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Janine M. Utell started the topic Chat with an Editor: Slots still available! in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHeading to MLA in Chicago? Looking for mentoring in writing for and publishing in peer-reviewed journals in your specialization? It’s not too late to sign up for Chat with an Editor! Sessions with experienced editors from MELUS, English Literary Renaissance, Legacy, Papers on Language and Literature and more still available for Friday and S…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Panels and Happy Hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/ MLA 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2019.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Thursday Jan 3rd
54. And What does Colonial Mean?
1:45-3:00 pm, Erie, Sheraton Grand
Presiding Mónica Díaz, U of Kentucky
Speakers: Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkley; Kathleen Myers, Indiana U, Bl…[Read more]
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Sara Brenneis started the topic MLA RT#233 "Spain, WWII & the Holocaust: History, Literature & Memory" in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 Sheraton Grand – Superior B
Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and the…[Read more]
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Dene M. Grigar started the topic Readings & Performances at M LA 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoNatural Language: Readings and PerformancesJanuary 4, 2019 @ School of the Art Institute of ChicagoReception at 6:30,; Readings at 7:30
In conjunction with the 2019 MLA conference, the Electronic Literature Organization and the Art & Technology Studies (ATS) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will host an evening of…[Read more] -
Anne Donlon started the topic AHA-MLA THATCamp, January 2nd in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoWill you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.
Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Lire, une histoire simple in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis book constitutes the result of a pedagogical experimentation, that I conducted for the Master in Linguistic and Literary Sciences of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, during the academic year 2017-2018. The critical essays that are here collected have been written by some students of my class, and show clearly enough that…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Pour une pédagogie créative de la littérature. Enseigner la littérature au musée, « La Nuova Secondaria », 3 Novembre 2018, pp. 87-89. in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis article describes a pedagogical project that took place between 2015 and 2016, and involved my students of the French Literature class, third year of Bachelor of Arts (foreign languages). The intersection and interrelation between figurative art and poetry were at the centre of the theoretical insight, whereas the necessity of adapting our…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Chat with an Editor: Professional Development Opportunity from CELJ in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Chat with an Editor event takes place at the MLA each year. This professional development opportunity, sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, gives advanced doctoral candidates, postdocs, and new faculty the opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Modernism/modern…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa replied to the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA chance to revisit Chicago when the weather is much improved!
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention 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, IL
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. Te…[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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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited WHAT SORT OF JEW DOSTOEVSKY LIKED AND DISLIKED: A NARRATIVE OF A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoIn his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as ‘carriers’ of some national idea. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre, there are some Jews. The fashi…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores an unprecedented distinction between literary and popular writing that emerged in debates in Maṇikkoṭi and Āṉanta Vikaṭaṉ, two well-known Tamil magazines that were launched in the 1930s. Through short stories and critical essays, the writers who contributed to these magazines attempted to create new lenses through which to v…[Read more]
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Stephen E. Lewis deposited Seeing, or Seeing Oneself Seen: Nicholas of Cusa’s Contribution in De visione Dei in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoNicholas of Cusa’s _De visione Dei sive de Icona_ (1453), in addition to its contribution to the question of the vision of God, engages with numerous debates concerning visibility in general, and thus addresses the dimensions of phenomenality–namely, questions concerning the icon as a type of phenomenon, the reversal of vision into a…[Read more]
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Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago“‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]
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Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago“‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]
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