The official area for all things ecocritical and environmental for MLA members!
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Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 3 months ago
The Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited “The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac” in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 months ago
Building on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).
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Susan Larson deposited Nature, the Monumental and Urban Technological Networks in Víctor Moreno’s Edificio España (2012) and La ciudad oculta (2018) / Naturaleza, lo monumental y las redes tecnológicas urbanas en Edificio España (2012) y La ciudad oculta (2018) de Víctor Moreno in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 months ago
If we affirmatively answer Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw’s invitation to think beyond the ‘fetishization of the modern city’ as the pinnacle of human-centered progress and achievement in order to consider the urban as both a process of transformed nature and the metabolic and social transformation of nature through human labor, the city becom…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 months, 3 weeks ago
ABSTRACT
The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries.…[Read more] -
Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Special issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.
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Tariq Sheikh deposited This Side of the Long Tunnel: The Emergence of the Idea of Japan’s ‘Snow Country’ in the Nineteenth Century in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
In Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Snow Country, the protagonist Shimamura refers to an “old book” which gave him in-depth knowledge about the region known in Japan as the “Snow Country”. The name of the book is not disclosed by Kawabata, but it is now known that the “old book” is Hokuetsu Seppu (first published in 1837), written by Su…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Introduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.
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Pedro Lopes de Almeida started the topic CFP: Leaky Ontologies – ACLA 2021 in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
“Stuff leaks through such that the real manifests not just as gaps and inconsistencies in reality.” Tim Morton, Humankind
In an increasingly compartmentalized, consolidated time, leaking incidents keep surfacing from the backdrop of our human reality designed for smooth functioning and come to shape our age. From the leakings of early steam boi…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter’s Tale in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
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]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited The Life Aquatic: Liquid Poetics and the Discourse of Friendship inThe Faerie Queene in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years ago
From Michel de Montaigne’s essay “Of Friendship” to Jacques Derrida’s rearticulation of the former in The Politics of Friendship, scholars both early modern and modern have sought ways to address the fluid co-mixture of bodies from which the discourse of friendship can and does emerge. More recently still, new materialist thinkers of ontolog…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited In Anthropocene Air: Deleuze’s Encounter with Shakespeare in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years ago
A reading of Shakespeare and Deleuze on the subject of Anthropocene air. Keywords: endurance, climate change, fossil capitalism, carbon ghosts, Hamlet.
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Shakespeare’s Blush, or “the Animal” in Othello in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years ago
This essay examines how the rhetoric of animalization in Shakespeare’s Othello compels us to think early modern categories of race in connection with early modern discourses of “human” versus “animal.” Beginning with Shakespeare’s representation of Iago, I suggest that it is the potential for sameness conditioned by Iago’s counterfactua…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Unworking Milton: Steps to a georgics of the mind in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Traditionally read as a poem about laboring subjects who gain power through abstract and abstracting forms of bodily discipline, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) more compellingly foregrounds the erotics of the Garden as a space where humans and nonhumans intra-act materially and sexually. Following Christopher Hill, who long ago pointed t…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Tempestuous Life: Ralegh’s Ocean in Ruins in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Turning to Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana (1596) and The History of the World (1614), I reframe such biopolitical factors as Ralegh’s “dissability” around a concept that has less to do with human world-making and more to do with the “states of exception” (Giorgio Agamben) under which inhuman agencies come to matter for world history (of…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Object-Oriented Disability: The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
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.
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Nature’s Queer Negativity: Between Barad and Deleuze in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This essay offers a critique of the vitalist turn in queer and ecological theory, here represented by the work of Karen Barad. Whereas Barad advances an image of life geared towards meaningful connection with others, human and nonhuman, Deleuze advances an a-signifying ontology of self-dismissal. The point of this essay isn’t to separate their t…[Read more]
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Anita Harris Satkunananthan deposited Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
This paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]
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Anita Harris Satkunananthan started the topic CFP: Interrogating Folklore and the Literary Fairy-tale in the Anthropocene in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Apologies, a repost because the formatting was messed up on my previous post!
Dear Everyone,
My co-editors and I will be submitting a book proposal on the topic above to a university press. Please do consider contributing a chapter!
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2020
Full name / name of organization: Dr. Anita Harris Satkunananthan,…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
This article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]
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