MLA Commons | TC Age Studies | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/ Activity feed for the group, TC Age Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:24:13 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6fad06b989a1c4507a46544a7cf8f68f Sharon Tran started the topic Aging into/with Memory Loss in the forum TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/aging-into-with-memory-loss/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 03:18:59 -0500 Please join us for this session organized by the Age Studies Forum, which explores alternative ways of imagining aging and memory loss beyond a negative, deficit framework. This session will convene in person on Friday, January 9 from 5:15-6:30pm in Room 803A of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.  Below is a list of our panelists and the title…[Read more]

]]> 0 08d481c820d78d217ea43493f6f59868 Sharon Tran started the topic Age and Political Protest in the forum TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/age-and-political-protest/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:39:51 -0500 Please join us for this session organized by the Age Studies Forum, which explores the intersections of age and political protest. This session will convene in person on Thursday, January 8 from 3:30-4:45pm in Room 604 of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.  Below is a list of our roundtable panelists and the title of their talks:

  • Susan Ha…

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]]> 0 e41e22f4d8cc5b93c3703f6b53616fdb Sharon Tran replied to the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control (Session 332) in the forum TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control-session-332/#post-1039271 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:35:10 -0500 Here is a link to my presider remarks, including the panelists’ bios.

]]> 0 fc03dcf47fa3f5a2acc79ecc4a452ba3 Cynthia R. Port started the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control (Session 332) in the forum TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control-session-332/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:16:57 -0500 This session, sponsored by the Disability Studies Forum (in collaboration with the Age Studies Forum), will take place on Friday, January 10th, 1:45-3:00 pm, Salon 18, Hilton Riverside, New Orleans. Sharon Tran will be presiding. We are pleased to share related materials via attachments below:

  1. Chris Gabbard, “Truth or Trickery in the Name of…

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]]> 0 ab12880610d97d38db5481bb19745cdb Sharon Tran replied to the topic Age and/as Disability in the forum TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/age-and-as-disability/#post-1039251 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:10:12 -0500 Here is a link to my presider remarks, including our panelists’ bios.

]]> 0 ca2ed116af304e5fbb1edb29126153a5 Sharon Tran started the topic Age and/as Disability in the forum TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/age-and-as-disability/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:51:49 -0500 Please join us for this joint session organized by the Age Studies and Disability Studies forums that aims to bring our fields more fully into critical dialogue. The session will convene in person on Friday, January 10th from 10:15-11:30am in Salon 3 (1st floor) of the Hilton Riverside New Orleans.

Our panelists have also kindly shared digital…[Read more]

]]> 0 01ccc036cd3a9001413f5999ee2bc885 SBussey started the topic Philadelphia plans in the discussion TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/philadelphia-plans/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:04:48 -0500 Looking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year’s Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]

]]> 0 6100dcd91f76dbfac4202f39d5eca6a0 SBussey started the topic Invitation for Self Nomination in the discussion TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/invitation-for-self-nomination/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:32:55 -0400 Greetings to all of you, and especially to those of you new to this Forum, or at least new to me!

The Age Studies Exec committe will be looking to elect 2 positions in January.

  1. Someone to represent us at the delegates meeting held at MLA each January. This is a position described by Leigh, below.
  2. Someone to step in as a new member of the…

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]]> 0 8c7c245a14f68413af39fb1ab36be214 SBussey replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-50/?view=all#post-1034928 Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:43:51 -0400 Yes! I want to encourage all of you to think about stepping into a more active role in this Forum. If you have never served as a Delegate, but often look for an opportunity to attend MLA, this is a great opportunity.  My underfunded Dean saw this as scholarly work, paid my registration, and provided travel funds during the time that I served as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5ba20bd257ad22902d066a328e13627 Jacob Jewusiak deposited Introduction: Forms of Aging in the group TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855422/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:22:48 -0400 This article provides an overview of the special issue. It argues that attention to literary forms plays an important role when it comes to issues of social justice and aging. Forms enable and disable what can be said; they shape the way we receive and process information; they conjure affects that can supplement or contradict the content that…[Read more]

]]> 0 995dc0bbc07377edf93805b04650156d Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures (Introduction) in the group TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855420/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:22:16 -0400 Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural
disasters: images of the “gray flood” and “silver tsunami” imbue
senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This
Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative
shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children,
but of one…[Read more]

]]> 0 c37335fcdf8bacbdc05bfdf77b63eaa2 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-50/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:27:45 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e8000e24fcb4fd967b3a37fef8e9977 Jacob Jewusiak deposited Tennyson’s Wrinkled Feet: Ageing and the Poetics of Decay in the group TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1775704/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:31:22 -0400 This article argues that Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ (1860) draws together ageing and decay through the poem’s formal wrinkling: moments where metrical disruption, folding, slackness, or concealment correspond to the insights derived from the perspective of great age — chiming the poet’s keynotes of disappointment, mourning, and loss. I turn to ‘Ulysses…[Read more]

]]> 0 420e1ece6885b8a4659887648bd134d0 Jacob Jewusiak deposited Grandpaternalism: Kipling's Imperial Care Narrative in the group TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1775702/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:28:51 -0400 The significance of old age in Kipling’s work has gone largely unacknowledged by critics who attend to the many youthful protagonists who sail, hunt, and explore their way across the plots of his fiction. This essay argues that the relationship between grandparent and grandchild in Kipling’s Kim serves as a representational strategy—at the level…[Read more]

]]> 0 70f30c64be5f8e992632112f24fabfa5 Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old From Dickens to Woolf (Introduction) in the group TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1775700/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:26:15 -0400 The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 efff42cd032c84fed8a4b86a12074eee Jacob Jewusiak started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language in the discussion TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-women-language-14/ Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:25:59 -0400 Hello Everyone,

For those interested, please see below a CFP for the journal Women and Language.

Best,

Jacob

———–

 

Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2ce2962b984676b7b87ba9470f20a7e Nancy C. Backes created the doc Age Studies Panels at Seattle Convention in the group TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1672601/ Fri, 13 Dec 2019 23:03:19 -0500 0 9a68808eff4d4a06b2a356ee258af859 Nancy C. Backes created the doc Nominating and Voting in the group TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1670254/ Sat, 16 Nov 2019 19:23:31 -0500 0 b68f07d832b15cbcd82def360d49e3f0 Jacob Jewusiak deposited Retirement in Utopia: William Morris's Senescent Socialism in the group TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658996/ Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:30:00 -0400 This essay argues that William Morris’s work displaces an implicit youthful bias in theories of utopia and socialism by making senescence a structuring principle of his ideal society. For Morris, capitalist age ideology stratifies the lifespan into zones of youth and old age, usefulness and excess, and he perceived the rising reformist…[Read more]

]]> 0 79f7b889ad4986c09ece12897efcb3e3 Michelle A. Massé started the topic REMINDER: CFPs for Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages due 3/15 at midnight in the discussion TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/reminder-cfps-for-womens-caucus-for-the-modern-languages-due-3-15-at-midnight/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:02:18 -0400 REMINDER: CFPs for Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages due 3/15 at midnight!

1) Balancing Acts: Academia’s Gendered Cost of Living

Description: This roundtable examines how women and men pay dearly for degrees in “feminized” fields. We know about students’ economic debts, which women have more of, while earning fewer dollars for repayment.…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c7e92ed40b09ae30c5a319d277b0cac Nancy C. Backes started the topic Age Studies Events at the Chicago MLA Convention in the discussion TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/age-studies-events-at-the-chicago-mla-convention/ Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:23:16 -0500 Come and  join other age studies scholars at  these remaining Chicago events. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Session 555. New Voices at the Intersection of Drama, Performance, and Age Studies

Saturday, 5 January 3:30-4:45 p.m., Columbian Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel

Program arranged by the forums TC Age Studies and GS Drama and P…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f9d49e74f9e502b7f5e87023a912eca Nancy C. Backes started the topic Honoring Margaret Morganroth Gullette in Chicago in the discussion TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/honoring-margaret-morganroth-gullette-in-chicago/ Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:51:23 -0500 I am very pleased to let you know that Margaret Morganroth Gullette is being awarded the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars for her book, Ending Ageism; Or, How Not To Shoot Old People. This honor will be presented at the MLA Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 5 January, at 7:00 p.m. in the Sheraton Ballroom I-IV of the Sheraton Grand Hotel. Margaret’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 9313818b035f063749b469f2184bbd9c Nancy C. Backes started the topic Age Studies Sessions at MLA 2019, Chicago in the discussion TC Age Studies via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/age-studies-sessions-at-mla-2019-chicago/ Wed, 05 Dec 2018 19:43:17 -0500 Here are the sessions at MLA 2019 that pertain to Age Studies. Looking
forward to seeing you there!

*Age Studies Panels at the MLA Convention in Chicago*

*3-6 January 2019*

*Session 38. Aging, Care, and Humor*

Thursday, 3 January

12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Toronto Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel

Program arranged by the forum TC Age…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d25b957eeeee8a8481d6522f08b432d Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP -- North American Network in Aging Studies conference paper deadline 11/1 in the discussion TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/cfp-north-american-network-in-aging-studies-conference-paper-deadline-11-1/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:43:06 -0400 Dear colleagues in Age Studies,

We are happy to announce that the joint international conference of the North American and European Networks in Aging Studies hosted by the Trent Center for Aging & Society in Peterborough, ON, is coming closer, and conference preparations are already in full swing!

And now, it’s time to add one of the most i…[Read more]

]]> 0 214ec74528b4126aed3906942a9a5ffd Nancy C. Backes started the topic Nominations for the 2019 TC: Age Studies Executive Committee Election in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/nominations-for-the-2019-tc-age-studies-executive-committee-election/ Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:01:19 -0400 This is an invitation for you to nominate someone–self nominations welcome–for a position on the TC: Age Studies executive committee. When the executive committee meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago, it will take up the matter of nominations for the executive committee elections that will be held in fall 2019. One nominee will be…[Read more]

]]> 0 99b417bf5b67ff27dbb4d00a2b547c72 Sally Chivers posted an update in the group TC Age Studies: CFP--Putting it into Words: Age, Language, and Expression: […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599792/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:08:02 -0500 CFP–Putting it into Words: Age, Language, and Expression: We invite abstracts for a guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago proposed by the TC Age Studies forum. There are situations throughout the life course that are beyond words, yet authors must put them into words. We invite papers that draw on age studies scholarship to explore…[Read more]

]]> 0 bacd971b2d0517d4c01eda800a4516f6 Jacob Jewusiak posted an update in the group TC Age Studies: CFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599697/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:39:13 -0500 CFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago as part of the TC Age Studies Forum. This panel solicits papers that address the intersections of age and masculinity in literature or film. Papers might consider the following questions: How do modalities such as time and space change as men grow older? How does…[Read more]

]]> 0 a1ed7908cfceb8508ccbef1f788e71c6 Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group TC Age Studies: CFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599236/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:55:17 -0500 CFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago to be proposed jointly by the GS Drama & Performance and TC Age Studies forums. Responding to the growing interest in age/aging among theatre and performance scholars, the panel seeks papers examining any aspect of the life course from childhood to old age, in…[Read more]

]]> 0 5821a09fde745dacdf3c38d5edc658da Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group TC Age Studies: Feel free to send me ideas for next year's MLA Age-Studies […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594748/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:25:30 -0500 Feel free to send me ideas for next year’s MLA Age-Studies panels. The exec. committee will be discussing them Saturday. Email: lipscomb@sar.usf.edu

]]> 0 354eabacdfff4abd4ff7636debe924fb Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group TC Age Studies: Be sure to attend our Age Studies session this year: Global […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594747/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:19:53 -0500 Be sure to attend our Age Studies session this year: Global Perspectives on Aging in Literature and Film, Saturday, noon-1:15, Sutton South, Hilton. If you’re interested in Age Studies, we want to meet you!

]]> 0 cb5600047d515ac9d00af11b5a6970db Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1576749/ Thu, 27 Jul 2017 01:11:42 -0400 As the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines Flight on April 9th, 2017 by Chicago security police who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth. Some media have treated this as a horror perpetrated by a single airline that bullies passengers, or by a business model…[Read more]

]]> 0 61ad1ffadaec508d02b867ff5c55c446 Lauren M. Bowen started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Literacy in Composition Studies on aging in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/cfp-special-issue-of-literacy-in-composition-studies-on-aging/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:57:56 -0400 Call for Papers: Special Issue of Literacy in Composition Studies

Composing a Further Life

Guest Editors: Lauren Marshall Bowen and Suzanne Rumsey

The world is aging. According to the National Institute on Aging, rising life expectancies and reduced fertility mean that the percentage of older adults is steadily increasing worldwide. Longer…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cde5fb92068a4447033d6ca9747abe8 Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP for non-guaranteed collaborative session MLA 2018 in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-non-guaranteed-collaborative-session/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:25:03 -0500 Organization: Age Studies and The Teaching of Literature collaboration
Title of session: Approaches to Teaching Age in Literature
Submission requirements: 300-word abstract, brief CV
Deadline for submissions: 10 March 2017
Description: How and why do/should faculty incorporate age and/or aging into literature courses? How does the current academic…[Read more]

]]> 0 3cfbaa655f363e8c77a106e7610950ec Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557230/ Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:13:27 -0500 This is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 655dda0e1fc5f21fc5f1c9bb23d4be9f Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Everyone welcome tonight for socializing after our session in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/everyone-welcome-tonight-for-socializing-after-our-session/ Sat, 07 Jan 2017 17:36:25 -0500 We will be gathering at City Tap House, 2 Logan Square, after the last Age Studies session at the Convention Center.  This is a casual spot with drinks and a varied menu.  We’ll be there around 7, assuming that we head there after the session ends at 6:30.   If you’d like to get to know scholars working in Age Studies, you’re very welcome, wh…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f0d57319c089e35bb27d404678c559a Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Join us for the Age Studies events at MLA 2017 in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/join-us-for-the-age-studies-events-at-mla-2017/ Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:28:08 -0500 MLA Sessions Relevant to Age Studies

Note: All of the sessions below relate to the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions

 

Thursday 5 January

Session 9

“Reimagining Adolescence: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”

12 noon-1:15 p.m.

102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

 

Session 96

“Out of Narrative Bounds: Medical Human…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a40c79080d96ff41b2c1961bbc927c5 Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions Invited for First Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/suggestions-invited-for-first-forum-delegate-election/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:19:11 -0400 In the fall of 2017, TC Age Studies will hold its first-ever Delegate Assembly election. The nomination process that applies to executive committee elections will also apply to the election of forum delegates, so membership suggestions are needed–see Valerie Lipscomb’s post. So when the forum’s executive committee meets during the January 2017 c…[Read more]

]]> 0 5883af0f899cc3eaaa5a1c26b8c30467 Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Suggest nominees for the Age Studies Forum Executive Committee in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/suggest-nominees-for-the-age-studies-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 28 Oct 2016 21:45:16 -0400 When the Age Studies Forum Executive Committee meets in January, we will consider possible nominees for the fall 2017 exec. committee election.  We nominate at least one candidate who has been suggested by the forum’s membership, unless there are too few suggestions. We encourage all of you to submit possible nominees, and self-nominations are en…[Read more]

]]> 0 7beb1f8df0be0963911926cc62df0c55 Jacob Jewusiak started the topic Age Studies board election in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/age-studies-board-election/ Sat, 22 Oct 2016 01:07:21 -0400 As a nominee for this forum’s executive committee, I would like to introduce myself and my research.

As we know, Age Studies is one of the most interesting, developing fields at the moment. For the MLA panels, I would be interested in choosing topics that showcase the interdisciplinary nature of the field. I would also like to solicit s…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f242337e3e636e8ed77b4e4c8672241 Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Adolescence in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-adolescence/ Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:32:53 -0500 CFP for Special Session to be proposed for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:

Re-constituting, re-imagining, or re-negotiating adolescence in culture, memory, age studies, or literature. Abstracts by 7 March 2016; Nancy C. Backes (backesnc@gmail.com)

]]> 0 4ca404bb5908ab21150f36cade6f263f Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Age Studies CFP for MLA 2017, non-guaranteed session in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/age-studies-cfp-for-mla-2017-non-guaranteed-session/ Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:31:36 -0500 CFP for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia, for a non-guaranteed session proposed by the MLA Age Studies Forum:

The Boundaries of Literary Age Studies

What are/should be the parameters of age studies in literature? How should literary age studies intersect and interact with other age-focused disciplines? What are the unique contributions of literary age…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6278cb02fbd29b09c085abaec02240c Suzanne England deposited Driving Miss Daisy as Memory Theatre in the group TC Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/532758/ Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:49:51 -0400 Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Driving Miss Daisy (1986) is examined as a site of memory including: Uhry’s own memories upon which the characters and the play itself are based; the role of memory stories, settings and objects in the unfolding of the relationship be-tween its main characters, Daisy Wertham and her chauffeur, Hoke Col…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f092512b10fa888eb5a9c3028da2058 Erin Lamb replied to the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/requesting-help-from-those-who-teach-undergrads/#post-7381 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:49:21 -0400 Nicky – thank you so very, very much!

]]> 0 4e56c2dcadc9e0ad1c12c8254fda2dbc Nicky Agate replied to the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/requesting-help-from-those-who-teach-undergrads/#post-7377 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 20:35:39 -0400 I’ve crossposted this in the news section of the Commons Newswire.

]]> 0 d28a2655335f59dfa6d09a2eaa5c27e2 Erin Lamb started the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/requesting-help-from-those-who-teach-undergrads/ Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:51:15 -0400 Hello,

I am writing to request your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies.  I am looking to find respondents who both:

 teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only b…[Read more]

]]> 0 0780ae3edce1ac5554dfd15ed0db2728 Michelle A. Massé started the topic CFP Extension: Age Studies Forum panel, MLA 2016 in the discussion Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/cfp-extension-age-studies-forum-panel-mla-2016-3/ Sun, 08 Mar 2015 01:18:26 -0500 The deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.

What difference does age make in…[Read more]

]]> 0 99aa310cd17045707c521b5c68a3749e Cynthia R. Port started the topic Age Studies CFPs for MLA 2016 in the discussion Age Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/age-studies-cfps-for-mla-2016/ Sun, 01 Mar 2015 01:19:27 -0500 An exciting range of panels seeking papers for MLA 2016:

The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_7484
Ageism and Activism: EngAging the Public http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_8111
Reading Over Time http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_8109
Time, Youth, and Age in Renaissance Literature http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_7886
The…[Read more]

]]> 0 71ac2053bc7fcbb7e30c90b4c708035c Cynthia R. Port started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Reading Over Time (deadline 3/15/15) in the discussion Age Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2016-reading-over-time-deadline-31515/ Sat, 28 Feb 2015 06:39:32 -0500 “No story is the same to us after a lapse of time,” George Eliot writes in Adam Bede, “or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.” For a proposed MLA special session, we seek papers on reencountering texts at different moments in the life course. Given debates about the perception of “late style” in the work of artists and…[Read more]

]]> 0 1843da2c1a47ad0b545485d2dd97c5a1 Jen Boyle edited the file: Response to Age Studies Panel: Aging and the Posthuman in Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/88554/ Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:45:18 -0500 0 4b21a292ffb9ee5b8c925d39cec8919b Jen Boyle edited the file: Response to Age Studies Panel: Aging and the Posthuman in Age Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/88553/ Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:44:26 -0500 0