-
Ulrich Tiedau started the topic TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol.45, no.1 (March 2021) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies
vol. 45, no. 1 (March 2021)Contents
The Female Experience of Epidemics in the Early Modern Low Countries
Daniel R. Curtis‘I, Who Used to Serve as Jupiter’s Lightning on Earth’: Geeraerdt Brandt’s De Veinzende Torquatus (1645), Providentially Assigned Stadtholders and the Politics of Rational…[Read more]
-
Carl Gelderloos deposited Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics in Weimar Germany—Helmuth Plessner in Translation (review essay) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this short essay I discuss two new translations of Helmuth Plessner’s work, “Political Anthropology,” translated by Nils F. Schott (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and “Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology,” translated by Millay Hyatt (Fordham University Press, 2019).
-
Carl Gelderloos deposited Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics in Weimar Germany—Helmuth Plessner in Translation (review essay) in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this short essay I discuss two new translations of Helmuth Plessner’s work, “Political Anthropology,” translated by Nils F. Schott (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and “Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology,” translated by Millay Hyatt (Fordham University Press, 2019).
-
Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Miscelánea numeral diacrónica y tipológica con reflexiones sobre el Libro de Alexandre in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis work includes a series of aspects of the study of numerals, from different perspectives and with different applications. It is particularly relevant the application of diachronic analysis to the establishment of a date for the Libro de Alexandre. some of those aspects were already treated by the author in different publications; however, they…[Read more]
-
Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoCall for Papers: MLA 2022 (6-9 January, Washington, D.C.)
Romanian Forum’s Guaranteed Panel
Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema
2021 marks two decades since the symbolic launch of Romanian New Wave cinema, a movement that has received important recognition at international film festivals. The Romanian Forum of th…[Read more]
-
Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel, Writing in a Jewish language in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoHow do writers make languages Jewish or inject Jewishness into language? English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, etc. as Jewish languages; Anglish/Yinglish and other Jewish lexicons; Hebrew-Arabic crossovers; language as hybridity. 250-word abstracts and short bios to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk. Deadline: March 8, 2021
-
Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel–Contagion in/around Jewish literature in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoSubmissions exploring diverse approaches to contagion in Jewish literature and culture; interpreting contagion, infectious affects and ideas, transnational/linguistic transmission, thematic proliferations, infodemics and political contaminations, illness/disease narratives. 250-word abstracts and short bio to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk. Deadline: March 8, 2021
-
Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel–Contagion in/around Jewish literature in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoSubmissions exploring diverse approaches to contagion in Jewish literature and culture; interpreting contagion, infectious affects and ideas, transnational/linguistic transmission, thematic proliferations, infodemics and political contaminations, illness/disease narratives. 250-word abstracts and short bio to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk
Deadline: March 8, 2021
-
Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]
-
Sharon B. Oster started the topic MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews
We seek submissions exploring diverse approaches to myth in Jewish literature/culture; literary/cultural myths about Jews; language; feminist readings; gender critiques; contemporary myths; temporality; race; Memory Studies; Holocaust Studies; all genres, including…[Read more]
-
Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas
We seek submissions for a forum panel exploring hybrid languages, identities, genres, cultures, genders, in prose/poetry by most recent Jewish immigrant writers; diverse approaches welcome: comparative with 1881-1924 Jewish literature; hemispheric, multilingual,…[Read more]
-
Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: Maus at 30 Years (CLCS Global Jewish and LLC Jewish American) in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: Maus at 30 Years (a collaboration between the CLCS Global Jewish forum and LLC Jewish American forum)
We seek submissions for a roundtable, 30 years later, on Maus’s enduring influence; teaching and/or scholarship on/around Maus; diverse approaches wanted, eg., Memory Studies, Comics Studies, Autobiography Studies, Holocaust Studies, in…[Read more]
-
Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
-
Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 – Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.
-
Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 – Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.
-
Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C Approaches to the Material Text in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 5 years agoSyllabus for spring 2021 graduate seminar, “Approaches to the Material Text.” Readings survey in history of the book and related fields. Includes prose introductions synthesizing each week’s readings.
-
Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C Approaches to the Material Text in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years agoSyllabus for spring 2021 graduate seminar, “Approaches to the Material Text.” Readings survey in history of the book and related fields. Includes prose introductions synthesizing each week’s readings.
-
Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoRitual and Representation in East Asian Literature We are inviting proposals for papers featuring ritual as a theme or structuring device in East Asian (including diasporic) literature in relation to belief, kinship, and/or community. This will be a collaborative session between the TC Anthropology and Literature and TC Religion and Literature…[Read more]
-
Yomaira Figueroa started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Afro-Diasporic Afterlives & Archipelagos Across the Global Hispano in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years agoWe invite 250-word abstracts for papers that examine the legacies, archives, and memories of slavery and Afro-diasporic afterlives across the global Hispanophone and archipelagic Mediterranean, Pacific, and Atlantic worlds. The panel also seeks to establish connections between these different regions and/or follow the moment of racialized actors…[Read more]
-
Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
TC Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 5 years agoBirds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
- Load More