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Marisa Verna deposited E|C Rivista dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThisarticleaims at a better comprehension of the series of lectures that Joseph Czapski gave in the Soviet camp of Grazovietzbetween 1940 and 1941. The case of Czapski is well known, but his exceptional performance (of memory, and critical inquiry) deserves further investigation. Not surprisingly, the Polish painter…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic 4/20 – Global South Cinephilias: A Virtual Roundtable in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoGlobal South Cinephilias: A Virtual Roundtable
Wednesday, April 20, 4:30 – 6:00 pm EDT
Register in advance here (required): https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tppti7IbSuuEEXk3UMmJsA
The idea of cinema as an art is one born of cinephilia. While the term simply means “love of cinema,” cinephilia sets itself apart from the average film fan’…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor, Queer and Sexuality Studies, UW-Milwaukee in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoWomen’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in Queer and Sexuality Studies for 2022-2023. Must be able to teach Queer Theory and Feminist Theory courses. Apply by April 10, 2022 to ensure consideration. https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/33994
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited The Correspondence of E M Forster and Forrest Reid: Content and Implications of a New Literary Archive in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay/ article examines the provenance and the implications of a literary archive acquired by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of Queen’s University Belfast and now fully catalogued by Brian Caraher and Emma Hegarty under the auspices of the British Academy. The state-of-the-art. fully annotated, online catalogue establishes the…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited The Correspondence of E M Forster and Forrest Reid: Content and Implications of a New Literary Archive in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay/ article examines the provenance and the implications of a literary archive acquired by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of Queen’s University Belfast and now fully catalogued by Brian Caraher and Emma Hegarty under the auspices of the British Academy. The state-of-the-art. fully annotated, online catalogue establishes the…[Read more]
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Stephen E. Lewis deposited “Philosopher d’une manière ‘mariale’: Alentour du verset: Petite phénoménologie des Mystères de Marie-Aimée Manchon” in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoA review article focused on phenomenological method and Christian thought in Marie-Aimée Manchon’s book _Alentour du verses: Petite phénoménologie des Mystère_ (Ad Solem, 2019).
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for Redisigning Modernities Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Redesigning Modernities in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoIn this chapter, I connect my experience with abuse and intimate partner violence with my research projects and then radically changing my pedagogy away from coercion towards empathy.
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years 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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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 4 years 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 4 years 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 4 years 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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Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: Working in Canadian Literary Archives (MLA 2023, San Francisco) in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
“Working in Canadian Literary Archives”
Short papers on work in or about Canadian literary archives—issues, gaps, holdings, digitization, access, and how archives/archival objects intersect with notions or depictions of labour. P…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic CFP – 2023 MLA Convention – LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoWords on Food
Proust’s madeleine conjures pleasure and memories. What of food in French literature and thought since then, especially in times of scarcity or hunger? How to interpret food that is odd, inedible, absent? Please submit a 250-word abstract and short bio to Priya Wadhera at wadhera@adelphi.edu by March 15, 2022. (Guaranteed s…[Read more]
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Rielle Navitski started the topic Call for Session Proposals in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Screen Arts and Culture Forum Committee is seeking proposals from the membership for two of our yearly panel slots (one guaranteed, one non-guaranteed).
If you are posting a CFP for your session on the MLA site, the deadline is February 28.
We will consider proposals for sessions up through March 15. Please email your proposals, including…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: US Literatures and Psychoanalysis (MLA 2023) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat does psychoanalysis do for theory, criticism, and scholarship in US literatures today? Conversely, how do US literatures intervene on psychoanalysis?
The MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature has noted extraordinary scholarly interest in these questions recently. We therefore invite a…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2023 through the close of the January 2028 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members also include…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoEdited Collection of essays on music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
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