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Pallavi Rastogi posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum
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Shuchi Kapila posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum.
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Eng 260 Introduction to Women Writers, or,Books That Cook! Syllabus in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCourse syllabus for Eng 260: Introduction to Women Writers focused on the theme of food fiction. Taught at Central Oregon Community College as a general education course. We are on the quarter system which limits the number of readings. The course will require that students complete a collaborative digital project.
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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this group. I cannot volunteer for a co-leadership position this year as I’m presiding over the Forum on South Asian and Diasporic literatures for 2019. We can think of a collaborative panel if the CLCS Indian Ocean gets approved.
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Neelofer Qadir replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThanks for reviving this petition, Nienke!
I support the creation of this forum and would like to volunteer for one of the co-leadership positions.
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Sean Kennedy replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoI support the creation of this forum, and I’d be interested in volunteering as one of the co-leaders. Thank you for your initiative, Nienke!
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Mukoma Ngugi posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn support – Mukoma Wa Ngugi
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Gaurav G. Desai replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoI support the creation of this forum!
Gaurav Desai
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Deepika Marya posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoI strongly support this forum. Deepika Marya
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Nienke Boer started the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoI am interested in trying to get this forum created, and the previous petition thread seems to be inactive, so I’ve started this one. Please sign below if you endorse the creation of this forum, and indicate if you want to volunteer for a leadership position. You can contact me at nienke.boer@yale-nus.edu.sg if you have thoughts about this!
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Mary Gallucci deposited The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Catherine Fletcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxvii + 308 pp. $29.95. in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoAs the first biography in English of Alessandro de’ Medici, this important book raises questions about how historical narratives are constructed and how race has evolved into a critical, if contested, category.
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe Global Far North: Arctic Literatures
The Global South has challenged Eurocentric narratives; what of the Global (Extreme) North? Colonial encounters; environmental extremes; imperial and indigenous literatures in the Arctic.
200-word abstract and CV or brief bio to Rebecca Stanton (rjs19@columbia.edu) by March 18.(Sponsored by LLC…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia session proposals for 2019 MLA (deadline March 15) in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDear academic colleagues: there’s still time (deadline March 15) to submit a paper to one of these three proposed sessions about Southeast Asia for the 2019 MLA conference in Chicago. Details below.
* “Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia”: What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? C…[Read more]
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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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Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: “Transacting Comparative Studies” in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
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Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Canada’s Troubling Indifference to the Air India Bombing in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWhy has the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing not claimed a more prominent place in Canadian history and public memory?
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Lorelei Caraman deposited Between Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism: A corpus-based analysis of animal comparisons in Shakespeare’s plays in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe assertion of the centrality and supremacy of man, or rather, of the idea(l) of humanity, during the Renaissance period, inevitably entailed the repudiation of the animal and the beginning of the great human-animal divide. What was seen, at the time, as the rebirth of man, was also the birth of a rampant anthropocentrism which, until the recent…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019: “Race, Nation, and Empire in Southeast Asian Life Writing.” How does Southeast Asian life writing reframe questions of race, nation, empire, and history? Comparative approaches welcomed. 300-word abstract and short bio to John David Zuern (zuern@hawaii.edu) and Sheela Jane Menon (menons@dickinson.edu) due 15 March 2018. Please…[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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I am also happy to take on a leadership position if needed.