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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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Ed Finn started the topic Everything Change, Volume II, a climate fiction anthology in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoYesterday, the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University published Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume II. The anthology features 10 short stories from ASU’s 2018 global climate fiction contest, plus a foreword by renowned science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. The book is free to dow…[Read more]
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Kristin Bluemel deposited Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced…[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
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years 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 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 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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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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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 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 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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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Whitney Sperrazza deposited Patterns of Violence: Critical Making and the She/Her/Hers of Early Modern Poetry in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoShort paper presented for MLA 2019 Session 417 – “Critical Computation: What’s Next?”
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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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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies. -
Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTo TC Women’s and Gender Studies…
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, v…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTo TC Women’s and Gender Studies…
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, v…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited Scientific Discourse in Italian Literature in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoVersion (MA level) of a course I taught in several iterations at the University of Pittsburgh between 1995 and 2006.
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Dennis Looney deposited Science and Literature, Italian Style in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoVersion (BA level) of a course I taught at the University of Pittsburgh over several iterations between 1995 and 2006. Team taught in 2006 with Peter Machamer, professor in HPS at Pitt.
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Whitney Sperrazza deposited Intimate Correspondence: Negotiating the Materials of Female Friendship in Margaret Cavendish’s Sociable Letters in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn this article, I argue that Margaret Cavendish uses ‘Sociable Letters’ and the female friendship within its pages to intervene in early modern epistolary traditions and negotiate alternatives for conventional markers of intimacy between correspondents. Grounding the argument in current scholarly debates on familiar letter conventions, I…[Read more]
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