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George Phillips deposited Are trees forms? On formalism, material feminism, and historical literature in the group
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis essay draws on formalist cultural studies and material feminism to argue for a new approach in modernist studies, which I call formalist materialism, an approach that reads ecological forms alongside aesthetic forms. Such an approach may have distinct advantages. Formalist materialism illuminates a new direction for formalists by connecting…[Read more]
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Amanda Caleb deposited “Baby is as big as a guinea pig”: The (non)heteronormative Experience of Pregnancy in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis is a copy of my presentation for Session #140: Bodily Persistence: Curating Better Medicine through Posthumanism. The presentation considers the posthumanism of pregnancy representation in the Ovia pregnancy app and the short story collection _With Animal_.
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Michelle Rabe deposited Getting the Yips: Health and Superability Thrown a Curve in The Art of Fielding in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn Disability Theory (2008), Tobin Siebers theorizes the “ideology of ability,” or the default sociocultural desire for able-bodiedness, that governs our conceptions of bodily norms, health, and wellness. The ideology of ability “defines the baseline by which humanness is determined, setting the measure of body and mind that gives or denies human…[Read more]
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Tariq Sheikh deposited This Side of the Long Tunnel: The Emergence of the Idea of Japan’s ‘Snow Country’ in the Nineteenth Century in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Snow Country, the protagonist Shimamura refers to an “old book” which gave him in-depth knowledge about the region known in Japan as the “Snow Country”. The name of the book is not disclosed by Kawabata, but it is now known that the “old book” is Hokuetsu Seppu (first published in 1837), written by Su…[Read more]
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Tariq Sheikh deposited This Side of the Long Tunnel: The Emergence of the Idea of Japan’s ‘Snow Country’ in the Nineteenth Century in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Snow Country, the protagonist Shimamura refers to an “old book” which gave him in-depth knowledge about the region known in Japan as the “Snow Country”. The name of the book is not disclosed by Kawabata, but it is now known that the “old book” is Hokuetsu Seppu (first published in 1837), written by Su…[Read more]
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Caterina Agostini deposited 2021 MLA Poster Session: Presentation Transcript in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis is the transcript for my video presentation, in which I showcase my Digital Humanities project on Galileo’s letters.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Council of Editors of Learned Journals Mentoring Event: Chat with an Editor in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoSharing in my role of Secretary of CELJ…please disseminate widely to graduate students and ECRs… ~ Janine Utell
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is hosting its annual Chat with an Editor program, in an expanded edition and in conjunction with the virtual Modern Language Association Convention. The Chat provides 20-minute time…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDear MLA members,
Please consider attending one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of Califo…
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIntroduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.
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Stacey Courtney uploaded the file: Want to upload your MLA 2021 materials to the CORE repository? to
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoLearn how to upload your MLA 2021 convention presentation and materials fo the CORE repository. Use this to safely and securely share your materials with session attendees and fellow participants.
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Lanie Millar started the topic Greetings- Candidate intro, Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Global Portuguese on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCaros colegas,
I’m writing to introduce myself as a candidate for the Global Portuguese Executive Committee. I am an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Oregon, where I teach and research in modern and contemporary Caribbean, Lusophone African, and Latin American literature and culture. My book Forms of…[Read more]
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Pedro Lopes de Almeida started the topic CFP: Leaky Ontologies – ACLA 2021 in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago“Stuff leaks through such that the real manifests not just as gaps and inconsistencies in reality.” Tim Morton, Humankind
In an increasingly compartmentalized, consolidated time, leaking incidents keep surfacing from the backdrop of our human reality designed for smooth functioning and come to shape our age. From the leakings of early steam boi…[Read more]
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Anna Castillo started the topic Thank you for the nomination! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello to all! Many thanks for the recent nomination for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum. I’m a newcomer to the MLA Commons, so let me introduce myself. I am the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, where I research and teach contemporary literature and…[Read more]
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Benigno Trigo started the topic Introduction and many thanks! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello, everyone! I’ve been nominated for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC Puerto Rican Forum Panel, so I’d like to tell you a little about myself. My research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American and Caribbean Literature; Women’s Writing; Psychoanalysis and Autobiography. My publications include Malady a…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter’s Tale in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoShakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoPlease see the announcement and call for papers for Diasporic Italy.
Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies AssociationInaugural Volume (2021) – Call for Papers Description:Diasporic Italy is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Italian American / Diaspora studies, focusing on timely a…[Read more]
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Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama – Universidad de Buenos Aires in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRevista Zama
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Número actual Vol. 11 Núm. 11 (2019) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/zama/issue/view/596 -
Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRevista Zama
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Número actual Vol. 11 Núm. 11 (2019) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/zama/issue/view/596 -
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