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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, 10 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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Jeehyun Lim started the topic Asian American Forum CFPs for MLA 2021 Convention in the discussion
LLC Asian American via email on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please see the CFPs below for panels sponsored by the Asian American Forum. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Jeehyun Lim
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Toronto, January 7-10, 2021
1. (Guaranteed Session with Southeast Asian Forum)
We invite papers drawing attention to the archipelagic relation…[Read more] -
Anita Harris Satkunananthan deposited Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]
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Anita Harris Satkunananthan deposited Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Anita Harris Satkunananthan started the topic CFP: Interrogating Folklore and the Literary Fairy-tale in the Anthropocene in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoApologies, a repost because the formatting was messed up on my previous post!
Dear Everyone,
My co-editors and I will be submitting a book proposal on the topic above to a university press. Please do consider contributing a chapter!
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2020
Full name / name of organization: Dr. Anita Harris Satkunananthan,…[Read more]
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Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere. I too am looking forward to more information!
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Beth Widmaier Capo replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis sounds fantastic. Do you have instructions (deadline, length, address) for abstract submissions?
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Shannon Herbert started the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoIn 2017, when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to use the hashtag #metoo if they’d ever “been sexually harassed or assaulted” social media feeds were suddenly flooded with the phrase. People were quick to point out that #metoo did not originate with Milano, but with Tarana Burke, a social worker and activist who proposed the phrase in 2006. Since…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
<a title=”Original URL:
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]
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Katrina Dunn started the topic Reimagining Theatre Education in the Era of Climate Crisis in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoPlease consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues.
What might we teach Swedish student activist Greta Thunberg if she were to choose post-secondary education in theatre? As she says, she has no reason to fear speaking the truth: what approach to acting and theatre-making might we take with…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Scheherezade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDrawing on Arabic textual traditions and foregrounding the liminal time and space of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation, Muslim slave narratives deserve recognition as generative forebears of transnational, multicultural literature in both England and the United States. Yet these forebears were…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Kafka, the Caribbean, and the Holocaust in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis essay reexamines the figure of Franz Kafka (1883–1924) in light of his largely ignored, recursive links to circum-Caribbean and Black Atlantic processes of racialized exploitation and corporal punishment. When we centre Kafka’s extensive biographical and literary engagements with these processes, the persistent debate over Kafka’s statu…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP — Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume* The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830* and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.Call for Proposals
*The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830*
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río PiedrasTraditional…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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