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Carol N. Fadda-Conrey started the topic SU Press Critical Arab American Studies Book Series in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCritical Arab American Studies Series
CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Syracuse University Press invites proposals for book-length works for its newly launched series in Arab American Studies. Expanding the Press’s historical concentration in Arab American Writing and Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East, the new series will f…[Read more] -
Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Two CFPs for JMEWS on Borders, Margins, and Sexuality in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins
JMEWS invites feminist scholars working in any discipline or interdisciplinary area in the interpretive social sciences and humanities to submit area-specific manuscripts on any topic related to the theme of The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins. Manuscripts may address…[Read more]
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami replied to the topic MLA 2017 CFP: Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years agoThanks Paula for posting this cfp on this interesting subject.
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic MLA 2017 CFP: Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years agoHello everyone,
Below is a CFP for a collaborative session organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum and the Life Writing forum at the MLA.
Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts. Regional, transnational, cross-border, multilingual Arab constructions of selfhood. Please submit 250 word abstracts and bios by…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry started the topic MLA Graphic Interventions Arabic Panel Meeting Today at 1:45pm – Please Join! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoJust a quick note that the Arabic division panel #77. Graphic Interventions: Visual Cultures of the Arab World will be meeting as scheduled today from 1:45–3:00 p.m. in room 402 of the JW Marriott.
We hope to see you there!!
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic GAAM Sessions at the MLA! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear all,
Below you can find the listing of the first ever sessions organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum (GAAM) at the 2016 MLA convention in Austin, TX. Hope to see you there!
Politics of Solidarities and Cross-Racial Alliances
Friday, 8 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 18D, ACC
Program arranged by the forums CLCS G…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Election Results are in! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We are excited to announce that Karim Mattar and Shaden Tageldin will be joining the executive committee of the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum!
Please help us give them a big welcome by posting your congratulations here on our Commons page!
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Peter C. Herman deposited review: The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume III: The Shorter Poems in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis article is a review of the Haan-Lewalski OUP edition of Milton’s shorter. The book, I argue, is inexcusably difficult to use, and suggests that perhaps the time has come to replace long, very expensive tomes with digital editions.
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Remember to vote by tomorrow! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
If you haven’t yet done so, please be sure to vote for new members to the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum! The last day for voting is tomorrow, December 10, 2015!
Candidates running for election for the term 2016-close of Jan. 2021 convention:
Ghenwa Hayek, University of Chicago
Karim Mattar, University of C…[Read more] -
Ghenwa Hayek replied to the topic Candidate Statement – Exec Committee, Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am writing in support of my nomination to the Global Arab and Arab American Executive Committee. I am Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. My research focuses on the entangled relationships between literary and cultural…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Please Vote for new Executive Committee Members! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
If you haven’t yet done so, please be sure to vote for new members to the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum!
Candidates running for election for the term 2016-close of Jan. 2021 convention:
Ghenwa Hayek, University of Chicago
Karim Mattar, University of Colorado, BoulderCandidates running for election for the…[Read more]
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Carol DeBoer-Langworthy replied to the topic Candidate Statement – Exec Committee, Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPardon my barging in on this discussion, but I wish to announce the following Call for Papers for a special section in the forthcoming annual publication, Lifewriting Annual: Autobiographical and Biographical Studies. Please email me, CDBL@Brown.edu, with any questions. Thanks ~
Call for Papers
Volume 5 Special Section: Lifewriting and…[Read more]
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Keith Feldman replied to the topic Candidate Statement – Exec Committee, Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoGreetings. My name is Keith P. Feldman. I am terribly honored to have been nominated to the GAAS Executive Committee, 2016-2020. I am currently an advanced assistant professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, and a core faculty member in the Center for Middle East Studies at UC Berkeley. My scholarship and teaching focus on the cultural…[Read more]
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Karim Mattar started the topic Candidate Statement – Exec Committee, Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoHello,
I’m Karim Mattar, and am writing in support of my nomination for the Global Arab and Arab American Executive Committee for the 2016-2021 term. I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I received my DPhil in English from the University of Oxford (2013), after earning degrees at UCL (BA, 2003), War…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Personal Identity and Literary Personae: A Study in Historical Psychology in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis comparative study in the evolution of subjectivity in European literature during the Renaissance ascribes it to the impact of the Reformation on the public representation of authorial identity, differing from Stephen Greenblatt’s later application of Foucault to six Tudor authors.
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Tia Black deposited Worldviews in Literature: An Anthology in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWorldviews in Literature: An Anthology responds to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova’s 2012 global initiatives for study of world literature for a “New Humanism” along with Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s directive for world literature “to discover what is universal across national literatures.” Worldviews includes fifteen authors fro…[Read more]
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Natalie Crohn Schmitt deposited Dissimulation in the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCommedia dell’Arte was the most influential and widespread theatre movement in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe. A considerable part of its popularity can be accounted for by its comic representation of stressful occurrences within everyday life in early modern Europe, including in its representation of the period’s widespread dis…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic ACLA Proposed Seminar: Visual Politics in Middle Eastern Literature and Culture in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract to the following proposed seminar for ACLA 2016 (Cambridge MA, 17-20 March, 2016). The paper submission portal is now open and available at http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper. Abstracts must be received by midnight on Wednesday, September 23, 2015.
Visual Politics in Middle Eastern Li…[Read more] -
Suha Kudsieh started the topic ACLA: Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
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Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts ” seminar of the 2016 American Com…[Read more] - Load More
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