Executive Committee Members
Ariana Vigil, Jan. 2021
Carmen Lamas, Jan. 2022 (2020–Jan. 2021 Ch.)
Elena Machado Sáez, Jan. 2023 (2020–Jan. 2021 Sec.)
Marion Christina Rohrleitner, Jan. 2024
Joshua Javier Gúzman, Jan. 2025
Forum’s Delegate Representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly:
Maritza Cárdenas; 2019-2022
But what, exactly, is an MLA forum supposed to do?
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.
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.
You may reach any one of the executive committee members at any time via MLACommons.
(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 MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 month 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 3 months, 2 weeks 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 8 months, 3 weeks 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 9 months, 3 weeks 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 11 months, 1 week 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 1 year, 2 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 1 year, 4 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 1 year, 4 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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Minni Sawhney deposited Excentric Affects in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Nadie me verá llorar in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
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.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Jenni Rivera y sus corridos: la historia de un desafío in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
An analysis of the life and corridos of Jenni Rivera the sole woman narco corridista
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Minni Sawhney deposited Stories on the Margins of History : Spanish Immigrants and the Mexican Revolution in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
The lives of Spanish immigrants during the Mexican Revolution, their participation therein.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Mexican U.S. Border Literature and the Narco Novel in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
Analysis of Border literature, Narco novels in the U.S. and Mexico
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Minni Sawhney deposited La ciudad como protagonista: México D.F. y la literatura mexicana in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
El retrato de la Ciudad de México en la literatura.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Un nuevo espacio en la literatura mexicana: La obra fronteriza de luís Humberto Crosthwaite y Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
La literatura de la frontera norte
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente replied to the topic Latinx Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 2 years ago
SATURDAY, 5 JANUARY 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Forum: LLC Puerto Rican409. Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective
SATURDAY, 5 JANUARY 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, MISSISSIPPI (SHERATON GRAND)1. The Aesthetics of Toxicity: Vieques, Alejandra Bronfman (U at Albany, State U of New York)2. Better Nasty than Fishy: Media Responses to Hurricane Ma…[Read more]
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John Alba Cutler started the topic Latinx Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Hi, everyone,
Please mark your calendars for the following Latinx Forum sessions at MLA in January:
- 466: Chicanx-Riqueñx Chicago Date: Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 Time: 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Location: Hyatt Regency – Michigan 2
- 537: Latinx Chicago: Contemporary Latinx Authors Write on and from Chicago Date: Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 Time: 1:45 PM–3:00 PM
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Marissa K. López deposited The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography: The Case of Hubert H. Bancroft and Mariano G. Vallejo in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
This article compares the historiographic methods of two 19th century, California historians.. Mariano Vallejo, former Mexican military commander of Alta California, wrote his Recuerdos at the request of San Francisco-based, Anglo-American historian Hubert H. Bancroft. In his own memoir, Literary Industries (1915), Bancroft describes his…[Read more]
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Remy Attig deposited Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish: Common Considerations for the English Translator of Two Peripheral Lects in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years ago
In the natural order of language development orality precedes literary production, but elements of the oral tradition do often appear in literature. In this presentation I will look at orality in some Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish texts to see how the study of these two lects together may better inform the translator. Though both are lects of…[Read more]
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Maia Gil’Adi posted an update in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years ago
Happy new year everyone!!
For those attending the MLA 2018, clear some space for the Latinx Forum panels!
– “Latina/o New York” (Friday 01/05, 12:00 – 1:15 pm)
– “Latina/o New York II” (Saturday 01/06, 3:30 – 4:45 pm)
– “The X Factor” (co-sponsored with LLC Chicana Chicano) (Sunday 01/07 8:30 – 9:45 am)
Stay warm and hope to see you there!
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal – Latinx Literature & Politics Issue – Extended Deadline: Dec 15 in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
Chiricú Journal announces a deadline extension for submissions for our upcoming issue on Latinx literature and politics. <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Submissions by December 15 to chiricu.indiana.edu</span> For questions, contact chiricu@indiana.edu
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Chiricú Journal</span><span class=”s2″> is a new, cut…[Read more] - Load More