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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoNumbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoExtra- and non-anthropocentric subjects of the Global South, notably the Caribbean. Who/ what is the human-animal-other subject? Narratives/poetics extrinsic to the colonial mind/body split? Old materialisms ‘with soul’. 300 word abstract and 1 page CV by 3/15 to Jennifer M. Wilks (jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu) and Rosemary J. Jolly (rjj14@psu.edu).
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Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere. I too am looking forward to more information!
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Beth Widmaier Capo replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis sounds fantastic. Do you have instructions (deadline, length, address) for abstract submissions?
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Shannon Herbert started the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoIn 2017, when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to use the hashtag #metoo if they’d ever “been sexually harassed or assaulted” social media feeds were suddenly flooded with the phrase. People were quick to point out that #metoo did not originate with Milano, but with Tarana Burke, a social worker and activist who proposed the phrase in 2006. Since…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic LLC Francophone Sessions — MLA Seattle 2020 in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Just a reminder about our three sponsored sessions at the 2020 MLA Convention next month. We hope to see many of you in Seattle!
On behalf of the LLC Francophone Executive Committee,
Karl Ashoka Britto
Francophone Studies and the New Humanities
THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 205 (WSCC)
Keywords: cognitive l…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” This epigraph comes from the 1850 translation of The Communist Manifesto by Helen Macfarlane, and this special feature in The New Americanist assumes that a similarly frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre fiction, too. Fantasy as a genre is haunted…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
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https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
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Graham Jensen started the topic (CFP) Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following conference, which should be of interest to LLC Canadian members.
Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age
McMaster University | Hamilton, ON | May 28–29, 2020The past few years have demonstrated limitations of and problems with the concept of Canadian l…[Read more]
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Graham Jensen started the topic (CFP) Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following conference, which should be of interest to LLC Canadian members.
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>McMaster University | Hamilton, ON | May 28–29, 2020</p>
The past few years have d…[Read more] -
Jason Frydman deposited Scheherezade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDrawing on Arabic textual traditions and foregrounding the liminal time and space of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation, Muslim slave narratives deserve recognition as generative forebears of transnational, multicultural literature in both England and the United States. Yet these forebears were…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Kafka, the Caribbean, and the Holocaust in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis essay reexamines the figure of Franz Kafka (1883–1924) in light of his largely ignored, recursive links to circum-Caribbean and Black Atlantic processes of racialized exploitation and corporal punishment. When we centre Kafka’s extensive biographical and literary engagements with these processes, the persistent debate over Kafka’s statu…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Commemoration: The Cultural Politics of Locating Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare.” Asian Theatre Journal 36.2 (Fall 2019): 275-280 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCultural memory is actively constructed through embodied and political performances. Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare, two “national poets” of unequal global stature, have recently become vehicles for British and Chinese cultural diplomacy and exchange during their quatercentenary in 2016. The culture of commemoration is a key factor in Tang’s…[Read more]
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Colleen M. Ryan started the topic Colleen Ryan – Candidate for Upcoming Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoFellow Colleagues of Italian/ Italian American / Italian Diaspora Studies ,
My name is Colleen Ryan. I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University and currently serve as Secretary of the Italian American Studies Association. It is an honor for me to be a nominee to represent the MLA’s Italian American forum as an executive committee me…[Read more]
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