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Sarah Allen started the topic UPDATED UPDATED Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease note new deadline of 2/1 for proposal submissions, with apologies for the confusion!!
The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic UPDATED Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic UPDATED Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]
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Jack W. Chen started the topic Executive Forum Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years agoP14 Chinese Forum members, we are in the process of soliciting nominations for the forum executive committee. We are particularly interested in midlevel senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world literary methodologies. Please send all nominations, including…[Read more]
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Jack W. Chen started the topic Executive Forum Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years agoP14 Chinese Forum members, we are in the process of soliciting nominations for the forum executive committee. We are particularly interested in midlevel senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world literary methodologies. Please send all nominations, including…[Read more]
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Jessica DeSpain started the topic TM Teaching of Literature Forum Delegate in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAs the convention approaches, the Teaching of Literature Forum is seeking a new delegate. If you would like to participate or if you have any suggestions for someone who would be a good fit, please share them here. If you have questions, you can share them here or email me at jdespai@siue.edu.
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Amanda Boomershine started the topic 2023 General Linguistics Forum: in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoWe’d like to invite you to Session 269 on January 6 at 12pm via Zoom to hear presentations on Language in Society: Issues of Equity & Access.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Molly D. Appel deposited Syllabus for Digital Humanities and Early Latinx Literatures in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoLatinx/o/a writing has existed long before 20th century state policies and publishing markets created the category we recognize today as “Latino/a literature.” This course will focus on the literary and cultural production of writers from the era of initial colonization through Latin American independence and the 19th century actions fueled by the…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Anti-Asian Racist Misogyny in Science Fiction Films.” The American Mosaic: The Asian American Experience (Bloomsbury ABC-CLIO, 2022). Digital Database in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe depiction of women of East Asian descent in science fiction films reveals how racial hierarchies are mapped onto, and used as justification for, mistreatment of women—and misogynistic prejudices inform racism. Contributing to the patterns that dehumanize Asian women are multiple sci-fi films that feature cyborgs and androids in Asian female b…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoOceans and Empires: Sinophone Crossroads in Global Space and Time
The 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies <https://www.sinophonestudies.org/s3conference>
5/12—5/14/2023
Penn State University
The Sinophone world that is invigorated by “multisensory protests” and “ally-ship” (the focus of the 2021 conference) al…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology, 1987-2007, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Palgrave, 2022) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoShakespeare’s Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, three of the most frequently adapted tragedies, have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China for over two centuries as political theatre, comedic parody, Chinese opera, and avant-garde theatre. Gender roles in the plays take on new meanings when they are e…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television,” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19.1 (March 2022): 167-180. in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism, this article analyzes the manifestation of the ideas of yellow peril and yel…[Read more]
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Anita Savo started the topic CFP for New England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoNew England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies
October 8, 2022
Colby College
Waterville, METhis conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern ecologies and their literary historical representations, as well as their material…[Read more]
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