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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Weihsin Gui started the topic 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium – Talk on Sonny Liew in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoI’ll be giving a talk on Sonny Liew’s Eisner Award-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye at the 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium, and there are other fascinating talks on graphic novels lined up too. The event takes place on Friday April 12 at the Mandel Humanities Center, Brandeis University.
Below is the program and a link to the BNS web…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Re-Thinking Design, Italian Style Bridging the Italian Curriculum Through ‘MADE in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 7 years agoRe-Thinking Design, Italian Style
Bridging the Italian Curriculum Through ‘MADE IN ITALY’
A Workshop for Instructors Aimed at Enriching the Italian CurriculumJuly 7-21, 2019 Lead Facilitator:
- Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Assistant Professor of Italian, University of Arkansas
Co-Collaborators:
- Alessandro Adorno, Director, Babilonia: Itali…
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers AATI 2019 Conference May 30 – June 2, 2019 Marist College in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 7 years ago(Si trova la versione in inglese sotto)
CALL For Papers AATI Conference 30 maggio – 2 giugno, 2019 Marist College – Poughkeepsie, NY
L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno si terrà a Poughkeepsie, NY, dal 30 maggio al 2 giugno, 2019, presso Marist College. Il tema del convegno è aperto, ma l’A…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic LLC Francophone Calls for Papers — Seattle 2020 in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoCinéma-monde francophone
Papers addressing scholarly debates around cinéma-monde through analysis of recent cinematic texts from throughout the Francophone world. 250-word abstracts to Denis Provencher (denisprovencher@email.arizona.edu) by Thursday, March 7, 2019.
The Multilingual Maghreb (in collaboration with LLC Arabic)
Papers addressing m…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic 19th-century French CFP for MLA 2020 (9-12 Jan in Seattle) in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear Colleagues, Please find below the 19th-Century French LLC Forum calls for papers for the 2020 MLA Convention in Seattle (9-12 January). Abstracts are due to the organizers below by 15 March. We encourage you to submit and look forward to a lively 19th-century French presence in Seattle!
“‘All is True’: Truth from Balzac to Zola”We welcome…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoAs the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.
Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoAs the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.
Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoAs the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.
Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Sigismondo Malatesta, un criminale neoplatonico. Péladan lettore mistico del Palazzo Malatestiano in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis paper aims to tackle the ambiguity of Péladan’s interpretation of the Malatesta Temple of Rimini, the prestige of which is related for him to the faith in the Absolute of Art. In effect, in Példan’s novel Le Vice Suprême, Sigismondo becomes a hero for both his criminal reputation and his artistic prestige. Furthermore, in his theore…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited “Introduzione alla sezione tematica Edifici d’autore. Estetiche e Ideologie nella narrazione dei monumenti, in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis thematic session of the journal is devoted to expressions of creative writing inspired by monuments. Our aim is to understand how and why diverse re/constructions of their specific genesis, descriptions of architectural features, explanations of symbolism, histories of mentors, sponsors and artists generate over/interpretations in the form of…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Andrew G. Christensen deposited White Noise and the Supermarket Aesthetic in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years agoDon DeLillo’s White Noise (1985) has been thoroughly examined as a work of postmodern fiction, with particular attention to media and simulacra, and from the perspective of science and technology, focusing on chemistry and toxicity. In this presentation, I look at the novel from an art historical perspective, considering the relations it bears to…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoStudents learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]
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