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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Narrator, Silenced Victim in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAlthough the systematic eviction of Palestinians from their homeland has been recorded at length since the establishment of the state of Israel in 948, the documentation has namely concerned itself with urban centers or villages. Expulsion and removal of marginalized communities, namely the Bedouins’, from their ancestral encampments or homes h…[Read more]
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoI am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on “Political Oratory and African American Literature.” Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse. Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.
Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin and Elizabeth Rivlin, “Remedial Uses of Shakespeare,” Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation, ed. Vanessa I. Corredera, L.Monique Pittman, Geoffrey Way (Routledge, 2023), pp. 222-233 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis chapter argues that cultural appropriation can be an exploitative act but need not be; it all depends on what users do with Shakespeare. Due to the unequal status of the parties engaged in appropriative exchange, some appropriations deploy Shakespeare to protect conventional power structures. Appropriations are rarely negotiated on a level…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]
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Atia Sattar started the topic NWSA CFP: Decolonizing Feminist and Queer Pedagogies in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe CFP below is for a pedagogy workshop to be conducted at the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore, October 26–29, 2023.
“This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emp…[Read more]
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Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: CanLit Adapts/Adapting Canadian Literature in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity, “Canadianness,” pedagogy, and production from critics and…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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johnpendergast started the topic Request for Titles in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Collaborative Rhizomatic Learning and Global Shakespeares,” Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning through Collaboration, ed. Liam E. Semler, Claire Hansen, and Jacqueline Manuel (Cambridge University Press, 2023), 225-238 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoCollaborative learning as a pedagogical method effectively reflects the communal character of the performing arts. By creating knowledge about Shakespearean performance collaboratively, students and educators lay claim to the ethics and ownership of that knowledge, an act that is particularly urgent and meaningful in the age of COVID-19 when we…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Translingual Shakespeare: An Afterword,” Shakespeare in Succession: Translation and Time, ed. Michael Saenger and Sergio Costola (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023), 298-307 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoLiterary translations work with, rather than out of, the space between languages. Translations evolve not only across linguistic and cultural borders but also across time. It is notable that Shakespeare’s own play texts feature translational properties that can be amplified in translation. This translingual property makes Shakespeare’s text inh…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum CFPs for MLA 2024 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFor the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.
1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSalaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]
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Sean Mark started the topic new book on Pound and Pasolini in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear group members,
I’m pleased to announce that my book on Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1
The Introduction and a translation of the Pasolini-Pound interview of 1967 are available for free download in th…[Read more]
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Darren J. Borg started the topic CFP: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoWhat is a life worth living?Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of prolonging it, whether artificially or by providing warnings against our current behavior in order to preserve the life that already exists. The fact that death and…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
LSL Language and Society via email on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This
guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for
languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc.
Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially
encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more] -
Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years agoThis chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP Conference: USES OF MODERNISM (Ghent, Belgium – 20-22 September 2023) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.
CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023
The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]
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