MLA Commons | LLC Canadian | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Canadian. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:21:23 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3f8f7f4716e267e610b4511347deb983 Eleanor R. Ty started the topic Canadian Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/canadian-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:22:12 -0500 Hello, The Canadian Literature Forum is looking for a new Executive Committee member to join our group. Currently, the members are:

L. Camille van der Marel, Jan. 2026 (2025–Jan. 2026 Acting Ch.)
Eleanor R. Ty, Jan. 2027 (2025–Jan. 2026 Acting Sec.)
Max Karpinski, Jan. 2028
Orly Lael Netzer, Jan. 2029
Eric Schmaltz, Jan. 2030

The work is not one…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed588b0c94cb6bd6e471fb63f13ded00 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-3/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:08:13 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7c5353d87d1f10f85d5d736a8be1bc9 Graham Jensen started the topic Last chance! Send us your MLA 2024 proposals on CanLit and TV/film! in the discussion LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/last-chance-send-us-your-mla-2024-proposals-on-canlit-and-tv-film/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 05:50:02 -0400 NOTE: There are just two days left before the March 15 deadline!

Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:

This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e975b83ea75b931704bc27158f952978 Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: CanLit Adapts/Adapting Canadian Literature in the discussion LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/cfp-canlit-adapts-adapting-canadian-literature/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:06:35 -0500 Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:

This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity, “Canadianness,” pedagogy, and production from critics and…[Read more]

]]> 0 123be2a5c8c21d0041410a9ee779546c Eleanor R. Ty started the topic Nominate yourself to the Canadian Literature committee in the discussion LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/nominate-yourself-to-the-canadian-literature-committee/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:58:03 -0500 We are currently seeking one new member for the Canadian Forum. Executive committees serve for five years and help choose the topics for the conference. Please send your nominations to Graham Jensen ghjensen@uvic.ca by Friday, Jan 20, 2023 at noon. Thank you.

 

]]> 0 1ba8a27866d810f328d3cd763abac4b5 Faye Hammill deposited Canadian Literature syllabus in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830473/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:48:45 -0500 Syllabus for final-year undergraduate one-semester course on anglophone Canadian literature

]]> 0 b6359383b6a17181f535d3519db98fcf Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: Working in Canadian Literary Archives (MLA 2023, San Francisco) in the discussion LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/cfp-working-in-canadian-literary-archives-mla-2023-san-francisco/ Sat, 05 Feb 2022 20:01:10 -0500 Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:

“Working in Canadian Literary Archives”

Short papers on work in or about Canadian literary archives—issues, gaps, holdings, digitization, access, and how archives/archival objects intersect with notions or depictions of labour. P…[Read more]

]]> 0 559589f3e0cab8a1132f859c5e57a348 Elizabeth Israel started the topic From Forum Chair Rob Zacharias: ALECC 2020 Online Conference in the discussion LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/from-forum-chair-rob-zacharias-alecc-2020-online-conference/ Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:20:57 -0400 I am posting the following message on behalf of LLC Canadian’s executive committee chair, Rob Zacharias:

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are pleased to announce and invite participation in the upcoming July 8-22, 2020, online conference of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) on the theme Watershed,…[Read more]

]]> 0 52ca27d29c585e04c061ab73e1b7ef50 Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Canadian Environments and the Extraction Economy in the discussion LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/cfp-canadian-environments-and-the-extraction-economy/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:34:59 -0500 Canadian Environments and the Extraction Economy
This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum and the Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum, considers the cultures and histories of resource extraction in Canada. We seek papers on Canadian and/or Indigenous literatures and environments. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]

]]> 0 481f2881f391045c3e1ad0788b006500 Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Scarborough in/as Canadian Literature in the discussion LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/cfp-scarborough-in-as-canadian-literature/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:30:13 -0500 Scarborough in/as Canadian Literature
This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum, considers the recent florescence of literature from and about Scarborough, ON. We seek papers discussing particular works related to Scarborough, as well as theoretical approaches. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March 2020 Robert Zacharias, York…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf0bf6c4e902aeb8daa1ce421ca25f7e Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Indigenous-diasporic relations on Turtle Island in the discussion LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/cfp-indigenous-diasporic-relations-on-turtle-island/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:28:23 -0500 Indigenous-diasporic relations on Turtle Island
What are the possibilities for building alliances across lines of difference on Turtle Island? What are the challenges of intertwining decolonial struggles? We welcome papers, artistic, and pedagogical provocations on diasporic-Indigenous relations on Turtle Island.Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]

]]> 0 07cf2181b41dac14f50b29ca81b24f69 Graham Jensen started the topic (CFP) Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age in the discussion LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/cfp-future-horizons-canadian-literature-and-public-debate-in-the-digital-age/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 23:50:13 -0500 Please consider submitting a proposal for the following conference, which should be of interest to LLC Canadian members.

Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age
McMaster University | Hamilton, ON | May 28–29, 2020

The past few years have demonstrated limitations of and problems with the concept of Canadian l…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d1ab23986b740da44911de1054180ad Graham Jensen started the topic (CFP) Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age in the discussion LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/cfp-future-horizons-canadian-literature-and-public-debate-in-the-digital-age/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 23:50:13 -0500 Please consider submitting a proposal for the following conference, which should be of interest to LLC Canadian members.
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>McMaster University | Hamilton, ON | May 28–29, 2020</p>
The past few years have d…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e1d86ca696e656bd3baf6abe1ab0778 Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636852/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 16:30:02 -0400 Abstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.

]]> 0 856d6b95333d6375bbecc6c1832dab1a Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Soothing Satire in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635602/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 04:00:31 -0400 Explores Douglas Coupland’s “Generation X” as almost a Gen Xer’s “version of John Updike’s Couples”; that is, as, a place where, like Updike’s book, friends create a community isolated only to themselves. Though unlike Updike’s work, where — considering the time it was written in, the ’70s, where a generation succeeded in overtly contesting and…[Read more]

]]> 0 bbc2f9f9b172b34ad4ff98e3e6f51392 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Good Place for a Pump and a Dump in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634365/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 04:12:54 -0500 Explores Bertram Brooker’s “Think of the Earth” from Norman Holland’s perspective of literature as a “place” where unsavory wishes can be satisfied, without alarming super-ego censors. Explores the character Tavistock as built to lure many readers into situating themselves within him, for conveying characteristics that define him as both a prodigy…[Read more]

]]> 0 331c2ab120868a612ac83ff60078b11e Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Other Crowd in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633184/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 04:03:40 -0500 A.M. Klein’s “Political Meeting” as problematic as a poem highlighting and delineating a dangerous orator’s power; as really more on which suggests he’s ensnared, enslaved, by the crowd’s expectations and demands of him to “lead” them into particular fervour.

]]> 0 2e7f865de545e8392d77d2bb65271803 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Leaving Home in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633181/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 03:54:41 -0500 Explores Elizabeth Daryush’s “Children of wealth in your warm nursery” as of a narrator visiting us to warn us about our possible ill-fate, if we don’t “escape..” The game for the reader is to decide if she’s to be trusted, or not.

]]> 0 1e33314e15ebde7fbe439b48c907d146 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Poet as Physician in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633072/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 04:03:26 -0500 Daphne Marlatt’s “Healing” as a poem about re-cooperating from the infliction of a triggering, caustic word upon one’s mental composition, using efficacy, experience in knowing composure and competency, as a rebutting counter.

]]> 0 9925f80eadd3550fbc5af15978a92dca Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Introductions and Initiations in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633069/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 03:54:35 -0500 Explores how Phyllis Webb’s “To Those Who Have Also Considered Suicide” is a poem which mischievously induces the reader to become one of the “friends” who undergo the “initiation” of suicide. The reader is encouraged to let go any grievance, however, in consideration of the poet’s successful demonstration of the initiation as involving genuine…[Read more]

]]> 0 b77cd1329238d10ebedbdb0683340efc Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Canadian Literature in English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-17/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:31:49 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 0 092c941bcf6ce4a8119d425429ee4829 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Language and Culture of Quebec in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615439/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:11:54 -0400 Detailed Syllabus and outline for a 7-week course in the history of the language and culture of Quebec.

]]> 0 66b29f98849869f836d5d62503b49501 Zane Koss deposited Prehistoric Canadian Networks: Louis Dudek, Marshall McLuhan and the Post in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615154/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:54:58 -0400 In 1949, Montreal poet Louis Dudek circulated a package of poetry manuscripts through a decentralized network of writers working in the U.S. and Canada that he called the “Poetry Grapevine.” In the manifesto-like instructions for the project, Dudek declares that “THERE IS A LOT MORE HAPPENING IN OUR DAILY LIVING CONSCIOUSNESS (NOT TO SPEAK OF UN…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e75cf6dc9afb325749370a7251d6cc4 Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1607168/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:25:01 -0400 In a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f0c52ac8a1253202d904b675699b783 Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion Canadian Literature in English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2019-the-global-far-north-arctic-literatures-4/ Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:02:59 -0400 The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures
The Global South has challenged Eurocentric narratives; what of the Global (Extreme) North? Colonial encounters; environmental extremes; imperial and indigenous literatures in the Arctic.
200-word abstract and CV or brief bio to Rebecca Stanton (rjs19@columbia.edu) by March 18.

(Sponsored by LLC…[Read more]

]]> 0 4916eb5e8d03cc3849085872d9516ba1 Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Canada's Troubling Indifference to the Air India Bombing in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601980/ Tue, 27 Feb 2018 04:01:54 -0500 Why has the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing not claimed a more prominent place in Canadian history and public memory?

]]> 0 4b18fb4c5d1be704b21ecf638f55b4bb Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited How to Make Love to a Negro: But What if I get Tired? Transculturation and its (Partial) Negation In and Through Translation in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565332/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:04:19 -0400 Dany Laferrière’s first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre was a literary sensation when it was first released in Quebec in the mid-80s. The author/narrator plays with reader’s expectations, presenting both a stereotypical image of the black man (sex-obsessed, white-hating) and one that contradicts and upsets their expectations. Influen…[Read more]

]]> 0 102c15568acdf6ae38c6cdf1303d54bf Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited "Any differences between our versions and Scott's...": Collaboration, Anxiety of Influence, and a Translation of Anne Hébert's "Le Tombeau des rois" in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565298/ Sat, 25 Mar 2017 01:25:00 -0400 An analysis of the collaboration between Peter Miller and Louis Dudek in the translation of Anne Hébert’s poem, The Tomb of Kings.

]]> 0 0df9fde53b52949a3e9ac1a9cc3351b1 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Re-Evaluating Suvin: Brown Girl in the Ring as Effective Magical Dystopia in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565293/ Sat, 25 Mar 2017 01:12:45 -0400 This paper will begin by looking at the historical theoretical relationship between science fiction and dystopia. It will then proceed to demonstrate how recent theorists have failed to adequately incorporate the practical changes authors have introduced to the genre, which includes the incorporation of aspects of magical realism. Brown Girl in…[Read more]

]]> 0 45abad280ce3d6e5c542f6af8e06d2d6 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565279/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:29:06 -0400 Author Dany Laferrière, after a seven year hiatus from writing, produced the book Je suis un écrivain japonais (2008) [I am a Japanese Writer]. The title recalls statements he has frequently made in interviews about how much he hates being pigeon-holed by national or racial labels. The book itself is an examination of what (or who) defines s…[Read more]

]]> 0 91dfcd8e3d6dbc32aa0483fcb9c0c6d1 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Becoming a Gwo Nèg in 1970s Haiti: Dany Laferrière's Coming-of-Age Film Le Goût des Jeunes Filled (On the Verge of Fever) in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565273/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:10:01 -0400 When all men are either dead, exiled, thugs or zombies in a world ruled through violence and terror by a President-for-Life and his son, how is a young boy expected to come of age and forge his own identity? Le Goût des Jeunes Filles (On the Verge of Fever), a 2004 film about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy, set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the same…[Read more]

]]> 0 685e0b5225ec659a4dffe40c6fbb8659 James Gifford deposited NOTES The Handmaid's Tale in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1563278/ Sat, 25 Feb 2017 20:13:54 -0500 Lecture/class notes on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.

]]> 0 02fd0935e2094c176d59dfe64db3c63c James Gifford deposited Anarchist Surrealism & Canadian Apocalyptic Modernism: Allusive Political Praxis in Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/550630/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 18:30:32 -0400 This article gestures to the 1930s through 1950s inter­national anarchist literary networks that ran from Paris to London and Athens, Cairo and Alexandria, Shang­hai, Oxford and Cambridge, New York and San Francisco, and finally Big Sur and Vancouver. The distribution across these nodes was intense and sustained, but this project only hints at t…[Read more]

]]> 0 2420ba4e7aceaa102a849908c26d17d8 Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U in the discussion Canadian Literature in English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/history-memory-grief-a-30th-air-india-anniversary-conference-mcmaster-u-5/ Thu, 05 May 2016 17:12:47 -0400 <div class=”entry-content”>
History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University, May 6-7, 2016
On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the majority of…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ef7ef7c4778708f026bcd81b5559076 Jade R. Ferguson started the topic CFP: Respect, Responsibility, Coalition, Relation (MLA 2017) in the discussion Canadian Literature in English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian/forum/topic/respect-responsibility-coalition-relation-mla-2017/ Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:51:03 -0400 Respect, Responsibility, Coalition, Relation
In the wake of Idle No More and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists, writers and scholars are called to self-reflexively articulate and act upon a politics or poetics of relation. What forms might such a politics or poetics take? How are these reflected in…[Read more]

]]> 0 36c68bb72f228af753253e5602d1a9a3 Shazia Rahman deposited Rachna Mara’s Cosmopolitan (Yet Partial) Feminisms in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538438/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 20:04:13 -0500 This article shows how Rachna Mara’s collection of short stories Of Customs and Excise puts forth a cosmopolitan feminism that reveals the losses and gains of diaspora in an arena of partiality and relationality.

]]> 0 0eaff13cbd9a63169a504c2ea688733d James Gifford deposited Vassanji’s Toronto and Durrell’s Alexandria: The View from Across or the View from Beside? in the group LLC Canadian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/533252/ Thu, 29 Oct 2015 18:42:11 -0400 The British and Canadian authors Lawrence Durrell and M. G. Vassanji do not, at first thought, call out for a comparative study. Neither are typically regarded in criticism through their origins or ethnicity. The focus instead goes to their characters and subject matter, their cosmopolitan experiences. Confusions surrounding both authors have…[Read more]

]]> 0 9303cafb9f6b3aa78517fdae24213205 Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: History, Memory, Grief @ McMaster U in the discussion Canadian Literature in English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian-literature-in-english/forum/topic/cfp-history-memory-grief-mcmaster-u/ Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:24:16 -0400 History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference

John Douglas Taylor Conference, April 29-30, 2016

Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton

Organizers: Chandrima Chakraborty, Nisha Eswaran, Sharifa Patel and Sarah Wahab 

329 people, mostly Indo-Canadians, died in the June 23rd 1985 bombing of…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee178ea40a2d007cfecce1ba9f1a5009 Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia--Special Issue in the discussion Canadian Literature in English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian-literature-in-english/forum/topic/cfp-translated-worlds-history-diaspora-south-asia-special-issue-2/ Wed, 01 Apr 2015 03:55:22 -0400 Special Issue for Postcolonial Text

CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia

(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)

In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a forthc…[Read more]

]]> 0 0711ad88796c28261626d6cce9ef2192 Kimberly O'Neill started the topic CFP: 20th-21st-Century Hemispheric Literary Studies in the discussion Canadian Literature in English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian-literature-in-english/forum/topic/cfp-20th-21st-century-hemispheric-literary-studies/ Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:41:14 -0400 Gathering 8-10 emerging and established scholars for 5-minute Ignite talks; share your 20th-21st-c hemispheric project (methods, archives, ideas, issues). 200-word abstract and CV by 20 March 2015; Kimberly O’Neill (Kimberly.O’Neill@quinnipiac.edu).

The purpose of this panel is to offer 20th-century and contemporary hemispheric scholars the o…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0e60eaa748681c7b5c222af312005fb Jade R. Ferguson started the topic CFP: New Directions in Black Canadian Literature (MLA 2016) in the discussion Canadian Literature in English http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian-literature-in-english/forum/topic/cfp-new-directions-in-black-canadian-literature-mla-2016-2/ Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:56:54 -0500 “New Directions in Black Canadian Literature” (MLA 2016): This panel invites papers that  open new lines of analysis of Black Canadian literature and sites for redefining Blackness in Canada. 250-word abstracts and brief CV by 21 March 2015 to Jade Ferguson (jfergu05@uoguelph.ca).

]]> 0 11711c3d00bf5b8bae14424923b79a18 Jennifer Blair started the topic Discussion Group Open Meeting at the MLA--Friday, January 9th at 3:00 in the forum Canadian Literature in English http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian-literature-in-english/forum/topic/discussion-group-open-meeting-at-the-mla-friday-january-9th-at-300/ Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:47:02 -0500 Would you like to find out more about the Canadian Literature Discussion Group? Are you interested in discussing the topics and issues raised in the group’s panels at the 2015 MLA, and also what’s to come at the Austin convention in 2016? What interests you about this field of study and how would you like to see the group develop?

The exe…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c65b378755276712afd81c96643ff16 Jennifer Blair started the topic Details for Convention Panels: Session #322 and Session #459 in the forum Canadian Literature in English http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian-literature-in-english/forum/topic/details-for-convention-panels-session-322-and-session-459/ Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:19:50 -0500 The Canadian Literature Discussion Group has two exciting panels scheduled for the upcoming MLA convention. See the program details listed below and the “Files” section of the MLA Commons for full abstracts.

Looking forward to seeing you in Vancouver!

Session #322: Coastal Canada

January 9, 2015 1:45-3:00pm in 114 VCC West

“Coastal Zones…[Read more]

]]> 0 019d602fa3131c3886c670d3f96582ec Jennifer Blair uploaded the file: MLA 2015 Canadian Literature Panels: Details and Abstracts to Canadian Literature in English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/87034/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:53:40 -0500 The Canadian Literature Discussion Group has two panels scheduled for the upcoming convention:
“Coastal Canada” (Jan 9, 1:45-3:00, 114 VCC West) and
“Visual Cultures and Young People’s Texts in Canada” (Jan 10, 10:15-11:30, 113 VCC West).
See you in Vancouver!

]]> 0 12d36561f4985ceb2ad07e3140a1dd7f Jon Smith started the topic CFP: The South in the North (MLA pre-conf @SFU Jan 6-7 2015) in the forum Canadian Literature in English http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian-literature-in-english/forum/topic/cfp-the-south-in-the-north-mla-pre-conf-sfu-jan-6-7-2015/ Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:50:27 -0400 CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The South in the North

A Pre-MLA Mini-conference

January 6-7, 2015

Simon Fraser University (Harbour Centre)

Vancouver, BC

 

Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne D…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4d15bd32221cad3d77d817736bd4f4e Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group LLC Canadian: The Canadian Literature Discussion Group now invites […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/59480/ Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:25:29 -0500 The Canadian Literature Discussion Group now invites proposals for two panels planned for the MLA 2015 conference in Vancouver, including one collaborative panel organized with the Children’s Literature Division. The due date for both is March 15th.

Visual Cultures and Young People’s Texts in Canada

Exploring visual culture produced by, for…[Read more]

]]> 0 51f3f245b982332c71f2000d6e57dc98 Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group LLC Canadian: Call for papers for the Canadian Literature Discussion Group […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/56645/ Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:37:23 -0500 Call for papers for the Canadian Literature Discussion Group session at the MLA Convention in Vancouver (January 8-11, 2015)

Coastal Canada

Ecozones, shipping terminals, ports of entry, and real estate gems, Canada’s coasts are sites of desire and contest, exploitation and stewardship, abandonment and creative inhabitation, and they feature r…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9e8e34fed3dc9fc8db32ab18e9149a8 Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group LLC Canadian: The 2015 MLA conference in Vancouver gives us a great […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/56097/ Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:55:34 -0500 The 2015 MLA conference in Vancouver gives us a great opportunity to showcase Canadian literature and criticism. The discussion group executive committee would like to encourage all interested members to propose sessions. Calls for papers can be posted on the MLA site if they are sent by Feb. 21, and, of course, the MLA Commons is another great…[Read more]

]]> 0 dff5d6829e7180a22523eb9dfbda8dc6 Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic new online issue of CANADA & BEYOND in the forum Canadian Literature in English http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/canadian-literature-in-english/forum/topic/new-online-issue-of-canada-beyond/ Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:25:24 -0500 Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has
just published its latest issue at
http://www.canada-and-beyond.com/index.php/canada-and-beyond. We invite you
to browse the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review
articles and items of interest.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Pilar…[Read more]

]]> 0 203f462016cc45f4c5c9df1623d20f19 Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group LLC Canadian: Check out our session at MLA 2014: Indigeneity and […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/51108/ Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:16:02 -0500 Check out our session at MLA 2014:

Indigeneity and Diaspora: Exploring Intersections through Canadian Literature


Saturday, 11 January, 2014
1:45–3:00 p.m.

Indiana-Iowa room of the Chicago Marriott

Presiding: Pauline Wakeham, Univ. of Western Ontario

1. “Reaching Gold Mountain: Rereading Labor Narratives in Chinese Canadian Literature,” Mal…[Read more]

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