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Katherine D. Harris started the topic Guaranteed – MLA 2020 CFP: Recovery from the Margins: Digital Poster Session in the discussion
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoGuaranteed – MLA 2020 CFP: Recovery from the Margins: Digital Poster Session
Well-funded digital archives have energized the field of scholarly editing, yet the recovery of texts by women and people of color has suffered setbacks since the 1990s; in effect, the revitalization of marginal figures has been hampered by a canon that privileges p…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Call for panelists, "Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air" (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
Please consider proposing a paper to the MLA 2020 Panel, “Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air.”
A range of classification schemes proliferated in the long eighteenth century, from casta classifications in the Americas (Carrera, Imagining Identity) to racial, national, and moral classifications of human beings in Europe (Kant, Obs…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow replied to the topic Mentoring Opportunities: Professional Development with CLCS 18th C. Forum in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoUpdate: we’ve started a googlesheet to sign up. Please feel free to enter your information here, either to volunteer to mentor or to be matched with a mentor:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_zAqjmkOkgqqF7P0u0R35JFSb2ue1qh-F3LHkutGlc/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks!
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Mentoring Opportunities: Professional Development with CLCS 18th C. Forum in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
The MLA is looking for ways to improve year-round engagement in the forums, and it has identified professional development as a critical area of need for many of our members. If you would be willing to mentor another member of the CLCS 18th-C. forum, please reply to this post here or email Allison Bigelow at…[Read more]
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Laura L. Runge started the topic Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century in the discussion
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoMLA 2019 LLC Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
Sunday January 6, 2019: 10:15-11:30 AM, Randolph 2 (Hyatt Regency Chicago)
Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century
Session Chair: Laura L. Runge, University of South Florida
“Before We Were Normal: Disability and Aesthetics in the Early Eighteenth C…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoI look to the ways material text studies might be prompted by, and improve upon, thinking in new materialism. The result is that paper could be read for how histories and narratives seep into the paper record and require accounts of agentic materiality lest they be lost or muted. In what follows, I use stories about rag paper as points of…[Read more]
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Rachael King deposited “Interloping with my Question-Project”: John Dunton’s and Daniel Defoe’s Epistolary Periodicals in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis article revisits the under-appreciated connection between John Dunton and Daniel Defoe in the context of their epistolary periodicals, the Athenian Mercury and the Review. While the wide-scale use of reader letters in early periodicals has been acknowledged if not fully appreciated in contemporary scholarship, each author devoted copious…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic Call for essay contributions for a volume on "Protest in the Long 18th Century" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoEighteenth century popular protest and resistance included not only riots which resulted from the rising prices of bread and other food staples in England, France, and Spain, but also those triggered by “new” policies on hats and coats, as well as riots and executions brought about from the displeasure with foreign competition. We invite ess…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoIn a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Blake and the Black Newspaper in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA contribution to a forum on Martin Delany, Blake; Or the Huts of America, ed. Jerome Mcgann.
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion
Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago<b>The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures</b>
The Global South has challenged Eurocentric narratives; what of the Global (Extreme) North? Colonial encounters; environmental extremes; imperial and indigenous literatures in the Arctic.
200-word abstract and CV or brief bio to Rebecca Stanton (rjs19@columbia.edu) by <b>March 18.</b>(Sponsored by…[Read more]
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