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David A. Wacks deposited Whose Spain is it, anyway? in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Iberian Peninsula during the Latin Middle Ages was home to large populations of Muslims and Jews. During the period we like to call the Middle Ages, much of the Iberian Peninsula was under Muslim rule. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, the entire peninsula was under Christian rule, and Judaism and Islam were officially banned.…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic Special Issue Journal Spanish Cultural Studies Entering the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoNew double special issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Vol 20 Issues 1-2 (May 2019) entitled “Entering the Global Hispanophone”, edited by Benita Sampedro Vizcaya and Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, and with contributions by Alberto López Martín, Eric Calderwood, Paula C. Park, Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger, Inés Plasencia Camps, Balta…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoSepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
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Jean Dangler started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Spanish Literatures and Cultures in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoPlease encourage your graduate students and others to apply for our newly created position in Modern Spanish Literatures and Cultures: apply.interfolio.com/62058. We are interested in applicants whose work takes up the literary and cultural connections between Spain and North Africa.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Spanish Literatures and…[Read more]
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Pamela K. Gilbert deposited Introduction to _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_. in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis is the Introduction to my new book, _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_.
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Eric Calderwood started the topic CFP: Reel Iberia (March 27-28, 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear members of the Global Hispanophone Forum:
I’m writing to let you know about an exciting conference that I’m organizing with my colleague Javier Irigoyen-García. The conference, scheduled for March 2020, will explore film and television representations of Iberian history. We are hoping for a diverse group of papers, covering many geogra…[Read more]
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Baltasar Fra-Molinero started the topic CFP Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis session seeks proposals that address the study of the Global Hispanophone as a mode of inquiry thatde-centers national narratives as well as regional ones (Latin America vs Spain) and reviews and critique past and present literary canons. We want to pay close attention to geographic/historical peripheries and cultural practices that challenge…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2019 MLA Panels in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]
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Ed Finn started the topic Everything Change, Volume II, a climate fiction anthology in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoYesterday, the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University published Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume II. The anthology features 10 short stories from ASU’s 2018 global climate fiction contest, plus a foreword by renowned science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. The book is free to dow…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Stefania Licata replied to the topic Session Proposal:Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone arts in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
the session is for the 2019 ALA (African Literature Association) Conference, which will take place at Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel, from May 15 to May 18, 2019.
Thank you very much
Stefania
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Dennis Looney deposited Scientific Discourse in Italian Literature in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoVersion (MA level) of a course I taught in several iterations at the University of Pittsburgh between 1995 and 2006.
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Dennis Looney deposited Science and Literature, Italian Style in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoVersion (BA level) of a course I taught at the University of Pittsburgh over several iterations between 1995 and 2006. Team taught in 2006 with Peter Machamer, professor in HPS at Pitt.
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Mahan Ellison started the topic Call for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Assoc. in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (LHCALA) Subsequent to the ALA general call for papers for the 45th Annual Conference to be held in Columbus Ohio, May 15-May 18, 2019, the LusoHispanophone Caucus (LHCALA) extends an invitation to its members and friends to propose papers, panels, and r…[Read more]
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay reads Ivan Efremov’s “Andromeda Nebula” (1957), Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris” (1961), and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s “Andymon” (1982) in order to explore the relationship between biological evolution and dialectical materialism, as it was negotiated through the trope of the alien in the context of the cultural politics of Eastern E…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe peer reviewed journal iMex. Interdisciplinary Mexico, ISSN 2193-9756 is currently accepting original, unpublished articles on the subjects of haunting and spectrality in contemporary Mexican cultures for its special issue Spectral Mexico. Original call for papers available here:…[Read more]
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Eric Calderwood started the topic New journal of interest to Global Hispanophone scholars in the discussion
Global Hispanophone via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDear Global Hispanophone colleagues,
I hope that you’re all having a great summer! I’m writing to let you know
about a new journal that might be of interest to the members of this list.The Argentine writer Santiago De Luca is currently serving as Argentina’s
cultural attaché to Morocco. In that role, he has founded a new journa…[Read more] -
Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoWhat is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies? Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019. Panel…[Read more]
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