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Steven Swarbrick deposited “The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac” in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoBuilding on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).
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Susan Larson deposited Nature, the Monumental and Urban Technological Networks in Víctor Moreno’s Edificio España (2012) and La ciudad oculta (2018) / Naturaleza, lo monumental y las redes tecnológicas urbanas en Edificio España (2012) y La ciudad oculta (2018) de Víctor Moreno in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoIf we affirmatively answer Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw’s invitation to think beyond the ‘fetishization of the modern city’ as the pinnacle of human-centered progress and achievement in order to consider the urban as both a process of transformed nature and the metabolic and social transformation of nature through human labor, the city becom…[Read more]
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Claudio Palomares-Salas deposited The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough exploration of the meanings and values Hispanic poets and artists assigned to four iconic locations of modernity: the city, the cafés, means of transportation, and the sea, during the first decades of the 20th century. Joining important studies on S…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami Univers in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Ed Finn started the topic Announcing Everything Change, Vol. III in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’m writing to share that today, in honor of Earth Day, Arizona State University’s Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative has published a new book: Everything Change, Volume III, an anthology of short fiction collecting the winners of our global contest in 2020. The anthology is free to download in a variety of digital forma…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Trash as Aesthetic and Theme in Elvira Navarro’s La trabajadora in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis essay focuses on one example of a collective desire to articulate new ways of thinking about and inhabiting urban space: Elvira Navarro’s 2014 _La trabajadora_, a novel that directly confronts the human cost of austerity measures in Spain by addressing the indignation experienced by those whose life plans have been altered by economic i…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Los modos literarios flexibles de ‘Vísceras de la ciudad’ (1935) de Rosa Arciniega in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.
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Kim Adams started the topic "Eugenics and the Body" MLA 2022 CFP in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoI’m writing to share a CFP for a special session at MLA 2022, that may be of interest to scholars in of literature and science. Please note that the abstract deadline is this Friday, March 26th.
“Eugenics and the Body” MLA 2022
How has eugenics—a discourse of bodily perfection that centers reproduction—influenced perceptions of (non-)human…[Read more] -
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2022 MLA Round Table: When the MLA Went Global: What is Global in the Global His in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWhen the MLA Went Global: What is Global in the Global Hispanophone?
The Global Hispanophone Forum is organizing a round table with seven participants representing the different global forums in the MLA
This panel seeks to interrogate the notion of the global from different angles. What is global in the Global Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone,…[Read more] -
Dan Connor started the topic INSCREVA-SE PARA UMA BOLSA DE MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoINSCREVA-SE PARA UMA BOLSA DE MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
O prazo de inscrição é 1º de abril de 2021
O MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB) está aceitando inscrições para bolsas de três anos para bibliógrafos externos. Os bolsistas do MLAIB atuam como bibliógrafos externos que examinam textos acadêmicos, escrevem resumos informativ…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics in Weimar Germany—Helmuth Plessner in Translation (review essay) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this short essay I discuss two new translations of Helmuth Plessner’s work, “Political Anthropology,” translated by Nils F. Schott (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and “Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology,” translated by Millay Hyatt (Fordham University Press, 2019).
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic CFP: Multilingualism in the Global Mediterranean (MLA – 6–9 January 2022: Washin in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoProposals are sought for “Multilingualism in the Global Mediterranean,” a non-Guaranteed, joint Forum Session sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean and CLCS Global Arab and Arab American.
Interplay of Arabic and European languages in the literary and cultural production of the Mediterranean in light of the region’s long-standing history of mob…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic CFP: The Black Mediterranean (MLA – 6–9 January 2022: Washington) in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoProposals are sought for The Black Mediterranean, a Guaranteed Forum Session sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean with N. Michelle Murray, presiding.The subordinations of racial disparity, conflict, and death are persistent traits of the Mediterranean and its discursive existence. How have scholars contributed to the theorization and characterization o…[Read more]
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Mary Kate Donovan started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: The Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone
Multilingualism within the Global Hispanophone signals the past colonial routes and present migratory flows that complicate the social cohesion national literatures purport to consolidate. Issues of translation, therefore, are steeped in both national and regional tensions,…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Afro-Diasporic Afterlives & Archipelagos Across the Global Hispano in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoWe invite 250-word abstracts for papers that examine the legacies, archives, and memories of slavery and Afro-diasporic afterlives across the global Hispanophone and archipelagic Mediterranean, Pacific, and Atlantic worlds. The panel also seeks to establish connections between these different regions and/or follow the moment of racialized actors…[Read more]
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Lisa Nalbone started the topic 1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoYou are cordially invited to attend the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies“, January 28 (7:00pm) to January 30 (5:00pm), hosted by the University of Tampa, themed “Envisaging José Martí in 2021: History, Culture and Education“. Program and registration appear: 1st Biannual Conference Registration | University of Tampa (ut.edu)
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic MLA 2021 Global Hispanophone Sessions in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 5 years ago441 – Scholarship and Activism in the Global Hispanophone
Saturday, 9 January 2021
12:00 PM – 1:15 PMSession organizer (and moderating): Elisa Rizo, Iowa State U.
Presentations
Toward the Black Mediterranean
N. Michelle Murray, Vanderbilt UTranslation as Activism in the Global Hispanophone
Anna Tybinko, Duke U‘This Book Is Only about S…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIntroduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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