Register Log In

An online community for MLA members

MLA Commons
  • News Feed
  • Members
  • Groups and Forums
  • Sites and Blogs
  • CORE Repository
  • Help
  • MLA Online Publications
  • mla.org
  • HC Organizations
    • HC
    • ARLIS/NA
    • AUPresses
    • HASTAC
    • MSU
    • SAH
  • MLA Visitor
Register Login
  • News Feed
  • Members
  • Groups and Forums
  • Sites and Blogs
  • CORE Repository
  • Help
  • MLA Online Publications
  • mla.org
  • HC Organizations
    • HC
    • ARLIS/NA
    • AUPresses
    • HASTAC
    • MSU
    • SAH

CORE Search Results Start Search Over

  • All Deposits 0
  • MLA Deposits
  • Utopias Misplaced:  The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea

    Author(s):
    Seo-Young Chu (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    Arts and Culture for Global Development, Cultural Studies, GS Speculative Fiction, Literary theory, Poetics and Poetry
    Subject(s):
    Korea (North), Dystopias, Dystopian fiction, Utopias, Dystopias, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Art, Art, Korea
    Item Type:
    Video essay
    Tag(s):
    uncanny valley, body politic, political aesthetics, affect studies, capitalism, juche, Asian Representation, Video games, media and culture, Cultural appropriation

  • Hydrocolonial Johannesburg

    Author(s):
    Louise Bethlehem (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global South, GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Speculative fiction, Intertextuality
    Item Type:
    Article

  • "I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley"

    Author(s):
    Seo-Young Chu (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    Arts and Culture for Global Development, Cultural Studies, GS Speculative Fiction, Literary theory, Narrative theory and Narratology
    Subject(s):
    Race, Ethnicity, Asian Americans--Study and teaching, Orientalism, Speculative fiction, Ethics
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    uncanny valley, Stereotypes, ethnic stereotypes, yellow peril, Race/ethnicity, Asian-American studies, Theory

  • Interlibrary Loan: Wolfe borrowing some of his fans for permanent loan

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    gene wolfe

  • Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, On Wolfe, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Twentieth century, Horror, Psychoanalysis
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    gene wolfe, 20th-century American literature, Trauma

  • Expanding the non-Took-side in Bilbo, for victory, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction
    Subject(s):
    Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973, Literature--Study and teaching, Fantasy literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    J. R. R. Tolkien, Tolkien studies

  • ENG 296 - Science Fiction (Spring 2021)

    Author(s):
    Mark Sample (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanities, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Popular Culture
    Subject(s):
    Science fiction, Science fiction films
    Item Type:
    Syllabus

  • Machine Learning and Human Perspective

    Author(s):
    Ted Underwood (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    2020 MLA Convention, Digital Humanists, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Digital Humanities
    Subject(s):
    Machine learning, Hermeneutics, Speculative fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy, Digital humanities
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    distant reading

  • Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels

    Author(s):
    Anita Harris Satkunananthan (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Environmental Humanities, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Speculative fiction, Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, Gothic literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Fantasy fiction, apocalypse, postcolonial Gothic, EcoGothic, Anthropocene, Postcolonial ecocriticism

  • Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory

    Editor(s):
    James Gifford (see profile) , Orion Ussner Kidder
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    American Literature, CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, Cultural Studies, GS Speculative Fiction, Theory and Modernism
    Subject(s):
    Fantasy, Critical theory, American literature, Culture--Study and teaching, Popular culture
    Item Type:
    Book
    Tag(s):
    Fantasy fiction, fantastic, Cultural studies, Theory

  • Day 1: Draft Prep Sheet on the 8 Parts of Speech through the Story of Hidden Figures

    Author(s):
    Laurie Ringer (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Education and Pedagogy, GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, Speculative and Science Fiction, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    Literature--Study and teaching, Language and languages--Study and teaching, Academic writing, Speculative fiction, Historical fiction, English language, College students' writings, Motion pictures
    Item Type:
    Course material or learning objects
    Tag(s):
    Hidden Figures, 8 Parts of Speech, Teaching literature, Language pedagogy, College writing, Film

  • Philosophy of Middle-earth (Syllabus)

    Author(s):
    James Gifford (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, CLCS Global Anglophone, Cultural Studies, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Popular Culture
    Subject(s):
    Popular culture, Literature--Philosophy, Fantasy literature, Twentieth century, Literature--Study and teaching, Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    Fantasy fiction, Philosophy and literature, 20th-century fantastic literature, Teaching literature, Literary criticism

  • MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) - Reading Utopia in Dark Times

    Author(s):
    Anindita Banerjee, Caroline Edwards (see profile) , Sean Grattan, Christian Haines, Robert Tally Jr., Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Phillip Wegner
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, Speculative and Science Fiction
    Subject(s):
    Criticism, Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge, Philosophy, Continental, Communism, Socialism, Dystopias
    Item Type:
    Abstract
    Tag(s):
    utopia, utopian studies, Literary criticism, Interdisciplinary literary criticism, Continental philosophy, Marxism, Dystopia, Theory

  • Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred

    Author(s):
    Marisa Parham (see profile)
    Date:
    2010
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC African American, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    American literature--African American authors, Speculative fiction, Science fiction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Octavia Butler, Henri Bergson, sexual assault, interracial, African American literature, Historical literacy, Trauma, Embodiment

  • Graphic Atwood

    Author(s):
    Thomas Scholz, Shraddha Singh, Karma Waltonen
    Editor(s):
    Lauren Rule Maxwell (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC Canadian, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Comic books, strips, etc.--Study and teaching, Canadian literature, Graphic novels, Speculative fiction, Women's studies, Women--Sexual behavior
    Item Type:
    Abstract
    Tag(s):
    Margaret Atwood, Postwar Canadian literature, Comic book studies, Women's gender, and sexuality studies

  • Margaret Atwood's _The Testaments_: Responses to _The Handmaid's Tale_ Sequel

    Author(s):
    Laura Birkin, Shelley Boyd, Megan Cannella, Nicole Lawrence, Marguerite Raymond, Lauren Rule Maxwell (see profile) , Brenda Shaughnessy, Karma Waltonen
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC Canadian, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Item Type:
    Abstract

  • Essays on the Lord of the Rings

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Psychoanalysis and literature, Reading--Philosophy, Writing--Philosophy, Art therapy, Affect (Psychology)
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Object relations, psychotherapy, Psychoanalytic criticism, Theories of reading and writing, Affect, Trauma

  • The (True) Lord of the Rings

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Affect (Psychology), Fantasy literature, Psychoanalysis and literature
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Identification, J. R. R. Tolkien, object relations, The Lord of the Rings, Affect, Psychoanalytic criticism

  • Reader's Guide to Fellowship of the Ring

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Fantasy literature, Affect (Psychology), Criticism--Psychological aspects, Psychoanalysis and literature
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    j.r.r. tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring, object relations, identification, Theories of affect, Psychological literary criticism

  • The Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
    Subject(s):
    Fantasy literature, Criticism--Psychological aspects, Psychoanalysis and literature, Affect (Psychology)
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Object Relations, real self, Speculative design, Psychological literary criticism, Affect

  • Not Meat

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2004
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Horror, Children's literature, British literature, Twentieth century
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    angela carter, company of wolves, 20th-century British literature

  • Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction

    Author(s):
    Carl Gelderloos (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    GS Prose Fiction, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Communism, Eastern Europe, Germany, Area studies, Socialism, Popular culture, Literature and science, Science fiction
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Astrobiology, Science and Politics, German studies, Marxism, Science and literature

  • Entangled States: Putting Affect Theory into Play with Nnedi Okorafor and Ann Leckie

    Author(s):
    Laurie Ringer (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Affect (Psychology), Science fiction, Critical theory, Literature--Theory, etc., Criticism, Literature--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Nnedi Okorafor, Ann Leckie, Binti trilogy, Imperial Radch, entangled states, Theories of affect, Literary therory and criticism, Teaching literature

  • Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith

    Author(s):
    Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American, MS Visual Culture
    Subject(s):
    Twentieth century, Aesthetics, Art criticism, Latin American literature, Latin America, Area studies
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    cultural history, Latin America, science fiction, visual art, 20th century, Latin American studies

  • The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman

    Author(s):
    Jay Clayton (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Biopolitics, Literature and science, Science fiction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    #bioethics, #genetics, posthumanism, Posthumanism

Viewing item 1 to 25 (of 41 items)
1 2 →

  • Author
    • Anastasia Salter 1X
    • André Carrington 1X
    • Anindita Banerjee 1X
    • Anita Harris Satkunananthan 1X
    • Brenda Shaughnessy 1X
    • Brian Croxall 1X
    • Carl Gelderloos 2X
    • Caroline Edwards 4X
    • Christian Haines 1X
    • Edwin Lambert Hetfield 1X
    • Eileen McGinnis 1X
    • James Gifford 3X
    • Jay Clayton 1X
    • Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor 1X
    • Julian Grajewski 1X
    • Karl Steel 1X
    • Karma Waltonen 2X
    • Laura Birkin 1X
    • Lauren Rule Maxwell 2X
    • Laurie Ringer 2X
    • Lee Skallerup Bessette 1X
    • Louise Bethlehem 2X
    • Marguerite Raymond 1X
    • Marisa Parham 1X
    • Mark Sample 1X
    • Megan Cannella 1X
    • Nicole Lawrence 1X
    • Orion Ussner Kidder 1X
    • Patrick McEvoy-Halston 8X
    • Phillip Wegner 1X
    • Rachel Bowser 1X
    • Robert Tally Jr. 1X
    • Scott Selisker 2X
    • Sean Grattan 1X
    • Seo-Young Chu 2X
    • Shelley Boyd 1X
    • Shraddha Singh 1X
    • Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares 1X
    • Ted Underwood 1X
    • Thomas Scholz 1X
    • more>>
  • Group
    • 2020 MLA Convention 1X
    • American Literature 1X
    • Arts and Culture for Global Development 2X
    • CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century 13X
    • CLCS Global Anglophone 3X
    • CLCS Global South 2X
    • CLCS Medieval 1X
    • Cultural Studies 4X
    • Digital Humanists 1X
    • Digital Humanities 1X
    • Ecocriticism 1X
    • Education and Pedagogy 1X
    • Environmental Humanities 1X
    • Frankfurt School Critical Theory 1X
    • GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature 5X
    • GS Comics and Graphic Narratives 1X
    • GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale 1X
    • GS Life Writing 1X
    • GS Prose Fiction 3X
    • GS Speculative Fiction 41X
    • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society 6X
    • LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German 2X
    • LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American 4X
    • LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone 5X
    • LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German 1X
    • LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American 1X
    • LLC African American 2X
    • LLC African since 1990 1X
    • LLC Canadian 3X
    • LSL Linguistics and Literature 1X
    • Literary theory 2X
    • MS Visual Culture 1X
    • Narrative theory and Narratology 1X
    • On Wolfe 1X
    • Poetics and Poetry 1X
    • Postcolonial Literature 1X
    • Speculative and Science Fiction 8X
    • TC Cognitive and Affect Studies 7X
    • TC Digital Humanities 1X
    • TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities 4X
    • TC Marxism, Literature, and Society 3X
    • TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies 1X
    • TC Philosophy and Literature 2X
    • TC Popular Culture 3X
    • TC Postcolonial Studies 6X
    • TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature 4X
    • TC Race and Ethnicity Studies 1X
    • TC Science and Literature 7X
    • TC Women’s and Gender Studies 4X
    • TM Literary Criticism 1X
    • TM Literary and Cultural Theory 5X
    • TM The Teaching of Literature 2X
    • Theory and Modernism 1X
    • more>>
  • Subject
    • Literature--Philosophy 3X
    • Literature--Study and teaching 4X
    • Literature and history 1X
    • Literature and science 6X
    • Literature, Medieval 1X
    • Machine learning 1X
    • Metaphysics 1X
    • Motion pictures 1X
    • Orientalism 1X
    • Philosophy 2X
    • Popular culture 3X
    • Postcolonialism 1X
    • Psychoanalysis 1X
    • Psychoanalysis and literature 4X
    • Race 1X
    • Reading--Philosophy 1X
    • Religion--Social aspects 1X
    • Science fiction 6X
    • Science fiction films 1X
    • Socialism 2X
    • Teaching 1X
    • Twentieth century 4X
    • Utopias 1X
    • Women--Sexual behavior 1X
    • Women's studies 1X
    • Writing--Philosophy 1X
    • Young adult literature 1X
    • Austria 1X
    • Korea 1X
    • Korea (North) 1X
    • Africa 1X
    • Eastern Europe 1X
    • Latin America 1X
    • Literature--Theory, etc. 1X
    • Art 1X
    • Science fiction 1X
    • Dystopias 1X
    • Queer theory 1X
    • Children's literature 1X
    • Speculative fiction 1X
    • Speculative fiction 9X
    • Philosophy, Continental 1X
    • Dystopian fiction 1X
    • Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 1X
    • Academic writing 1X
    • Aesthetics 2X
    • Affect (Psychology) 5X
    • African literature 1X
    • American literature 3X
    • American literature--African American authors 2X
    • Area studies 3X
    • Art 1X
    • Art criticism 1X
    • Art therapy 1X
    • Asian Americans--Study and teaching 1X
    • Biopolitics 1X
    • British literature 5X
    • Canadian literature 1X
    • Caribbean literature 1X
    • College students' writings 1X
    • Comic books, strips, etc.--Study and teaching 1X
    • Communism 2X
    • Critical theory 2X
    • Criticism 2X
    • Criticism--Psychological aspects 2X
    • Culture--Study and teaching 4X
    • Dystopias 1X
    • Dystopias 1X
    • Ecocriticism 3X
    • Ecology 1X
    • Economics and literature 1X
    • English language 1X
    • Ethics 2X
    • Ethnicity 1X
    • Fantasy 2X
    • Fantasy literature 5X
    • Germany 2X
    • Germanic literature 2X
    • Gothic literature 1X
    • Graphic novels 1X
    • Hermeneutics 1X
    • Historical fiction 1X
    • History 1X
    • History, Modern 1X
    • Horror 2X
    • Humanities 1X
    • Digital humanities 2X
    • Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge 1X
    • Intertextuality 1X
    • Language and languages--Study and teaching 1X
    • Latin American literature 1X
    • Linguistics 1X
    • Literature 1X
    • more>>
  • Item Type
    • Abstract 3X
    • Article 14X
    • Book 1X
    • Book chapter 4X
    • Book review 1X
    • Conference paper 5X
    • Course material or learning objects 2X
    • Essay 7X
    • Syllabus 3X
    • Video essay 1X
    • more>>
  • Date
    • 2022 1X
    • 2021 3X
    • 2020 1X
    • 2019 7X
    • 2018 2X
    • 2017 7X
    • 2016 3X
    • 2015 6X
    • 2014 1X
    • 2013 3X
    • 2012 1X
    • 2011 1X
    • 2010 1X
    • 2009 1X
    • 2008 1X
    • 2004 2X
    • more>>
  • File Type
    • Mixed material 1X
    • Text 37X

Contact Us

Modern Language Association
85 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004

On the Web: mla.org

E-mail: commons@mla.org

FAQ

How do I set e-mail notifications?
What is CORE?
What can the Commons do for my forum?
Why do unwanted characters appear in my post, comment, or page?
More FAQ

User Guides and Support

Getting Started

Groups on the Commons

Sites, Blogs, and WordPress

More MLA Commons Support
HUMANITIES COMMONS. BASED ON COMMONS IN A BOX.
TERMS OF SERVICE • PRIVACY POLICY • GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPATION

@

Not recently active