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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP for MLA: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:
Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern
Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic CFPs: MLA 2016 Italian American LLC in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of racism and eth…[Read more] -
Nancy Caronia started the topic MLA Sessions through Italian American LLC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago<h2 class=”title”>The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of rac…[Read more] -
Brooke Carlson deposited Expository Writing in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“The short story is better suited to the demands of modern life than the novel.” Simon Prosser, Publishing Director, Hamish Hamilton
Expository Writing is crafted to help students learn to write and think critically. In an effort to hone our critical minds and strengthen our writing, we will focus on the learned skills of summarizing, par…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses Crowne Plaza
Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 15 March 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Volume on Teaching Karen Tei Yamashita: Survey and CFP in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) and help shape a new volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017 Division Forum. You are encouraged to submit to…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o Forum CFP's in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.
1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of wr…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla started the topic CFPs: MLA 2017 Chicana/o Lit Forum in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“Liberty Crack’d”
What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).
2. “La Raza y Gaza”
Papers engaging the political resonances of Palesti…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Alien Lines in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAlien Lines: Science Fiction Comics
The medium of comics—often dominated by genres bound to contemporary concerns or enduring conventions—remains marginal in the study of science fiction. Likewise, the oldest questions driving science fiction scholarship—identity and difference, self and other, chance and futurity—have not been central to comics…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Adaptation in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDrawing the Line: Comics and Adaptation
While comics adaptations have frequently been derided for “dumbing down” great works of literature through adaptation, recent movie adaptations of comics have conquered the box office and brought new attention to the medium. These intriguing developments beg the questions—How might comics be trans…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Temporality in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoGraphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality
Whether we consider the fragmentation of time in the Dr. Manhattan chapter of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, or Art Spiegleman’s intermingling of his father’s WWII past with his present as narrator in Maus, rendering time as space has been one of the most unique and commented upon formal aspect…[Read more]
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Lissette Lopez Szwydky started the topic CFP2017: Adaptation, Transmediation in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA2017 Adaptation, Transmediation: The Narrative Boundaries of Genre, Medium, and Time
Special Session
How do adaptation and transmediation push the boundaries and possibilities of literature? Transnational and transhistorical perspectives especially welcome. CV and 500-word abstracts by 11 March 2016; Lissette Lopez Szwydky (lissette@uark.edu). -
Cesar Braga-Pinto started the topic CFP 2017: Luso Brazilian Graphic Narratives in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoLuso Brazilian Graphic Narratives
Description: This panel explores different forms of graphic narrative from the Luso-Brazilian world, including, but not limited to political cartoons, graphic novels, comic strips and graffiti.
Deadline for submissions: 14 March 2016Submission requirements:
250 word abstractsContact person information
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Thomas Lawrence Long started the topic MLA 2017 CFP: Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThe Modern Language Association’s Transdisciplinary Conversations Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum announces this call for proposals for its guaranteed session at MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/careLiterature of environmental illness, critical perspectives on health, policy, practice. Topics and t…[Read more]
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Martha B. Kuhlman started the topic CFP 2017 Graphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoComics and Graphic Narrative Forum Modern Language Association Panel 2017:
Graphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality
Whether we consider the fragmentation of time in the Dr. Manhattan chapter of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, or Art Spiegleman’s intermingling of his father’s WWII past with his present as narrator in Maus, rende…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic CFPs: MLA 2017 Italian American Lit Forum in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoSee below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed.
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017.Taking a cue from the presidential co…[Read more]
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Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Philip Smith replied to the topic Discuss Philip Smith's CORE uploads in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years agoThanks Nicky,
I only just joined MLA Commons and didn’t realise notice of my uploads would be emailed directly to the group. Sorry if it seemed like spam – quite unintentional.
If anyone does have any thoughts on my papers I would love to hear your feedback.
Best wishes,
Phil
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