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Patrick Whitmarsh replied to the topic Science Fiction Readers Demographics in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoGreat topic, and good comments!
I may be incorrect, but I feel as though the stigma against SF in literature departments is gradually decreasing, especially since publications like Carl Freedman’s Critical Theory and Science Fiction and Fredric Jameson’s Archaeologies of the Future. That said, I certainly agree that we still see the effects of…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Science Fiction Readers Demographics in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoHello,
I have the history that explains this bias. In Victorian London, Henry James took up H. G. Wells and hoped to mentor the younger man, even collaborate on a Mars novel. When Wells–a Cockney from a lower social strata–chafed at the great man image that James cultivated and (horrors!) parodied James in his novel Boon, James broke off t…[Read more]
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Cindy Smith started the topic Science Fiction Readers Demographics in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoScience Fiction and Fantasy readers traditionally range from the well educated to the very well educated and coincidentally from the highly intelligent to the very highly intelligent. According to some figures I’ve read, around 50% of sff readers have a Bachelor’s degree or higher and around 25% have graduate degrees. These figures, of course, d…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Dramatic Monologue Panel & Trends in Literature for Children Panel for AWP 2015 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Friends,
I’m organizing two panels for the AWP ((Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference in Minneapolis in 2015 (April 8-11, 2015): 1) The Dramatic Monologue in Current Poetry and 2) Recent Trends in Literature for Children. The application deadline is May 1, 2014. Are you willing to be on these panels? If so, please let me…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Dramatic Monologue Panel & Trends in Literature for Children Panel for AWP 2015 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Friends,
I’m organizing two panels for the AWP Conference in Minneapolis in 2015 (April 8-11, 2015): 1) The Dramatic Monologue in Current Poetry and 2) Recent Trends in Literature for Children. The application deadline is May 1, 2014. Are you willing to be on these panels? If so, please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you for your c…[Read more]
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Michelle B. Slater started the topic Mayapple Center is offering a summer course taught by Deak Nabors in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDeak Nabors, “The Aesthetic Tradition of Perpetual War”
August 11-15th at the Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities, Stamford, CT ($1200.00 includes tuition ($800) and room & board ($400.00) Apply now at mayapplecenter.slideroom.com
Commentators have longed noted that the United States has remained more or less persistently at war since…[Read more]
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Eric Aronoff posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2015: Collaborative Session, Discussion Group for Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature and Division for Slavic and East European Literatures
From Siberia to the Planet Mars
Papers should analyze science fiction narratives produced in Russia, Eurasia, Eastern Europe, in any medium: literature, television, film, etc.…[Read more] -
Eric Aronoff posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2015, Discussion Group in Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature
Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation?…[Read more] -
David Palmer started the topic CFP MLA 2015: "Arthur Miller: Reflections on the American Dream" in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago2015 is the centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth. As part of the celebration of this event, the Arthur Miller Society is organizing a session at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver on a central theme in Miller’s literary work and his career as a public intellectual: the elusiveness of the American Dream, the Dream’s foundations in what often are…[Read more]
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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies Association (Nov. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA) in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference. We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions. The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 6-9, 2014. Hosted by D…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoAnd here is that good article in the University of Arizona newspaper with the abysmal photo…
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2014/01/exhibit-links-sci-fi-and-the-arts
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoSorry about the typo. OBVIOUSLY it is ARIZONA, not Atizona…
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere is more for college instructors planning curriculum…
The library display is called “Mars Madness: Sci-Fi, Popular Culture and Ray Bradbury’s Literary Journey
to Outer Space”and it opens on January 21st-though August. I am guest curating this exhibit for them.We are opening an interdisciplinary display about science fiction writer Ray B…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic Deadline Extended CFP: Pauline Hopkins in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more] -
Gerry Canavan started the topic CFP: SFRA at WisCon in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere’s the CFP for this year’s meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, which will convene at the WisCon feminist fan convention in Madison, WI. The deadline is February 1.
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Benjamin Mangrum started the topic 75th Anniversary of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
Several faculty and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently launched Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics (http://ethosreview.org). This digital project, which is supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, features weekly essays abou…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic CFPs: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<b>Call for Papers</b>
<b>American Literature Association</b>
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill
<b>Sessions Sponsored By</b>
<b>The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society</b>
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<b>Panel 1: Pauline Hopkins and </b><b>Washington</b><b> </b><b>D.C.</b>
As a writer with a keen interest in national…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI would like to invite anyone interested in theater, psychological or philosophical issues in literature, narratology, or cognitive approaches to literary analysis to consider attending the following MLA special-session round-table discussion sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society. We plan to allow at least 25 minutes of this 75-minute session for…[Read more]