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Letitia Ileana Guran started the topic CFP MLA 2017–reading Eastern Europe Digitally in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2017
Reading Eastern Europe Digitally: Promises for the New Millennium
What does the Digital Age hold in store for Eastern European cultures? In an era dominated by the opening of secret archives, by an intense re-writing of the socialist past, the opportunities offered by a wide dissemination of texts and works of art too long hidden…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Volume on Teaching Karen Tei Yamashita: Survey and CFP in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) and help shape a new volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017 Division Forum. You are encouraged to submit to…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey (use link above). Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Please note that this Survey and CFP is in addition to the…[Read more]
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Final CFP for 2017 MLA: Collaborative in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Intimacies of Four Continents: Crossing Boundaries, Disciplines, Archives
Engagements with Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents. Assessments, critiques, possibilities for new approaches, archives, connections. 250 word abstract and one-page CV by 15 March 2016.
Jeehyun Lim (limj@denison.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic REVISION: CFP's for 2017 MLA in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoBlack Pacific
Intersections of African, Asian, indigenous diasporas across the Pacific. Literary/cultural mappings and imaginings of cross-racial interaction, settler colonialism, labor migration, militarism, gender and sexuality. Abstract and CV by March 11.
Ira Dworkin (idworkin@tamu.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Forum CFP's for 2017 MLA Convention in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoLatina/o Indigenous Pacific
Intersections of Latina/o and Indigenous production and identity within, around and through the Pacific Rim. Conversations, re-imaginings and re-formations across shared and divergent spaces and histories. Abstract and CV by March 11.
Anna Nogar (anogar@unm.edu) and Ruby Tapia (rtapia@umich.edu)
Writing (…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoUnbounded: David Huerta’s Incurable at 30
Special Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).
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Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o Forum CFP's in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.
1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of wr…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla started the topic CFPs: MLA 2017 Chicana/o Lit Forum in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“Liberty Crack’d”
What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).
2. “La Raza y Gaza”
Papers engaging the political resonances of Palesti…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoA video essay about title sequences from films by Alfred Hitchcock and David Fincher. An exploration of motion graphic design from analog to digital.
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoA video essay about title sequences from films by Alfred Hitchcock and David Fincher. An exploration of motion graphic design from analog to digital.
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Stefanie Harris started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German
Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines
Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more p…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic CFPs: MLA 2017 Italian American Lit Forum in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoSee below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed.
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017.Taking a cue from the presidential co…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic LLA Italian American CFPs for MLA 2017 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoPlease see below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
DigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People
The Italian American Literature Forum is seeking panelists to present transmedia perspectives and projects (oral histories, photos, artifacts, home movies etc.) on the Italian…[Read more] -
Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis primer in “cognitive cultural studies” explores the cultural fantasy of perfect access to mind through body. It shows that different genres and media—movies, novels, classic Chinese operas, medieval ribald tales, musicals, paintings, documentaries, stand-up comedy, and photography—have different strategies for making us think that we have ju…[Read more]
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