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Briana Martino deposited And None of it Fits Inside Panels: Graphic Silence in Graphic Medicine in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 days, 21 hours agoLightning Talk from Session 393: Keywords and Keyimages in Graphic Medicine
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Kim Adams started the topic High Theory Happy Hour in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week agoHigh Theory is a podcast that asks simple questions about difficult concepts.
We invite you to a happy hour this evening to gossip about the conference and plan how critical theory can save (or destroy) the world.Join us any time between 7 and 8pm at https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93233776393
Please visit our website, hightheory.net to learn more…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week agoDear Colleagues,
Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!
548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean, and…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight: Join us for joyful conversation in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week agoDear Colleagues,
Good afternoon. We are so excited that this evening we are holding the annual multi-forum reception. It will be held via zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m. We hope that you might write to your forum list-serves and/or post to your H-Commons page a reminder of the event. It is listed as event 548 in the MLA Meetings Calendar. Elena M…[Read more]
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Vivian Delchamps deposited Disability and “Chastened Merriment”: Queer Joy in Theodore Winthrop’s Cecil Dreeme in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week agoTheodore Winthrop’s novel Cecil Dreeme, first published after Winthrop died in 1861—is, according to Christopher Looby, quote, “a very queer book indeed,” endquote. Here I argue that the novel offers significant opportunities for study of disability, queer desire, and joy from nineteenth-century America to today. To explore the relatio…[Read more]
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Kim Adams deposited High Theory Podcast Invitation 2 in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week agoWe are hosting a happy hour to celebrate our podcast “High Theory” in conjunction with the MLA conference.
We cannot buy you a drink, but we will charm you on Zoom with silly games like theory Pictionary.
Please join us on Saturday, January 9, any time between 7 and 8 pm EST.
RSVP to info@hightheory.net or visit http://www.hightheory.net to learn…[Read more] -
anna doyle deposited Paradjanov Tallk, POetics of the Minor, Draft in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week agoParadjanov poetics of the minor – From Deleuze to Georges Bataille
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Kim Adams deposited High Theory Podcast Invitation in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day agoHigh Theory is a podcast that takes on difficult ideas from the academy with irreverence. We invite you to join us for a MLA happy hour on Saturday January 9, from 7-8pm. We would love to hear your podcast ideas! Email us at info@hightheory.net or RSVP for a Zoom link on our website hightheory.net
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Anne Donlon deposited Using MLA Commons and Humanities Commons to Tell the Story of Your Work (MLA 2021) in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day agoThis presentation introduces ways to use MLA Commons and Humanities Commons to curate your online presence, increase the impact of your scholarship, and tell the story of your work. It introduces profiles, sites, groups, and the CORE repository, highlighting the ways members can use these networks for collaboration, discussion, and experimentation…[Read more]
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Anoff Nicholas Cobblah deposited George Romanes and Recreational Interdisciplinarity: Why We “Find Recreation in Each Other’s Labours” in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day agoIn 1879, Scots-Canadian biologist George Romanes suggested a physiological defense for working outside one’s discipline. In his essay on “Recreation,” Romanes theorized that different activities use up nutrients and energy in different muscles and parts of the brain. According to Romanes, a historian practicing science and a scientist study…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week, 2 days agoDear MLA members,
Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
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Elena Machado Sáez posted an update in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week, 2 days agoMLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels
Dear MLA members,
Join us today at one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
• Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM EST.…[Read more] -
Amanda Caleb deposited “Baby is as big as a guinea pig”: The (non)heteronormative Experience of Pregnancy in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week, 2 days agoThis is a copy of my presentation for Session #140: Bodily Persistence: Curating Better Medicine through Posthumanism. The presentation considers the posthumanism of pregnancy representation in the Ovia pregnancy app and the short story collection _With Animal_.
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Michelle Rabe deposited Getting the Yips: Health and Superability Thrown a Curve in The Art of Fielding in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week, 3 days agoIn Disability Theory (2008), Tobin Siebers theorizes the “ideology of ability,” or the default sociocultural desire for able-bodiedness, that governs our conceptions of bodily norms, health, and wellness. The ideology of ability “defines the baseline by which humanness is determined, setting the measure of body and mind that gives or denies human…[Read more]
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Tariq Sheikh deposited This Side of the Long Tunnel: The Emergence of the Idea of Japan’s ‘Snow Country’ in the Nineteenth Century in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week, 3 days agoIn Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Snow Country, the protagonist Shimamura refers to an “old book” which gave him in-depth knowledge about the region known in Japan as the “Snow Country”. The name of the book is not disclosed by Kawabata, but it is now known that the “old book” is Hokuetsu Seppu (first published in 1837), written by Su…[Read more]
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Caterina Agostini deposited 2021 MLA Poster Session: Presentation Transcript in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 week, 4 days agoThis is the transcript for my video presentation, in which I showcase my Digital Humanities project on Galileo’s letters.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Council of Editors of Learned Journals Mentoring Event: Chat with an Editor in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 6 days agoSharing in my role of Secretary of CELJ…please disseminate widely to graduate students and ECRs… ~ Janine Utell
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is hosting its annual Chat with an Editor program, in an expanded edition and in conjunction with the virtual Modern Language Association Convention. The Chat provides 20-minute time…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 weeks agoDear MLA members,
Please consider attending one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of Califo…
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Stacey Courtney uploaded the file: Want to upload your MLA 2021 materials to the CORE repository? to
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 month agoLearn how to upload your MLA 2021 convention presentation and materials fo the CORE repository. Use this to safely and securely share your materials with session attendees and fellow participants.
