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Lennie Amores started the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoMLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section
The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit their proposals for the following panels:
Iberian Exteriorities
What are the dynamics at play in the historical, political, and theoretical configurations of Spai…[Read more] -
Lloyd Graham deposited Patriarchal Blood Rituals and the Vampire Archetype in the group
Monsters and Monstrosity on Humanities Commons 2 years agoCorrespondences can be identified between (on the one hand) androcentric cosmogonies, ancestral misogyny and tribal blood rituals, and (on the other) the classical paradigm of vampirism, especially in its literary and on-screen flowering. Specifically, the initiatory culture-hero and the archetypal vampire both confer a haematologically-mediated…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic MLA 2024 Convention session on modern Spanish memoir and autofiction in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoYou are cordially invited to a session sponsored by the Religion and Literature forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:
#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)
Presider: Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York…[Read more]
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John Edward Martin started the topic CFP: Into the Archiverse–A Virtual Conference, May 10-11, 2024 in the discussion
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoWith their innovative publishing strategies and brand discipline, Archie Comics is one of the most successful and longest-running brands in the comics industry. In its 80-plus year history, Archie has expanded its universe from the humble confines of Riverdale and its comic-romantic teen cast﹘Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and their fri…[Read more]
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John Edward Martin started the topic CFP: 2024 Comics Studies Society Annual Conference, “Glitching Comics” in the discussion
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoIn her 2020 publication Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, Legacy Russell explores the notion of “glitch-as-error with its genesis in the realm of the machinic and the digital.” With this framing, she argues that glitches might “inform the way we see the AFK [Away-From-Keyboard or real] world, shaping how we might participate in it toward greate…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited BURNING HOT WITCHES in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoBURNING HOT WITCHES * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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Raihanah M Mydin deposited Intercultural dialogue in manga: Building friendships, sharing spaces and values in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe role of Japanese manga as a site for intercultural understanding and engagement is worth further investigation, and research in this area is
still growing. This article explores intercultural dialogue through a case study of the Japanese manga Satoko and Nada Volume 1 by Yupechika, which narrates the friendship between Satoko, a young…[Read more] -
Jessica Winston started the topic 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award Winner Announced in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy has announced “The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study” as the winner of the 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award. The Teaching Literature Book Award (TLBA) is a national prize that recognizes the best book on teaching literature at the college level.
The award is pres…[Read more]
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Angela Acosta started the topic CFP Spanish Sapphic Modernity – Feminist Modernist Studies in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoCFP: Spanish Sapphic Modernity, Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies
Article proposals (250-300 words) and short bios (50-75 words) due by November 15.
Co-editors: Angela Acosta (Davidson College) and Rebecca Haidt (The Ohio State University)
Given the relative dearth of scholarship exploring sapphic modernism in Spain, Europe, and…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation – revised in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPlease join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023! Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.
Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions
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Danny Barreto started the topic CFP: COUNTERDISCOURSES OF FAMILY: UNDOING (THE) TIES in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn this thematic issue of Journal 2i we explore the images and the discourses of the family that circulate in literature and cultural production. The articles in this volume, therefore, will offer a broad vision of non-normative families, past or present. Some of the topics to be explored in this issue include:
- Representations of chosen…
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Jonathan Rose started the topic CfP: Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative in the discussion
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoCfP for seminar session at NeMLA 2024, 7 to 10 March in Boston, MA
Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over the spectator and p…[Read more]
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William Viestenz started the topic CFP: 19th North American Catalan Society Colloquium in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
The 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society will be held April 18-20, 2024, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Please see the attached CFP for more information on how to submit an abstract or panel proposal.
All best,
Bill Viestenz
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Book Chapters: Memory Studies: An Anthology of Perspectives in the discussion
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoChapter proposals are invited for a volume on contemporary memory and literary studies edited by Dr. D. Sudha Rani ( VNRVJIET ), Dr. Rachel Irdaya Raj ( VNRVJIET ), Dr.Shashibhusan Nayak (MLA).
Memory studies is an increasingly diverse, interdisciplinary, and dynamic field of knowledge that spans multiple disciplines. Sociologists, psychologists,…[Read more]
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Eric Sirota started the topic New Movie: Frankenstein (musical) based on Mary Shelley’s novel in the discussion
Monsters and Monstrosity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoI’m excited to tell you that my musical, “Frankenstein” that played Off-Broadway in NY for 3 years, was adapted for screen, with an expanded score and orchestration. It was just released this week and is available on StreamingMusicals.com or from the website https://TheFrankensteinMusical.com
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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited Black QR code in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoBlack QR code * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-ND
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Pruritus Migrans deposited Art Attack! in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoArt Attack! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-ND
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