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Penelope Geng started the topic CFP MLA LLC 16c English: “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 days, 17 hours ago
The MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” at the MLA 2024 conference in Philadelphia (4-7 Jan. 2024). We welcome submissions and inquiries from scholars at all career stages.
Call for Papers: How might we study disability aesthetics alo…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng's profile was updated on MLA Commons 5 days, 17 hours ago
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Andrea Babsky deposited Analyzing AI Translation Through the Lens of Foucault’s L’archeologie du savoir on MLA Commons 6 days, 7 hours ago
Exploring language and AI through the lens of Foucault’s L’archeologie du savoir.
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Jenna Coughlin started the topic Suggestions for 2024 CLCS Nordic Executive Council Member in the discussion
CLCS Nordic on MLA Commons 6 days, 21 hours ago
The current members of the Executive Council for the CLCS Nordic Forum are seeking nominations and/or self-nominations for a 2024 Executive Council appointee. Rather than holding elections as in the past, the Executive Council is responsible for nominating a new member whose term will begin Monday, 8 January 2024. Executive Council members serve…[Read more]
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John Garrison started the topic CFP for MLA 2024: Renaissance Eating: Routes, Representations Re-Creations in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 1 week ago
Guaranteed session for CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern!
Papers of no more than 10 minutes for a roundtable on new insights into the cultures of early modern eating and food. How did the circulation of food carry with it encounters with new ideas and new people? How did changing culinary practices and tastes both reflect and influence cultural…[Read more]
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Darren J. Borg started the topic CFP: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 1 week ago
What is a life worth living?Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of prolonging it, whether artificially or by providing warnings against our current behavior in order to preserve the life that already exists. The fact that death and…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder's profile was updated on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Series in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather SeriesTaormina, SicilyJuly 10-12, 2023 Sponsored by the University of Arkansas and Società cooperativa Taormina immagine Celebrating over 50 years of fandom, join us and commemorate Francis Ford Coppola’s series- The Godfather (March 15, 1972), The Godfather Part II (December 20, 19…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
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Jonathan Tabutol's profile was updated on MLA Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
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Sharon Fechter changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
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Carla Suhr's profile was updated on MLA Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
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Colleen Baer wrote a new post, Members Elect Tina Lu as Second Vice President, on the site News from the MLA on MLA Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
“It is my honor to serve the MLA as its first vice president of East Asian descent. These pandemic years—with their resurgence of anti-Asian hate, their demands on all of us who care for family members, their s […]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations For Assembly Delegate in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 1 week, 4 days ago
The TC Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Running for Delegate is a good way to become more involved in Forum activities and to make connections with colleagues who share your scholarly interests. To forward your own or a colleague’s name, or to…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 1 week, 5 days ago
Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 1 week, 5 days ago
Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
LSL Language and Society via email on MLA Commons 1 week, 5 days ago
Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This
guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for
languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc.
Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially
encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more] -
Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: MLA 2024 session of the TC Forum on Religion and Literature in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 1 week, 5 days ago
“20th-Century ‘Saints’ and Struggle”
If “spirituality” relates to a concern for the transcendent and a “saint” is one who has made a significant contribution to a spiritual tradition, this panel focuses on 20th-century saints whose spirituality intersected significantly with social and political struggle. Abstracts demonstrating familiarity…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 1 week, 6 days ago
This chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 1 week, 6 days ago
This chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]
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