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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Hania Nashef deposited Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad’sOmarandParadise Now in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn the past, Palestinian cinema was dominated by a nationalist discourse revolving around refugee ideology, resulting from the trauma of the lost homeland. As the past is generally static, revisiting it became an exercise in nostalgia. The last decade, however, has seen the emergence of a number of transnational Palestinian films telling stories…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why Robots Go Astray in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture 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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Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Institutional History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Institutional History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through organizations, schools, institutes, and symposia. Papers on any aspect of this institutional history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Peter M. Logan (peter.logan@temple.edu). -
Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Book History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Book History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through publishing. Papers investigating presses, journals, book series, or other aspects of print history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Jeffrey J. Williams (jwill@andrew.cmu.edu). -
Peter Leman started the topic CFP UPDATE: "Law and Literature from the Global South"–DEADLINE EXTENDED in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED (January 15, 2017)
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Spring 2018 Special Issue: Law and Literature from the Global South
Guest Editors: David Babcock (James Madison University) and Peter Leman (Brigham Young University)
Deadline for Submissions (approximately 4,000-5,000 words): DE…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Mark Sample deposited Interactive Digital Narratives Syllabus (Davidson College 2016) in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSyllabus for FMS 321 (Interactive Digital Narratives) at Davidson College, Fall 2016.
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic Prize for 19th-century thesis topic (last 2 years) in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPrix 2017 du Comité de liaison des associations dix-neuviémistes
Désireux de récompenser et promouvoir les travaux de chercheurs portant sur le XIXe siècle, le Comité de Liaison des Associations Dix-neuviémistes (CL 19) a créé un prix annuel destiné à couronner une thèse de doctorat ou un mémoire de troisième cycle portant sur le XIXe siècle (…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Governance News: Suggestions Needed for Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe current Delegate Assembly representative for this forum has a term that will expire in January 2018. An election for a new delegate must therefore be held in the fall of 2017. 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 e…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefuturesThe fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions for This Forum's Fall 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMS Screen Arts and Culture will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in an election that is scheduled for the fall of 2017. 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 n…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic "Style." 2017 NCFS CPF in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for papers for “Style.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies (University of Virginia, November 9-11, 2017). Abstract due March 15, 2017.
Organized by Cheryl Krueger and Claire Lyu
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Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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