MLA Commons | Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/ Activity feed for the group, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:29:52 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 084a019d484abc583af12fbee2ccf294 Domna C. Stanton replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/#post-1040987 Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:36:47 -0400 Thank you so much for sending me this announcement about the topic your plan investigate with your panelists at the 2027 MLA. It is enormously  timely and interesting and I know  members will want to attend. Unfortunately  I am on leave as of the end of december 2026 and very eager to return to my book project which is way over due. So sosry ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa10eb0e78fbd8db520238fa9a08ae57 Grace Monk started the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:20:47 -0400 Sharing a CFP for the MLA 2027 Convention in Los Angeles. I hope it is of interest!

Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem

Roundtable examining jobs beyond faculty roles, highlighting how humanities training informs career trajectories. All career stages welcome.

Deadline March 16, 2026

Link:…[Read more]

]]> 0 2100708011846a82b918a18f62d19b8a Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-4/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:01:22 -0500 The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.

We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[Read more]

]]> 0 03158f0036249fcd0239fd5e6103c0d6 Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects-2/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:15:02 -0400 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

]]> 0 2280319751e87a3cb8b20972929638cc Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-3/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:35:27 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title “A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspec…[Read more]

]]> 0 1845e3dd2e102c7614b9d37b574fdb67 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-6/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 08:02:01 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 0 2e682e928f202731b027a2d21f536987 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890324/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 4701743b8c148fc1a6f3856f30385cfe Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876628/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:02:28 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 597a04df49be64a06c95c64eb941b72c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-19/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:19:20 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]

]]> 0 718fe57a82ea095353c9cf58d42e0bc7 Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858167/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:13:37 -0400 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

]]> 0 a06ef29afbc9a53bb9bcfd9d2742b44a Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857507/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:19:36 -0400 This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]

]]> 0 fcceb40fb754bad8302d0065dd977ad7 Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real" in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856307/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:22:16 -0400 Zunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]

]]> 0 492f7b9407617613b743812872ce031b Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1783368/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 03:51:19 -0400 Johannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]

]]> 0 2691b3e3b9a663981210acf40593c4f3 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Redesigning Modernities in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-special-issue-of-comparative-literature-studies-on-redesigning-modernities/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:39:26 -0500 The journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]

]]> 0 d89e115f1b2f4527e0550d30ace89632 William Nichols deposited Telling the story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of convergence and the defense of the Humanities in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1761564/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:23:57 -0500 While many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm. Specifically, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f6e397eebbf5f76b401d7d99f1823eb Susan Larson deposited Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)? in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755713/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 02:24:11 -0400 How does one understand a filmmaker like José Antonio Nieves Conde, a Falangist whose films with strong neorealist tendencies were radically altered by the Francoist censors for being too critical of the economic injustices inherent to daily urban life after the Spanish Civil War? Many film critics have asked this question and this essay looks…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2ac334bd4c8db408a12e893f81d4865 Susan Larson deposited Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1753540/ Sun, 03 Oct 2021 03:49:25 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f60525756f994a26ce9b5243046a41ed Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1747481/ Sat, 24 Jul 2021 02:24:06 -0400 A literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)

]]> 0 9ff63e68540e6698950aac5ec288e7f5 Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733706/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:23:39 -0400 Attention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a84e6fabe9801a52a73e9a873c2e534 Susan Larson deposited La gramática de la 'Hispanidad': Retórica de imperio y arquitectura historicista en los discursos públicos de J.C. Nichols in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1731811/ Thu, 18 Mar 2021 02:23:38 -0400 The purpose of this essay is to better understand the motives of the real estate mogul and construction magnate -J.C.Nichols- responsible for the construction of the first non-centrally located shopping mall in the United States in Kansas City in the 1920s. Specifically, this study focuses on why and how Nichols resorted to a pastiche of…[Read more]

]]> 0 6913498cc02926af9e13cab2f940dfb4 Bonnie Mak deposited The Campus After COVID-19 in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1731236/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 02:23:39 -0500 This essay compares the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at two universities on opposite sides of the world: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States. It argues that the pandemic has revealed the extent to which campuses have reorganized their institutional…[Read more]

]]> 0 b99bdc312823061c20e8d9701365901f Yomaira Figueroa started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Afro-Diasporic Afterlives & Archipelagos Across the Global Hispano in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/mla-2022-cfp-afro-diasporic-afterlives-archipelagos-across-the-global-hispano-3/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 23:03:23 -0500 We invite 250-word abstracts for papers that examine the legacies, archives, and memories of slavery and Afro-diasporic afterlives across the global Hispanophone and archipelagic Mediterranean, Pacific, and Atlantic worlds. The panel also seeks to establish connections between these different regions and/or follow the moment of racialized actors…[Read more]

]]> 0 689c7b26d14932513144acb2640b72fe Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1719062/ Mon, 07 Dec 2020 02:29:09 -0500 This is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d8cbf60b420872e9f8627009be65651 Armando Maggi started the topic Concept of "Ruins" in Contemporary Culture in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/concept-of-ruins-in-contemporary-culture/ Sat, 10 Oct 2020 19:53:42 -0400 I’m interested in investigating the concept of ‘ruins’ in its broadest connotations, certainly not limited to its most common sense of ancient or modern ‘ruined’ building.

I am proposing a seminar at the next ACLA conference, and proposals for this seminar can be posted until the end of October 2020. This is a link to the seminar “Ruins: Marvel,…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f3ba66bd139e36ceeff7e29160f37df Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1677873/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 03:52:26 -0500 This essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]

]]> 0 9caa619038380f8d15b6fff5e79d25a3 Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [remarks] in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675021/ Sun, 12 Jan 2020 03:58:11 -0500 Since the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2bcf02ae54162289c7b6ecdc6e8f004 Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [slides] in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674904/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 04:01:52 -0500 Since the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]

]]> 0 a43a7af0dc5ba2c0b8f73293f4815e09 Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Affective Appr. to the Study of Contemp. Spanish LGBTQI Culture - Schedule MLA in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/affective-appr-to-the-study-of-contemp-spanish-lgbtqi-culture-schedule-mla-4/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 22:48:57 -0500 MLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.

Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 e17e49169c521b8fab2b5414293257ab James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1671086/ Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:27:17 -0500 The Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]

]]> 0 36c2d24e6a8ef00fef6810963b023f99 Joydeep Chakraborty deposited "Violence Has Changed Me" Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664633/ Fri, 27 Sep 2019 03:49:22 -0400 This article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8a5142dcb88f687adbe3ef620418e0d Laurie Ringer deposited Day 1: Draft Prep Sheet on the 8 Parts of Speech through the Story of Hidden Figures in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659978/ Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:27:30 -0400 Because it is all too easy to (accidentally) make assumptions about what first-year students know about language, in 2019-2020 my lit and comp type courses will begin with a segment on language, before moving on to sentences, paragraphs, and essays.

Our exploration of language will start by jumping into a story, to help us identify the 8 parts…[Read more]

]]> 0 64f9868439bb817b46ef4d58ab6c8b0a Bonnie Mak deposited Period, Theme, Event: Locating Information History in History in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658291/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:25:21 -0400 Explores ‘information history’, or the study of information and its practices, as a way to arrange investigations of past and present. An invited contribution for the volume, “Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach,” edited by Ida Nijenhuis, Marijke van Faassen, Joris Gijsenbergh, Wim de Jong, and Ronald Sluijter (London:…[Read more]

]]> 0 8189343d88a267b4fe2c9648a55bde3c Minni Sawhney deposited Friendship and Politics in the works of Cervantes and Lope de Vega in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643040/ Sat, 22 Jun 2019 16:35:59 -0400 The convivencia between the followers of the different religions of the Mediterranean persisted despite the fraught politics of Christianity and Islam. Despite the long arm of the Inquisition the protagonists in the plays of Cervantes and Lope struggle to maintain fraternal ties.

]]> 0 416a6e4088756d7a7346c11b75c11bd8 Minni Sawhney deposited Cervantes' cosmopolitan El gallardo español during an earlier clash of civilisations. in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643037/ Sat, 22 Jun 2019 16:25:26 -0400 Despite being an army officer Don Fernando is drawn towards the Muslim Princess Arlaxa. He defies army convention to meet her much to the chagrin of fellow Spanish soldiers in the presidio where they are stationed.

]]> 0 20d49ff3bd9a8e6ed1e58074e69ea56f Minni Sawhney deposited Excentric Affects in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642963/ Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:36:04 -0400 In this article I try to show how the Mexican Revolution was not only national in nature but also helped ordinary individuals break down barriers in their personal lives. The protagonist of Nadie me verá llorar was considered a madwoman in Porfirian society and with the Revolution she comes into her own and finds a space in post revolutionary Mexico D.F.

]]> 0 409e66512ffde1bdbb321c9e2d98c376 Minni Sawhney deposited Jenni Rivera y sus corridos: la historia de un desafío in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642961/ Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:25:21 -0400 An analysis of the life and corridos of Jenni Rivera the sole woman narco corridista

]]> 0 997b4428259c03b480beb1b3f959c57c Minni Sawhney deposited Stories on the Margins of History : Spanish Immigrants and the Mexican Revolution in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642905/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:27:43 -0400 The lives of Spanish immigrants during the Mexican Revolution, their participation therein.

]]> 0 db63f43af229fb61c42dae9cbdb3d133 Minni Sawhney deposited La ciudad como protagonista: México D.F. y la literatura mexicana in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642871/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:50:52 -0400 El retrato de la Ciudad de México en la literatura.

]]> 0 734c70b8b470c762f4e9bd384029c800 Minni Sawhney deposited The Unreachable Other: The myth of the mestizo in the novels of Carlos Fuentes in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642802/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:03:04 -0400 In this article I investigate the portrayal role of the Aztecs, indigeneous peoples and movements in the writings of Carlos Fuentes.

]]> 0 47272ee26c9499bf4a07bd23b6a903e6 Minni Sawhney deposited The Unreachable Other: The myth of the mestizo in the novels of Carlos Fuentes in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642794/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 03:50:56 -0400 In this article I investigate the portrayal role of the Aztecs, indigeneous peoples and movements in the writings of Carlos Fuentes.

]]> 0 ec5981e18582aee6acd3d7d0a0629252 Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) - Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640883/ Sat, 25 May 2019 03:56:49 -0400 Within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b850b1250c47cfe33153dc3d501061fb Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Reader's Guide to the Two Towers in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635887/ Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:55:40 -0400 This essay serves as a guardian, as a true friend of the reader, encouraging them to recognize that if they identify with the hobbits in this book, to be wary of the text trains the reader to become someone who would mistake their actual proud moments of self-decision, self-realization… of bravery, of the genuine kind, for something evil or bad,…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b9a7b8aebf05f807d58bef0cafc9ab8 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Good Fight! in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635536/ Mon, 18 Mar 2019 04:12:58 -0400 George Walker’s “The Good Fight” as arguing for means towards self-growth which aren’t merely acting out; which aren’t simply signs of perversity, of mental illness. Argues that rather than delineating the key differences between the downtrodden — those stepped on — and the rich — those (gleefully) doing the stomping down — it is truly more…[Read more]

]]> 0 47d672af48fbd0ee8b36bea9d38f0e36 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited How Insensitive! in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635531/ Mon, 18 Mar 2019 03:48:43 -0400 Exploring several key scholarly explorations on the culture of sensibility in the British 18th-century, this article draws attention to what the current manner of accessing the people who invoked and participated in it are deemed to have been like, and to how this has exposed them to being invested in protecting people of, ostensibly actually,…[Read more]

]]> 0 1af6ab730361f567f37465595b0af7ec Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Grabbing Hold for Departure's Sake in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635391/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 03:54:30 -0400 Explores how Max Vigne, from Andrea Barrett’s “Servants of the Map,” makes use of the dangerous Himalayan mountain environment as almost as Winnicottian “play space,” in which to recover from being requited to a life of obligation, rather than real-self discovery, after his mother’s death.

]]> 0 a8e2e240e25ac52582bf94f97efcf1ee Pamela K. Gilbert deposited Introduction to _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_. in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634640/ Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:25:40 -0500 This is the Introduction to my new book, _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_.

]]> 0 1f3edbc29e26c06c972e42101b79a847 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Quitting Home in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634592/ Sat, 09 Mar 2019 04:08:24 -0500 Sinclair Ross’s “As For Me and My House” as a (nefarious) safe-space whereby readers can subsume themselves within a locale that promises the sense of being taken care of, that they experienced within the maternal home but on one condition: ready willingness to defer; acquiesce to “mother’s” leadership. Written just before a culture pivoted from…[Read more]

]]> 0 fdb6eb3093ddc4aa5afaf2fe12226bf6 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Marcher's Merger in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1632201/ Sun, 17 Feb 2019 03:48:45 -0500 Explores how Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” reads exactly as the sort of clinging back to a projected mother-figure, after freedom began to spell feelings of abandonment that psychically were proving increasingly intolerable, that object relations therapists finds in patients. Delineates how much of the story amounts to a tussle between…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddd56f8e8956309fafe806b52a1c48f3 Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631678/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:30:12 -0500 This study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.

]]> 0 6b2d7b8f9397d180382f96c8f20524cb Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Race in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631620/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 04:10:17 -0500 “Race” offers a compelling study of ideas related to race throughout history. Its breadth of coverage, both geographically and temporally, provides readers with an expansive, global understanding of the term from the classical period onwards: Intersections of Race and Gender // Race and Social Theory Identity // Ethnicity, and Immigration //…[Read more]

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