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Albertine Fox deposited The end but not the end: twist, revolt, survive in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoA write-up of my contribution to a roundtable panel that took place at King’s College London on 26th September 2019 to celebrate the English translation of Chantal Akerman’s My Mother Laughs. The speakers were Ros Murray (KCL), Jenny Chamarette (QMUL), Albertine Fox (Bristol), Frances Morgan (author of the Afterword, My Mother Laughs), Sarah Shi…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFor anyone interested, there is now an MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group (easier to use / access than the MLA forum site I think). You can sign on at http://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies
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Kate Marshall started the topic Women and Language CFP in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHello,
Can you please share the Women & Language CFP with the MLA GS Prose Fiction Forum? I’ve pasted it below, but it’s also available online here.
Thanks,Leland G. Spencer, Editor
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami UniversityWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal pub…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]
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Jessie M. Labov started the topic MLA 2021 Collaborative Session: Academic Autonomy in Illiberal Times in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWe are looking for one more panelist in this session being proposed for next year’s MLA. It would be a collaboration between the Hungarian and Slavic/EE fora. Titls/short abstracts to Jessie Labov (jlabov@ceu.edu) by April 5th.
Academic Autonomy in Illiberal Times: Although the right to academic freedom faces challenges all over the world, the…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett deposited RECording the End time in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Film in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoApocalyptic themes handled by Spanish directors of the current century, including Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, David and Álex Pastor, Álex de la Iglesia, Juan Antonio Bayona, Jorge Torregrossa, and Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas, and F. Javier Gutiérrez.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies to Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U (ljt233@nyu.edu ) Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 2 April 2020. (C…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Survival Strategies in the Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWhat can we learn from indigenous and Black strategies for survival in the Americas, as we face the enduring legacies of capitalist settler colonialism? Please send a 200-word abstract and a brief biographical statement to Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) Please share broadly. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 3 April 2020
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic Standing for Election of Executive Committee of CLCS Hemispheric American in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWe invite you to stand for election to our Executive Committee — come guide our group in upcoming years! Note that you are only allowed to serve on one executive committee at a time. If you are interested, please email Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) as soon as possible. Thank you!
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFPs — MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLLC African American Forum
Call for Papers for MLA 2021 in Toronto
Theories of Black Women Intellectualism in the Nineteenth Century
Inviting talks on diverse iterations of intellectual thought amongst C19th Black women thinkers; Intellectual productions beyond the usual confines of the slave narrative or sentimental novel. 250 word…[Read more]
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Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Canadian Environments and the Extraction Economy in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCanadian Environments and the Extraction Economy
This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum and the Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum, considers the cultures and histories of resource extraction in Canada. We seek papers on Canadian and/or Indigenous literatures and environments. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March…[Read more] -
Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Scarborough in/as Canadian Literature in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoScarborough in/as Canadian Literature
This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum, considers the recent florescence of literature from and about Scarborough, ON. We seek papers discussing particular works related to Scarborough, as well as theoretical approaches. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March 2020 Robert Zacharias, York…[Read more] -
Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Indigenous-diasporic relations on Turtle Island in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIndigenous-diasporic relations on Turtle Island
What are the possibilities for building alliances across lines of difference on Turtle Island? What are the challenges of intertwining decolonial struggles? We welcome papers, artistic, and pedagogical provocations on diasporic-Indigenous relations on Turtle Island.Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more] -
Janice Ho started the topic CFPs for Global Anglophone Forums for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear Global Anglophone members,
Please find our CFPs for the guaranteed Global Anglophone sessions for MLA Toronto 2021 below: one is on “Languages of Class” and the second is a joint collaboration with the Global Arab and Arab American Executive Forum on “Global Indigeneity.” We hope you will consider submitting abstracts for…[Read more]
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