Brian McGrath, Jan. 2019
David Bahr, Jan. 2020 (Jan 18-Jan 2019, chair)
Catherine Taylor, Jan. 2021 (Jan 19-Jan 2020, secretary)
Jeff Porter, Jan. 2022
Michelle Chihara, Jan. 2023
Delegate Assembly representative
Howard Horwitz, 2017–close of Jan. 2020 convention
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David Bahr started the topic CFP MLA-Chicago: Writing Sex & Power Liberations & Constraints (3/31 deadline) in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 1 month, 1 week agoWriting Sex & Power: Liberations & Constraints (Deadline Extended March 31)
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<div>As Chair of MLA’s Executive Committee of Nonfiction Prose, I am seeking papers exploring the language and rhetoric of sex and power in all nonfiction prose mediums with a focus on liberation and constraints. Please forward to interested pa…[Read more]
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David Bahr started the topic Seeking interested active member to run for executive committee Nonfiction Prose in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoCurrently seeking active MLA member interested in running for nonfiction prose committee. The term is for five years and candidate must be available to attend annual meetings at the MLA convention and possibly chair panels and propose Call for Papers. Email David Bahr @ dbahr@bmcc.cuny.edu
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Hania Nashef deposited A dialogue beyond the nation-state: Darwish’s Mural and Shehadeh’s A Rift in Time: Travels with my Ottoman Uncle in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 3 months agoEven though postcolonial theory has helped in the critique of non-western texts, it has for the most part failed to engage with the Arab region and its literatures in spite of Edward Said’s seminal book, Orientalism. Robert Young argues that postcolonial theory since its inception has been concerned with the politics of invisibility, striving to m…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited A MIXTURE OF PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVITY, OR TRAVELOGUE AS A GENRE in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 5 months, 1 week agoIn the article, we trace some aspects of development of eventivity and narrativity in Medieval and early Modern Era travel literature. Dissecting episodes of Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), A Travel of Anonimous Citizen of Suzdal to The Council of Florence (15th century), Russian Primary Chronicle (12th century), and…[Read more]
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David Squires deposited Outlawry: Ida B. Wells and Lynch Law in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 8 months agoThis essay demonstrates how Lynch Law suspended normative criminal law and undermined constitutional amendments made after the US Civil War. Focusing on the period between Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, the essay argues that “outlawry” provides the necessary juridical concept for understanding how a tradition of popular sovereignty wor…[Read more]
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David Bahr started the topic CFP MLA 2018: The Language of Populism (3/15) in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis guaranteed session explores populism as a “discursive style” of paranoia, division, identity formation, conspiracy and/or emergency, among other categories. All periods/global perspectives welcome. 300-word abstracts by March 15; David Bahr (dbahr@bmcc.cuny.edu)
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Howard Horwitz started the topic CFP-MLA Session 2018 in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoReligion in American Public Discourse
Competitive session co-sponsored by the Religion and Literature Forum and the Forum on Nonfiction Prose. Religion has long figured in the public discourse of the United States. During election season in particular, religious issues figure in campaign and more generally political discourse. President Do…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Breaking Open the Conversation on Delarivier Manley in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis, the first critical collection on Delarivier Manley, revisits the most heated discussions and adds new perspectives that will change the conversation on the foremost woman writer in the age of Queen Anne. This compilation demonstrates the wide range of thinking about Manley’s literary production and significance. While contributors r…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited Twitagogy: Writing, Information Literacy, Written Communication, and 21st-Century Pedagogy in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoTechnology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agon his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a peopl…[Read more]
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David Bahr started the topic MLA-Philadelphia. CFP: The Boundaries of Religion in Public Discourse in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago“The Boundaries of Religion in Public Discourse.” Forum on Non-fiction Prose (special session). Discussions, invocations, and uses of religion in the public sphere. Any historical period or global region. 250 word abstracts, 15 March, h.horwitz@utah.edu
During a presidential election year in the U.S., the airwaves and media fill with pro…[Read more]
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David Bahr started the topic MLA-Philadelphia. CFP: Style, in Theory in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoForum: Guaranteed Session, Nonfiction Prose
With specific attention to works of non-fiction prose, but broadly enough defined to include literary theoretical and literary critical texts, papers for “Style, in Theory” will take up the question of style. What is style? How theorize style today? How might attention to style produce new encou…[Read more] -
David Bahr started the topic MLA-Philadelphia. CFP: Form and The Public Intellectual in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoForum: Guaranteed Session, Nonfiction Prose Studies
Almost thirty years ago, Russell Jacoby defined public intellectuals as “writers and thinkers who address a general and educated audience.” Yet from Rousseau to Jacoby, the public intellectual has been perceived to operate most effectively outside the power elite, including the university…[Read more]
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Marielle R. Risse deposited Verstehen/ Einfühlen in Arabian Sands (1959): Wilfred Thesiger as Traveler and Anthropologist in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoUsing Geertz’s Verstehen/ Einfühlen distinction, this essay begins with an overview of the travel writing and anthropological work about Oman, concentrating on the southern region of Dhofar. The author then situates Wilfred Thesiger’s classic Arabian Sands (1959) within these two genres as an example of a writer who is able to show unde…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Literary Trivia Quiz in Austin in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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David Bahr started the topic Book w chapters by group member-Critical Insights: American Creative Nonfiction in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agohttp://www.salempress.com/<wbr />press_titles.html?book=134
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<div>Edited by Jay Ellis, University of Colorado at Boulder, Critical Insights: American Creative Non-Fiction provides an overview of a genre of genres called “creative nonfiction,” but also takes a look at lyrical essays. Simply introducing a collection of essays about cre…[Read more] -
David Bahr started the topic CFP: “The Critical ‘I’” NEMLA 2016, roundtable (Abstract deadline 9/30/2015) in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoCFP: “The Critical ‘I’”
NEMLA Mar 17-20, 2016, Hartford. CT
Abstract deadline Sep 30, 2015
This roundtable examines the explored and unexplored possibilities (and challenges) of the autobiographical “I” in academic scholarship and literary criticism, both inside and outside the academy.
Scholars of life writing, such as Nancy K. Miller (E…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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