Executive Committee:
Allison Margaret Bigelow, Jan. 2023 (2021-2023 chair)
David Alff, Jan. 2024 (2021-2022 secretary)
Eugenia Zuroski, Jan. 2025
Rachael Scarborough King, Jan. 2026
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Associate or Assistant Professor of Medieval and Iberian Studies, Spanish, UVA in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
We’re hiring! Please spread the news about our search for a colleague in early modern or medieval Iberian Studies, at the rank of assistant or associate professor (tenure-track or tenured). Position description and application information are available h…[Read more]
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David Alff started the topic MLA 2023 CFP — Race, Temporality, and Periodization: Rethinking 18c Studies in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Race, Temporality, and Periodization: Rethinking 18th-Century Studies (Roundtable) The “eighteenth century” named and analyzed by eighteenth-century studies has proven pliable in the figuration of the “long eighteenth century.” But to what extent does the persistent attachment to this historic period—even an elongated version of it—preclud…[Read more]
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David Alff started the topic MLA 2023 CFP — Anglo-Dutch Exchanges in the 17c-18c World in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Anglo-Dutch Exchanges in the 17-18c World (CFP, MLA 2023)
How did two nations separated by ninety miles of salt water establish rival patterns of resource extraction, settler conquest, capital finance, and maritime logistics that came to govern life the world over? This roundtable addresses the global impress of Anglo-Dutch relations in the 1600 a…[Read more] -
Emily Friedman deposited “Let people tell their stories their own way”: Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year ago
In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Gained, Lost, Missed, Ignored: Vernacular Scientific Translations from Agricola’s Germany to Herbert Hoover’s California in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
For the past twenty years, scholars of world and global history and literature have shown that the early modern world was a complex, entangled place. And yet, by emphasizing connection, such work at times overlooks the many separations that drove the engines of global early modernity: transoceanic slave trades, tribute labor, and the economic…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
The Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]
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Sarah Benharrech started the topic Nominee Statement for Forum Election (CLCS 18th-Century) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
Hello, my name is Sarah Benharrech and I would be deeply honored to be elected officer of the MLA 18th-c. Comparative Forum (CLCS 18th-Century).
Stemming from previous work on the morphology of characters in drama and novels in light of contemporary debates on taxonomy in eighteenth-century France, my current research focuses on enmeshments of…[Read more]
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Sarah Benharrech started the topic Call for abstracts: ASECS panel on Knowledge and Practices in the 18th Century in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Dear Colleagues,
If you are planning to attend ASECS annual meeting in Baltimore next Spring, please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel, the deadline has been extended to October 8th.
124. Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in the Eighteenth Century
This panel seeks to interrogate literary, cultural, and pictorial…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Special Issue of Eighteenth Century Studies: Indigeneity in the Long 18th C. in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
CALL FOR PAPERS, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE
Eighteenth-Century StudiesSpecial Issue on Indigeneity
In Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (2016), the historian Coll Thrush repositions England’s capital not only as a city where decisions were made to dispossess Indigenous peoples, but also as a space that…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Posting to CLCS 18th c. at the request of Leland G. Spencer, editor
Call for Papers
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Territoriality, Language, and Power in the 18th-19th c. Iberian World (MLA 2022 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Dear colleagues,
If you’re thinking of attending MLA 2022, please consider applying for this panel and/or spreading the word to interested colleagues. Thanks!
Nobel Prize winner and 20th-century poet Czeslaw Milosz famously wrote that “language is the only homeland.” In the 18th-19th century Iberian world, a world made by European imp…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Ethnohistory Submissions — Primary Sources for Research, Teaching, Activism in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years ago
Call for Submissions – Ethnohistorical Primary Documents (from Rob Schwaller)
The global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has dramatically affected academic research and publication. As many professional ethnohistorians struggle to meet the challenges of online teaching and face severely limited research opportunities, the editors of Ethnohistory…[Read more]
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Rachael King started the topic Statement on Forum Executive Committee Election in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Dear colleagues,
I’m honored to be nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the CLCS 18th-Century forum. I have been an MLA member since 2008. My work, while rooted in eighteenth-century British literature, crosses fields to draw from media studies, book history, and the history of ideas. My first book, Writing to the World: Letters a…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship: UVA, 2021 application cycle in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! The University of Virginia is thrilled to announce a new interdisciplinary PhD fellowship in Indigenous Studies, beginning Fall 2021. Any student admitted to a PhD program in the College of Arts & Sciences who intends to work in Indigenous Studies (art history, environmental science, history, religious studies,…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
From Leland G. Spenser (editorwomenandlanguage@gmail.com)
Call for Papers | Women & Language | Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender.…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: MLA 2021 (Toronto) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months ago
Dear colleagues,
Please see below for a panel on power and abuse in the eighteenth century world (MLA 2021, Toronto). Thanks!Efforts to ensconce and enforce social, political, and economic hierarchies punctuated much of eighteenth-century life and letters around the world. This was an era that bore witness to abuses of power at every level: the…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Panels organized by CLCS 18th-C. (MLA 2020, Seattle) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
Please join us at MLA 2020 for two panels on race, science, and the limits of the human in the global 18th c.:
Panel #1
074. Beyond the Border: Plant, Animal, Human. Jan 9, 2020, 1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Sheraton – Ravenna C“Diagramming Race in Eighteenth-Century Science and History,” Rachael King, U of California, Santa Barbara
“Angelic Species in En…[Read more] -
Pamela Phillips started the topic UPCOMING DEADLINE • The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
Dear colleagues: Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.
Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by: Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río P…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Dear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.
Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río…[Read more] - Load More