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Madhurima Chakraborty posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: South Asian Literatures in the World
South Asian Literary Association Annual Conference
January 6-7, 2019
The Wits Hotel, Chicago, ILThe South Asian Literary Association invites papers, panels, and roundtable proposals for the 2019 annual conference to be held in Chicago January 6-7 on the topic “South Asian Literatures in the World.” We…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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James Kyung-Jin Lee started the topic CFP: Transpacific Transactions in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPapers that analyze transpacific exchanges in literature from a critical perspective informed by scholarship on transnationalism, diaspora, and the Pacific. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2018; Jeehyun Lim (jeehyunl@buffalo.edu).
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James Kyung-Jin Lee started the topic New Approaches to Asian American Non-Fiction in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPapers that consider both recent and historical Asian American non-fiction with particular critical attention to the contemporary memoir boom. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2018; James Kyung-Jin Lee (jkl@uci.edu).
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic And this CFP, too! in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoForum: TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
“Energy Humanities and African Cultural Production”
How are the entanglements of modernity, energy production and consumption, and ecological impacts represented in African cultural production? What alternative futures are imagined? a 200-word abstract by 15 March 2018; Byron…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic CFP–TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Roundtable! in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoForum: TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
“Environment/Scale/Justice”
This roundtable interrogates these three terms and their relationships. What is the environment, temporal and geographic scale, and (in)justice of environmental justice? Where? When? For/by whom? Abstract and brief CV by 15 March 2018; Sharon O’Dair (sodair@ua.edu).
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoJoin the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network for scholarly exchange and collaboration about the study of plants in the Humanities and Social Sciences. You can join our listserv and visit our website at http://plants.sites.arizona.edu/. We invite you to add your publications and/or artwork to our bibliography of primary and secondary…[Read more]
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Caren Irr started the topic CfP: Writing After Plastic, panel for MLA 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoProposals welcomed.
<b>Writing After Plastic</b>
How does a political economy of plastic confront its contradictions? Which aesthetic faces does a plastics-based materialism present? How do eco-socialisms envision the excesses, alternatives, and after-lives of plastic? In what forms (aesthetic and/or political) does plastic break…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Textual Trans Actions: Queering Kinship
We seek paper proposals for a special session at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore trans actions/transactions in kinning narratives and/or other representations in any mode (including the visual) or genre. These include…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
We seek paper proposals for a special session “Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore nar…[Read more]
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Remy Attig deposited Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish: Common Considerations for the English Translator of Two Peripheral Lects in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the natural order of language development orality precedes literary production, but elements of the oral tradition do often appear in literature. In this presentation I will look at orality in some Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish texts to see how the study of these two lects together may better inform the translator. Though both are lects of…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “’Think What You’re Doing, Or You’ll Only Make an Ugly Reputation for Yourself’: Chin P’ing Mei (金瓶梅), Lying, and Literary History” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 8 years agoHow does our daily mindreading—that is, our attribution and misattribution of mental states (such as thoughts, feelings, and intentions) to ourselves and others—differ from the mindreading we engage in when we read fiction? I have argued elsewhere (e.g., “Secret Life of Fiction,” PMLA, 2015) that drama, novels, and narrative poetry play and exp…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the “From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.
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Lisa Marie Rhody deposited Beyond Darwinian Distance: Situating Distant Reading in a Feminist Ut Pictura Poesis Tradition in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoLooking from a distance, as a condition of knowledge, participates within a long-standing Western tradition of power relations. This article considers the use of “distant reading” as theorized by Franco Moretti in his book by the same title and suggests that the method of literary analysis that uses such a metaphor should be aware and critical of…[Read more]
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Sarah E. Chinn deposited Masculinity and National Identity on the Early American Stage in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay explores how the early American stage functioned as an incubator for ideas about national identity, artistic expression, and masculinity. Reading four plays from the early years of the Republic – Royall Tyler’s The Contrast, William Dunlap’s Andre´, John Augustus Stone’s Metamora, and Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator, I demonstrat…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Jeehyun Lim started the topic JNTSpecial Issue CFP: Refugee Literatures: Migration, Crisis, and the Humanities in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoJNT: Journal of Narrative Theory invites submissions exploring the life and work of refugees as they engage the humanities today. Just as the mid-twentieth century refugee crisis shaped the emergence and development of aesthetic and theoretical movements around World War II, the mass movement of displaced peoples today stems from a convergence of…[Read more]
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