Executive Committee:
Laura Halperin, Jan. 2018 (2017-Jan. 2018 Ch.)
Olga Herrera, Jan. 2019 (2017-Jan. 2018 Sec.)
Richard T. Rodríguez, Jan. 2020
José Navarro, Jan 2021
Jackie Cuevas, Jan. 2022
The LLC Chicana and Chicano forum promotes scholarship on and the teaching of Chicana/o literature and encourages conversation about the relationship between Chicana/o and US Latina/o studies.
But what, exactly, is an MLA forum supposed to do?
MLA forums—formerly divisions and discussion groups—encompass the scholarly and professional concerns of the association. They promote scholarly and professional activities within their areas of concern.
Each forum is governed by an elected executive committee whose five members serve terms of five convention years. A convention year begins after the close of one convention and continues through the close of the next; it is named for the convention that concludes the year.
You may reach any one of the executive committee members at any time via MLACommons.
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic CFP: (MLA 2017) US Latino/a Performance in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoMLA 2017 Proposed Special Session
“Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”
This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Br…[Read more]
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Marissa K. López deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Francisco Robles deposited Traveling Borderlands and Travesía Hermeneutics in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoIn this paper, I use Sandra Cisneros’s /Caramelo/ (2002) to examine the “traveling borderlands” in Mexican American migrant narratives. Traveling borderlands names the aesthetic and existential practice of creating contingent home spaces that contest paradigms of fragmentation and essentialism, the former often taken to be a defining feature of ma…[Read more]
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MLA Commons deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico’s Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
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Sandra K. Soto started the topic MLA Chicana/o Literature Division’s Panels (2015) in the forum
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoPlease Circulate Widely!
Friday, 9 January
351. Chicano Narrative at Twenty-Five
3:30–4:45 p.m., West 202, VCC West
Program arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature
Presiding: Yolanda Padilla, Univ. of Washington, Bothell
1. “The Diachronics of Difference: Chicano Narrative Then, Now, and before Chicanidad,” Jesse Alemán, Un…[Read more] -
Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoChicana and Chicano Literature Division of the Modern Language Association. Call for abstracts.
Extended Deadline: 03/23/14
Queering Chican@ Utopias: Remembering José Esteban Muñoz. Innovative presentations in Chican@ Studies that exemplify or call for Muñoz’s queer, world-building work. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014…[Read more]
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Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015 (a jointly sponosored-session: Chicana/o Lit Division together with Latin America, 20th Century)
Latino/a-merican Canada. Considering the conference’s location in Vancouver, we invite papers that examine writings by the Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Latin American diaspora in Canada. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; S…[Read more]
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Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015 (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division Panel)
Chicano Narrative at 25. Papers that examine how Ramón Saldívar’s classic work has shaped the field and/or how critics have extended or departed from its major claims. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; Sandra K. Soto (sotos@email.arizona.edu). -
Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015 (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division Panel)
Recovering the 70s. What connections can be drawn among art forms of the 1970s Chicana/o Renaissance and the moment they were produced? Why remember this renaissance? 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; Sandra K. Soto (sotos@email.arizona.edu). -
Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015 CFP (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division Panel)
Queering Chican@ Utopias: Remembering José Esteban Muñoz. Innovative presentations in Chican@ Studies that exemplify or call for Muñoz’s queer, world-building work. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; Sandra K. Soto (sotos@email.arizona.edu). -
Aureliano DeSoto started the topic CFP MLA 2015: The Works of Rigoberto González in the forum
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoSpecial Session
A panel on the works of Rigoberto González: topical analyses, theory, genres (poetry, memoir, essays, YA, criticism), Chicana/o lit influences, impact(s). 250-word abstracts and 1-page CV by 9 March 2014; Aureliano DeSoto (aureliano.desoto@metrostate.edu). -
María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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Blog: Teaching the Chicana and Chicano "Body" from La Bloga in the group
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Blog: Ramblings about getting stuff published from La Bloga in the group
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Blog: Summer in New Orleans from La Bloga in the group
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Blog: Chicanonautica: Coming of Age in the Quixote Cult from La Bloga in the group
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoby Ernest HoganWhen it comes to books, I’m a hunter-gather. I like to discover them rather than have them assigned to me by an academic authority or hard-sold to […]
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Blog: Señor Pancho Had a Rancho from La Bloga in the group
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI am very happy to present to La Bloga Readers my tenth book in my writing career.When I came to the United States, I discovered that not only people had problems […]
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Blog: The Apprentice's Tale. Mailbag. On-line Floricanto. from La Bloga in the group
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoPortrait of the Apprentice with the ArtistMichael SedanoFortune smiles on the serendipitous photographer. In one of the busiest arts weekends of 2013, tough […]
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Blog: Book Review: Wrap up your summer with these good reads from La Bloga in the group
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoBy Daniel A. Olivas Been working too hard to even think about planning a summer vacation? When you do get around to it, don’t forget to bring along some […]
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