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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazons’ Swamp: Elizabeth Gaskell braves her terrors for freedom in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoExploration of how Elizabeth Gaskell uses her textual creation, “Cranford,” to insert a male “bomb” into specifically delineated memories of her pre-adult life, thereby effecting displaced matricide.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazons’ Swamp: Elizabeth Gaskell braves her terrors for freedom in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoExploration of how Elizabeth Gaskell uses her textual creation, “Cranford,” to insert a male “bomb” into specifically delineated memories of her pre-adult life, thereby effecting displaced matricide.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Jo’s March in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoAnalysis of how Jo creates her own femininity, apart from her mother’s, through effectively earning the trust and interest of increasingly impressive paternal imagos.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Jo’s March in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoAnalysis of how Jo creates her own femininity, apart from her mother’s, through effectively earning the trust and interest of increasingly impressive paternal imagos.
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Having Your Beefcake, and Leaving Him Too in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoExploration of how Aphra Behn uses her textual creation “Oronnoko” to engage in a guiltless sexual affair that bypasses all societal and inner-psychic censors.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Weihsin Gui started the topic 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium – Talk on Sonny Liew in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoI’ll be giving a talk on Sonny Liew’s Eisner Award-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye at the 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium, and there are other fascinating talks on graphic novels lined up too. The event takes place on Friday April 12 at the Mandel Humanities Center, Brandeis University.
Below is the program and a link to the BNS web…[Read more]
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Melinda Robb started the topic CFP: Kristeva Circle Conference: Trajectories of Psychoanalysis in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoCall for Papers
The Kristeva Circle, October 3-5, 2019
Trajectories of Psychoanalysis
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Hosts: Noëlle McAfee and Emory University’s
Psychoanalytic Studies ProgramKeynote Speakers:
Emanuela Bianchi, New York University Department of Comparative Literature
Jill Gentile, New York University Postdoctoral Program in…[Read more] -
Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited “Introduzione alla sezione tematica Edifici d’autore. Estetiche e Ideologie nella narrazione dei monumenti, in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis thematic session of the journal is devoted to expressions of creative writing inspired by monuments. Our aim is to understand how and why diverse re/constructions of their specific genesis, descriptions of architectural features, explanations of symbolism, histories of mentors, sponsors and artists generate over/interpretations in the form of…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoStudents learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]
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