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Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear Colleagues,
Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:
41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement
Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Presiding: Dana A. Wil…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear Colleagues,
Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:
41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement
Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Presiding: Dana A. Williams, How…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Af. Am. Interrogations of American National Narratives in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAfrican American Interrogations of American National Narratives: how do African American texts (e.g. Morrison’s Playing in the Dark, Paradise, or A Mercy) question the stability of American mythologies? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to thabiti@wsu.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Nat Turner: From Confessions to Film in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoNat Turner: From Confessions to Film: How do various media re-imagine black rebellion/revolt as related to the 1831 “Confessions,” Styron’s 1967 novel, and/or Nate Parker’s film “Birth of a Nation”? 250-word abstracts, CV to miriam-thaggert@uiowa.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Contemporary African American Theatre in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoContemporary African American Theatre: what critical conversations and new directions must emerge to sustain the vitality of African American theatre and performance and our understanding of its role in society? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to d_williams@howard.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic Announcing the American Literature Society in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAnnouncing the American Literature Society
On behalf of the Advisory Board, I am pleased to announce the American Literature Society, a professional organization of scholars devoted to the preservation, study and recognition of American literature and culture. Formerly known as the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MELUS CFP – 21st Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMELUS Call for Papers
Special Issue: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures(A commemorative special issue in honor of MELUS Emeritus Editor Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.)
Guest Editors: A Yęmisi Jimoh and Angelo Robinson
Deadline for submission: 31 August 2016
Anticipated publication: 2018
With more than a decade and a half…[Read more]
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LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years agoAttendees at the LLC African American Cash Bar
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LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years agoRiche Richardson, Lisa B. Thompson, and Angela Ards
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LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years agoLLC African American members re-connected at the cash bar during MLA 2016.
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Miriam Thaggert's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years ago
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
As many of you will have heard, Resolution 2014-1 got 60% of the votes cast but did not reach the minimum of 10% of the total membership required (by a recent rule) in order to be officially adopted. Thank you to all who voted. I attach an op-ed by David Lloyd that to my mind gives a good sense of the meaning of the event:
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
Thank you to everyone who voted on resolution 2014-1. As you will have heard, the resolution got 60% of the votes in its favor but did not pass because it did not reach the minimum of 10% of the membership required (by a recent rule). This still counts as a major victory. I attach an op-ed by David Lloyd:
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
Prove participatory citizenship is still alive! Vote on the MLA resolution! Last 8 hours!
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
Please forgive me for being exceedingly tedious on the subject of the vote, which ends at midnight tonight. The bar of 10% of the membership that resolutions have to pass is a relatively new one, and arguably not a good one, given the general indifference (which those who proposed it probably were counting on). But it is still possible to prove…[Read more]
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
a bit more than 24 hours left to vote on the MLA resolution!
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
I’m writing to encourage people to vote on the Israel resolution (right of entry for Americans of Palestinian and Arab descent). I co-sponsored it, so obviously I believe it’s a good and fair and appropriate thing, but I think you will agree if you take a moment to look it over. Voting ends at midnight on Sunday. traditionally MLA resolutions hav…[Read more]
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I support this and I will vote. Thanks for reaching out and reminding me of the importance of taking our membership votes seriously.
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I support this and I will vote. Thanks for reaching out and reminding me of the importance of taking our membership votes seriously.
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I support this and I will vote. Thanks for reaching out and reminding me of the importance of taking our membership votes seriously
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me too :-)!
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
I apologize for possibly repeating myself. I’m writing to encourage people to vote on the Israel resolution (right of entry for Americans of Palestinian and Arab descent). I co-sponsored it, so obviously I believe it’s a good and fair and appropriate thing, but I think you will agree if you take a moment to look it over. Voting ends at midnight…[Read more]
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Bruce W. Robbins changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
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