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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: A New Podcast that puts critics and novelists in conversation. in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoNovel Dialogue is a new podcast, co-hosted by John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde, and available for free subscription from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Sponsored by the Society for Novel Studies and partnered with NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, we bring a literary critic and novelist into conversation to talk about how novels are made and what to…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: A New Podcast that puts critics and novelists in conversation. in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoNovel Dialogue is a new podcast, co-hosted by John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde, and available for free subscription from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Sponsored by the Society for Novel Studies and partnered with NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, we bring a literary critic and novelist into conversation to talk about how novels are made and what to…[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 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 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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yasser elhariry started the topic The Black Mediterranean / CFP / MLA 2022 Guaranteed Session in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers
MLA Annual Convention
6–9 January 2022
Washington DC
Guaranteed Forum Session
Sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean
The Black Mediterranean
Michelle Murray (Vanderbilt University), presiding
The subordinations of racial disparity, conflict, and death are persistent traits of the Mediterranean and its d…[Read more]
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Andrew C. Parker deposited Derrida and Victorian Studies – slides for roundtable discussion in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis is the PowerPoint presentation to accompany my comments for the Theoretical Foundations of Victorian Studies roundtable on January 7, 2021.
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George Phillips deposited Are trees forms? On formalism, material feminism, and historical literature in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis essay draws on formalist cultural studies and material feminism to argue for a new approach in modernist studies, which I call formalist materialism, an approach that reads ecological forms alongside aesthetic forms. Such an approach may have distinct advantages. Formalist materialism illuminates a new direction for formalists by connecting…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Sessions! in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoIf you’re at MLA, I hope to see you at the TC Adaptation Studies Forum-sponsored panels later this week!
(Apologies for the strange formatting below!)–Julie Grossman (current chair, TC Adaptation Studies MLA Forum Executive Board)
- Streaming Adaptation: How Stories Adapt, How We Adapt on 7 January 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Presider: Julie…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Muriel Spark’s Italian palimpsests in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoItaly was Muriel Spark’s elective country of residence for 40 years, the first decade of which, from 1967, when she settled in Rome, till the end of the 70s, represented one of the most contradictory and yet intellectually fertile periods of Italian modern history. Notwithstanding such long-lasting and meaningful bond, explicitly represented in a…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]
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Dennis Denisoff started the topic Election for the Victorian and Early-Twentieth Century Forum in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Thank you for considering me for the position on the Executive Committee of the Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. The MLA has supported and inspired me since I was a graduate student in the queer ’90s, and I would greatly appreciate this opportunity to serve the MLA and its members in return—especially in add…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay started the topic MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to stand for election to the Executive Committee of the MLA’s Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. A role on that Committee demands real attention to a host of responsibilities, chief among them the responsibility to ensure that all of the Forum’s convention panels, roundtables, and workshops refle…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. 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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Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman replied to the topic MLA Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCongrats on your nomination, Katherine! I am so happy to learn about your interesting work, and very much look forward to meeting (in whatever form) before too long! All best wishes, Julie Grossman
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Katherine Gillen replied to the topic MLA Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHi everyone! I’m also candidate for the Adaptation Forum’s executive committee, so I wanted to introduce myself. I’m honored to have been nominated alongside Joyce, whose work I greatly admire!
I teach Shakespeare, early modern lit, and drama at Texas A&M University–San Antonio, and I emphasize adaptation/appropriation throughout these cour…[Read more]
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Liam Lanigan started the topic Executive Committee Election: Liam Lanigan in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA chairde,
I’m very pleased and honoured to have been nominated for election to the Irish forum executive committee. This Fall I was appointed Assistant Professor of British and European Literature at Governors State University in Chicago, having spent the last two years as a VAP at Texas Woman’s University. Previously I was the NEH Keough…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman replied to the topic MLA Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoExcited about your nomination, Joyce–and thank you for your interest in expanding adaptation studies within the MLA! All best wishes, Julie Grossman
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Joyce Green MacDonald started the topic MLA Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoGreetings, everyone. I’ve been nominated as a candidate for the Adaptation Studies executive committee, and wanted to introduce myself to all members.
I teach Shakespeare and other early modern topics at the University of Kentucky. My work on race in Shakespeare studies has largely focused on adaptation; my most recent book is Shakespearean…[Read more]
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