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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFP: Women and Language journal in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis CFP came to several of us on email, with a request to post to our group. So here it is:
Women & Language Editor <editorwomenandlanguage@gmail.com> Yesterday, 10:12 AM dbalder@pitt.edu; aebc@st-andrews.ac.uk; kljohnson@wm.edu;
Hi all,
Can you please share the Women & Language CFP with the MLA Translation Studies forum? I’ve pasted it b…[Read more] -
Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Good Place for a Pump and a Dump in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores Bertram Brooker’s “Think of the Earth” from Norman Holland’s perspective of literature as a “place” where unsavory wishes can be satisfied, without alarming super-ego censors. Explores the character Tavistock as built to lure many readers into situating themselves within him, for conveying characteristics that define him as both a prodigy…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic The 2019 Hungarian Studies Association Book Prize in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoSponsored by the Hungarian Studies Association, the goal of the book prize is to recognize quality scholarship in Hungarian studies and support Hungarian studies in the United States. The book prize is awarded biennially for the most important contribution to Hungarian studies originally published in English in the previous two calendar years.…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Sabaci University: Faculty of Arts and Social Services in the discussion
Job Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Sabanci University
(http://fass.sabanciuniv.edu/) invites applications for an open-rank, full-time or
visiting position from outstanding candidates. We are open to scholars in all areas of
political science and with respect to theoretical and methodological approaches but
are most interested in…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Post Doc in Eurasian Studies at Nazarbayev University, deadline March 15 in the discussion
Fellowship/Grant Announcement on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan) invites applications for the two-year position of “Post-Doctoral Fellow in Eurasian Studies,” beginning in August 2019 to assist with our new Ph.D. program in Eurasian Studies, which is a collaborative effort between the School of Humanities and Social Sci…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Fellowships for Threatened Scholars: Call for Applications in the discussion
Fellowship/Grant Announcement on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoFellowships for Threatened Scholars
Applications due April 1, 2019: Apply NowThere are more threatened and displaced scholars today than ever before. The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) can help.IIE-SRF announces an April 1st deadline for its next round of applications from professors and re…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Useful Object in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores Maureen Folan, in Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” as a psychological borderline, someone who is afraid to achieve a man she can have a relationship with, and so defaults to using him as simply another object she can use in warfare against a mother she is only yet capable of playing at being able to leave behind her.
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ASEEES Admin started the topic SRS 2019 Graduate Student Essay Prize in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Society for Romanian Studies is pleased to announce the Eleventh Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize competition for an outstanding unpublished essay or thesis chapter. The submitted single-author work must be written in English by a graduate student in any social science or humanities discipline on a Romanian or Moldovan subject, broadly and…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Post-doc Opportunity: Max Planck Research Group: "Empires of Memory" in the discussion
Job Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Max Planck Research Group, “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities,” based at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, seeks to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow with an outstanding academic record for a position to begin in late…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Visible Invisible Man in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man” delineates a repeated pattern by the invisible man, whereby he associates with grandiose people of some sort of esteem, and ends up actually being seen by them in a way he rather favours. These figures underestimate him at first, look past him, but eventually draw focus, something they are made out…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Natalia Ermolaev started the topic CFP: 2019 Slavic DH Summer School at Princeton in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoLearn about the theories, methods and practice of digital humanities (DH) in the Slavic and East European fields at the 2019 Slavic DH Summer Workshop, taking place at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) on September 3-6, 2019.
The thematic focus of the 2019 Workshop is “Digital Humanities and Visual Resources: The Material and Digital Lives o…[Read more]
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Natalia Ermolaev started the topic CFP: 2019 Slavic DH Summer School at Princeton in the discussion
Slavic DH on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoLearn about the theories, methods and practice of digital humanities (DH) in the Slavic and East European fields at the 2019 Slavic DH Summer Workshop, taking place at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) on September 3-6, 2019.
The thematic focus of the 2019 Workshop is “Digital Humanities and Visual Resources: The Material and Digital Lives o…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited “Mi Casa, Su Casa” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” as if it were experienced by many viewers of a particular type — SCM’s: suburban, collegiate young men — as a feeling out of how they might contrive themselves so that their future development would not place them as identifiable as losers by he-men pulp figures they’d learned early represent…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona: Postdoc Opportunity in the discussion
Job Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoTamara Djermanovic, Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory in the Department of Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain), is open to receiving Expressions of Interest from potential candidates for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA IF) 2019 Call.
Prof. Djermanovic is lectures at the Faculty of Humanities,…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Medieval Literature in the Contact Zone — review essay in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExemplaria review essay by Sarah Elliott Novacich of recent books by Simon Gaunt, Jonathan Hsy, and Shirin Khanmohamadi on medieval contact zones.
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Andrea Bachner started the topic CFP MLA 2020: Guaranteed Session CLCS 20th-21st: Comparison Against Time in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoComparison Against Time
Comparison has complex relationships with time: Temporality is one of the (often uninterrogated) grounds for comparison even as common temporalities or temporal incommensurability themselves are established in and through the act of comparing. More recently, methods that think literary texts and cultural articulations…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Securing their Worth in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCompares how “Treasure Island” and “Charlotte’s Web” demonstrate how protagonist avatars for ourselves establish they truly matter to “parents” who pretend to value them but whose true lack of interest in them as individuals can’t be mistaken. Argues for seeing stories as recognizing the problem of “not being seen” by parents, and as them as…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Ohio State University: Lecturer in Russian in the discussion
Job Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University welcomes applications for one or more renewable positions as Lecturer in Russian language and culture to begin August 2019.
We are seeking a lecturer in Russian able to teach at all levels of the Russian language as well as any of our lower-level…[Read more]
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