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Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
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Loren Kruger deposited Chicago / Johannesburg in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJohannesburg, Chicago of South Africa
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited The Reappropriation of Poverty and the Art of “Making Do” in Contemporary Argentine Cultural Productions in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThrough an analysis of two post-crisis films (Estrellas, Federico León
and Marcos Martínez, 2007; El nexo, Sebastián Antico, 2005) shot in
the largest slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this essay sketches the
terms for conceptualizing a cultural dimension of the Global South
marked by the aesthetic reappropriation of poverty. Working ag…[Read more] -
Yolanda M. Martinez-San Miguel started the topic Postdoc in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPostdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Caribbean Studies 2016-2017
Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers, in collaboration with the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, is pleased to announce a one-year competitive postdoctoral fellowship for a humanities or social science scholar pursuing research in Caribbean Studies. Scholars…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP–Iberian, Latin American, and Lusophone African Transatlantic Ecocriticism in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoSpecial Issue on Transatlantic Ecocriticism.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/announcement/view/29
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Susan Signe Morrison replied to the topic MLA 2016 Happy Hour in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCan’t wait to see folks there!
Cheers, Susan Morrison
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen started the topic MLA 2016 Happy Hour in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIf you are attending the MLA convention in Austin, TX please join us at Container Bar (made of recycled shipping containers!) for a happy hour on Thursday January 7 beginning at 8 PM. The gathering is co-sponsored by ASLE and the MLA Ecocriticism and Environmental Forum. All are welcome!
The Container Bar is located at 90 Rainey St, Austin, T…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News? in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoMembers of the Literature and Science Forum:
Hello!
In October, the Commons Wire will return with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a new position, or received a promotion, please let us know by e-mail or by private message (to @terrainvagues) by Septemb…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Swanstrom started the topic CFP "Small Screen Fictions" in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoParadoxa, Issue in Preparation
Volume 29, “Small Screen Fictions”
Anticipated publication date: December, 2017
Editors:
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales)
Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland)
Lisa Swanstrom (Florida-Atlantic, Boca Raton, Florida, USA)In the last few decades, digital technologies have dram…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Swanstrom started the topic CFP "Small Screen Fictions" in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoParadoxa, Issue in Preparation
Volume 29, “Small Screen Fictions”
Anticipated publication date: December, 2017Editors:
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales)
Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland)
Lisa Swanstrom (Florida-Atlantic, Boca Raton, Florida, USA)In the last few decades, digital technologies have dram…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: Between the Public and its Privates (MLA Subconference) in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoThe Public and its Privates
Submission deadline: October 16, 2015
Submit to: mlasubconference@gmail.comBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books
January 6-7, 2016
Location: Studium Art Space
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public…[Read more]
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: World Novels and 21st-Century Media (ACLA 2016, abstracts due Sept 23) in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions to the “World Novels and 21st Century Media” seminar at ACLA 2016. Please find the CFP reproduced below; it’s also available through this link: http://www.acla.org/seminar/world-novels-and-21st-century-media. Abstracts are due by September 23, 12am PST, and must be submitted through the ACLA online portal at…[Read more]
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene
http://www.acla.org/seminar/writing-disaster-era-anthropocene
Location: Harvard University
Date: March 17-20, 2016
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 23rd, 2015 (http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper)
Organizers: Jennifer Cazenave and Alla Ivanchikova, Hobart and William Smith…[Read more] -
Nicole Seymour started the topic Masculinity and Environment in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoDear All:
I’m co-organizing a February 2016 workshop titled “Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change” at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany. Our CfP deadline is tomorrow, but if you have interest and need more time, please contact me at nseymour@fullerton.edu. See our CfP at:…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more] -
Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org</div>
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This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more] -
Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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Matthew H. Brown started the topic Deadline Extended – CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis & Pop Cultu in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoSymposium
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016
Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and
Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate…[Read more] -
Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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