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Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited An Index to The Tuneful Yankee and Melody Magazine in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis volume collects the complete bibliographic information for the contents of The Tuneful Yankee and Melody Magazine (1917-1930), including sheet music and articles.
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: Season 1 now complete! in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoNovel Dialogue, a podcast sponsored by the Society of Novel Studies, has just completed its first season. We bring critics and novelists together for fun and sophisticated conversations about novels – how they are made and what to make of them.
For a full list of episodes, please check out https://noveldialogue.org/
Or subscribe at Apple…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Postkolonyal Teori ve Osmanlı Türk Emperyalizmini Beraber Düsünmek in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOsmanlı emperyalizminden ve kolonyalizminden bahsedebilmek için postkolonyal teorinin analitik ufkunu ve kelime dağarcığını esnetmek ve belki de yeniden gözden geçirmek gereklidir. Bu yazının akademik ve politik meramı işte budur Daha açık bir deyişle, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan örneğiyle önümüzde beliren Osmanlı hayal(et)ini postkolonyal teoriyle k…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers (please share)
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]
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Ed Finn started the topic Announcing Everything Change, Vol. III in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’m writing to share that today, in honor of Earth Day, Arizona State University’s Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative has published a new book: Everything Change, Volume III, an anthology of short fiction collecting the winners of our global contest in 2020. The anthology is free to download in a variety of digital forma…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Trash as Aesthetic and Theme in Elvira Navarro’s La trabajadora in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis essay focuses on one example of a collective desire to articulate new ways of thinking about and inhabiting urban space: Elvira Navarro’s 2014 _La trabajadora_, a novel that directly confronts the human cost of austerity measures in Spain by addressing the indignation experienced by those whose life plans have been altered by economic i…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward started the topic Roque Moreno, novela histórica peruana de Teresa González de Fanning (nueva ed.) in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThomas Ward, Spanish Professor at Loyola University Maryland has published a critical edition of Roque Moreno, a historical novel Teresa González de Fanning (1836-1913), Peruvian educator and novelist, published in 1905. The novel portrays the chaos that characterized Peru in the years immediately after Independence. The plot revolves around two…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIsraeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Levi, Primo (2005). «A una hora incierta» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoReveiw of Spanish translation of Primo Levi, “Ad ora incerta”
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Campana, Dino (1998). «Cantos órficos y otros poemas» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoReview of Spanish translation of Canti Orfici by Dino Campana
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Samuel Baker deposited Scott’s Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIt is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott’s adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global mediation: Performing Shakespeare in the age of networked and digital cultures,” The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance, ed. Peter Kirwan and Kathryn Prince (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 132-150 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPerforming Shakespeare in modern times is an act of mediation between characters and actors, creating channels between geocultural spaces and time periods. The multiplicity of the plural term global Shakespeares helps us push back against deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare’s ubiquitous presence. Adaptations accrue nuanced meanings as t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global mediation: Performing Shakespeare in the age of networked and digital cultures,” The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance, ed. Peter Kirwan and Kathryn Prince (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 132-150 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPerforming Shakespeare in modern times is an act of mediation between characters and actors, creating channels between geocultural spaces and time periods. The multiplicity of the plural term global Shakespeares helps us push back against deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare’s ubiquitous presence. Adaptations accrue nuanced meanings as t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Fulbright Snapshot: Snapshot: Shakespeare & East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin, March 24, 2021 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoShakespeare and East Asia (Oxford, 2021) explores distinctive themes in post-1950s Asian-themed performances and adaptations of Shakespeare. In this Snapshot, Alexa Alice Joubin discusses the book and the importance of wider research into Global Shakespeares.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Fulbright Snapshot: Snapshot: Shakespeare & East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin, March 24, 2021 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoShakespeare and East Asia (Oxford, 2021) explores distinctive themes in post-1950s Asian-themed performances and adaptations of Shakespeare. In this Snapshot, Alexa Alice Joubin discusses the book and the importance of wider research into Global Shakespeares.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.” George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCOVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is ins…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.” George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCOVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is ins…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic "Aproximaciones Interdisciplinarias a la Literatura Áurea" in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoEstimados colegas:
Les escribo para invitarlos al coloquio internacional “Aproximaciones Interdisciplinarias a la Literatura Áurea” que tendrá lugar vía Zoom el 9 de abril de 2021. El programa así como la información para participar vía Zoom se encuentran aquí…[Read more]
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