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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Uncomfortable Bedfellows: Shakespeare and Global Studies”, Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 40 (2022) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoAbstract in English :::
Shakespeare adaptations share an intimate relation with global studies, because Shakespeare – as a cultural institution – registers a broad spectrum of practices that generate productive dialogues with world cultures.
Global studies enables us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare’s works. This…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Transgender Theory and Global Shakespeare,” Performing Shakespearean Appropriations Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet, ed. Darlena Ciraulo, Matthew Kozusko, Robert Sawyer (Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2022), 161-176 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoEven though Shakespeare’s plays were initially performed by all-male casts, they were designed to appeal to diverse audiences. Many modern adaptations reimagine those plays as expressions of gender nonconformity. Over the past decades, prominent films and theater works have fostered new public conversations about the politics of appropriating g…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare: International Films, Television, and Theatre, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin and Victoria Bladen (Palgrave, 2022) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s plays and motifs have been appropriated in fragmentary forms on screen since motion pictures were invented in 1893. Allusions to Shakespeare haunt our contemporary culture in a myriad of ways, whether through brief references or sustained intertextual engagements. ::::: This collection of essays extends beyond a US-UK axis to bring t…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic LLC Shax at MLA 2023 CfP (1 of 3-4) in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed Session: Infinite Variety? Antony and Cleopatra, Then and Now
This is a call for papers on Antony and Cleopatra. we are open to a diverse array of critical interests, including but not limited to: premodern critical race studies, histories of empire and racial capitalism, early modern trans and sexuality studies, disability studies,…[Read more]
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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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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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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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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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Rosi Song started the topic UPDATE: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies Online Panels in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.
Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Forum Sessions in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum. We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.
We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]
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Dr. Elizabeth Hunter deposited Participant information for MLA 2022 Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoBios and recent work of the participants for the 2022 MLA Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” scheduled to take place on January 6, 2022.
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Sujata Iyengar started the topic LLC Shakespeare Sessions at MLA 22 in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoLLC Shakespeare members are presenting at three sessions at the MLA Annual Convention in DC in January:
1. “Re-Reading Timon of Athens” (Friday, 8.30-9.45, Marriott Marquis Dogwood)
2. “Who Owns Shakespeare?” (Friday, 10.15-11.30, Marriott Marquis Gallaudet)
3. “Shakespeare and White Supremacy” (Friday, 1.45-3, Marriott Marquis Dogwood).
You…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoI am just giving Leigh’s notice a “bump” here: please do send Leigh your nominations!
Your current Exec Committee reps are Urvashi Chakravarty, András Kiséry, Drew Daniel (President) and Sujata Iyengar (Secretary).
Whom would you like to see as your representative on LLC Shakespeare? Let Leigh (@lneithardt) know!
Your Exec Committee generates t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural Studies: An Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin,” American Journal of Chinese Studies 28.2 (October, 2021): 115-130. in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHow might we de-colonize hegemonic knowledge production about East Asia and its relationship with the West? This interview with Alexa Alice Joubin draws on new perspectives on cultural exchange in her book, Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021), which promotes treatment of Asian performing arts as original epistemologies rather…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown,” Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern, ed. Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska (Cornell University Press, 2021), 322-349 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoAnalyzing trans narratives about the early moderns through the lenses of affective labor and social reparation, this chapter reclaims as trans the Shakespeare films that have been misinterpreted as homosexual. In doing so, this chapter builds a longer, more intersectional history of gendered embodiment. Reparative trans performances—works in w…[Read more]
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Kevin A. Quarmby deposited ‘Shakespeare in Prison’: A South African Social Justice Alternative in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago“‘Shakespeare in Prison’: A South African Social Justice Alternative” interrogates the validity of certain ‘Shakespeare in prison’ initiatives. In so doing, it engages in ongoing criticism of arts outreach projects and their effectiveness, while highlighting the role of anti-mass-incarceration activists who denounce such well-meaning efforts as…[Read more]
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