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Ellen Scheible started the topic How can the Irish forum help you? in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 8 months agoDear members,
As a member of the MLA Irish LLC, I am writing to begin a discussion about the way that the Irish forum could be most useful for your work and engagement. What kinds of posts, links, or connections would you like to see here? How can we best use this forum to connect with each other and encourage community building and…[Read more]
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Liam Lanigan started the topic Executive Committee Election: Liam Lanigan in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoA chairde,
I’m very pleased and honoured to have been nominated for election to the Irish forum executive committee. This Fall I was appointed Assistant Professor of British and European Literature at Governors State University in Chicago, having spent the last two years as a VAP at Texas Woman’s University. Previously I was the NEH Keough…[Read more]
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Ellen Scheible started the topic Executive Committee Election: Ellen Scheible in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoDear Members,
I am grateful and honored to have been nominated for the executive committee and would love the opportunity to represent four-year regional state universities as well as undergraduate Irish Studies programs at the regional level. I am an associate professor of English at Bridgewater State University where I teach modern and…[Read more]
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David Squires deposited Roger Casement’s Queer Archive in the group
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoGrowing interest in the archive as an object of study for queer criticism justifies closer attention to the concept of provenance. For archivists, provenance imparts a fundamental measure of integrity to archival collections by certifying their origin and proper order. Record origin and order, however, rely on authorial identity to establish…[Read more]
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Matthew Reznicek deposited A City She Must Postpone: The Parisian Geography of Kate O’Brien’s Bildungsromane in the group
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoBy reading each of the novels of Kate O’Brien’s oeuvre as ‘a travel story’, just as we read Balzac’s Père Goriot, it becomes necessary to read them as ‘a spatial practice’, a narrative that locates itself in and responds to a specific space. The specific geography of Kate O’Brien’s Parisian novels of development, Without My Cloak (1931), The…[Read more]
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Patrick R. O'Malley started the topic Executive Committee Election: O'Malley in the discussion
Anglo-Irish Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to have been nominated for a position on the executive committee of the LLC Irish forum this year and I want here to give you some information about me and my work. I’m an associate professor in the English Department at Georgetown University, where I’m an active member of our recently formed Irish Studies Initi…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Murphy in the group
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoLecture/class notes on Samuel Beckett’s Murphy. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited “Per omnia saecula saeculorum” or “Inkaba yakho iphi?”: Indigeneity in Alex La Guma and Aidan Higgins in the group
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis article argues for an overlapping notion of indigeneity in Alex La Guma’s In the Fog of the Seasons’ End and Aidan Higgins’ Langrishe, Go Down articulated using critical Aboriginal Studies while exploring the materialist emergence of identity. The key tension, then, is not between both authors’ progressive politics nor the real differences b…[Read more]
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Jeremy Colangelo deposited The Grotesque Gigantic: Stephen Hero, Maximalism, and Bakhtin in the group
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoMy intention is to reorient Stephen Hero’s position in Joyce’s oeuvre, viewing it not simply as a precursor to A Portrait but instead as a first attempt at the kind of expansive narrative Joyce would undertake in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. What I wish to narrate is not primarily the story of Stephen Hero’s failure, but instead the story of how J…[Read more]
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Kevin Stevens started the topic Joyce Studies Annual 2015 CFP in the forum
Anglo-Irish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoJoyce Studies Annual has issued its annual call for papers. Please note that the deadline is February 15, 2015 for the 2015 volume.
JSA welcomes manuscripts of up to 50 pages on any aspect of James Joyce studies:
• Archival
• Theoretical
• Comparative
• HistoricalFordham University Press uses Chicago Manual of Style format. Please send elec…[Read more]
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