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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic CFPs for Global Anglophone Forums for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear Global Anglophone members,
Please find our CFPs for the guaranteed Global Anglophone sessions for MLA Toronto 2021 below: one is on “Languages of Class” and the second is a joint collaboration with the Global Arab and Arab American Executive Forum on “Global Indigeneity.” We hope you will consider submitting abstracts for…[Read more]
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Celia Marshik started the topic Call for papers: Special Issue of ELN, "Fashion's Borders" in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoI’m pleased to share a call for papers for a special issue of English Language Notes (April 2022 publication date). Kindly circulate within your networks. Thank you!
This special issue of ELN takes up the complex relationship between clothing and place and seeks to examine the transcultural flow of commodities (specifically clothing and fas…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Teaching Comics/Teaching with Comics: A Review of With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis article reviews With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books, edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). The book covers a wide range of approaches, pedagogical techniques, and uses of comics and graphic novels, as well as making comics, in the…[Read more]
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Noemi Martin Santo deposited Conflictos de autoridad narrativa en la _Relación del reyno del Nippon_ de Bernardino de Ávila in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoPlease refer to the article. The abstract is misplaced.
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James Gifford deposited “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?”: The 1923 Text in the group
Modernist Studies Association on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of the 1923 state of Hemingway’s In Our Time is the first of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” in The Little Review, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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Celia Marshik started the topic Field Bibliographers and Fellows sought for coverage of books and periodicals in the discussion
Modernist Studies Association on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe MLA is currently seeking new field bibliographers, and we are also accepting applications for three-year MLA Bibliography fellowships. We believe that members of the Modernist Studies Association might welcome the opportunity to become contributors to the Bibliography. The MLA International Bibliography database is an essential humanities…[Read more]
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Celia Marshik started the topic CFP: Joint Session "Modernism, Copyright and Public Domains" (MLA Toronto, Jan. in the discussion
Modernist Studies Association on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoI am pleased to announce this Call for Papers for a non guaranteed session organized jointly by MSA and SHARP (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) at the next MLA convention in Toronto (January 2021): “Modernism, Copyright and Public Domains.” Impact of early 20th-century works coming out of copyright; Archives now…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic MSA Members! Call to Vote on Bylaws! in the discussion
Modernist Studies Association on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoFrom Matt Hart, President of MSA, on Behalf of the Executive Committee of the MSA:
The Executive Committee of the MSA has proposed creating two new elected voting Trustees of the Association with the aim of being more responsive to the full range of its membership: Contingent Faculty Representative and Graduate Student Representative. Beca…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is the peer-reviewed submission version of the essay, which focuses on the role that digital communication platforms can play in teaching and engaging with Wallace’s work.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Welcome to the Modernist Studies Association on the MLA Commons! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years agoWelcome to the MSA on the MLA Commons! Here you’ll find updates from the Modernist Studies Association, calls for papers, and a place to network and connect.
- Looking for news from the MSA Board?
- Wanting to share a CFP or an event?
- Got an idea you’d like to discuss with other scholars and writers in modernist studies?
- Seeking out…
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Welcome to the Modernist Studies Association on the MLA Commons! in the discussion
Modernist Studies Association on MLA Commons 6 years agoWelcome to the MSA on the MLA Commons! Here you’ll find updates from the Modernist Studies Association, calls for papers, and a place to network and connect.
- Looking for news from the MSA Board?
- Wanting to share a CFP or an event?
- Got an idea you’d like to discuss with other scholars, teachers, and writers in modernist studies?
- Seeking…
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literary Studies: Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years agoDespite a strong pedigree of textual scholarship in literary studies, the study of contemporary literature often eschews such methods on the grounds that there is an insufficient archive to fully comprehend the production of just-published work. In this article I argue for a turn to textual scholarship in the field of contemporary literary studies…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Ben Streeter deposited Reparation in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years agoW. G. Sebald and Patrick Modiano are two contemporary authors who share similar themes and literary practices. They are both fastidiously or even obsessively historical in their narrative development. And they seem preoccupied with the sins of World War II. Critics have divided feelings about their accomplishments. Skeptics say their trauma…[Read more]
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