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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Panels and Happy Hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/ MLA 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2019.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Thursday Jan 3rd
54. And What does Colonial Mean?
1:45-3:00 pm, Erie, Sheraton Grand
Presiding Mónica Díaz, U of Kentucky
Speakers: Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkley; Kathleen Myers, Indiana U, Bl…[Read more]
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Sara Brenneis started the topic MLA RT#233 “Spain, WWII & the Holocaust: History, Literature & Memory” in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 Sheraton Grand – Superior B
Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and t…[Read more]
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Sara Brenneis started the topic MLA RT#233 "Spain, WWII & the Holocaust: History, Literature & Memory" in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 Sheraton Grand – Superior B
Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and the…[Read more]
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Dene M. Grigar started the topic Readings & Performances at M LA 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoNatural Language: Readings and PerformancesJanuary 4, 2019 @ School of the Art Institute of ChicagoReception at 6:30,; Readings at 7:30
In conjunction with the 2019 MLA conference, the Electronic Literature Organization and the Art & Technology Studies (ATS) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will host an evening of…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe are creating an invited proposal based upon my performance as a reviewer of another text.
Essays are to be about 8,000 words each.I have a model and this text will be an scholarly companion to literature using the tools of rhetorical or
cultural studies analysis (possibly other types of analysis). The Companion to Victorian Literature
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic European Beat Studies Network 2019 Conf – Oct 9-12, 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFrom the EBSN: The European Beat Studies Network is a vibrant association of scholars that holds annual conferences in Europe. Past conferences have been held in Tangier, Brussels, Paris, and Vienna, among other cities. The 2019 conference will be in Cyprus, October 9-12, 2019.
The call for papers for the 2019 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, has…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Transnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTransnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 — stop by if you are around!
Saturday 23 March 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Transnational Beat Generation
Chair: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University
Location: Woodrow Wilson Ballroom A (Media Equipped)
American & Cultural Studies and Media Studies
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Anne Donlon started the topic AHA-MLA THATCamp, January 2nd in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWill you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.
Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]
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Julie Beth Napolin started the topic Candidate Statement – Executive Committee – last day to vote (December 10) in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Though a new member of the Sound forum, I am writing to ask for your support for my nomination to the forum’s Executive Committee. For 20 years, I have been producing scholarship in the field of sound. Since 2001, I have presented on the topic of sound at MLA, beginning with “The Negative Dialectics of Phonographic Sound” (2001,…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoReview of James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, and Adam Whittaker, eds.
Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and
Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series. New York and London:
Routledge, 2018. xii, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781138287471 (hardback). -
Charlie Gleek deposited A Syllabus, In Circuits in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoExamining the production, transmission, and consumption of the syllabus opens up ways of seeing the traces of dominant practices, meanings, and values in contemporary academic culture. This hegemony is in place as a function of the deliberate efforts of intellectuals hailing from the dominant cultural group. What has become pedagogical…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Chat with an Editor: Professional Development Opportunity from CELJ in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Chat with an Editor event takes place at the MLA each year. This professional development opportunity, sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, gives advanced doctoral candidates, postdocs, and new faculty the opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Modernism/modern…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Trave…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa replied to the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA chance to revisit Chicago when the weather is much improved!
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. Te…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverppol University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms, and ecological processes are vastly under-theorized. I…[Read more]
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Ben Streeter deposited Karl Ove Knausgaard Literary Celebrity in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoTo make sense of Knausgaard’s meteoric rise, we need to see that his prestige preceded his consecration in the Anglophone literary press.
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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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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century 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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