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Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]
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Andrea Zemgulys deposited Bullied Young Women, Virginia Woolf’s Sex Japes, and Modernist Sociability in the Time of #MeToo in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoSalacious rumors about Alfred Tennyson’s conduct with young women inspired Virginia Woolf’s satirical depiction of Tennyson and Ellen Terry in her draft and produced play -Freshwater.- In considering whether Woolf’s satire silences the whispers of Victorian women and/or corrects salacious rumor-mongering, this essay decides that the play more…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Journeys across fragmented lands: Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K and Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSolidarity between South Africa and Palestine has a long history, and often times, a comparison is drawn between the apartheid system in South Africa and the Israeli occupation and settler-colonial project in Palestine. In 1997, the late South African President, Nelson Mandela, said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete without t…[Read more]
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Ross Wilson deposited Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861 in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis is the proposal for ‘Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861’, a (putative) panel for MLA 2024. Individual paper abstracts and other materials will follow.
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Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]
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andré carrington started the topic CFP for 2024: Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoPutting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia
Guaranteed session for MLA 2024 sponsored by Forum MS Sound, in collaboration with Forum African American Literature, Language, and Culture
Philly Soul, with its roots in the Black performance traditions of gospel, funk, and rhythm & blues, transformed popular music in the 1970s. How have…[Read more]
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Tracy Rutler posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCFP: 2024 MLA in Philadelphia
There is still time to submit a proposal for these three panels organized by the LLC 18th-century France (including one non-guaranteed panel co-organized with LLC 17th-century France)!
France in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
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Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] -
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.
The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).
This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]
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David Alff started the topic CFP MLA 24 — New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIt has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Afrofuturisme/Afropessimisme in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks to examine contemporary Francophone cultural productions (broadly defined from comics to novels and films) which provide a rich ground for imagining Blackness in the future. Is there a future after anti-Blackness? How do these cultural productions imagine collective liberation? Papers are invited to discuss joy and sorrow in…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Disgust in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis roundtable explores the rhetoric of disgust—along with its conceptual cousins (spleen, nausea, informe, abjection, etc.)—as generative forces for 20th- and 21st-century French/Francophone thought. Speakers will examine dégoût as a complex, historically situated feeling that connects and binds even as it repels, drawing attention to margins,…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]
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David Alff started the topic CFP MLA 2024 — Comparative Media Histories in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoRecent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen an interest in non-print media, queer and trans book history, speculative archives, and critical making, among other approaches. This panel seeks con…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited still in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago“Steven Schroeder’s most recent collection of poems, Still, offers an amazing juxtaposition of imaginary elements and sensible phenomena that keeps the reader turning page after page in wonder. Poems of varied textures, from Zen-like shorts to lengthier narratives, offer shifts in perspective that surprise and delight, many with seasonal beauty or…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited one well ordered collision among others in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe title of this collection, taken from the poem with which the collection closes, calls to mind Helen Frankenthaler’s description of the places where colors converge on raw canvas in her “soak-stain” paintings. That closing poem is a meditation on her “Seven Forms of Ambiguity” in the “1940s to Now” section of the Crystal Bridges Museum in Ark…[Read more]
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Darren J. Borg started the topic CFP: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoWhat is a life worth living?Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of prolonging it, whether artificially or by providing warnings against our current behavior in order to preserve the life that already exists. The fact that death and…[Read more]
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