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Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: Season 1 now complete! in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoNovel Dialogue, a podcast sponsored by the Society of Novel Studies, has just completed its first season. We bring critics and novelists together for fun and sophisticated conversations about novels – how they are made and what to make of them.
For a full list of episodes, please check out https://noveldialogue.org/
Or subscribe at Apple…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers (please share)
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoPosting to CLCS 18th c. at the request of Leland G. Spencer, editor
Call for Papers
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoAttention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]
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Annelle Curulla started the topic Call for Papers: L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022) in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Replaying the Francophone Early Modern in the Twenty-First Century</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Editors: Annelle Curulla (Scripps College) and Michael Meere (Wesleyan Un…[Read more] -
Annelle Curulla started the topic Call for Papers: L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022) in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Replaying the Francophone Early Modern in the Twenty-First Century</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Editors: Annelle Curulla (Scripps College) and Michael Meere (Wesleyan Un…[Read more] -
Susan Larson deposited La gramática de la ‘Hispanidad’: Retórica de imperio y arquitectura historicista en los discursos públicos de J.C. Nichols in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe purpose of this essay is to better understand the motives of the real estate mogul and construction magnate -J.C.Nichols- responsible for the construction of the first non-centrally located shopping mall in the United States in Kansas City in the 1920s. Specifically, this study focuses on why and how Nichols resorted to a pastiche of…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited The Campus After COVID-19 in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay compares the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at two universities on opposite sides of the world: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States. It argues that the pandemic has revealed the extent to which campuses have reorganized their institutional…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago*Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original post. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Annelle Curulla started the topic Publication Announcement: Special Issue of Early Modern French Studies in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago‘Staging Justice in Early Modern France’ Special Issue of Early Modern French Studies 42.2 (2020)
Guest edited by Valérie M. Dionne and Michael Meere
Dedicated to the memory of Christian Biet
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemf20/42/2?nav=tocList
Contents:
In Memoriam—Christian Biet (1952-2020) Michael Meere
Introduction: Staging J…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Race, Theory and the Practice of Psychoanalysis in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoGreetings! This message is to announce a CFP for MLA 2022. Please consider submitting an abstract! Please circulate widely!
The concise version is available on the main MLA Convention web site, but an expanded and detailed version is included here:
Race, Theory, and the Practice of Psychoanalysis
- How does the category of race allow for new…
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Sydney Boyd started the topic Full-length CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoA postscript to my previous post on CFPs for MLA 2022: Here is a more detailed description of “Found in Translation: Opera Among Languages” panel.
In keeping with the MLA 2022 conference theme of Multilingual US, the Executive Committee of the Media Studies Forum on Opera and Musical Performance has announced the following guaranteed session: Foun…[Read more]
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Sydney Boyd started the topic Opera and Musical Performance Forum CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn anticipation of MLA 2022, the MS Opera and Musical Performance forum is pleased to announce two calls for papers, the second of which is in collaboration with the Drama and Performance forum:
Found in Translation: Opera Among Languages
Many librettos are written in a language other than that of their source text. What interesting results…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Territoriality, Language, and Power in the 18th-19th c. Iberian World (MLA 2022 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
If you’re thinking of attending MLA 2022, please consider applying for this panel and/or spreading the word to interested colleagues. Thanks!
Nobel Prize winner and 20th-century poet Czeslaw Milosz famously wrote that “language is the only homeland.” In the 18th-19th century Iberian world, a world made by European imp…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Afro-Diasporic Afterlives & Archipelagos Across the Global Hispano in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years agoWe invite 250-word abstracts for papers that examine the legacies, archives, and memories of slavery and Afro-diasporic afterlives across the global Hispanophone and archipelagic Mediterranean, Pacific, and Atlantic worlds. The panel also seeks to establish connections between these different regions and/or follow the moment of racialized actors…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Ethnohistory Submissions — Primary Sources for Research, Teaching, Activism in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Submissions – Ethnohistorical Primary Documents (from Rob Schwaller)
The global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has dramatically affected academic research and publication. As many professional ethnohistorians struggle to meet the challenges of online teaching and face severely limited research opportunities, the editors of Ethnohistory…[Read more]
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