José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, Jan. 2022
Laura Torres-Rodriguez, Jan. 2023 (2021–Jan. 2022 Ch.)
Sergio Delgado Moya, Jan. 2024 (2021–Jan. 2022 Sec.)
Ana Sabau, Jan. 2025
Sophie Esch, Jan. 2026
Emily Celeste Vazquez
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Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoSpectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Call for Papers "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano" in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoSPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”
Este número especial de Hispanic Journal se propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los ensayos selecc…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThe editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda replied to the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoExtended until March 20th, 2016
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoUnbounded: David Huerta’s Incurable at 30
Special Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Art, Literature and Revolution in Latin America: Telling the Story in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 8 years agoCourse Description: As German intellectual Walter Benjamin writes in his essay “The Storyteller”, “Experience which is passed on from mouth to mouth is the source from which all storytellers have drawn.” In the process of sharing experiences, more stories are born with authorship that are common while at the same time recognizing the individ…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP, MLA2016 Panel on Mexican Authors 1968 to 80's in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoSolitary Mexicans: Gaps in Contemporary Literary Historiography
Traditionally, the canon of Mexican literature has been studied by grouping authors into movements, generations, ideological “isms,” or schools. This is a common critical and historiographic procedure that always leaves some authors as not fitting neatly in some of the standard org…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP MLA 2016, Mexican Forum Panel in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoMateriality and Mexican Culture
Material culture—the production, possession, display, gifting and consumption of material goods and the built environment—plays an active role in the construction and reception of socially determined meanings. We measure core cultural values such as authenticity, tradition and progress in part through our rel…[Read more]
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Gerardo Pignatiello started the topic CFP Dossier "Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean" in the forum
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCFP Revista Badebec, University of Rosario, Argentina. Dossier “Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean (1980-2014)” (literature, film, and TV). First deadline: November 30th, 2014. Contact: badebec@gmail.com
BADEBEC INVITA A PARTICIPAR DE SU PRÓXIMO DOSSIER
“Ficciones policiales en Latinoamérica y el Caribe”
Para el númer…[Read more]
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Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta started the topic MLA 2015.NAFTA, Neoliberalism, and 21st-Century Mexican Narratives. A Roundtable in the forum
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoMLA 2015
NAFTA, Neoliberalism, and 21st-Century Mexican Narratives. A Roundtable
Position papers on how Mexico is imagined and narrated after two decades of NAFTA’s implementation. Send abstract and bio by 15 March 2014; Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta (jcramire@rohan.sdsu.edu).
