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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Job posting: Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe Department of Religion and the Medical Humanities Program at Montclair State University seeks an Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities.
Job Description
The Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities will teach and conduct research at the intersections of religion/culture and medicine/healthcare, such as…[Read more]
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Lorenzo Servitje started the topic TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
My name is Lorenzo Servitje, and I am assistant professor of literature and medicine at Lehigh University. I work in the English Department and the Health, Medicine, and Society Program. I am running for the TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum because I am committed to fostering the development, community, and…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Commemoration: The Cultural Politics of Locating Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare.” Asian Theatre Journal 36.2 (Fall 2019): 275-280 in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCultural memory is actively constructed through embodied and political performances. Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare, two “national poets” of unequal global stature, have recently become vehicles for British and Chinese cultural diplomacy and exchange during their quatercentenary in 2016. The culture of commemoration is a key factor in Tang’s…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Commemoration: The Cultural Politics of Locating Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare.” Asian Theatre Journal 36.2 (Fall 2019): 275-280 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCultural memory is actively constructed through embodied and political performances. Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare, two “national poets” of unequal global stature, have recently become vehicles for British and Chinese cultural diplomacy and exchange during their quatercentenary in 2016. The culture of commemoration is a key factor in Tang’s…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic Forum Exec Ctte Election — Christopher Lupke Statement in the discussion
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues:
I am running for the TC Anthropology and Literature Forum Exec Ctte and am asking for your vote! Here is a little information about me. As a Chinese specialist, I may be unfamiliar to most of you but I’ve actually been a member of the MLA for 30 years and now am a Life Member. I am Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies and Chair…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “King Lear on the small screen and its pedagogical implications,” in Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear, ed. Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAs a work that survives and appears in more than one form, King Lear has a vexing problem of interpretation and a rich opportunity for the study of textual and cultural variants. The play begins with an aging monarch staging a fantastical, paradoxical final act as a king. It lures us toward a final act of interpretation to nail down the nature of…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “King Lear on the small screen and its pedagogical implications,” in Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear, ed. Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAs a work that survives and appears in more than one form, King Lear has a vexing problem of interpretation and a rich opportunity for the study of textual and cultural variants. The play begins with an aging monarch staging a fantastical, paradoxical final act as a king. It lures us toward a final act of interpretation to nail down the nature of…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Policy Analysis: Follow-Up Care for Refugees in Massachusetts in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoWhat actions should the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI) undertake to ensure proper follow-up for identified physical and mental health issues among Muslim refugees?
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Melanie Jones started the topic CFP: Mad Scholars Anthology in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoRecently, there has been an avalanche of news articles about spikes in mental illness on campus. Seminal works like Margaret Price’s Mad at School (2011) have begun to expose the ableism inherent in the university and prompted more open discussion surrounding the politics of disclosure.
As interest in this crucial topic grows, we are seeking o…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Jenna Kober deposited ‘The Individual and the Cultural Environment’ Conceptual Unit Featuring The Awakening in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Individual and the Cultural Environment Conceptual Unit Overarching Enduring Understanding: The relationship between the individual and society Overarching Essential Question: How does society influence the individual?
Unit Objectives: -My students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the motifs and symbols in the unit’s core te…[Read more] -
Thomas Mazanec deposited Righting, Riting, and Rewriting the Book of Odes (Shijing): On “Filling out the MIssing Odes” by Shu Xi in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA series of derivative verses from the late-third century has pride of place in one of the foundational collections of Chinese poetry. These verses, “Filling out the Missing Odes” by Shu Xi, can be found at the beginning of the lyric-poetry (shi 詩) section of the Wenxuan. This essay seeks to understand why such blatantly imitative pieces may have…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Ophelia Unbound in Asian Performances.” Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 37 (2019): 1-12 in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAsian directors leverage Shakespeare’s own propensity to undermine dominant ideologies of gender—notably through the Ophelia figure—in their effort to renew Asian performance traditions. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? How does Ophelia become “unbound” through supraling…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited Introduction in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIntroduction to “Digital Methods and Traditional Chinese Literary Studies,” a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture.
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Tom Mazanec deposited Networks of Exchange Poetry in Late Medieval China: Notes toward a Dynamic History of Tang Literature in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis article combines qualitative and quantitative methods to rethink the literary history of late medieval China (830–960 CE). It begins with an overview of exchange poetry in the Tang dynasty and its role in the construction of the poetic subject, namely, the poetic subject’s distributed textual body. A total of 10,869 poems exchanged between 2…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Lupe’s Story: Lupe Gallardo Marshall @ the Memorial Day Massacre (Republic Steel) 1937 in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoPages from a local East Chicago, IN, publication commemorating the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre at South Chicago’s Republic Steel. Lupe Gallardo Marshall (Mexican immigrant social worker at Hull House) gave this testimony to the La Follette Committee of Congress investigating the events of that day, May 30, 1937.
I am thinking about writing a…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Cancer and Comic Books: Distinguishing the Subgenre [Poster] in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoFor at least the last twenty years, scholarly attention has been drawn to the numerous depictions of cancer in comic books as well as oncology’s use of the comics medium (Rhode and Connor, 2012). However, little in the way of comprehensive analysis has been attempted, especially in terms of the various genres addressed. In this presentation, a ca…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Diagnosis Deafness in Cancer Comics in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoA brief piece on what I call “diagnosis deafness.” In short, to depict the sudden disorientation and shock of being diagnosed with cancer, comics artists frequently employ a visual rhetoric usually reserved for instances of deafness. At least momentarily – during an immensely significant moment in the life of the character – words fail, dev…[Read more]
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