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David Wacks deposited SPAN 150: Introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world in Comics in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoDescription: This course is an introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world with an emphasis on comics and graphic novels. In this course we will learn about the graphic novel as an artistic vehicle for studying the history and cultures of Spain and Latin America (including the Latino US). There will be a series of guest appearances from…[Read more]
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Katja Herges deposited Syllabus Medicine and the Humanities in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoIntroductory course in the medical humanities with focus on English literature. Taught as a general education course. Topics include anatomy, madness, plagues and contagions and death and caregiving.
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Joseph Campana posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCall for postdocs
Rice University, 2018-19: “Waste Histories and Futures.”
http://hrc.rice.edu/node/709
Deadline: Friday, December 1, 2017Rice University’s Humanities Research Center will host the seminar “Waste: Histories and Futures” in 2018-19, co-organized by Joseph Campana (English), Cymene Howe (Anthropology), and Dominic Boyer…[Read more]
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Jennifer R. Ballengee posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP: ACLA 2018. Dangerous Passages (Benjamin 1940/2018).
As is well known, Walter Benjamin undertook a dangerous passage over the Pyrenees, a route taken by many refugees hoping to flee Nazi-occupied France. In the spirit of Walter Benjamin — his work and/or his life — this panel examines dangerous passages of all sorts. Papers might consider…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited “Dinner Party”: una “tragedia discreta” di P. V. Tondelli in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAnalisi dell’unica opera teatrale di P. V. Tondelli come punto d’inflessione nel suo percorso ideologico e narrativo.
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Karin Bagnall started the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIf you’re a New York City local, please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Living Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms
ACLA Seminar, 3/29-4/1, 2018 at UCLAThis American Comparative Literature Association seminar invites papers addressing life forms that have been largely neglected by the nonhuman turn, in its more immediate focus on animals, objects, and environmental forces or…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945 (essays examining the topic from the perspective of gender and sexuality would be most welcome)deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 wor…[Read more] -
Anastasia Salter deposited Principles of Visual Language Syllabus in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis course focuses on developing visual language literacy and theoretical frameworks through analyzing and creating a range of narrative media. We will examine a range of visual scholarly and creative works, starting with sequential art and moving into time-based and interactive media.
Students will:
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP ACLA 2018 – Los Angeles as Sanctuary City in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCFP for The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – March 29th to April 1st, 2018.
“Los Angeles as Sanctuary City”
Organizers: Jennifer Cazenave (jcazenave@usf.edu) and Kevin Vennemann (KVennema@scrippscollege.edu)
No other city has driven Hollywood’s desire for d…[Read more]
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Heike Bauer deposited The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world’s first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense…[Read more]
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Tamar Steinitz deposited Back Home: Translation, Conversion and Domestication in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAbstract
The Sudanese-born author Leila Aboulela describes the position of the non-western Anglophone writer as a translator by default, moving ‘back and forth’ between languages and cultures. This essay argues that Aboulela’s novel The Translator (1999) calls into question conceptualizations of translation that grow out of western relig…[Read more] -
André Carrington deposited Mike Brown’s Body: New Materialism and Black Form in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA contribution to the Editors’ Forum on Queer Form, edited by Kadji Amin, Roy Pérez, and Amber Musser, for ASAP/Journal.
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCFP: POSTHUMAN LIVES
Deadline: October 15, 2017
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies seeks original articles for a special issue on “Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web” to be published as volume 34.3, Autumn 2019. A major theorist in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new materialism, science studies, posthumanism, animal stu…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers
Secret Lives: Hiding, Revealing, Belonging
The International Auto/Biography Association
Biennial World Conference: July 11-14, 2018
Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Co-conveners: Suely Quintana, Alberto Ferreira da Rocha, Junior, and Sergio da Silva Barcellos
The co-…[Read more]
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