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Raúl Coronado started the topic CFP: Latina/o Materialisms in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract for a panel on Latina/o Materialisms.
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of writing.
Send CV and 300 word abstract by 15 March 2016; Raúl Coronado (…[Read more]
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Josef Raab started the topic CFP: Inter-American Studies Conference on "Human Rights in the Americas" in the discussion
Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will be held at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is on “Human Rights in the Americas.”
The conference organizers have decided to extend the deadline for submitting proposals for papers…[Read more]
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Josef Raab started the topic New Deadline: Inter-American Studies Conference "Human Rights in the Americas" in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will hold its Fourth Biennial Conference at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is on “Human Rights in the Americas.” Keynote addresses will be given by Professor Lisa Hajjar (UCSB), Professor David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal Call for Submissions: Latina/o(s) and the Politics of Language in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDeadline July 1, 2016
Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures invites submissions for our Spring 2017 issue, “The Politics of Language.” This issue will explore language as an instrument of power, identity, and politics from multiple disciplinary perspectives. We welcome submissions that, collectively, convey the linguistic dive…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic CFP: (MLA 2017) US Latino/a Performance in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA 2017 Proposed Special Session
“Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”
This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Bro…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Re-visioning Romantic-Era Gothicism: An Introduction to Key Works and Themes in the Study of H.P. Lovecraft in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoHoward Phillips Lovecraft was an author, letter writer and poet who lived between 1890 and 1937. His works blend science fiction with Gothic themes. Lovecraft was, by the majority of accounts (including his own), a bad writer. He was also an outspoken racist for the majority of his life to a degree which makes much of his work, to a modern reader,…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Extended Deadline for 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoExtended Deadline!
Call for Papers
The 21st Summer Meeting
of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
June 2-5, 2016
The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
During an extended period of self-imposed isolation following his graduation from Bowdoin, Hawthorne embarked on a tour of New England and the Hudson Valley. In 1832, he visited Burlington,…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal Book & Film Reviews in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoChiricú Journal is seeking reviewers for our first issue on Latina/o film. We have several books and films available for review. Please see our review page (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/chiricu/pages/view/reviews) for more information and contact our issue editor, Jonathan Risner (jtrisner@indiana.edu) to request a review copy.
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic CFP w/ extended deadline for Hawthorne ALA panels in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago*Extended Deadlines!*
Calls for Papers: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Sessions, American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016.
“Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood”
Proposals for papers on the topic of “Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood” are sought for a Nathaniel Hawthorne Society session at the American Literature Associat…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal Call for Submissions: Extended Deadline 1/15/2016 in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe Latino Studies Program at Indiana University and the Indiana University Press announce an extended deadline for the inaugural issue of Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. A new venue for Latina/o humanities, our Fall 2016 issue will focus on Latina/o film, including all aspects of artistic production, repr…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century literature group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED (FEB 15): Call for Nominations — Latina/o Studies Association in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Latina/o Studies Association organizing committee, the members of the election committee invite nominations for the Founding Executive Council of LSA.
The Founding Executive Council will establish the structures necessary for the incorporation of the Latina/o Studies Association as a national org…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic Book — Call for essays in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Members of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century literature group:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting essays on working women in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century American literature. The volume will focus on the American working woman and how…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic Sustainability and Population in American Literary History in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSpecial Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying ecocritical topics, demography in literature, race, reproduction, or other American literary topics. The panel is on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in 116 VCC West. More information about the panelists and papers can b…[Read more]
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