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Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago*Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original post. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original message. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Anne Donlon started the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoHello, all,
I’m writing to invite you to join a new group on MLA Commons: Teaching Remotely. The group was created to provide a space for MLA members to build collective resources, share their experiences with one another, and ask questions about teaching remotely.
I thought that members of this Commons group may be interested in—and would h…[Read more]
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Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic CFPs for MLA 2022 from HEP Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues Forum in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
We are excited to share our three CFPs from the HEP Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues Forum for MLA 2022. Please read the details below and submit an abstract and short bio by March 15. We are looking forward to a terrific convention in D.C. and would love for YOU to be a panelist in one of our sessions. Please share these…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Familiar Ambiguity: The Value of the Humanities in a Globalized World,” Signal House 10 (March 2021) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe world needs good question askers as much as it needs good problem solvers. Before solving problems, we need to first identify the problems. Great stories are often strangers at home. The best of them defamiliarize banal experiences and everyday utterances while offering something recognizable through a new language and form.…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Familiar Ambiguity: The Value of the Humanities in a Globalized World,” Signal House 10 (March 2021) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe world needs good question askers as much as it needs good problem solvers. Before solving problems, we need to first identify the problems. Great stories are often strangers at home. The best of them defamiliarize banal experiences and everyday utterances while offering something recognizable through a new language and form.…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Familiar Ambiguity: The Value of the Humanities in a Globalized World,” Signal House 10 (March 2021) in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe world needs good question askers as much as it needs good problem solvers. Before solving problems, we need to first identify the problems. Great stories are often strangers at home. The best of them defamiliarize banal experiences and everyday utterances while offering something recognizable through a new language and form.…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSpecial issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.
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Sujata Iyengar created the doc Calls for Presentations, MLA 2022, from the Exec Committee in the group
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic From the Shakespeare Forum Exec: Calls for Presentations, MLA 2022 in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Exec Committee of the Shakespeare Forum for the Modern Language Association of America announce calls for presentations for three sessions at the annual convention from January 6-9, 2022
Re-Reading “Timon of Athens
What can be done with “Timon of Athens” today? We welcome a range of methodologies and concerns. Send bios, titles, and 100…[Read more]
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Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Old English Forum CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Old English Forum announces these calls for papers for MLA 2022, 6–9 January in Washington, DC.
Session (1) Broken but Wondrous: Finding Hope in Old English Literature
Old English literature is rarely associated with hope – indeed, much of its poetry is littered with the ruins of lost peoples, frozen and desolate landscapes, meditations on…[Read more] -
Lisa A. Freeman started the topic CFP: MLA 2022, Drama and Performance, "CIrcum-Atlantic Drama and Perfomance" in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Drama and Performance Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) announces a sponsored session entitled “Circum-Atlantic Drama and Performance” to be held at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in Washington, DC from January 6 to 9, 2022. We welcome proposals on diverse types of drama and performance in the circum-Atlantic world during any p…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Race, Theory and the Practice of Psychoanalysis in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoGreetings! This message is to announce a CFP for MLA 2022. Please consider submitting an abstract! Please circulate widely!
The concise version is available on the main MLA Convention web site, but an expanded and detailed version is included here:
Race, Theory, and the Practice of Psychoanalysis
- How does the category of race allow for new…
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Rich Willis deposited An emendation of verses in Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander”. in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI suggest an emendation of some of Marlowe’s verses in his tragedy of “Hero and Leander”, published in 1598 as if an “unfinished Tragedy”. The point of my emendation is to develop an approach to an understanding of what Shakespeare has to say about Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander”. For examples in Sonnet 117 Shakespeare tells Henry something about…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Tragedy, Euripides, Melodrama: Hamartia, Medea, Liminality in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis article examines socio-historical dimensions and cultural and dramaturgic implications of the Greek playwright Euripides’ treatment of the myth of Medea. Euripides gives voice to victims of adventurism, aggression and betrayal in the name of ‘reason’ and the ‘state’ or ‘polity.’ Medea constitutes one of the most powerful mythic forces to…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Tragedy, Euripides, Melodrama: Hamartia, Medea, Liminality in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis article examines socio-historical dimensions and cultural and dramaturgic implications of the Greek playwright Euripides’ treatment of the myth of Medea. Euripides gives voice to victims of adventurism, aggression and betrayal in the name of ‘reason’ and the ‘state’ or ‘polity.’ Medea constitutes one of the most powerful mythic forces to…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Care in the Age of Chaucer in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCare in the Age of Chaucer
Premodern care across political, ethical, religious, medical, environmental discourses. Gender, conduct, and responsibility. Consolation and therapy. Justice and reparation. (Un)caring acts and affects. Pastoral, non-Foucauldian, Lordean paradigms. Self and community. Please submit 250-word abstracts to Wan-Chuan Kao…[Read more]
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Ingrid Nelson started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Atmospheric Chaucer in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWhat kinds of atmospheres does Chaucer’s work engage with or create? How can we understand the social, political, ecological, juridical, poetic, sensory, or media atmospheres within which his poetry circulates? To what extent is Chaucerian poetry part of our contemporary atmosphere? How can we engage with premodern and/or modern theories of a…[Read more]
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