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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic CFP: MLA15 Teaching Memoir in the forum
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoReading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir: MLA 2015 Vancouver BC
Stacey Lee Donohue/CCHA Allied Member of the MLA
Autobiography and memoir have become canonical staples, but also contested sites for discussing the boundaries of fictional and non-fictional self-representation. Presentations invited exploring the…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPlease consider the Prose Fiction Division’s panels for the 2015 MLA convention:
Attention Spans
Meditations on the span of popular or critical attention to works; or, contours of attention span possible for prose fiction in various media. 500 word proposals by 15 March 2014; Hester Blum (hester.blum@psu.edu).
Shapes of the Nonhuman
From…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHello, members of the MLA Division for Late Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
The executive is proposing three panels for the 2015 Vancouver MLA meeting. Here are our calls for papers:
“Literary Science.”
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David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings on Forum Changes in the forum
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis is a reminder to the members of the late 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:
http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
If you are attending MLA, please try to make an…[Read more]
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David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis is a reminder to the members of the Restoration and early 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:
If you are attending MLA, please try to…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic CFP-6th conference-Aphra Behn Europe Society in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<p align=”center”><b>6TH CONFERENCE OF THE APHRA BEHN EUROPE SOCIETY</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b><i>Aphra Behn and the Challenges of Genre</i></b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>University of Huelva, Spain</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>12-14 June, 2014</b></p>
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<p align=”center”><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></p>
Aphra Behn was…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoPlease join us for the Prose Fiction Division’s panels at the MLA Convention in Chicago next week. The Division is hosting two panels and co-sponsoring a third; details below.
335. Mass versus Coterie: The Rare Book
Friday, 10 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Los Angeles–Miami, Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Prose Fic…[Read more]
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Lisa Berglund replied to the topic Division Sessions at the MLA in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<div>
On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago Mar…[Read more] -
Rivka Swenson started the topic Division Sessions at the MLA in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear All, in light of Deidre Lynch’s post on the Commons site in the “Later Eighteenth Century” group, in which she helpfully listed the sessions for that Division and encouraged all MLA-attending members to attend as many of the Division sessions as possible, I’m posting here the information about the sessions for “Restoration and Early…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWe were so heartened by the outpouring of support on the MLA Commons and elsewhere for our attempts to resist the MLA’s proposal for a reorganization that would have seen the Divisions for Restoration and early 18th-century English literature and the Division for Later 18th Century English Literature collapsed into one very long Division indeed…[Read more]
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Thank you for posting this useful information, Deidre, and these encouragement to attend the Division sessions. I’m about to post something similar on the site for the Restoration & Early Eighteenth Century. I hope that the members of our Divisions who are attending MLA will be able to attend as many sessions as possible in both the Divisions.…[Read more]
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On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago M…[Read more]
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Michelle A. Massé posted an update in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWomen’s Caucus for the Modern Languages: Events and Awards at MLA 2014
Thursday, 09 January
Cash Bar: Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, together with the Ages Studies Discussion Group/ European Network in Aging Studies, Feministas Unidas, GL/Q Caucus, Women in French, and Women in German
8:45 – 10:00 p.m., Chicago VIII, Sheraton…[Read more]
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Michelle A. Massé posted an update in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoAge Studies Discussion Group Schedule: MLA 2014
Thursday, 9 January
Cash Bar: Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, together with the Ages Studies Discussion Group/European Network in Aging Studies, Feministas Unidas, GL/Q Caucus, Women in French, and Women in German
8:45 – 10:00 p.m., Chicago VIII, Sheraton127. Literature without Borders:…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
A collective of critics, scholars, and public intellectuals based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the official launch of Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics (http://www.ethosreview.org/). Supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, our…[Read more]