Current executive committee:
Gina Athena Ulysse, Jan. 2019
Ana Lee, Jan. 2020 (2018–Jan. 2019 Ch.)
Suyapa Portillo, Jan. 2021 (2018–Jan. 2019 Sec.)
Vanessa Valdes, Jan. 2022
Lillian Manzor, Jan. 2023
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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 6 months, 1 week 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 6 months, 1 week 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 11 months, 4 weeks 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 1 year, 4 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 1 year, 6 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 1 year, 7 months 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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Vanessa Valdés posted an update in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago***CANCELLED***Due to the inclement weather, the CLCS Hemispheric American forum meeting that has been scheduled for 5 January 2018, 1:45-3:30 p.m, room Park 2, in the Sheraton New York Times Square has been cancelled.
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Macarena Gómez-Barris posted an update in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoPlease join the CLCS Hemispheric American forum for a meeting that has been scheduled for 5 January 2018, 1:45-3:30 p.m, room Park 2, in the Sheraton New York Times Square. We look forward to seeing you! Maca
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Ana Paulina Lee started the topic CFP: Charge and Challenge of Hemispheric Studies in the discussion
Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoForum: CLCS Hemispheric American and African American Studies (collaborative session)
What are the challenges of doing a transnational critique based on concepts from US academy ex: transnational racialization, queer studies? 250-word abstract; 2-page CV; short bio by 15 March 2016; Ana Paulina Lee (ana.lee@columbia.edu) and Dana Williams (…[Read more]
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Josef Raab started the topic CFP: Inter-American Studies Conference on "Human Rights in the Americas" in the discussion
Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will be held at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is on “Human Rights in the Americas.”
The conference organizers have decided to extend the deadline for submitting proposals for papers…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Marissa K. López deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 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.
