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Nicky Agate started the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2016 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoIf you’re an Austin local, please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful. (We’re starting with eater.com’s “38 Essential Austin Restaurants” and the…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 ACLA: Exotic Europe (deadline 09/23) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoProposal submissions at: http://www.acla.org/seminar/exotic-europe
This seminar will discuss and compare a variety of cultures of Europe beyond the “usual suspects” of Central and Western Europe that have shaped its dominant discourse and carried off most of the international literary prizes.
Culturally, the quilt of Europe is vast and exo…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Looking for a roommate? in the discussion
2016 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoConvention registrants can use this forum thread to identify other participants who may wish to share accommodations. The MLA assumes no responsibility or liability for these arrangements, since a decision to share hotel accommodations is one made by the participant, not the MLA.
Please note that in order to make reservations at MLA rates at t…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Kindred Spirits: Fanon's Postcolonialism" in the group
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis essay concerns the significance of phenomenology in Frantz Fanon’s thought and its influence on the autobiographic and ethnographic contours of his study, Black Skin, White Masks. Of note is Fanon’s movement between metaphor and phenomenology, especially as concerns figures of the hand and the body, and how his narratological treatment of…[Read more]
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Samuel Lyndon Gladden started the topic Special session on Noël Coward #MLA16 in the discussion
2016 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoLooking forward to #MLA16 and hoping many will join us for a special session on Noël Coward: details at https://noelcoward.mla.hcommons-staging.org/.
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Jeremy Colangelo deposited The Grotesque Gigantic: Stephen Hero, Maximalism, and Bakhtin in the group
Anglo-Irish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoMy intention is to reorient Stephen Hero’s position in Joyce’s oeuvre, viewing it not simply as a precursor to A Portrait but instead as a first attempt at the kind of expansive narrative Joyce would undertake in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. What I wish to narrate is not primarily the story of Stephen Hero’s failure, but instead the story of how J…[Read more]
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Siendou Konaté started the topic CFP Hegemony and Domination in Translation Studies in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCahiers Ivoiriens d’Etudes Comparées (CIEC)/ Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies (IJCS)
Volume 2 Numéro 1
Hégémonie et domination en traductologie
La traduction a été perçue comme la “reproduction du message” du texte original dans la langue-culture cible par Eugene Nida et Charles Taber (Theory and Practice of Translation, Leiden: E.J.…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded the combination of humor, hyperbole, a…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic MLA 2016 Special Session CFP Comparing Literary Historiography in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoMLA 2016, Special Session
Organizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston)
Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this spe…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum: Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-a…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED (FEB 15): Call for Nominations — Latina/o Studies Association in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Latina/o Studies Association organizing committee, the members of the election committee invite nominations for the Founding Executive Council of LSA.
The Founding Executive Council will establish the structures necessary for the incorporation of the Latina/o Studies Association as a national org…[Read more]
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Michael LeMahieu started the topic ASAP/7: "Arts & the Public" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoASAP/7: Arts & the Public
September 24-27, 2015
Hosted by Clemson University at the Hyatt Regency in Greenville, SC
Call for Papers
ASAP/7 invites proposals from scholars and artists on the relations between the public—broadly conceived – and contemporary visual, literary, performing, musical, and media arts. From parks, schools, and mus…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic #MLA15 Conversation on the Commons in the forum
2015 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 11 years agoHello all,
Materials from “Careers for Humanists: A Job Search Workshop” are available at http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/careers-for-humanists-a-job-search-workshop/. All are welcome to join the group.
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Nicky Agate started the topic #MLA15 Conversation on the Commons in the forum
2015 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 11 years agoWe are compiling an evolving list of Commons discussion groups and blogs related to sessions at MLA15. Join in the conversation and upload your own presentation to a group or post it on a blog. If you then let us know about it in this thread, we’ll add it to the list.
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Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations on MLA Commons 11 years ago -
Nicky Agate replied to the topic Restaurant recommendations and more in the forum
2015 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoCoffee!
We all know the Convention can be an exhausting (if exhilarating) experience. Here are some recommendations of great places to get coffee in Vancouver:
Bel Café, which is in the lobby of the Rosewood Georgia Hotel;
Thierry Chocolaterie Patisserie Café at 1059 Alberini Street (near the Hyatt Regency and Fairmont Hotel Van…[Read more] -
Tim Hoellering started the topic Jan. 8th, 2-5pm: Grad Student City Stroll in the forum
2015 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoHi!
The grad students of the Germanic Studies Department at the University of British Columbia thought it would be great to offer a casual tour through downtown Vancouver. This is directed at other grad students and supposed to be a networking event. We figured we offer this tour early in the convention, Jan. 8, 2-5pm, so that we get to know each…[Read more]
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