Executive Committee Members
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Carmen Lamas, Jan. 2022
Elena Machado Sáez, Jan. 2023 (2021–Jan. 2022 Ch.)
Marion Christina Rohrleitner, Jan. 2024 (2021–Jan. 2022 Sec.)
Joshua Javier Gúzman, Jan. 2025
Alberto Varon, Jan. 2026
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Forum’s Delegate Representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly:
Maritza Cárdenas; 2019-2022
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But what, exactly, is an MLA forum supposed to do?
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MLA forums—formerly divisions and discussion groups—encompass the scholarly and professional concerns of the association. They promote scholarly and professional activities within their areas of concern. More specifically, we organize sessions at the MLA by generating CFP’s and, often in conjunction with other forums, host a cash bar receptions.
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Each forum is governed by an elected executive committee whose five members serve terms of five convention years. A convention year begins after the close of one convention and continues through the close of the next; it is named for the convention that concludes the year.
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You may reach any one of the executive committee members at any time via MLACommons.
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(With thanks to the Chicana and Chicano Forum for useful description of the Forum’s work.)
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
An op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited Violencia e identidades: Elmer Mendoza y la creación de una saga detectivesca in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The portrayal of narcotrafficking in the novels of Elmer Mendoza.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Surmounting Borders, The Corridos of Jenni Rivera in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 12 months ago
Ranchera music on the U.S. Mexican Border
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Call for Applications: Bucknell English MA Program in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
Do you have any undergraduates who are interested in pursuing graduate studies but perhaps not ready to enter a PhD program yet?
I’m hoping that you’ll consider advising them to apply to Bucknell’s MA in English program. Admission comes with two years of tuition remission and an approximately $12,000 stipend.
The MA program features one-on-…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Nominations Welcome for Executive Committee of “LLC Latina and Latino” Forum in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
The MLA has just announced a new process for appointments to the executive committee which now allows us to “solicit suggestions directly from the forums’ members in the forums’ MLA Commons groups.”
The executive committee appoints one new member to the executive committee every year. We welcome recommendations of colleagues as well as sel…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
The Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!
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Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel
In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet
Presider: Alberto Varón
Recent events have demonstrated the…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
The Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!
Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
- Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel
- In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet
- Presider: Alberto Varón
- Recent events have demonstrated the…
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Rielle Navitski started the topic Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
I’m excited to announce that a beta version of Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook is now available online: https://open.online.uga.edu/latinxmedia/
Edited by Leslie Marsh and myself (Rielle Navitski) with the support of the Affordable Learning Georgia initiative, the freely available textbook addresses a range of media forms (film, te…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Job Searcjh for Late Associate & Full Professor at Southern Methodist University in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
Position No. 00005756. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]
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Renee Hudson started the topic CFP for Metheun Drama Handbook on Theatre and Social Action in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
Theatre and Social Action Call for Papers for the Methuen Drama Handbooks series Theaters have closed everywhere. Theaters are reopening. And at the same time, the global pandemic and recent social movements have urgently been measured, mediated, and aided by the arts and theater makers to reshape the way we must now represent, facilitate, and p…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
This is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.
Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8
Thanks,
Elena Machado Sáez
Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: "Democracy and the US Latinx Novel" in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
“Democracy and the US Latinx Novel”
Call for Papers
LLC Latina and Latino ForumRecent events have demonstrated the simultaneous vulnerability and resiliency of democratic projects, and of our cultural frameworks for imagining the norms and processes of those institutions.
This collaborative panel seeks presentations that address democracy…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Dear MLA members,
Please consider attending one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los An…
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
Join us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Women & Language Journal CFP in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
Call for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Just published: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
If you’re interested, check out the essay I recently published in issue #4 of archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, edited by Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil: http://archipelagosjournal.org/issue04/machado-gratitude.html
In “Debt of Gratitude: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter,” I engage in an analysis of…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: Afro-Latinx Stories in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Dear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting proposals for this panel on “Afro-Latinx Stories” for the 2021 Modern Language Association convention. See more info below. Thanks!
Cheers,
Elena
MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories
- Papers analyzing Afro-Latinx cultural and literary production.
- Send 150-word abstract and CV to Elena M…
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Minni Sawhney deposited Ambivalent Fundamentalists and Reluctant Detectives: Living on the Edge in the Global South in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
This article discusses the confluence of the war on drugs and the war on terror with an analysis of the novels of Elmer Mendoza, (Balas de plata, Prueba de ácido, Nombre de perro, Besar al detective) Don Winslow (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel) and Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist)
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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