MLA Commons | TC Marxism, Literature, and Society | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/ Activity feed for the group, TC Marxism, Literature, and Society. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:21:20 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8cdd25a78e579a1361394e8141dc22c3 Rob Wilkie started the topic Radical Caucus Resolution Signatures Needed by October 1, 2025 in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/radical-caucus-resolution-signatures-needed-by-october-1-2025/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:13:41 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

Do you feel the need for the MLA to take a stand against the fascistic attacks on higher education, the genocide in Gaza, and the spurious distortion of antisemitism as justification for these assaults?

The MLA Radical Caucus is sponsoring a resolution for the 2026 MLA Convention that will address these concerns. It is titled…[Read more]

]]> 0 929d484a9f320217cc99bd0d7f1c7515 Jim Kavanagh replied to the topic Resignation Executive Committee TC Marxism, Literature, and Society Forum in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/resignation-executive-committee-tc-marxism-literature-and-society-forum/#post-1039474 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:35:30 -0500 Thanks for standing up for humanity.

]]> 0 5c8d7113a2159116a63f1aa889f268e4 Nattie Golubov started the topic Resignation Executive Committee TC Marxism, Literature, and Society Forum in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/resignation-executive-committee-tc-marxism-literature-and-society-forum/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:15:37 -0500 Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee officers of our forum to let you know that we have resigned our appointments to protest the Council’s refusal to allow for an open debate of MLA Resolution 2025-1, which concerns an endorsement of the 2005 BDS call to action:…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c9de188b4efcda2fd4856bf2d125d62 Nattie Golubov started the topic Call for Chapters Atmospheres of Extinction in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-atmospheres-of-extinction/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:07:38 -0500 Atmospheres of Extinction: Architecture & Post-Cold War Structures of Feeling

This collection seeks to understand post-Cold War built atmospheres that reference or update far-ranging Cold War affective geographies, geopolitical atmospheres and subjective forms in architecture, literature, popular culture and the arts by exploring the relationship…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d4f65344b789e2605a2ff2823f2b30f Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/MARX/PEIRCE in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886475/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:01:39 -0400 Exploration on the linkages among the modes of discourse and presentation in Hgel, Marx and Peirce
with a view to inferring a common dialectical tendency in their inquiries.

]]> 0 329e7406af3271ede582237826fb74d9 Purnima Bose started the topic Convention 2025: "Postcolonial Capitalism: Southeast Asia & Its Diaspora" in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/convention-2025-postcolonial-capitalism-southeast-asia-its-diaspora/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:41:50 -0500 Postcolonial Capitalism:  Southeast Asia and its Diaspora
(a co-sponsored proposal on behalf of the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Forum and the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum)
Short CFP:
How do representational narratives, forms, and genres register the articulation of emergent
capitalist imperatives as recompense…[Read more]

]]> 0 c313b8ed76dd74a8dfbac49b0a61b76f Purnima Bose started the topic CFP: MLA Convention 2025 in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-mla-convention-2025/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 15:01:03 -0500 The Executive Committee invites abstracts for two 2025 MLA sessions organized by the TC Marxism, Society and Literature Forum. More information is below.

Exhaustion, Involution, Bullshit Jobs: Virtual roundtable on the conditions and afflictions of over/underwork in response to a reading by David Graeber (the preface and first chapter “What is a…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ad7a9187ad4bb0a7f389a378f5c27a8 Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/PEIRCE in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876759/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:00:32 -0500 Speculative notes on the relation between Peirce’s pragmatist method and Hegel’s dialectics

]]> 0 95f658cf022208640d2cbe0819693b4f Eva Cherniavsky started the topic Updates from the Forum Executive Committee 12/28/23 in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/updates-from-the-forum-executive-committee-12-28-23/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:56:17 -0500 Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]

]]> 0 29f9630c46d3b85ce8e2361b8dc165b9 Epifanio San Juan deposited CHALLENGING AMERICAN STUDIES in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864252/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:11:49 -0500 Critique of orthodox American Studies in the last quarter of the twentieth=century.

]]> 0 6c80c11cd45005c6cf5225ca6a4a523f Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864248/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:00:15 -0500 Survey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.

]]> 0 79179ed4bb59f3168378f067ce40e426 Loren Kruger deposited Brechtian Theatre and the Glocal South The Case from South Africa in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817354/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 02:26:20 -0400 The glocal scale offers a more productive frame for analyzing the transculturation of theatre, particular Brechtian theory and practice, than either the singularly local or the generalized global. Glocalization brings into focus networks of imaginative representation that may be missed in overbroad applications of global frameworks, particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 984845522d82448f542cb036fded3127 Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Exec Committee Member? in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/new-forum-exec-committee-member/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 21:18:08 -0500 MLA has a new process for selecting new members to forum executive committees. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you’d like to make a nomination (or self-nominate) please email me. Thank you, Sophia

]]> 0 87dfe9babf7e8888898099ef7d8b0c84 Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Member? in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/new-forum-member-2/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 21:16:52 -0500 MLA has a new process for selecting new members to forum executive committees. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you’d like to make a nomination (or self-nominate) please email me at sam50@psu.edu. Thank you, Sophia

]]> 0 2ecb0ffdcd88cb731e0ea35ded8cdc74 Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Member? in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/new-forum-member/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 21:14:23 -0500 MLA has adopted a new process for populating the forum roster. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees.  If you would like to to recommend a member to serve (or self-nominate) please email me at sam50@psu.edu.  Thank you, Sophia

]]> 0 0fe861636e7420bbaa24438774d69344 Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1705596/ Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:53:36 -0400 Previous studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to…[Read more]

]]> 0 7adb7bd6fc721557f206476cd69276d0 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2020-forum-delegate-election-46/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:48:27 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 0 9755c96bd49532856e7e1dab5a7731aa Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663734/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:13:00 -0400 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]

]]> 0 fbbea5e8c469fa31f2a280df0037e813 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited CFP: Routledge Companion to Literature and Class in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634171/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 04:13:05 -0500 Routledge is doing a series of literature companions. I have been requested to build a proposal for a Literature and Social Class companion text. You are most welcome to pass on this CFP to colleagues. Please see details in attached file. Questions?
Many thanks,
Gloria McMillan, Editor
Email for ideas, communications, and drafts
glomc@dakotacom.net

]]> 0 fbcabd986673de6fb390abf004e7d6b4 Charlie Gleek deposited A Syllabus, In Circuits in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1625132/ Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:25:23 -0500 Examining the production, transmission, and consumption of the syllabus opens up ways of seeing the traces of dominant practices, meanings, and values in contemporary academic culture. This hegemony is in place as a function of the deliberate efforts of intellectuals hailing from the dominant cultural group. What has become pedagogical…[Read more]

]]> 0 efaecf72c4716dda7c34474df40722fb Amy Kahrmann Huseby deposited "Half Poets" and "Whole Democrats": The Politics of Poetic Aggregation in Aurora Leigh in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615225/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:01:52 -0400 Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh seeks to redress the divisive work of women’s democratic political representation by way of poetic form to ask whether women must always be regarded as partial citizens. Women are not counted as integral units—ones—politically or culturally. Barrett Browning connects women’s ability to produce writing a…[Read more]

]]> 0 4dc8b5edf4848a2cba0a202567d9dceb Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-literature-as-activism-stony-brook-university-english-graduate-conference-4/ Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:04:24 -0400 Stony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8ceb7d0b71b7f997ead05761baa1015 Charles Gleek deposited “In This Way the Moons and the Seasons Passed”: Distantly Reading the Literary Criticism of Things Fall Apart. in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1567159/ Thu, 27 Apr 2017 01:06:27 -0400 I employ distant reading techniques and data visualization tools to assess the literary criticism of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. My findings suggest that the scholarly literary criticism of Things Fall Apart did not occur independently with the publication of Achebe’s work in 1958, but was a part of a larger trend in literary criticism a…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b878aed536fa69da9a1cb2db55a1074 Samara Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1562928/ Tue, 21 Feb 2017 20:10:15 -0500 Aggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more]

]]> 0 876e5b2a9fbc6aa179da07654130ee67 James Gifford deposited HUMN 2439: Radical Political Thought (2017-01) in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557486/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 01:00:00 -0500 This course explores major currents of political radicalism both within and outside of the dominant western political tradition. Topics considered may include antidemocratic radicalism, democratic radicalism, Marxian radicalism, radical feminism, radical individualism, and post-colonial radicalism. Readings will include selections from Kant,…[Read more]

]]> 0 f42a429199a8ad04017747694f43f56f James Gifford deposited HUMN 2439: Radical Political Thought in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557442/ Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:16:24 -0500 This course explores major currents of political radicalism both within and outside of the dominant western political tradition. Topics considered may include antidemocratic radicalism, democratic radicalism, Marxian radicalism, radical feminism, radical individualism, and post-colonial radicalism. Readings will include selections from Kant,…[Read more]

]]> 0 61156869c027d9628ea9b3dfe5e314a5 Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Election of a New Forum Delegate--Call for Suggestions in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/2017-election-of-a-new-forum-delegate-call-for-suggestions/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:26:55 -0400 The election of a new Delegate Assembly representative for this forum is scheduled for the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to n…[Read more]

]]> 0 41a386244669a5e9dc2e4f5944584d4d Martin Paul Eve deposited “You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549876/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:25:28 -0400 In 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into t…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ef1dca293cdf25b525b42a7a0d371fd John MacKay deposited Christ Among the Herdsmen: From Refugee to Propagandist (1918-1922) in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549177/ Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:38:04 -0400 Vertov’s early years in film: the Kino-Nedelia newsreels, the work on the agitational trains, the anti-religious propaganda films.

]]> 0 99cbb706f53fbe8cf6e74dcfb43bf99e John MacKay deposited The Beating Pulse of Living Life: Musical, Futurist and Newsreel Matrices (1916-18) in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549171/ Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:31:05 -0400 Vertov in 1917, and an investigation of some of his shaping contexts: musical practice, Futurist poetry, early non-fiction filmmaking, and Marxism.

]]> 0 b8c1a1928391a673a6526e119cd1ac7f Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546384/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:53:17 -0400 This paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]

]]> 0 dac1d8dc061872dd39742558a9e23342 Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538369/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:53:00 -0500 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the chapter:

Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms

Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]

]]> 0 46a920aafbd4977a3ab4a1af8a598ad0 Caroline Edwards deposited From Eros to Eschaton: Herbert Marcuse’s Liberation of Time in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538363/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:42:54 -0500 This article explores what Gershom Scholem has called Herbert Marcuse’s “unacknowledged ties to [his] Jewish heritage.” At the core of Marcuse’s vision of transformed, non-repressive social relations, I argue, is a struggle over time, which rests upon a distinctly Jewish approach to the twin questions of remembrance and redemption. One example…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1356ccc3bf9db67f4003d4b0e09331e Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538347/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:29:53 -0500 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]

]]> 0 085f852853291993205d3f4a1cbb4e31 Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538341/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:19:05 -0500 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9e35363f629d2868e494e6cdcf945c2 Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/an-introduction-to-the-future-of-benjamin-nitzan-lebovic/#post-9955 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:30:42 -0500 Howard Eiland (MIT) and Michael Jennings (Princeton)’s response to the Future of Benjamin Project. What a beautiful closure to a list of brilliant articles. Let us know what you think:

http://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/10

]]> 0 c90274df3054d5d08d86bddb66305deb Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/an-introduction-to-the-future-of-benjamin-nitzan-lebovic/#post-9843 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:07:29 -0500 Article # 8: Carolin Duttlinger’s (Oxford) brilliant article about Benjaminian networks. This is the concluding article in our series, before Michael Jenning and Howard Eiland’s response, coming in early 2016: 

https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/7

]]> 0 552a33f3d05600c675a62bd79226937b Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/an-introduction-to-the-future-of-benjamin-nitzan-lebovic/#post-9808 Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:21:24 -0500 Article # 7: Galili Shahar about Benjamin’s (Jewish) tradition:

http://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/one-foot-study-tradition-walter-benjamin

]]> 0 3b9cd850d471e32ce0139504369c024c Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/an-introduction-to-the-future-of-benjamin-nitzan-lebovic/#post-9760 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:11:44 -0500 Article # 6: Annika Thiem (Villanova) about the Benjamin field and the philosophy of disciplinary boundaries:
https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/5

]]> 0 e6d7222dd15b42760971684438977e9d Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/an-introduction-to-the-future-of-benjamin-nitzan-lebovic/#post-9699 Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:34:18 -0500 Article # 5: Daniel Weidner (Humboldt/ZfL) about the AFTERLIFE of Benjamin:

https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/4

]]> 0 408e60d905761ea052aa8b7e635fcb6f Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/an-introduction-to-the-future-of-benjamin-nitzan-lebovic/#post-9663 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:38:59 -0500 Article # 4: Ilit Ferber (TAU) “A Feel for Benjamin”:

https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/3

]]> 0 333d2bdd3ff50801f114627d046a0de0 Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/an-introduction-to-the-future-of-benjamin-nitzan-lebovic/#post-9613 Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:10:43 -0500 Article # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:

https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/9

]]> 0 6aff43ee722a86ce4dee9a5fdbfa2dc4 Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/an-introduction-to-the-future-of-benjamin-nitzan-lebovic/#post-9540 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:59:17 -0500 Article # 2: Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth) about Benjamin Biographies: https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/1

]]> 0 d84489acd63adab4ad5b018f610f9f4e Roger Whitson deposited Applied Blake: Milton's Response to Empire in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/534832/ Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:41:42 -0500 Studying William Blake means studying the event of history, the way history merges with and emerges within theology, politics and philosophy. William Blake’s poetry has had a precarious relationship with history; his work resonates from very specific historical concerns and yet also seems to struggle against being confined to any formal h…[Read more]

]]> 0 2922df08ac94a24afb220ff715b61e2b Nitzan Lebovic started the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/an-introduction-to-the-future-of-benjamin-nitzan-lebovic/ Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:09:41 -0500 https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/2

]]> 0 0c3c4a3082a8258a2be3762771a8dbc9 Nitzan Lebovic started the topic A teaser for a new project about Walter Benjamin on MLA Commons in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/a-teaser-for-a-new-project-about-walter-benjamin-on-mla-commons-2/ Tue, 03 Nov 2015 21:07:50 -0500 The articles will be uploaded every Friday, starting Nov. 7th: https://futureofbenjamin.mla.hcommons.org

 

]]> 0 7788eff0a96125e16ff3b5aecdb3c924 Rebecca Kennison deposited A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Open Access Publishing and Archiving for Humanities and Social Sciences in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/532136/ Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:19:07 -0400 This white paper outlines a model for open access (OA) publishing for the humanities and social sciences (HSS) that offers a scalable, fair, responsive, and discipline-independent solution that can be applied to the entire scholarly communication ecosystem in an incremental fashion, rolled out at both small and large scale. The solution proposed…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb8a88d300fe78ca86c7b9230824ea24 Loren Kruger deposited Chicago / Johannesburg in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/531637/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:00:09 -0400 Johannesburg, Chicago of South Africa
Chicago, Johannesburg by the Lake

]]> 0 a7c1c8d7da7d8f72d1d8c24e127c6343 Jodi Melamed started the topic Finance Capital and the University in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sociological-approaches-to-literature/forum/topic/finance-capital-and-the-university/ Tue, 04 Aug 2015 21:56:26 -0400 Please consider attending the following panel sponsored by our division:

Sunday, 10 January

803. Finance Capital and the University

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society

Presiding: Christopher John Newfield, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

1. “Securitization and University of Finance,” Am…[Read more]

]]> 0 73be14191ecb98a1bd77532269cab42c Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sociological-approaches-to-literature/forum/topic/cfp-20th21st-century-women-writers-as-public-intellectuals/#post-6939 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:43:17 -0500 This call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.

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