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Janine M. Utell uploaded the file: CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection, DEADLINE 12/1/16) to
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAbstracts are sought for an edited collection on the comics of Alison Bechdel for the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists series at UP of Mississippi. Interdisciplinary approaches welcome; deadline 12/1/16
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Erin Lamb replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHi Kathryn and Rosemary,
Kathryn, I’m intrigued by your inquiry: “I am interesting in studying whether awareness of this linkage would have a positive impact on their engagement in learning critical textual analysis as well as whether it would encourage them to enroll in additional literature/culture classes.” I don’t know anyone else who is…[Read more]
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Rosemary Ila Weatherston replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHi Kathryn,
I have been looking at similar questions in my own courses and research and have found some success adapting required general education literature courses for undergraduate health professions students. These modified courses draw on the discipline of narrative medicine for their framework and combine a general study of fiction and l…[Read more]
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Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
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Kathryn J. McKnight started the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoDear Colleagues,
I just found this group and am thrilled you are here!
I am very interested in connecting with anyone who is engaged in transforming their undergraduate teaching of literature (and cultural studies) in ways that explicitly engage students with the arguments for the humanities in medical education. To be direct, many of our pr…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3386: Studies in American Literature “Versioning Digital Humanities” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoEnglish 3386 equips students for critical encounters with the texts, images, sounds, and situations that constitute American life, politics, history, and culture. This section is organized around the theme of “Versioning Digital Humanities.” Many texts go through various “versions” as they are revised for republications, corrected for new edition…[Read more]
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Julian Grajewski deposited the coming heath death of the science fiction universe – against heteronomy in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agodiscussion of the may 2004 issue of pmla that treated science fiction as a scholarly genre. my question was, instead of writing strung-out, dystopian lit, why not ask what will be the level of consciousness of an individual human biped in a galactic economy of quadrilions and quintillions of people, each utilizing near- infinity numbers of…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHemingway’s In Our Time has been long recognized as a major development in American literature and Modernism, but limited access to its various publication states has meant that the 1930 edition superseded all others. This edition makes the 1923 version of “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?” available for the first time since…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSince its first publication, critics have recognized Hemingway’s 1924 in our time as a major development in American literature and Modernism. This edition makes the 1924 version of in our time available for the first time since the 1977 facsimile edition, which was in a print run limited to 1700 copies. The original edition was printed in only 1…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Call for proposals, for a new series from Medieval Institute Publications to
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoLate Tudor and Stuart Drama:
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Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoMarie Darrieussecq’s Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel’s “bad” language is a foil for Darrieussecq’s larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Revisiting E. E. Cummings' Paintings at Brockport in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe article focuses on the restoration of the collections of paintings and drawings of E. E. Cummings in Brockport, New York. It is inferred that the Hildegarde Lasell Watson Collection has sustained a mass of damage over the last 25 years, and that efforts for its conservation have consistently been delayed. It discusses the contents and the…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic CFP Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCall for Proposals
Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production
The editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexu…[Read more] -
Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the NovelSpecial Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West”
Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more] -
Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Binod Paudyal deposited "Reimagining Transnational Identities in Lahiri’s The Namesake" in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis essay demonstrates that Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake goes beyond conventional wisdom about immigrant experiences in so far as it explores how the South Asian diaspora participates in transnational connections, shaping and transforming the notion of American identity in the contemporary global era. Lahiri’s novel offers us a striking acc…[Read more]
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