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Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoSpecial issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.
Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8
Thanks,
Elena Machado Sáez
Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
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Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: MLA 2022 (6-9 January, Washington, D.C.)
Romanian Forum’s Guaranteed Panel
Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema
2021 marks two decades since the symbolic launch of Romanian New Wave cinema, a movement that has received important recognition at international film festivals. The Romanian Forum of th…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: "Democracy and the US Latinx Novel" in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago“Democracy and the US Latinx Novel”
Call for Papers
LLC Latina and Latino ForumRecent events have demonstrated the simultaneous vulnerability and resiliency of democratic projects, and of our cultural frameworks for imagining the norms and processes of those institutions.
This collaborative panel seeks presentations that address democracy…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoRitual and Representation in East Asian Literature We are inviting proposals for papers featuring ritual as a theme or structuring device in East Asian (including diasporic) literature in relation to belief, kinship, and/or community. This will be a collaborative session between the TC Anthropology and Literature and TC Religion and Literature…[Read more]
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Lisa Nalbone posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoAnnouncing the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate” Jan. 28-30, 2021. For more information, please visit: https://www.ut.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-letters/center-for-jos%C3%A9-mart%C3%AD-studies-affiliate/1st-biannual-conference-registration
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Li Guo started the topic Invitation to LLC Ming Qing Chinese Social Event, Session 11077 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoInvitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST
Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077
Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,
Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.
Forum members:…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDear MLA members,
Please consider attending one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los An…
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia diasporic sessions MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFYI: based on a search of the MLA 2021 online program, here’s a list of the sessions/panels that have content related to Southeast Asia & its diasporas. All dates & times are US Eastern Time (New York).
* Asian American Literature and Empire and Imperialism
Thursday, 7 January 2021
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited The Poetics of Baseball: An American Domestication of the Mathematically Sublime in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article appeared in the journal American Studies, 32.1 (Spring 1991): 85-100. The article examines a poetics of the mathematically sublime as it relates to the design and play of the American game of baseball. There is some commentary on literature and cultural sudies as well as the history and rules of baseball. There is no DOI for the…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point ’68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to “Works & Days” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited ‘Balancing Fire, Dreams and the Signatures of All Things’: Sinead Morrissey’s Poetry and Poetics in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a sustained profile and study of prominent Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey’s complete run of work from the 1990s through 2018. The article examines closely the developing course of her poetry as well as the developing itinerary of her poetics, especially in the light of her transatlantic poetics as well as local and…[Read more]
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Liam Lanigan started the topic Executive Committee Election: Liam Lanigan in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA chairde,
I’m very pleased and honoured to have been nominated for election to the Irish forum executive committee. This Fall I was appointed Assistant Professor of British and European Literature at Governors State University in Chicago, having spent the last two years as a VAP at Texas Woman’s University. Previously I was the NEH Keough…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the…[Read more]
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Ellen Scheible started the topic Executive Committee Election: Ellen Scheible in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDear Members,
I am grateful and honored to have been nominated for the executive committee and would love the opportunity to represent four-year regional state universities as well as undergraduate Irish Studies programs at the regional level. I am an associate professor of English at Bridgewater State University where I teach modern and…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Labor day and Swiftian sature Sep. 7, 2020 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoQUOTED from “Rust Belt Literature” Project at ResearchGate. My script for All the Old Familiar Places can be had by writing to:
gmcmilla@email.arizona.eduDear Colleagues,
I studied Jonathan Swift and the Augustan writer (Alexander Pope, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson) at Indiana Univ. NW Campus Gary, Indiana. My Swiftian satire, All the…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Waiting for the arrivant: Godot in two poems by Nizār Qabbānī in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThe theme of waiting permeates two poems by the late Syrian poet Nizār Qabbānī. The verse in both poems ‘Waiting for Godot’, and ‘A television interview with an Arab Godot’, describes an arduous wait, at once distressing and unpredictable. In the first poem, the poet urges Godot to arrive, as the savior who will appear in the form of the Messia…[Read more]
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