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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoMedieval studies is in a moment in which it is re-examining the long-held categories that have traditionally defined its boundaries. As this reconceptualization of the field progresses, Trans Studies offers a number of scholarly methodologies and insights that are changing the way medievalists consider their field and, more specifically, Trans…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Cultures in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis session seeks to build upon the growing appreciation for the complex and multifarious discursive engagements between late medieval English literary texts and Islamicate or Persianate culture, society, language, or literature. Recognizing that such engagements include much more than direct literary representations of the individual Islamicate…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Carissa Harris started the topic MLA 2023 CFPs! in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Chaucer Forum warmly invites submissions for our MLA 2023 (San Francisco, January 5-8) sessions:
Chaucer’s Ornamentalism and Gimmickry
This roundtable session brings Anne Anlin Cheng’s concept of ornamentalism and Sianne Ngai’s work on the gimmick into conversation with Chaucer’s work. For instance, in The Squire’s Tale, Canacee’s…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Religio-Visual Cultures in the Digital Age in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoHow are various new media forms (e.g. apps, memes, gaming avatars, Webcast rites) creating performative representations of religion? 200-word proposals by March 15. Manisha Basu, U of Illinois, Urbana (mbasu@illinois.edu ) Adrienne Brown, U of Chicago (adrienneb@uchicago.edu ).
More information: How have visual digital forms supplemented r…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Detective Fiction and Religious Imaginaries in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoHow do cleric-sleuths or other religious detective figures (e.g., Cadfael, Granchester, Father Brown, etc.) navigate/challenge religion alongside police or state-sponsored will-to-knowledge? 200-word proposal to mbasu@illinois.edu by March 10.
More information: From G.K. Chesterton’s ‘Father Brown’ to Ellis Peters’ Brother Cadfael, from Harry…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Making Sacred, Making Holy: the Canonization of People and Texts in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMemorialization, “entering the canon,” and the influence of politics, race, class, or gender. Who decides on the people, texts, places, dates, etc. selected to be commemorated, studied, and/or enshrined? Theorists such as Lonergan, Bourdieu, Girard, and Agamben have explored “sacralization” as a process of making holy or sacred that can inv…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoTo encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more] -
Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoTo encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more] -
Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Bodleian Library Research Fellowships in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoIn collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, the New Chaucer Society will support one or two one month (30 day) research visits by an early career scholar who is a member of the New Chaucer Society to the Special Collections of the Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford. Details here:…[Read more]
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Leigh Gilmore started the topic Job Opportunity in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoPosition No. 00005756. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInvited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoReview of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg started the topic CFP: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies” in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies”
Sept 30 — Oct 1, 2022
Elmira, NY
The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College is hosting its annual Quarry Farm Symposium during the Fall 2022 semester, from September 30th to October 1st, organized around the theme of Abolition Studies. This year’s Keynote Address will…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Of Admonition and Address: Right-Hand Inscriptions (Zuoyouming) from Cui Yuan to Guanxiu in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers (please share)
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]
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