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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFPs for 2018 MLA GS Forum in Life Writing in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoCatfished: Lies Online
How do platforms that facilitate sharing life narratives open doors to fake lives? This panel explores social media and other online spaces as means for constructing counterfeit lives: romantic, political, and otherwise.250 word abstracts and brief bios by March 15.
Contact: Ricia Anne Chansky (ricia.chansky@upr.edu) and…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: MLA 2018 Special Session Proposal in the discussion
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This panel examines auto/biographical narratives that challenge the myth of a homogeneous United States. What complex and nuanced aspects of American national identities are revealed…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic MLA GS Life Writing 2017 Social in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSaturday, January 7, 2017 6 pm to 7:30 pm
Take some time out to enjoy the annual MLA GS Life Writing Forum social. To be held at the Marriott Philadelphia Courtyard Downtown, 21 North Juniper Street. Check back on Jan 5 for suite number. Hope to see you there!
Sponsored by a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic MLA GS Life Writing 2017 Social in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSaturday, January 7, 2017 6 pm to 7:30 pm
<span class=”_4n-j _3cht fsl”>Take some time out to enjoy the annual MLA GS Life Writing Forum social. To be held at the Marriott Philadelphia Courtyard Downtown, 21 North Juniper Street. Check back on Jan 5 for suite number. Hope to see you there!</span>
Sponsored by a/b: Auto/Biography…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Latifa Zoulagh posted an update in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoLooking for a female roommate!
Is anyone (female) willing to share her room, I will be staying the 5th and the 6th?
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
International Seminar on
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL
UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
(Canary Islands, Spain)
June 21st-23rd 2017
Romance novels have often been dismissed by critics because of their nature as a popular genre and for being written and read largely by women. However, in the last…[Read more] -
Subarno Chattarji deposited 'The Chameleon War': Passing Time and the Remembrance of the Vietnam War in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe article offers an analysis of W.D. Ehrhart’s memoir Passing Time.
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser and Gender at ALA in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the Women’s and Gender Studies 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 Dreiser
Panel Two:…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Request for Membership Suggestions for the Fall 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next scheduled election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will 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 executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is req…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoJust a reminder…the deadline approaches!
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechd…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis is a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for The Comics of Alison Bechdel approaches! 12/1/16
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will conta…[Read more]
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A. E. B. Coldiron started the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture (on translation and Edmund Spenser) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi, all; at the risk of self promotion, I forward this:
[The following comes to us from Dr Jane Grogan.]
Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions Needed for 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Suggestions
This forum will need to hold an election for a Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and 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. The executive committee is responsible for making nominations, b…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited The Mother Without an Identity in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWithin Gothic Literature the identity of the mother causes women to lose their own identity. For the mothers in Beloved, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, and “Greenleaf” their identity of themselves is lost as they identity as being the mother of their children rather than their own individual person. Some gothic mothers are absent mothers…[Read more]
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