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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic 2021 ATHE Outstanding Book Awards: nomination deadline 1 February in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease consider nominating outstanding authors, scholars, educators, leaders, playwrights, artists, and editors for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s prestigious awards.
Please visit ATHE’s website for submission information and other details (under the “awards” drop-down tab).
The deadline for nominations is February 1.
We a…[Read more]
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Luis Restrepo started the topic Executive Committee Nominations — CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years agoCLCS Renaissance and Early Modern invites nominations for our Executive Committee. Self-nominations welcomed and encouraged. The Executive Committee is fully committed to including and amplifying the wide range of perspectives, voices, and languages that are crucial to our field. We are also committed to representing a diverse range of…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev started the topic CFP: “Water, Materialities, Mediterraneans” (guaranteed forum session) in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 4 years agoMLA Annual Convention
5-8 January 2023
San Francisco
Waters, Materialities, Mediterraneans
Guaranteed forum session sponsored by CLCS MediterraneanComparative papers foregrounding liquid materialities of the Mediterranean and other seas from Blue Humanities, Critical Ocean Studies, or other aquacentric theoretical perspectives.
Please send…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev started the topic Call for nominations: CLCS Mediterranean Executive Committee in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 4 years agoDear CLCS Mediterranean Members,
The forum’s executive committee is in the process of nominating candidates to join the committee for a five-year term starting in January 2023, and we are seeking input from the membership. Please submit nominations or self-nominations for the position of executive committee member (name and affiliation) to the Ch…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoThank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, “Life Writing and Cognition” (Sunday) in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoJoin us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655
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Ellen Welch started the topic On behalf of LLC 16th-century in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoWith apologies for cross-posting, please see information about the LLC 16th-century French forum’s sessions at this weekend’s conference below:
· From the LLC French Sixteenth-Century Forum at the MLA:Please join us via the MLA Confex portal (if you are registered) for most sessions; and for free worldwide on Zoom for our Saturday sessio…[Read more]
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Corinne NOIROT replied to the topic MLA Sessions: 16c French Sessions in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoSpecial Zoom room for “French Drama in Context (1498–1610): Beyond Boundaries” (NOW VIRTUAL)
– ZOOM meeting ID: 895 2890 9673
– Passcode: theatrehttps://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89528909673?pwd=WEJCUlRiYm5nTHhLK0FsalVtNVBwQT09
Saturday 8 January ; noon–1:15 PM EST
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Masano Yamashita started the topic Appointment to Executive Committee LLC 18th-century French in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease consider nominating yourself or a colleague for the opening seat on the LLC French 18th-century Forum Executive Committee. The MLA is shifting away from elections toward an appointment model. This means that nominations from the membership are more important than ever. Please email your suggestions to masano.yamashita@colorado.edu by…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic MLA Session on Teaching Drama and the Humanities in Undergraduate Education in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Eugene O’Neill Society has organized a virtual MLA 2022 round-table session (#216V, Friday morning, January 7, 10:15 – 11:30) on the challenges of teaching drama both in theatre courses and in broader undergraduate surveys of literature. The discussion will expand to include ideas about the role of the humanities amid the increasingly car…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic MLA Session on Teaching Drama and the Humanities in Undergraduate Education in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Eugene O’Neill Society has organized a virtual MLA 2022 round-table session (#216V, Friday morning, January 7, 10:15 – 11:30) on the challenges of teaching drama both in theatre courses and in broader undergraduate surveys of literature. The discussion will expand to include ideas about the role of the humanities amid the increasingly car…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.
The following sessions will now be held virtually:
Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Presider: Rielle Navitski
A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic MLA Sessions: 16c French Sessions in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello everyone,
Here is an updated list of our 16c French sessions for MLA, which is now essentially online (all times are Eastern):
- Putting Sensory Worlds into Words in Sixteenth-Century France on 6 January 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM [online]
- Joachim Du Bellay at Five Hundred Years on 6 January 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM [online]
- French Drama in Context…
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Anne Donlon started the topic Sharing convention materials on the Commons in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello, all,
If you’re looking for more information about how to share your convention materials, this post has details about how to share work in CORE or in Docs. CORE assigns your work a DOI and gives you the option to share the deposit with groups. Work in CORE is publicly accessible–no log-in necessary to read or download. If you want to…[Read more]
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Corinne NOIROT replied to the topic 16c French Executive Committee: Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoI would like to nominate Alison Calhoun.
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Ellen Welch started the topic Update on 17th-c French sessions and call for executive committee nominations in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello friends,
A quick update in preparation for the MLA convention starting on Thursday. At this point, all of the sessions organized by the LLC 17th-French Forum have gone online or been postponed to next year:
- Friday, 7 January 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM. 179V Francophonie and the Early Modern: Intertextual Connections [online]
- Friday, 7…
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Ted Laros replied to the topic Session on World Literature and Human Rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease see below for a description of the session on “World Literature and Human Rights”:
Session Description:
What is the relation between ‘world literature’ and ‘human rights’? Both notions imply a universalizing gesture, by relying on transcultural aesthetic or literary categories (world literature) or shared moral values (human rights)…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic 16c French Executive Committee: Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoBeginning this year, the MLA Program Committee has updated the way Forum Executive Committees are created. In the past, the executive committee and the forum membership nominated potential candidates, who were then narrowed to two in the spring, and voted between in the fall election cycle. Now, to streamline the process and to avert the…[Read more]
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