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Andrea R. Malone replied to the topic CFP for MLA Convention 2024 in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoTo clarify, this session is sponsored by the Libraries and Research forum.
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Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Call for Abstracts on Global Englishes for MLA 2024 in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am writing to share a CFP for an upcoming MLA panel sponsored by the Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Global English. This forum has a guaranteed panel for the next MLA Convention, which will be January 4–7, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 250-word abstracts are due by March 15 and we will respond before April 1. <…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSee attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.
“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores tra…[Read more]
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Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Nominations for the Executive Committee of LSL Global English in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear Colleagues,
It’s that time of year, when MLA forums collect nominations (including self-nominations) for future Executive Committee members. If you would be interested in being on the LSL Global English forum’s Executive Committee from January 2024-January 2029, or if you know someone who could be a good fit, please email me with any…[Read more]
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Habiba Ibrahim started the topic Self-Nominations & Suggestions | TC Race & Ethnicity Studies Forum EC in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoEvery year, Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. This year, the Race and Ethnicity Studies Forum executive committee seeks self-nominations and suggestions for a new committee member from our membership so as to allow for broad participation. Our hope is that broad participation will ensure diversity of…[Read more]
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David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group
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David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group
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John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoBased in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]
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John Gruesser deposited Poe’s Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in “Hop-Frog” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAs I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]
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John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) Text in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoBased in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in…[Read more]
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John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) PowerPoint in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoBased in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic 3 tenure-track jobs: Afro-Brazil, Black Diasporas, Race & Indigeneity (UVA) in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Please help spread the word about 3 tenure-track positions related to race and ethnicity at UVA. I am on the search committee for the first two, Afro Brazilian Studies and Black Diasporas of the Américas, and am happy to take questions about both positions. I’ve been asked to share the third link (Race & Indigeneity,…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza deposited Wer ist hier der Feind? Verbündete und Gegner in Alexander Solschenizyns Darstellung von Deutschland in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was known mainly for his work on the Soviet prison camps. In many of his fictional and non-fiction works, however, Solzhenitsyn dealt with the subject of Germany. This article analyses Solzhenitsyn’s depiction of Germany in the works August 1914, The Gulag A…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza deposited Helena. La soledad en el laberinto. Epistolario de Helena Laura Paz Garro y Ernst Jünger, por: Elsa Margarita Schwarz Gasque y María del Carmen Vázquez Martínez, ISBN: 9786078706433, Ediciones del Lirio, 2020. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis is a book review that evaluates the Spanish-language edition of the letters written by the Mexican poet Helena Paz Garro to the German writer Ernst Jünger, which were originally written in French. The reviewer had access to the original letters in the German Literature Archive in Germany and she compares the original texts with the…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Job Post: Visiting Assistant Prof of English in Multi-Ethnic Literature in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
Please share this job post with your networks!
Many thanks,
Elena
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Bucknell University’s English Department seeks to hire a visiting assistant professor of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US. The one-year r…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoKathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Redesigning Modernities Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of t…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Rachel Floyd started the topic Dissertation Research on Professional Development in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello! My name is Rachel Floyd and I’m currently working on my dissertation research in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. I’m researching the current professional learning needs of recent alumni from graduate foreign language programs, including those no longer in academia. Would you be interested in sup…[Read more]
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Chantelle Warner started the topic Seeking Nominations for New Executive Committee Members: LSL Applied Linguistics in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 4 years agoThanks to all who attended our panels this past week. Please also join me in thanking Joshua Thoms, our outgoing LSL Applied Linguistics forum president, who did much of the work organizing and coordinating those talks.
On behalf of my colleagues on the Executive Committee, I am writing to solicit nominations (including self-nominations) for a…[Read more] - Load More
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