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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why Robots Go Astray in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture and have been since antiquity. What kind of behavior do we expect from conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 372: Nineteenth-Century Literature of the Americas and the British Empire in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years ago372 [HUM] 19th Century Literature of the British Empire and the Americas. 3 credit hours. Literary and cultural texts in English from 1800 to 1900 focusing on global British literature and literatures of the Americas.
My investment in the course.
I am concerned about our country’s inability to work against climate change, the mass i…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 372: Nineteenth-Century Literature of the Americas and the British Empire in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 9 years ago372 [HUM] 19th Century Literature of the British Empire and the Americas. 3 credit hours. Literary and cultural texts in English from 1800 to 1900 focusing on global British literature and literatures of the Americas.
My investment in the course.
I am concerned about our country’s inability to work against climate change, the mass i…[Read more] -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Pamela K. Gilbert replied to the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoThanks for your thoughts on the panel session, “Victorian in a Comparative Field.” Newspaper and Periodicals Studies is of course a very well established area in Victorian Studies. One thinks of the groundbreaking work of Laurel Brake, Eileen Curran, Andrew King, and Graham Law, to name just a very few of the strong scholars who have founded and…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris started the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoNote: I’m going to post this across a few of the groups in which I participate, including Book History and Romantic/19th Century
I just attended the above session organized by this group. While the room was packed and the panel was stacked with a variety of venerable scholars doing interesting work, the panel completely ignored an important area…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Present-Day English Language on MLA Commons 9 years agoI hope you can join us at the two sessions sponsored by the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at MLA 17:
491. Situated Literacy Practices
Saturday, January 7
10:15–11:30 a.m
Room 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding:
Peggy D. Otto, Western Kentucky University
Panelists:
Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky
“Taco Literacies: Translingual F…[Read more] -
Lila Marz Harper started the topic CFP: George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21st Century–Book Collection in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century
We cordially invite you to submit an abstract for this volume, a collection of critical essays.
We are interested in a broad range of new interdisciplinary topics, new theoretical approaches, and innovative insights. A few possibilities might be as follows: Eliot and…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Suggestions
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Submit Your Suggestions for the 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative is scheduled for the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is req…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions Needed for 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Suggestions
This forum will need to hold an election for a Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. The executive committee is responsible for making nominations, b…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited Self-Censorship in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article discusses changes that Mary Kingsley made to her 1897 Travels in West Africa when she abridged the text for a general audience.
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Lila Marz Harper deposited Self-Censorship in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article discusses changes that Mary Kingsley made to her 1897 Travels in West Africa when she abridged the text for a general audience.
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Gillian Dooley started the topic Immortal Austen – a conference in Australia, 13-16 July 2017 in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers
Immortal Austen
An International Conference
Hosted by the School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University At Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 13-16 July 2017
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Devoney Looser (Arizona State)
Prof Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford)
Assoc. Prof Clara Tuite (Melbourne)
When Jane Austen…[Read more] -
James Mulholland started the topic MLA Ballot 2016 in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Everyone,
Now that the ballot is open for the MLA nominations, I thought I’d introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me already and have a sense of who I am. My name is James Mulholland and I’ve been nominated to serve on this forum’s executive committee.
I am an Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University and…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP for 18th-Century Camp! (special issue Aphra Behn Online) in the discussion
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP for 18th-Century Camp! (special issue Aphra Behn Online)
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard University
In Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic pheno…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP: 18th-Century Camp! (Special Issue Aphra Behn Online) in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP Aphra Behn Online Special Issue: 18th-Century Camp!
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard UniversityIn Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.” Fo…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Nineteenth-century railway novels: the crowd-pleasing covers in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbacks/
Over 2000 yellowback covers: single volumes of popular fiction published in Britain during the 19th century.<script src=”//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js” async=”” charset=”utf-8″></script>
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Juliet Shields started the topic CFP Reminder: World Congress of Scottish Literatures in the discussion
Scottish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe deadline to submit proposals for the World Congress of Scottish Literatures (Vancouver, BC, 21-25 June, 2017) is fast approaching! Please send proposals for individual papers or complete panels that speak to the theme of “dialogues and diasporas” to scotlit@sfu.ca by Oct. 1.
For further information about the conference, s…[Read more]
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