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Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]
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Emily Friedman deposited “Let people tell their stories their own way”: Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years agoIn the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]
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Ted Laros started the topic CFP for MLA 2023: World Literature from the Global South and Human Rights in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoWorld Literature from the Global South and Human Rights
In light of recent studies on the topic (e.g. Parikh 2019, McClennen and Moore 2016), this panel explores the relations between world literature from the Global South and human rights. 250-500 word abstracts plus CV.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 4 March 2022
Ted Laros, Open Univ of the…[Read more]
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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoThank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, “Life Writing and Cognition” (Sunday) in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoJoin us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655
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Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.
The following sessions will now be held virtually:
Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Presider: Rielle Navitski
A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic Sharing convention materials on the Commons in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello, all,
If you’re looking for more information about how to share your convention materials, this post has details about how to share work in CORE or in Docs. CORE assigns your work a DOI and gives you the option to share the deposit with groups. Work in CORE is publicly accessible–no log-in necessary to read or download. If you want to…[Read more]
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Ted Laros replied to the topic Session on World Literature and Human Rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease see below for a description of the session on “World Literature and Human Rights”:
Session Description:
What is the relation between ‘world literature’ and ‘human rights’? Both notions imply a universalizing gesture, by relying on transcultural aesthetic or literary categories (world literature) or shared moral values (human rights)…[Read more]
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Christine Holbo replied to the topic Panel at MLA 2022: Representing Race in Law and Literature in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoAttached are the abstracts for the Representing Race in Law and Literature panel…
284AV Representing Race in Law and Literature
Virtual Session at MLA 2022, 12 pm on January 7
Representing Race in Law and Literature
In recent decades, scholarship across diverse fields has converged on the question of how legal and literary forms conspire to pr…[Read more]
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Rosi Song started the topic UPDATE: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies Online Panels in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.
Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Forum Sessions in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum. We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.
We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]
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Christine Holbo started the topic Panel at MLA 2022: Representing Race in Law and Literature in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoPlease join us at MLA 2022 for the following session sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:
284AV Representing Race in Law and Literature
Virtual Session
Presiding:
Christine Holbo, Arizona State U, Tempe
Simon Stern, U of Toronto (Zoom Host)
Presentations
Judge Lynch Writes Political Theology: Race and the Law in The Qua…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Canst Thou Draw Out Leviathan with Computational Bibliography? New Angles on Printing Thomas Hobbes’ “Ornaments” Edition in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article attributes one of the three “first” editions of Leviathan to the London printer John Richardson (fl. 1673–1703), revising Noel Malcolm’s attribution to a different printer in the recent Clarendon Edition of Leviathan. We lay out the mystery of Leviathan’s so-called “Ornaments” edition and use evidence from damaged type pieces to say…[Read more]
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William Nichols deposited Telling the story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of convergence and the defense of the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWhile many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm. Specifically, the…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. 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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Susan Larson deposited Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)? in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHow does one understand a filmmaker like José Antonio Nieves Conde, a Falangist whose films with strong neorealist tendencies were radically altered by the Francoist censors for being too critical of the economic injustices inherent to daily urban life after the Spanish Civil War? Many film critics have asked this question and this essay looks…[Read more]
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