, biological, sexual, queer, trans, normative, political, racial, transnational, ecological, historical, useful, global, affective, gendered, disabled, surveilled, controlled, subjected, transformed, enhanced, engineered, empowered, organized, managed, discursive, aesthetic, translated, theorized,…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited The correspondence of the arts in a Fin de Siècle Magazine. The “Livre d’Art” at the crossroads of Modernism in the group
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe main topic of this article is the history of a rare and precious French magazine of the late Nineteenth century, in which a vivid and crucial discussion about arts and their inter-relation grew the more and more intense in the short space of four years (1892-1896). The “Livre d’Art” was first conceived as a simple booklet to be distr…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century literature group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic CFP: Special Issue on Early Film in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoEarly film provides a wealth of information about Victorian performance practices, and Victorian theatre greatly influenced the development of film. Both points have been well documented by David Mayer, among others, as exciting new work continues to demonstrate. But there is much more to be learned and said about the reciprocal relationship b…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Travel and its Crossroads- Deadline extended to 07/12/2015 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe deadline has been extended to July 12, 2015
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