News Feed
-
Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited From Humbl(e)d Beginnings in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 days, 21 hours agoExploration of how Samuel T. Coleridge creates an un-bullied self, a self that pretends it was never bullied, incrementally through his poetry.
-
John Robert Ziegler‘s profile was updated on MLA Commons 5 days ago
-
Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic CFP MLA 2020 Seattle – "Comparative Orientalisms" — CLCS-Medieval Forum in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 days, 5 hours agoJust as there are many Orients, there are many Orientalisms, or approaches to, constructions of, and lenses upon the Orient. This CLCS-Medieval Forum session invites examinations of Comparative Orientalisms including (but not limited to): the comparative rhetoric of description and association attaching to different eastern spaces (the Holy Land,…[Read more]
-
Maura Brady replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 days, 7 hours agoI support this petition.
-
Diego Espina Barros‘s profile was updated on MLA Commons 5 days, 8 hours ago
-
Sheela Jane Menon‘s profile was updated on MLA Commons 5 days, 10 hours ago
-
Sheela Jane Menon started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 days, 10 hours agoMLA 2020 CFP: Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia
This special session of the MLA Southeast Asian Forum seeks to interrogate settler colonialism through a diverse range of Southeast Asian literary and cultural texts. We are particularly interested in texts that illuminate the reconfiguration of place, power, and politics in the region, both…[Read more]
-
Exploration of how Samuel T. Coleridge creates an un-bullied self, a self that pretends it was never bullied, incrementally through his poetry.
-
Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 days, 6 hours agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation for the 2020 MLA convention. This panel seeks to explore the effects of translation in the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to…[Read more]
-
Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 days, 6 hours agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation. This panel seeks to explore the ways in which translation shaped the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to what extent does…[Read more]
-
Katherine D. Harris started the topic Guaranteed – MLA 2020 CFP: Recovery from the Margins: Digital Poster Session in the discussion
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 days, 8 hours agoGuaranteed – MLA 2020 CFP: Recovery from the Margins: Digital Poster Session
Well-funded digital archives have energized the field of scholarly editing, yet the recovery of texts by women and people of color has suffered setbacks since the 1990s; in effect, the revitalization of marginal figures has been hampered by a canon that privileges p…[Read more]
-
Katherine D. Harris started the topic Guaranteed – MLA 2020 CFP: Recovery from the Margins: Digital Poster Session in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 days, 8 hours agoGuaranteed – MLA 2020 CFP: Recovery from the Margins: Digital Poster Session
Well-funded digital archives have energized the field of scholarly editing, yet the recovery of texts by women and people of color has suffered setbacks since the 1990s; in effect, the revitalization of marginal figures has been hampered by a canon that privileges…[Read more]
-
Patrick Williams deposited The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 days, 8 hours agoThis chapter details a credit-based orientation & information literacy course taught with local archival and special collections materials.
-
Patrick Williams deposited The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 days, 9 hours agoThis chapter details a credit-based orientation & information literacy course taught with local archival and special collections materials.
-
Baltasar Fra-Molinero started the topic CFP Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 days, 10 hours agoThis session seeks proposals that address the study of the Global Hispanophone as a mode of inquiry thatde-centers national narratives as well as regional ones (Latin America vs Spain) and reviews and critique past and present literary canons. We want to pay close attention to geographic/historical peripheries and cultural practices that challenge…[Read more]
-
Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFPs: Translation Studies Forum Sessions, MLA 2020 Seattle in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 days, 11 hours agoDear Translation Studies scholars,
The CFPs for our Translation Studies Forum have been posted, and I repeat them here for your convenience and invite you to send proposals or abstracts:
(1) Translatability and World Literature: How best to acknowledge translation as a mediating factor in world literature? Incommensurability vs.…[Read more]
-
Beverly Hogue started the topic Teaching Comedy versus Satire in Eighteenth-Century Contexts in the discussion Submitted abstracts on MLA Commons 6 days, 13 hours ago
The success of satire today as a popular televisual and online comedic form is both a benefit and a challenge for teaching material from that other golden age of satire, the eighteenth century. Because students ordinarily encounter satire on networks like Comedy Central and sites branded as humor destinations, like The Onion and Clickhole, they…[Read more]
-
Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 days, 21 hours agoAlfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]
-
Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 6 days, 21 hours agoAlfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]
-
Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 days, 21 hours agoAlfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]
- Load More
