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Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic Job opportunity: UNC Distinguished Professor of As Am Literature in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill invites applications for a Distinguished Professorship with a specialization in Asian American literature and related forms of cultural production. We seek a candidate in any area or subfield of Asian American literary studies with an outstanding record of research,…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Kyoto University CSEAS 47th Southeast Asia Seminar: Call for Applications in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago“Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity?”:
The call for applications for the 47th Southeast Asia Seminar, organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) and co-organized by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), is now open:
https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.<wbr />ac.jp/seas47/The Center for Southeast Asian Stu…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic AAS 2024 Seattle CFP: Verge-sponsored panel on Inter-Asia Intermediality in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
Inter-Asia Intermediality: The Transboundary Production of Global Asian Mediascapes
Organizers: Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) and Elmo Gonzaga…[Read more] -
Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Humanities Grants for Scholars from SE & S. Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoCALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) Research Grants for scholars from South and Southeast Asia
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2023The Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants are made possible thanks to the generous support of Sweden. This grant program is part of a new c…[Read more] -
Graham Jensen started the topic Last chance! Send us your MLA 2024 proposals on CanLit and TV/film! in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoNOTE: There are just two days left before the March 15 deadline!
Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity,…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]
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Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: CanLit Adapts/Adapting Canadian Literature in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity, “Canadianness,” pedagogy, and production from critics and…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum CFPs for MLA 2024 in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFor the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.
1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]
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Eleanor R. Ty started the topic Nominate yourself to the Canadian Literature committee in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are currently seeking one new member for the Canadian Forum. Executive committees serve for five years and help choose the topics for the conference. Please send your nominations to Graham Jensen ghjensen@uvic.ca by Friday, Jan 20, 2023 at noon. Thank you.
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Faye Hammill deposited Canadian Literature syllabus in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years agoSyllabus for final-year undergraduate one-semester course on anglophone Canadian literature
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Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
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Evan Chaloupka deposited Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThis talk introduces the concept of “prosthetic narration,” a narrative technique that mediates the engagement of disabled cognition such that the reader is invited to reimagine how one thinks and perceives. In his essay, “The Novel,” Émile Zola establishes the “intimate union” between the author and “the reality of the scene” as a premise of fic…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoOceans and Empires: Sinophone Crossroads in Global Space and Time
The 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies <https://www.sinophonestudies.org/s3conference>
5/12—5/14/2023
Penn State University
The Sinophone world that is invigorated by “multisensory protests” and “ally-ship” (the focus of the 2021 conference) a…[Read more]
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Harrod Suarez started the topic CFP: New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies (MLA 2023) in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agohttps://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Paper19560.html
New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies
This panel solicits papers from graduate students doing Asian American literary studies in pursuit of new horizons–whether innovative methodologies, frameworks, texts, or fields. Send 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2…[Read more] -
Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: Working in Canadian Literary Archives (MLA 2023, San Francisco) in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
“Working in Canadian Literary Archives”
Short papers on work in or about Canadian literary archives—issues, gaps, holdings, digitization, access, and how archives/archival objects intersect with notions or depictions of labour. P…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in SE Asian Studies in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years agoGosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies
The Association for Asian Studies is honored to offer the new Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies, made possible by a generous gift from L.A. Peter Gosling and Linda Yuen-Ching Lim.This fellowship is focused on cap…[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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