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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Transgender Performance of Shakespeare, Special Issue of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCross-gender roles and performances permeate many of Shakespeare’s plays. This special issue on contemporary transgender performance of Shakespeare was published by the open-access journal dedicated to Shakespeare and appropriation, Borrowers and Lenders, and edited by Alexa Alice Joubin. It contains research articles and interviews of actors. S…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Transgender Performance of Shakespeare, Special Issue of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCross-gender roles and performances permeate many of Shakespeare’s plays. This special issue on contemporary transgender performance of Shakespeare was published by the open-access journal dedicated to Shakespeare and appropriation, Borrowers and Lenders, and edited by Alexa Alice Joubin. It contains research articles and interviews of actors. S…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 2024 CLCS-18th Century Panels — Deadline Extended in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMarch 20, 2023 is the deadline to apply to the CLCS-18th Century Forum’s panels at next year’s MLA in Philadelphia.
I. Comparative Media Histories
Recent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen…[Read more]
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andré carrington started the topic CFP for 2024: Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoPutting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia
Guaranteed session for MLA 2024 sponsored by Forum MS Sound, in collaboration with Forum African American Literature, Language, and Culture
Philly Soul, with its roots in the Black performance traditions of gospel, funk, and rhythm & blues, transformed popular music in the 1970s. How have…[Read more]
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Robin E. Visel started the topic MLA 2024: Doris Lessing and Contemporary African Critics of Neocolonialism in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCFP: We invite papers examining Lessing’s critique of neocolonialism in works such as <i>African Laughter</i>, especially in conversation with postcolonial African writers from Aidoo, Gordimer, Dangarembga, and Vera to Gappah, Bulawayo,and Mbue. Bio and 250-word abstract. Deadline: 20 March, 2023. Josna Rege jrege@worcester.edu, jo…[Read more]
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Robin E. Visel started the topic MLA 2024: The Griot in Doris Lessing, African, & Postcolonial Writers in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCFP: We invite papers exploring figures of the griot—as chroniclers, poets, song makers, and Memories—in Doris Lessing’s later works, and in the works of writers from Africa and throughout the postcolonial diaspora. Bio and 250-word abstract. Deadline: 20 March, 2023. Josna Rege jrege@worcester.edu, josnarege@comcast.net
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Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] -
Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIt has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoRecent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen an interest in non-print media, queer and trans book history, speculative archives, and critical making, among other approaches. This panel seeks con…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: MLA 2024–Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers. Queer theory embraces p…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.
The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).
This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.
The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).
This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]
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Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Bridges within the Arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoTracing the collaboration between Dylan and Scorsese from the 1960s on to the Netflix original ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ (2019), this article argues that the mutual respect of the two artists rests on a shared contestation of borders between fact and fiction. In the spirit of romanticism, both Dylan and…[Read more]
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