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Leigh Gilmore started the topic Job Opportunity in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoPosition No. 00005756. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]
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Sarah Benharrech started the topic Nominee Statement for Forum Election (CLCS 18th-Century) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHello, my name is Sarah Benharrech and I would be deeply honored to be elected officer of the MLA 18th-c. Comparative Forum (CLCS 18th-Century).
Stemming from previous work on the morphology of characters in drama and novels in light of contemporary debates on taxonomy in eighteenth-century France, my current research focuses on enmeshments of…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInvited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoReview of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]
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Sarah Benharrech started the topic Call for abstracts: ASECS panel on Knowledge and Practices in the 18th Century in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
If you are planning to attend ASECS annual meeting in Baltimore next Spring, please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel, the deadline has been extended to October 8th.
124. Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in the Eighteenth Century
This panel seeks to interrogate literary, cultural, and pictorial…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited “The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac” in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoBuilding on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).
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Jesse A. Goldberg started the topic CFP: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies” in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies”
Sept 30 — Oct 1, 2022
Elmira, NY
The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College is hosting its annual Quarry Farm Symposium during the Fall 2022 semester, from September 30th to October 1st, organized around the theme of Abolition Studies. This year’s Keynote Address will…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Special Issue of Eighteenth Century Studies: Indigeneity in the Long 18th C. in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE
Eighteenth-Century StudiesSpecial Issue on Indigeneity
In Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (2016), the historian Coll Thrush repositions England’s capital not only as a city where decisions were made to dispossess Indigenous peoples, but also as a space that…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Interiority and Expression in Dickinson’s Lyrics in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe argument in this essay is that Dickinson’s poetics of inner life makes us see anew the long-standing philosophical problem of expression. Dickinson’s poetry invests itself in an understanding of subjectivity that rearranges the anchors we often turn to in thinking about how lives and identities take on shape in expressive forms. Poetry for…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Keats’s Voice in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoKeats’s poetic thoughts on the topic of human identity remain some of Romanticism’s most incisive reflections on the constitution of selfhood. This essay is about the ways Keats’s verse thinks through questions about human subjectivity and its horizons with an imaginative range. Keats famously asserts that the poetical character has “no i…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited The Gothic, Supernatural and Religious: Scott, Hogg, and Blackwood’s in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoA distinctive style of “Scottish Gothic’”emerged, after 1815, in fiction by Walter Scott, James Hogg, and fellow members of the Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine circle. This chapter introduces this corpus of Scottish Gothic literature, specifies some ways in which the uncanny entailments of Scottish Gothic relate to religious discourse (very muc…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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