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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoNot that it’s an EM syllabus, Karen, but one of my favorite blog posts on integrating early modern literature with ecocrit is this one by Lowell Duckert:
http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2014/08/teaching-literature-in-west-virginian.html
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Karen L. Raber replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoYes indeed: I’m trying to come up with one for this coming fall for advanced undergrads on the nonhuman in early modern literature/culture. It’s proving more complicated to choose primary texts than I thought, since I’m trying to get away from my usual over-reliance on Shakespeare. Will check back in case anyone has suggestions . . . . and po…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoActually … I just placed a syllabus there. Here’s hoping others will follow!
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen uploaded the file: Contact Ecologies (grad seminar) to
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoSyllabus for a graduate seminar on “Ecologies of Conquest / Contact Ecologies” I taught at the George Washington University. The primary materials are mostly medieval.
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoLOVE this idea! If you look to the left of this screen there is a button labeled “FILES.” We could use that as a repository for teaching materials that members are willing to share.
Jeffrey
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Pamela Herron replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoThat sounds like a great idea! I am piloting a new course I’ve developed called Daoism and the Environment and I am combining the Daodejing with more traditional environmental writing including many Native American poets and writers. This grew out of a paper I did last year for an Ecocriticism panel. We’re in our second week of classes and the…[Read more]
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Cristin Ellis started the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoI’d love to see this forum become a place where we can brainstorm classes and resources for teaching. Would anyone else be interested in a syllabus exchange and teaching thread here?
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Cristin Ellis replied to the topic Suggestions for Sessions @ #MLA16 Austin in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoI’d be interested to hear papers thinking through the affinities and tensions generated by the convergence of ecocriticism with posthumanism (new materialisms, eg.). This might incorporate the kind of questions Serpil Opperman is imagining…
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María Gil Poisa replied to the topic CFP: Cuerpo Memoria Trauma // Exposición: Agua, Arte, Mujer, Vida in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe deadline for submissions for this CFP has been extended until January 31st. Please, see below.
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE TITLE:
BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA
Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION
Sponsored by:
Department of Hispanic Studies – Tex…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic Sustainability and Population in American Literary History in the forum
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 11 years agoSpecial Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying ecocritical topics. The panel is on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in 116 VCC West. More information about the panelists and papers can be found at http://sustainabilityandpopulationinalh.mla.hcommons-staging.org/.
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Manuel Jesús del Alto started the topic CFP: Eco-Materialisms: Organizing Life and Matter in the forum
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues:
It is with great pleasure that I invite you to participate in this graduate student conference held at the University of California in Irvine. Please visit the Eco-Materialisms website for further information.
EcoMaterialisms: Organizing Life and Matter
University of California, Irvine
Friday 15th May…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic CFP: Cuerpo Memoria Trauma // Exposición: Agua, Arte, Mujer, Vida in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoTÍTULO DE LA CONFERENCIA:
CUERPO, MEMORIA Y TRAUMA
Viernes 6 de Marzo – Sábado 7 de Marzo, 2015
CONVOCATORIA
Sponsored by:
Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University
Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University
Indigenous studies Working Group – Texas A&M University
Women’s and Gender Studies Program – Texas A&M Unive…[Read more]
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Gerardo Pignatiello started the topic CFP Dossier "Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean" in the forum
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoCFP Revista Badebec, University of Rosario, Argentina. Dossier “Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean (1980-2014)” (literature, film, and TV). First deadline: November 30th, 2014. Contact: badebec@gmail.com
BADEBEC INVITA A PARTICIPAR DE SU PRÓXIMO DOSSIER
“Ficciones policiales en Latinoamérica y el Caribe”
Para el númer…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Hochberg started the topic CFP, NeMLA 2015 (Spanish/Portuguese) in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoAdvertising and Counterculture in Spanish and Latin American Film
This panel invites 20-minute contributions on filmic portrayals of TV and radio commercials, magazine ads, billboards, and other aspects of marketing in connection to emerging forms of oppositional culture during the 1960s and 70s. Topics s may include material and consumer c…[Read more]
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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP spec. issue “Global García Márquez” in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoSalmon Rushdie recently wrote, “Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tell us that his books are still very much alive” (New York Times Book Review, May 18, 2014, p.1). This issue of The Global South seeks to further under…[Read more]
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Elena Valdez started the topic CFP LASA 2015 in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Looking for participants for this LASA panel (MUST BE a current LASA member).
Session Title: From Beauty Pageants to Audiovisual Art: The portrayal of Precarious Bodies in Literature and Performance in the Dominican Republic
This panel examines how artistic and audiovisual representations of gendered and sexed bodies are…[Read more]
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David Del Principe started the topic EcoGothic Studies in the forum
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoEcoGothic Studies is a new critical field merging the ecocritical and the Gothic.
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP NeMLA Roundtable, Disability Studies in LA in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoRoundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also highlight literature, film…[Read more]
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Lori Angela Lammert replied to the topic Memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoSend me an abstract. I met her in 2007. She is really nice. Saludos, Lori
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