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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP for MLA: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:
Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern
Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]
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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP for MLA: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:
Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern
Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]
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Lillian Melendez deposited James Joyce’s Priesthood through his Art of Writing in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDreams are abstract thoughts in one’s mind that can be revealed. Thoughts that are suppressed can be revealed in the subconscious mind. Sigmund Freud views dreams as one views sleep; as an abstract code that can be decoded through actions and through the ‘slip of the tongue.’ The Freudian slip is found in several passages of A Portrait of the A…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic MLA Sessions through Italian American LLC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago<h2 class=”title”>The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of rac…[Read more] -
Nancy Caronia started the topic REMINDER: CFPs for MLA Session-The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agohttps://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=6828
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of racism and eth…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic Announcing the American Literature Society in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAnnouncing the American Literature Society
On behalf of the Advisory Board, I am pleased to announce the American Literature Society, a professional organization of scholars devoted to the preservation, study and recognition of American literature and culture. Formerly known as the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses Crowne Plaza
Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 15 March 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MELUS CFP – 21st Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMELUS Call for Papers
Special Issue: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures(A commemorative special issue in honor of MELUS Emeritus Editor Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.)
Guest Editors: A Yęmisi Jimoh and Angelo Robinson
Deadline for submission: 31 August 2016
Anticipated publication: 2018
With more than a decade and a half…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic “Writing? Authoring? Scribbling: Fuller, Hawthorne, and Their Contemporaries” in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWe welcome proposals on biographical/contextual relations; representations of women; intertextuality; trans-Atlantic/trans-American treatments; race, gender, class, and sexuality, etc.
Please send 250-word abstracts to Ivonne Garcia (garciai@kenyon.edu) and Charlene Avallone (avallone000@gmail.com) by March 15, 2016.
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Saul Noam Zaritt started the topic Second Annual Call for Submissions—In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn geveb is pleased to announce its Second Annual Call for Submissions for our Fall 2016 publishing cycle.
In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.
In geveb began…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic CFPs: Italian American Lit Forum MLA 2017 in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoSee below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed.
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017.Taking a cue from the presidential co…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Ecologies of Hawthorne MLA 2017 CFP in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoOrganization: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Title of session: Ecologies of Hawthorne
Submission requirements: Send 250-word abstracts.
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2016
Description: Consider representations of space and place, land and landscape, the “natural” and “unnatural,” environmental “transgressions,” “dev…[Read more] -
Martha Nell Smith started the topic 3 CFPs for TC Sexuality Studies Forum MLA 2017!!! in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoQueer Hamilton
Forum: TC Sexuality Studies and GS Drama and Performance
Musical theatre, performance, Broadway, dance, history, cross-periodization, American Revolution, Founding Fathers, colonial, empire, race, ethnicity, Latina/o, African-American, hip-hop, sexuality, gender, Caribbean, immigration. 250 word abstracts, CVs by 15 February…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Re-visioning Romantic-Era Gothicism: An Introduction to Key Works and Themes in the Study of H.P. Lovecraft in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoHoward Phillips Lovecraft was an author, letter writer and poet who lived between 1890 and 1937. His works blend science fiction with Gothic themes. Lovecraft was, by the majority of accounts (including his own), a bad writer. He was also an outspoken racist for the majority of his life to a degree which makes much of his work, to a modern reader,…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Holocaust literature and historiography in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis paper examines Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces (2007) in the context of Holocaust literature and historiography. It begins with an introduction to the genre of Holocaust literature and the problematic nature of ‘survivor’ testimony. Michaels’ work is then contextualized within this body of literature. The essay goes on to examine the means t…[Read more]
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Laraine R. Fergenson deposited Final Report of the MLA Committee on Diversity and Tolerance in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe ad hoc Committee on Diversity and Tolerance was formed in response to a motion passed by the Delegate Assembly in 1999 calling for the reconstitution of what had been the Task Force against Campus Bigotry. The new committee was to be charged with “working to establish a climate in which all students, faculty, and other college employees, no m…[Read more]
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LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years agoRiche Richardson, Lisa B. Thompson, and Angela Ards
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