MLA Commons | TC Disability Studies | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/ Activity feed for the group, TC Disability Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:58:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e9842911203212376a9c4714702b8a5c Lauren Rocha replied to the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/#post-1039578 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:11:03 -0500 Disability, Belonging, and Family

This session seeks abstracts that address how disability and the concept of family encompass different experiences across relationships, communities, and texts. These proposals can either draw from lived experiences or address portrayals of disability in families in literature, TV shows, film, and other content.…[Read more]

]]> 0 209b5ed37e685333516a2bf3e34c36a0 Junting Huang replied to the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/#post-1039555 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:39:24 -0500 Impairment Theory

This session invites proposals that explore personal and phenomenological accounts of impairment—not merely as a physical condition of illness or disability but as an embodied experience that generates cultural, social, and political insights.

While disability studies have long critiqued the social structures that create d…[Read more]

]]> 0 6676123f4cef90a92bbfdd8a8c425306 Terry Callaghan started the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:08:13 -0500 MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession: Calls for Papers
Impairment Theory
Papers exploring personal and/or phenomenological accounts of impairment—not as physical conditions of illness or disability but as embodied experiences that generate cultural, social, and political insights for scholarship. Submit a 250-word abstract by the d…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2ccb37276370a28fa466b27be89e5a7 Sharon Tran replied to the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/#post-1039293 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:46:01 -0500 See attached for the digital access copy to Sophia’s paper.

]]> 0 c537103403f467b912ed1323d4567fef Sharon Tran replied to the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/#post-1039272 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:36:11 -0500 Here is a link to my presider remarks, including our panelists’ bios.

]]> 0 97605f8a38d93efe945eedce18e16389 Cynthia R. Port started the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:38:38 -0500 This session (#332), sponsored by the Disability Studies Forum, will take place on Friday, January 10th, 1:45-3:00 pm, Salon 18, Hilton Riverside, New Orleans. We are pleased to share related materials via attachments below:

Presiding: Sharon Tran

  1. Chris Gabbard, “Truth or Trickery in the Name of Care: An Ethics-of-Care Reading of…

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]]> 0 3c1678c94e6acc1cc250c496534ec37a Cynthia R. Port started the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control (Session 332) in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control-session-332-2/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:36:59 -0500 This session, sponsored by the Disability Studies Forum, will take place on Friday, January 10th, 1:45-3:00 pm, Salon 18, Hilton Riverside, New Orleans. We are pleased to share related materials via attachments below:

Presiding: Sharon Tran

  1. Chris Gabbard, “Truth or Trickery in the Name of Care: An Ethics-of-Care Reading of Shakespeare’s King L…

[Read more]

]]> 0 269b542fe8abff4ad2ca665a961b177c Sharon Tran replied to the topic Age and/as Disability in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/age-and-as-disability-2/#post-1039249 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:07:23 -0500 Here is a link to my presider remarks, including our panelists’ bios.

]]> 0 cc5d668748cbf1104d8ae121f4add921 Sharon Tran started the topic Age and/as Disability in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/age-and-as-disability-2/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:01:57 -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 co…[Read more]

]]> 0 29997837b7350e72eb0e97687355fe35 Lennie Amores started the topic Call For Papers MLA 2025 Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2025-critical-disability-in-contemporary-iberian-studies/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:23:11 -0500 MLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section. The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit proposals:
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions, personal or pedagogical practices, and case studies on the relation between d…[Read more]

]]> 0 b88ffadd967543c05830e3900e6ad80d Tekla Babyak started the topic My virtual talk on bringing in disabled guest speakers in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/my-virtual-talk-on-bringing-in-disabled-guest-speakers/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 22:39:10 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

My name is Tekla Babyak (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014)—I’m an independent scholar and disability activist with multiple sclerosis. As an MLA Delegate Assembly Member representing Disability in the Profession, I’m committed to fighting against ableism in academia.

To that end, I’m writing to let you know about my upcoming v…[Read more]

]]> 0 183a265dff50fe8e383f4071c3213a70 Maren T. Linett started the topic Members' suggestions for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/members-suggestions-for-forum-executive-committee/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:29:17 -0500 At (and after) the January convention, the TC Disability Studies executive committee will need to  appoint a new member to the executive committee.  Please let us know if you want to self-nominate or nominate someone else and we will consider all nominations at our meeting. Thank you!

]]> 0 7fdb1825208b4072e5be06cb199536c5 Maren T. Linett replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-52/?view=all#post-1031706 Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:00:38 -0500 Thank you Leigh! Who has a nomination or self-nomination for someone to run for a term of service on the delegate assembly for TC Disability Studies? The Executive Committee, as Leigh notes, will be considering nominees at our meeting at the January MLA.

]]> 0 f7ccb44e5f350dcbcdec44db7cf260ad Tekla Babyak deposited Teaching Music and Disability Through Disclosure-Oriented Pedagogy in the group TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1793079/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 02:24:46 -0400 In this paper, presented at the 2022 H-Net Teaching Conference, I describe how I teach undergraduate students about disability in music through what I call disclosure-oriented pedagogy. This practice involves demonstrating cross-historical comparisons between my lived experiences of disability and the representations of disability in 19th-century…[Read more]

]]> 0 d85fbdb15ccf7878c67b2cef5f975e2e Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1789200/ Sun, 31 Jul 2022 03:51:33 -0400 Abstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.

]]> 0 005a6702721e5001135b6a0181ed8f19 Lauren Russell started the topic "Neurodivergent Poetics: Extending the Choreography" Roundtable Tonight, 7 PM in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/neurodivergent-poetics-extending-the-choreography-roundtable-tonight-7-pm/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:29:57 -0500 Hello All,

 

Happy New Year! If you are attending the MLA conference this week, whether virtually or in person, please consider joining us tonight at 7 PM for  Neurodivergent Poetics: Extending the Choreography, a virtual roundtable with Chris Martin, Joel Dias-Porter, Hannah Emerson, Estee Klar, Adam Wolfond, and Julia Miele Rodas, moderated…[Read more]

]]> 0 6fe7f9ebf3369068d089f77bc1d3640c Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter's Tale in the group TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1707308/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:26:12 -0400 Shakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f7b6a2f35e483b85541ce3b7ec09602 Steven Swarbrick deposited Object-Oriented Disability: The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost in the group TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682116/ Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:34:07 -0400 Though the verbal icon has a long and robust multisensory history extending beyond Milton, my goal here is to challenge ableist readings of Milton’s poetry by linking his poetic ekphrasis to the politics and aesthetics of disability.

]]> 0 edaf11e7fd74004150dffd068a68ca16 Stephen P. Knadler deleted the file: Introduction as Candidate for TC Disability Studies Executive Committee: Stephen Knadler, Spelman College from TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669097/ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:39:15 -0400 0 3fbd4fd27a500ab1581af29c845c4488 Stephen P. Knadler uploaded the file: Introduction as Candidate for TC Disability Studies Executive Committee: Stephen Knadler, Spelman College to TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669095/ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:35:45 -0400 Candidate bio for MLA executive committee election.

]]> 0 d6ee52585564050fb34252fd683d09b5 Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663750/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:44:19 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 b61bd9d77b8d4f6157164817f9d61e98 Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663749/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:44:18 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4a57f4566d5b21bdf6b6d91941b349d Melanie Jones started the topic CFP: Mad Scholars Anthology in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mad-scholars-anthology-2/ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:11:01 -0400 Recently, there has been an avalanche of news articles about spikes in mental illness on campus. Seminal works like Margaret Price’s Mad at School (2011) have begun to expose the ableism inherent in the university and prompted more open discussion surrounding the politics of disclosure.

As interest in this crucial topic grows, we are seeking o…[Read more]

]]> 0 53a82cfbd6b2b0bd9f7c25817bce11ae Jesse Miller deposited Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke's Modernist Equipment for Living in the group TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637307/ Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:31:38 -0400 This essay examines the relationship between modernist formal experimentation and rehabilitative futurism, the modern cultural fantasy of a hygienic future in which all illness and disability have been eradicated. Through a reading of Kenneth Burke’s early essay collection Counter-Statement (1931) and his first and only novel, Towards a Better…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5f94e39a59b904dacd88fe8b658bae7 Maren T. Linett started the topic Call for Papers, MLA 2020, Seattle in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2020-seattle/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:02:52 -0500 Title: Disability Bioethics

Description & Requirements:How does thinking about disability inform our understanding of bioethical issues, broadly defined, in literature and/or culture? 300-word abstract to Maren Linett at mlinett@purdue.edu.

Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2019

]]> 0 01ea207454fede3d7e4ed33463d3bcac Maren T. Linett started the topic introduction, candidate for executive committee in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/introduction-candidate-for-executive-committee/ Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:45:26 -0400 Dear all,
I’m currently on the ballot for the executive committee of the TC Disability Studies, and I wanted to introduce myself to the members of the group. I’m a professor of English at Purdue University, and the founding director of Purdue’s Critical Disability Studies program, which runs an undergraduate minor and brings in one speaker per y…[Read more]

]]> 0 9dc78009f9aae64df38339607857d290 Olivia Banner deposited Structural Racism and Practices of Reading in the Medical Humanities in the group TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610454/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 04:13:04 -0400 This article argues that the humanities and medicine fields have paid insufficient attention to race, which is reflected in and enabled by the apolitical nature of their cornerstone principles, their practices of literary interpretation, and their paucity of scholarship on writers of color. I examine the fields’ interpretation of Audre Lorde’s ill…[Read more]

]]> 0 e457197af3c193b20aaf35d55c9be52d Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557231/ Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:14:07 -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 dccefed0c8deb0f3a77caa35e06b5775 Elizabeth J. Donaldson started the topic CFP: Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (15 Jan 2017) in the discussion Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-literatures-of-madness-disability-studies-and-mental-health-15-jan-2017/ Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:24:56 -0500 We are seeking essay proposals for a peer-reviewed edited volume, Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health, which will be submitted to the Literary Disability Studies book series at Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave.com/us/series/14821). The volume will collect disability studies essays that focus on mental health,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e920716b83f81170002d65ba56a06259 Carol Zuses started the topic Please Send Your Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/please-send-your-suggestions-for-2017-forum-delegate-election/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:23:57 -0400 TC Disability Studies will hold an election for a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is r…[Read more]

]]> 0 35a8bf81f41d6035b9995f700b2cfa63 Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Panel on Disability in Anglophone Literature (NeMLA, Baltimore, March 23-26 in the discussion Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-panel-on-disability-in-anglophone-literature-nemla-baltimore-march-23-26-2/ Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:39:30 -0400 NeMLA 2017 – Disability in Anglophone Literature (Panel)

48th Annual NeMLA Convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 23 – 26th, 2017

Deadline to submit abstract: 09/30/2016
Categories: Anglophone and British Literature.
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
Institutional host: Johns Hopkins University

CFP: panel on “Disability in Anglophone Literature”

This…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a7f80f0d32c27d4ed28a1a1af5233e6 Joseph Paul Fisher started the topic CFP--Disability, Athletes, and Athletics in the discussion Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-disability-athletes-and-athletics/ Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:46:33 -0400 On the DL: Athletes, Athletics, and Disability is the title of a proposed essay collection that will read competitive athletics through a disability studies lens. Given the myriad definitions of “sport” across the globe, On the DL is interested in compiling a wide variety of theoretically-engaged analyses of sporting culture. In addition to…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c446d776b2006e93f761d49554f38d2 Lisa Zunshine deposited Lisa Zunshine in Conversation with Ralph James Savarese in the group TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/535585/ Tue, 01 Dec 2015 13:59:57 -0500 Have cognitive scientists misread autism? What happens if, instead of simply accepting such research, literary critics turned to the actual prose and poetry written by autistic authors, such as Tito Mukhopadhyay and Donna Williams? Literary theory may never be the same once it comes to terms with neurodiversity.

]]> 0 31854f896a00cfff8e7b5a044338d27d Todd W. Reeser started the topic "Doing the Body in the 21st Century," Spring Conference in the discussion Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/doing-the-body-in-the-21st-century-spring-conference/ Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:55:29 -0400 <div>Bodies can be collective, material, medicalized, biological, sexual, queer, trans, normative, political, racial, transnational, ecological, historical, useful, global, affective, gendered, disabled, surveilled, controlled, subjected, transformed, enhanced, engineered, empowered, organized, managed, discursive, aesthetic, translated,…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c336db2386a2d345f6bc07de973d129 Allison Hobgood started the topic Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism, MLA 2016 in the discussion Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-contingency-neoliberalism/ Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:13:34 -0400 Thursday, 7 January

120. Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism

3:30–4:45 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies

Presiding: Susan Antebi, Univ. of Toronto

1. “The Biopolitics of Disability,” David Mitchell, George Washington Univ.; Sharon Snyder, George Washington Univ.

2. “Crip Figures: Disability, Austerity, and As…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5e118abaef6a3728b0bab63da57d460 Allison Hobgood started the topic Disability and Interdependence, MLA 2016 in the discussion Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-and-interdependence/ Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:12:51 -0400 Friday, 8 January

325. Disability and Interdependence

1:45–3:00 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies

Presiding: Elizabeth Bearden, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “Disforming Cure,” Katherine Schaap Williams, New York Univ., Abu Dhabi

2. “‘The Servant . . . Formed Himself into a Sort of Crutch’: Disability, Dependency, an…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d82cd53e59acba496529c0328695e0f Allison Hobgood started the topic Queer Crips across Time, MLA 2016 in the discussion Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/queer-crips-across-time/ Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:11:50 -0400 Saturday, 9 January

619. Queer Crips across Time

3:30–4:45 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies

Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.

Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]

]]> 0 f001bc58a9615fbe96561badb7eb5dcf Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP: LASA2016, DS Pedagogies and the Global South in the discussion Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-lasa2016-ds-pedagogies-and-the-global-south/ Fri, 03 Jul 2015 19:35:02 -0400 Panel for the Latin American Studies Association, XXXIV International Congress
New York City, May 27-30, 2016

Title of panel: Disability Studies Pedagogies and the Global South
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, LASA is organizing its annual congress around broad themes of the “evolution of Latin American studies,” the “challenges of cr…[Read more]

]]> 0 e94af2d4714655a037f8e09417eb7999 Erin Lamb started the topic Seeking educators of undergrads who address aging in the classroom in the discussion Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/seeking-educators-of-undergrads-who-address-aging-in-the-classroom/ Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:47:29 -0400 Greetings colleagues,

I am writing to ask for 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 c…[Read more]

]]> 0 8623ba04d50172c7cf7cc4cf37ca4e56 Allison Hobgood started the topic cfp: Disability and Interdependence, MLA 2016 in the discussion Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-disability-and-interdependence-mla-2016/ Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:00:17 -0400 Disability and Interdependence

What are alternatives to the binary of independence/dependence in disability discourse? How might rhetorics of care illuminate and intervene in disability’s perception/representation? 250 word abstract and 1 page CV by 15 March 2015; Elizabeth Bearden (ebearden@wisc.edu).

]]> 0 eb883074eed71b7c4101884e798b9c62 Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP: D.S. in Hispanic Contexts, NeMLA 2015 in the forum Disability Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-d-s-in-hispanic-contexts-nemla-2015/ Thu, 04 Sep 2014 18:02:21 -0400 Note the expansion to include Spain after posting the cfp earlier this year.
Roundtable dialogue about Spanish and Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Spain or Latin America in response to local and regional lived…[Read more]

]]> 0 c74d2210823be97cbe619cdc0e08cb6e Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP: L.A. Perspectives on Disability Studies, NeMLA in the forum Disability Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-l-a-perspectives-on-disability-studies-nemla/ Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:53:45 -0400 NeMLA 2015, Toronto
Roundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also…[Read more]

]]> 0 e03d247e7f31384dd4bd8b5cf65c726e Benjamin Fraser started the topic CFP-Disability in World Film Contexts [edited book] in the forum Disability Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-disability-in-world-film-contexts-edited-book/ Wed, 28 May 2014 19:25:44 -0400 Disability in World Film Contexts [cfp-edited volume]

The edited volume titled ‘Disability in World Film Contexts’ has received initial interest from Yoram Allon of renowned film publisher Wallflower Press (now part of Columbia UP). Contributions are invited in the form of chapters that focus on an individual film or films from a specific nat…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4e214fd3e789f95df422770186f781f Sören Fröhlich started the topic CFP - JLDCS Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips” in the forum Disability Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-jldcs-special-issue-disability-and-blood-blood-and-the-crips/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:29:34 -0500 Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Call for Papers
Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips”
Guest Editors: Michael Davidson (UCSD) and Sören Fröhlich (UCSD)

Since the HIV/AIDS blood feuds of the 1990s, scholarship into social and cultural definitions of blood has provided much-needed insights into statis…[Read more]

]]> 0 6258608abfc936b9f0533fa4d20a2f4d Steven J. Venturino replied to the topic MLA Convention Access Guidelines in the forum Disability Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/mla-convention-access-guidelines/#post-2619 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:22:31 -0500 Thanks! Good all around.

]]> 0 92bee7c87d981d128d2bd6634718fc9e Elizabeth J. Donaldson started the topic MLA Convention Access Guidelines in the forum Disability Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/mla-convention-access-guidelines/ Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:27:54 -0500 Dear all,

I’d like to remind everyone of the MLA Convention Access Guidelines, which you can read here:

http://www.mla.org/conv_access_guide

Happy new year and have a great convention!

 

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