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Sujata Iyengar deposited “Decolonizing” Milton and Spenser through Diasporic Interpreters in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoDescribes and provides examples of modules and assignments for a sophomore Brit Lit survey and an upper-division poetics class that responded to student demands for a more racially diverse canon. Includes a brief discussion of Lucius Henry Holsey, enslaved worker on the UGA campus, who claimed to have learned to read from Milton’s Paradise Lost…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited “Decolonizing” Milton and Spenser through Diasporic Interpreters in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoDescribes and provides examples of modules and assignments for a sophomore Brit Lit survey and an upper-division poetics class that responded to student demands for a more racially diverse canon. Includes a brief discussion of Lucius Henry Holsey, enslaved worker on the UGA campus, who claimed to have learned to read from Milton’s Paradise Lost…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited “Decolonizing” Milton and Spenser through Diasporic Interpreters in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoDescribes and provides examples of modules and assignments for a sophomore Brit Lit survey and an upper-division poetics class that responded to student demands for a more racially diverse canon. Includes a brief discussion of Lucius Henry Holsey, enslaved worker on the UGA campus, who claimed to have learned to read from Milton’s Paradise Lost…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited “Decolonizing” Milton and Spenser through Diasporic Interpreters on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
Describes and provides examples of modules and assignments for a sophomore Brit Lit survey and an upper-division poetics class that responded to student demands for a more racially diverse canon. Includes a brief discussion of Lucius Henry Holsey, enslaved worker on the UGA campus, who claimed to have learned to read from Milton’s Paradise Lost…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Never Have I Ever…Written 2000 words about a Second of Shakespeare on Screen (Preprint) on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
This short note demonstrates how the hit Neftlix comedy, _Never Have I Ever_, created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher and starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi Vishwakumar, “wittily extends and conforms to the popular conventions of high-school streaming television–including an obligatory episode that subtly appropriates _Romeo and Juliet._”
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Seminar paper for World Shakespeare Congress, New Approaches to Book History, adapted from/cut from forthcoming essay, “Conversations Across Time and Space: Early Modern Printed Books and Contemporary Artists’ Books.” Juxtaposes early modern how-to or portable reference books — ready-reckoners or almanacs, herbals and herbaria, astronomical…[Read more]
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This paper, “Channeling Hamlet,” considers how audio Shakespeares such as radio broadcasts mean differently: when remediated as an a digital recording of Sir John Gielgud playing Hamlet in a storied broadcast from 1948 (the so-called “entirety” Hamlet), a later recording (1957) of Gielgud’s Hamlet with the cast of the Old Vic on vinyl LP, or s…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Race Thinking in Margaret Cavendish’s Drama on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
This essay uses an intersectional approach to identify in the drama of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the patterns that Hannah Arendt called “race thinking” and to extend Arendt’s approach backwards in time as early as the seventeenth century. Famously, Cavendish — poet, playwright, personality– prided herself on her “sing…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Peter Frase’s Four Futures, Malka Older’s Infomocracy, and Some Futures for the Humanities (with maybe a little Shakespeare thrown in) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoI briefly survey the function of books, written artifacts, literary criticism and connoisseurship/curation in apocalyptic literature from Mary Shelley to Malka Older (with a nod to the Book of Revelation) and in contemporary Young Adult fiction and “cli-fi” — science fiction and fantasy centered around climate change, such as Kim Stanley…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Peter Frase’s Four Futures, Malka Older’s Infomocracy, and Some Futures for the Humanities (with maybe a little Shakespeare thrown in) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoI briefly survey the function of books, written artifacts, literary criticism and connoisseurship/curation in apocalyptic literature from Mary Shelley to Malka Older (with a nod to the Book of Revelation) and in contemporary Young Adult fiction and “cli-fi” — science fiction and fantasy centered around climate change, such as Kim Stanley…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Peter Frase’s Four Futures, Malka Older’s Infomocracy, and Some Futures for the Humanities (with maybe a little Shakespeare thrown in) on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months ago
I briefly survey the function of books, written artifacts, literary criticism and connoisseurship/curation in apocalyptic literature from Mary Shelley to Malka Older (with a nod to the Book of Revelation) and in contemporary Young Adult fiction and “cli-fi” — science fiction and fantasy centered around climate change, such as Kim Stanley…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Journal of a Plague Year: Six Voices from American Universities. Part I in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis is the UNEDITED PRE-PRINT of my section of the multi-authored article “Journal of a Plague Year: Six Voices from American Universities,” ed. Christa Jansohn, which appeared in _Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen_. The other authors were Andrew James Hartley, Jean Howard, Christoph Irmscher, Anthony Lioi, and Lisa S.…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Journal of a Plague Year: Six Voices from American Universities. Part I in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis is the UNEDITED PRE-PRINT of my section of the multi-authored article “Journal of a Plague Year: Six Voices from American Universities,” ed. Christa Jansohn, which appeared in _Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen_. The other authors were Andrew James Hartley, Jean Howard, Christoph Irmscher, Anthony Lioi, and Lisa S.…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Journal of a Plague Year: Six Voices from American Universities. Part I in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis is the UNEDITED PRE-PRINT of my section of the multi-authored article “Journal of a Plague Year: Six Voices from American Universities,” ed. Christa Jansohn, which appeared in _Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen_. The other authors were Andrew James Hartley, Jean Howard, Christoph Irmscher, Anthony Lioi, and Lisa S.…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar replied to the topic "Who Owns Shakespeare?" roundtable accepted for MLA 2022 in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe message DID come through here, Sharon, despite the “Gateway 504 Error” you emailed me about (I always get one of those when I try to upload anything or do anything on this site, but I think/hope “they” are working on it).
Speaking as myself here and not as Secretary —
I don’t know the details of the Mills College Folio…but the larger…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Journal of a Plague Year: Six Voices from American Universities. Part I on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
This is the UNEDITED PRE-PRINT of my section of the multi-authored article “Journal of a Plague Year: Six Voices from American Universities,” ed. Christa Jansohn, which appeared in _Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen_. The other authors were Andrew James Hartley, Jean Howard, Christoph Irmscher, Anthony Lioi, and Lisa S.…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic "Who Owns Shakespeare?" roundtable accepted for MLA 2022 in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoI encourage you all to share in this admittedly very annoying space (curse you, “Gateway 504 Error”!) any Shax-related MLA sessions for 2022 in which you’re involved. I’m starting us off — the roundtable I proposed for the LLC, “Who Owns Shakespeare?” has been accepted and I link below to the abstracts for the panelists’ “lightning presentations”…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic Your Friendly Neighborhood LLC Shax Forum Secretary: AMA (Ask Me Anything) in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoOpen thread for anyone curious about what it’s like being on the LLC Shax Forum Committee! If I don’t know the answer to your question, I know whom to ask to find out!
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