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Esther Jones started the topic Position Announcement: Health Humanities & Race, Clark University, Worcester MA in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoTeaching Fellowship in Health Humanities and Race
CLARK UNIVERSITY, WORCESTER, MA. Health Humanities and Race. Renewable Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, beginning Fall 2017. The successful applicant will teach three courses the first year and four in the second year, beginning undergraduate to graduate level; give one public lecture based on r…[Read more] -
Jonathan Senchyne deposited Paper Nationalism: Material Textuality and Communal Affiliation in Early America in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoTheories of the public sphere and of imagined political communities of shared reading have had lasting effects on the theoretical conceptualization of Americanist book history, but they also largely overlook the materiality of texts in ways that early and nineteenth-century American readers and writers did not. This essay reads early and…[Read more]
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Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoEnthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature
Issues 15 and 16 (2016)
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Join us for the Age Studies events at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoMLA Sessions Relevant to Age Studies
Note: All of the sessions below relate to the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions
Thursday 5 January
Session 9
“Reimagining Adolescence: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”
12 noon-1:15 p.m.
102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Session 96
“Out of Narrative Bounds: Medica…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic Executive Committee Candidate Statement: Tana Jean Welch in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoGreetings! I have been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies, so I thought I’d take a moment to introduce myself and outline some of my interests and goals. I currently serve as assistant professor of medical humanities at the Florida State University College of Medicine. D…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic Call for Papers — International Dreiser Society at the ALA in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two: Gender, Political Ideology, and Dreiser
Papers are invited on topics…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Governance News: Suggestions Needed for Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe current Delegate Assembly representative for this forum has a term that will expire in January 2018. An election for a new delegate must therefore be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the e…[Read more]
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