This is a group for members of this panel to upload their papers before the presentation, which will take place at MLA, San Francisco, 2023

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We’re interested in the very, very contemporary literature written in Spanish across the waters and States… Literature of the new century that explores the boundaries between different media, flirting with the online world –being completely digital, or not.

Hybridity lovers, media mutants, poetas del XXI, bienvenidos.

A group for collecting the other ephemeral digital traces of the 2013 meeting of the Modern Language Association.

Please contribute links, blog posts, Storifies, presentations, handouts, YouTube videos, SoundCloud clips, or any other media associated with the meeting.

“Alt-ac” signifies the group of professionals whose work is outside the tenure track but still in the orbit of the university.

Critical Insights: American Writers in Exile

We seek essays of 5,000 to 6,000 words for an anthology that explores the work of some of the more popular and/or influential American writers in exile. While we understand the term “exile” to refer typically to American writers who have either been forced to leave the United States or, more commonly, chosen self-exile, this term need not be defined so narrowly. That is, the United States has long been a refuge for people and writers from many countries, and many of these writers have gone onto become recognized as “American” writers. Thus, in our view, the phrase “in exile” involves writers moving across borders in multiple directions and for multiple reasons, including for reasons of duress (official or personal) or personal quest. Besides the famous Paris years before, between, and after the world wars (which includes such writers as Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright and many others), some writers commonly thought to be American writers in exile include James Baldwin, Ambrose Bierce, Elizabeth Bishop, William Burroughs, Hart Crane, John Dos Passos, T.S. Eliot, Janet Flanner, Washington Irving, Henry James, James Jones, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Katherine Anne Porter, Sylvia Plath, Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal, Edith Wharton, Edmund White, Thomas Wolfe. Of course, this is necessarily a partial list and we urge you to consider other relevant, well-known writers.

In line with the expectations of the Critical Insights series, we seek essays that:

1. Provide undergraduate and advanced high school students with a comprehensive introduction to works and aspects of American writers in exile that they are likely to encounter, discuss, and study in their classrooms;

2. Help students build a foundation for studying the works and aspects in greater depth by introducing them to key concepts, contexts, critical approaches, and critical vocabulary found in the scholarship relating to American writers in exile.

Hopefully, this collection of, hopefully, transnational, globalized American studies envisions understanding the intersection of our contemporary world and various American writers in exile in new cultural, historical, spatial, and epistemological frameworks. How does literary production in an increasingly globalized world—when seen from exile—affect a view back towards an America left behind? Or, conversely, how does exile push a writer to look outward to new American space(s)? How does (do) your chosen text(s) construct the United States at/in/against the context of a globalized, dehumanizing, suffocating, and endless movement of goods and services and ideas across international boundaries? These and other questions you may believe are important to answer about American writers in exile will guide your proposal and, eventually, the final essays.

The volumes follow a uniform format, including four original introductory essays as follows:

*a "critical lens" chapter (5,000 words; offers a close reading of the topic embodying a particular critical standpoint)

*a "cultural and historical context" chapter (5,000 words; addresses how the subject at hand influences the theme(s) of American writers in exile across different time periods and cultures, as well as what makes the concept relevant to a contemporary audience)

*a "compare/contrast" chapter (5,000 words; analyzes the topic of American writers in exile with regard to two or three different works, or authors, with some reference to the similarities and differences of their exile experiences contrasted with author(s) who did not leave the United States.)

*a "critical reception" chapter (5,000 words; surveys major pieces of comment or criticism of the topic and the major concerns, or aspects, that commentators on the topic have attended to over the years)

The book will also include ten chapters that analyze the themes that pervade the experience of American writers in exile and focus specific attention on some of the best works and/or authors in the “genre.” Each essay will be 5,000 words. Together, these chapters will offer readers a comprehensive introduction to the essential themes that arise from the lives and works of American writers in exile and reflect major critical approaches to the topic.

Writers are expected to:

Center their essays on works, topics, and critical approaches that are commonly studied at the advanced high school and undergraduate levels and are representative of foundational and mainstream critical discourse about American writers in exile. Topics and critical approaches should be neither dated, nor so cutting edge as to risk becoming dated in 5–10 years.

For the introductory critical reception and cultural/historical context essays, writers should not devote their essays to selective critical approaches or selective contexts. Rather, the introductory critical reception essay should offer readers a comprehensive overview of the body of criticism or comment on American writers in exile, and the introductory cultural/historical context should consider variety of contexts in which the topic is commonly situated.

Abstracts between 500 – 1000 words &amp; CV by November 10, 2014 to:

Jeff Birkenstein, Ph.D., &amp; Robert Hauhart, J.D., Ph.D.
Saint Martin’s University
5000 Abbey Way SE
Lacey, WA 98503
jbirkenstein@stmartin.edu
rhauhart@stmartin.edu

Completed first drafts of 5,000 words will be expected by: January 19, 2015

This group is dedicated to scholarly inquiry into the Humanities of Antarctica, most specifically, the Language, Literature, and Culture of Antarctica.

This group is for participants in the AVAnnotate Workshop at MLA2024. We will share our projects, open access AVMaterials, and instructions for using AVAnnotate.

A group for the MLA Commons beta testers. Introduce yourself, ask us questions, make suggestions, and leave us feedback!

Black German History and Culture

A group for scholars and graduate students who would like to discuss/ share their thoughts on the British and American Campus/ Academic Fiction.

This working group discusses research on cultural and material production by people who experienced different forms of detention during modern military conflicts. It focuses on life writing, literary and poetry works, photography and visual artworks by civilian internees, prisoners of war and refugees between 1940 and the present.

This group will work to identify Martín Gaite's most important and enduring contributions to Spanish literature and culture.

This site will be the repository for work related to the upcoming MLA24 roundtable on spatiality, geocriticism, and celebration.

This group focuses on representations of social class in literature, the dynamics of class intersectionality, and the way cultural texts structure comprehensions of socioeconomic difference. Our emphasis is broad, considering class formations of the past and the present from a range of global perspectives. The group is affiliated with The Working-Class Studies Association, but our primary focus centers on portrayals of class in literature. This space will operate as a hub of projects, collaborations, and proposals on the study of social class as it pertains to literary study.

Current executive committee:
Kaiama L. Glover, Jan. 2023
Nicole Aljoe, Jan. 2024 (2022-23, Chair)
Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez, Jan. 2025 (2022-23, Sec.)
Raj Chetty, Jan. 2026
Nathan Dize, Jan. 2027

Established in 2014, the forum on Global Hispanophone Studies provides a space for scholars to advance knowledge about the simultaneous global patterns that have historically and culturally shaped Spanish-speaking countries beyond Latin America and Spain, despite their distant and apparently disconnected geographical locations. These patterns include movements of peoples and ideas: among them are the networks interconnecting the Americas with Africa and the Philippines during Iberian colonial hegemony, and the interplay of both the Atlantic and the Pacific trade routes; territorial exchanges between colonial powers; the impact of Latin American emancipation on the rest of the Spanish-speaking world; and current migration patterns from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa into Spain and beyond. Also of interest are Spain’s 1898 colonial re-redesign, and the dialogues arising from the relocation of intellectuals from all colonial territories to the metropolis, before and after independence. Other areas of study that this forum would foster are comparative approaches of the increasing presence of the U.S. in the imaginaries of global Hispanophone countries, and—equally—the cultural impact of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S.. Moreover, this forum would provide a space for scholars studying the overarching discourses that challenge structures of power based on categories such as race, ethnicity, language, religion, gender, and tradition, across the literary and cultural productions of the Hispanic world.