Current executive committee:
Suyapa Portillo, Jan. 2021
Vanessa K. Valdés, Jan. 2022
Lillian Manzor, Jan. 2023 (2021–Jan. 2022 Ch.)
[position unfilled on 2020–Jan. 2021 committee]
[position unfilled on 2020–Jan. 2021 committee]
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Lupe Escobar started the topic MLA 2023 Call For Papers in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoDESCALING CAPTIVITY
Drawing on Mary Pat Brady’s latest conception of “scales of captivity,” we welcome papers that consider children’s human rights in literary and media representations within a hemispheric framework. Send 250-word abstract & bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 25 March 2022
Guadalupe Escobar, U of Nevada, Reno (
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Gained, Lost, Missed, Ignored: Vernacular Scientific Translations from Agricola’s Germany to Herbert Hoover’s California in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoFor the past twenty years, scholars of world and global history and literature have shown that the early modern world was a complex, entangled place. And yet, by emphasizing connection, such work at times overlooks the many separations that drove the engines of global early modernity: transoceanic slave trades, tribute labor, and the economic…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThe Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic Call for Abstracts: Multilingualism in Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2022) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoDescription & Requirements: Abstracts (250 words) on the following topics: multilingualism in literature, visual and performing arts; multilingualism and history; multilingualism’s challenges to national literatures; revitalization of African/Indigenous languages; multilingual DH. Comparative/interdisciplinary approaches preferred. Submission D…[Read more]
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Lisa Nalbone started the topic 1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 2 years agoYou are cordially invited to attend the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies“, January 28 (7:00pm) to January 30 (5:00pm), hosted by the University of Tampa, themed “Envisaging José Martí in 2021: History, Culture and Education“. Program and registration appear: 1st Biannual Conference Registration | University of Tampa (ut.edu)
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Jennifer M. Wilks replied to the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDeadline extended to 3/31!
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies to Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U (ljt233@nyu.edu ) Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 2 April 2020. (C…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Survival Strategies in the Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWhat can we learn from indigenous and Black strategies for survival in the Americas, as we face the enduring legacies of capitalist settler colonialism? Please send a 200-word abstract and a brief biographical statement to Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) Please share broadly. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 3 April 2020
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic Standing for Election of Executive Committee of CLCS Hemispheric American in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWe invite you to stand for election to our Executive Committee — come guide our group in upcoming years! Note that you are only allowed to serve on one executive committee at a time. If you are interested, please email Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) as soon as possible. Thank you!
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoExtra- and non-anthropocentric subjects of the Global South, notably the Caribbean. Who/ what is the human-animal-other subject? Narratives/poetics extrinsic to the colonial mind/body split? Old materialisms ‘with soul’. 300 word abstract and 1 page CV by 3/15 to Jennifer M. Wilks (jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu) and Rosemary J. Jolly (rjj14@psu.edu).
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cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 3 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
Scott Challener deposited American Literature’s Hemispheric Address: 1823-1923 (Fall 2019) in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 3 years agoThis course is a study of American literature’s address to and engagement with the hemisphere in the long nineteenth century. As such, it is first and foremost an inquiry into the concepts—“America,” “literature,” “address,” “hemisphere,” race and period—that animate our study. Our first task, then, is to turn these concepts into problems. What c…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 3 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: The 1970s and the Caribbean (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoSeeking presentations on the significance of the 1970s to cultural engagements with the Caribbean’s postcolonial history. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Rafe Dalleo (prdalleo@gmail.com) and Sheri Harrison (harrisonsl@missouri.edu ) by March 15, 2019
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Sylvia Wynter in the Undergraduate Classroom (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoSeeking presentations that discuss how to engage the significant theoretical principles of Sylvia Wynter’s work from a rigorous and non-jargonistic perspective in the undergraduate classroom. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Kaiama L. Glover (kglover@barnard.edu)
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe 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]
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Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIn 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]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion
Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago<b>The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures</b>
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 <b>March 18.</b>(Sponsored by…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow posted an update in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 5 years agoCFP (MLA 2019), sponsored by CLCS 18th-Century: “Afterlives of the Enlightenment: Sovereignty.”
The eighteenth century world placed sovereignty in the heart of global political, economic, and cultural debates. In the past ten years, scholars have examined sovereignty in matters of aesthetics (Anderson, “Zombie Sovereignty”), literary cri…[Read more]
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