MLA Commons | TC Popular Culture | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/ Activity feed for the group, TC Popular Culture. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:12:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 895c3dd6571a8af9459c5806c4ee68a8 Nattie Golubov uploaded the file: CFP Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2025-2025 to TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1924521/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:30:00 -0400 The first election of Donald Trump sparked a series of “Rogue” romance anthologies that framed love as resistance, and the romance genre as progressive and inclusive. Looking back after a decade, how has the genre registered and responded to ongoing political contexts–in the United States and elsewhere–of political radicalization, xenophobia,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8a6b7627444eb73c011563f94a4fc4d Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900966/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:13:45 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 f93c965c33fdb6cc54d1615a21b40ce0 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-3/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:28:18 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb5c6751e0b32c5272cc26242bdb2984 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-9/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:00:59 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d86035d473581cc789b2ef6342ef0611 Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866456/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:01:17 -0500 This article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”

]]> 0 5490b5d63f070e9fdde3a97a63736ade Golam Rabbani deposited Media and Peeping Tom Culture: Violating Familial Privacy and Communal Responsibility in the Evolution of Voyeurism in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866344/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:06:26 -0500 In the name of visual pleasure, there are different entertainments in today’s media that instigate voyeurism among common viewers. In this study, the author intends to focus on two phases where the spectators are turning voyeurs without their consent. In the first phase, the study reveals the process where film influences voyeuristic behavior. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 c27bcf3374bc03d68b89165671d0e868 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s "It Must be Heaven" and Panah Panahi’s "Hit the Road" in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864817/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:06:08 -0500 Abstract | The final scene of Elia Suleiman’s film, It Must be Heaven (2019), ends with the actor/director sitting in an Arab bar in the city of Haifa, while the young crowd is dancing to “Arabyon Ana” (2000) by Lebanese singer Yuri Mrakadi. The Arabic music is a testimony to a Palestinian-Arab culture that resists erasure.

The songs in Sulei…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2ddbfd60c5edf973a7c03becc9db2ab Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-50/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:18:10 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 b818dfb9ded44a636c0f68cb55409d2d Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858685/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:27:00 -0400 This paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.

]]> 0 ae615cb62747646c07e843ef9ce59d41 Golam Rabbani deposited Review of Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development through Music in Urban Poverty by Klisala Harrison in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858682/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:18:28 -0400 This book points out new ways to identify and resolve human rights and improve the competencies of urban poor communities in Vancouver, Canada.

]]> 0 4008c67c3129e22058882c031cfac923 Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857510/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:27:06 -0400 This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]

]]> 0 84634af0c75837cfa940a14e841dc6a7 Emily Friedman deposited Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855713/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:06:59 -0400 Revised (but still draft) version of the 2023 version of Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen, a course that has students do in-depth analysis of tabletop roleplaying games through extended play, close reading of rule systems, and analysis of actual play.

]]> 0 4ed1037e68e43af233a312da60ac87fb Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835479/ Sun, 26 Feb 2023 03:55:12 -0500 Despite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]

]]> 0 40562a33a7d3ae9a258940bec4023781 Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Papers African American Literature and Culture in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/call-for-papers-african-american-literature-and-culture/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:05:12 -0400 The non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.  We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]

]]> 0 477c746870d75f9c4357407f937a1c31 Emily Friedman deposited ENGL4160EA: Fall 2022: How Games Tell Stories in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1760795/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:25:31 -0500 We are quickly approaching the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the 10th anniversaries of Twitch and Itch.io, and the ninth generation of video game consoles. The most successful TV/film Kickstarter of all time funded the animated series for D&D livestream Critical Role. Game Studies has existed as an interdisciplinary field for over three…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c2852c25834be709e7e392393922a78 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750091/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 03:52:44 -0400 Since the Intifada of 2000, living conditions in the Gaza Strip have progressively deteriorated, and when Hamas came to power in 2006–07, a complete blockade was enforced on the inhabitants by Egypt and Israel. In addition, five full-scale wars have been
waged on the Strip. Despite these conditions, Gazans remain resilient, as evidenced by s…[Read more]

]]> 0 7befc63af97681a1de2b0417ed284ba4 A. David Lewis deposited Bringing Superheroes into the Fight against COVID-19 Misinformation in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1736579/ Thu, 29 Apr 2021 02:24:03 -0400 Over the past year, artists, doctors, medical professionals, and international agencies such as the World Health Organisation have been using comics to communicate the risks of the SARS-CoV2 virus. The visual economy and a near-universal language of lines, balloons, and panels in comics makes them well suited to disseminate epidemic-related…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c0e3d73a291613cbef3fe47da8571a0 Susan Larson deposited Los modos literarios flexibles de ‘Vísceras de la ciudad’ (1935) de Rosa Arciniega in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732540/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:51:21 -0400 This is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.

]]> 0 9d6397bf076a586d134f0937b45c6557 Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 - Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725439/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 02:32:00 -0500 The syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.

]]> 0 f81c12451bad63548f7c4e0034caf964 Anastasia Salter deposited Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1717058/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 02:25:10 -0500 In this paper we examine the representation of crafts in video games, particularly in “crafting systems” – collections of mechanics that are described as crafting within a game’s narrative. Real world crafting practitioners value creativity, expression, and mastery of material, but the act of crafting itself is often viewed by society as repro…[Read more]

]]> 0 a50f2e5489f62a6014649708ab98b0f4 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza” in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1716314/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 03:55:26 -0500 Often described as an open-air prison, the citizens of the Gaza Strip have long resisted a subaltern existence. Conditions in Gaza, and specifically since the Second Intifada of 2000, have increasingly worsened. With the advent of Hamas in 2006-2007, a complete blockade was imposed on the Strip. A deafening silence by the world has resulted in…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba19cf3b59057726d1d319bc695abe43 A. David Lewis deposited CFP - Graphic Medicine at PCA 2021 in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1708098/ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 02:32:01 -0400 In conjunction with the Popular Culture Association (PCA) holding their 2021 conference in Boston, contributors and attendees of the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Virtual Summit are proposing a slate of programming that now is welcoming additional participants.

]]> 0 ca8dd0a92cb3cd6be3bff4c018233dd3 Doris Hambuch deposited Liberating Bicycles in Niki Caro’s 'Whale Rider' and in Haifaa Al Mansour’s 'Wadjda' in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1704928/ Tue, 11 Aug 2020 02:31:32 -0400 Susan B. Anthony declared in 1896 that the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” The comparative study of ‘Whale Rider’ (2002) and ‘Wadjda’ (2012) demonstrates that this liberating effect of the basic tool of transportation is being reinforced in the new millennium. The analysis further situates two con…[Read more]

]]> 0 58831bc017b6ad145c3d9730d3f5a4cf William Lenz started the topic CFP in Travel & Tourism at Popular Culture Ass 2021 National Conference (Boston) in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/cfp-in-travel-tourism-at-popular-culture-ass-2021-national-conference-boston/ Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:34:11 -0400 CFP: Travel and Tourism Studies

POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION 2021 NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, 110 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116March 31-April 3, 2021

PROPOSAL DEADLINE:  NOVEMBER 1, 2020We are considering proposals for individual papers analyzing any aspect of travel and tourism. Proposals might focus on travel…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bd1e2bd470fc2f378f104ed45909e4a A. David Lewis deposited 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference Call for Papers (CFP) in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1671901/ Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:27:32 -0500 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference
Call for Papers
MARCH 26-28, 2020
[Deadline: January 10, 2020]

Graphic Medicine is a genre, a field, a tool, a community, and a cause. It is large enough to accommodate all health and medical experiences, from that of the doctor to that of the patient – from that of a microbe to that of a p…[Read more]

]]> 0 77548a3519c4e654415181e7d53555de Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited "Poor Black Squares": Afterimages of the Floppy Disk in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668450/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:33:03 -0400 Chapter 21 of The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence, ed. Mark J.P. Wolf (New York and London: Routledge, 2019): 296-310.

]]> 0 8deee1a233bdc1d568855a2a81574511 Anastasia Salter deposited But Does Pikachu Love You? Reproductive Labor in Casual and Hardcore Games in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1662006/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:26:28 -0400 Since the first Pokémon game launched in Japan in 1996, the series has been a balancing act between casual and hardcore gaming. While the first iteration and “core” series has emphasized a modified, accessible version of traditional JRPG mechanics, other titles have frequently emphasized so-called casual play; most recently, Pokémon Go lured in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 9eaa55909c99e9b17eeb8e2eb528afbe Amanda Licastro deposited Major Author: Margaret Atwood in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1661619/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:25:21 -0400 This undergraduate seminar on author Margaret Atwood fulfills the Major Author course at Stevenson University. Students will read A Trio of Tall Tales and The Year of the Flood, as well as both read and watch The Handmaid’s Tale. The course assignments include live-tweeting, creating a webtext, and an intertextual analysis essay.

]]> 0 a091cee43e9c7b1ee03b592017248587 James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Syllabus) in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657847/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:44:30 -0400 The recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7e15c6704b5855da5b454fa4a2c8be5 James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Study Guide) in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657842/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:32:45 -0400 The recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac824c1beb726d5e52fba5ac5b5b92fc Marisa Parham deposited 'You Can't Flow Over This': Ursula Rucker's Acoustic Illusion in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641075/ Tue, 28 May 2019 16:31:46 -0400 This essay brings together two texts, a letter to the editor written in experimental prose by the Black avant-garde Beat poet, Bob Kaufman, and “The Unlocking,” a spoken-word poem written and performed by Ursula Rucker that appears at the end of The Roots’ critically acclaimed rap album, Do You Want More??!?. By using the aural to disrupt expec…[Read more]

]]> 0 197bfbe6ccd05b46307b23a65a5419ec Doris Hambuch deposited Including E-Literature in Mainstream Cultural Critique: The Case of Graphic Art by Khaled Al Jabri in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640014/ Fri, 10 May 2019 16:35:52 -0400 This essay uses the image-based work of Emirati cartoonist Khaled Al Jabri to address concerns of technological dependence to reconsider our use of screens. The production of electronic literature requires technologies responsible for undeniable hazards unique to today’s information and gadget age. As represented in Al Jabri’s graphic art, these…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c67448ec16896e92fcbe1c3ce9396b3 A. David Lewis deposited Cancer and Comic Books: Distinguishing the Subgenre [Poster] in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1639305/ Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:27:56 -0400 For at least the last twenty years, scholarly attention has been drawn to the numerous depictions of cancer in comic books as well as oncology’s use of the comics medium (Rhode and Connor, 2012). However, little in the way of comprehensive analysis has been attempted, especially in terms of the various genres addressed. In this presentation, a ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b6eb39116f3af77b3878ed3692d8e74 A. David Lewis deposited Diagnosis Deafness in Cancer Comics in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1638745/ Sat, 20 Apr 2019 16:25:44 -0400 A brief piece on what I call “diagnosis deafness.” In short, to depict the sudden disorientation and shock of being diagnosed with cancer, comics artists frequently employ a visual rhetoric usually reserved for instances of deafness. At least momentarily – during an immensely significant moment in the life of the character – words fail, dev…[Read more]

]]> 0 550126e9b819063d0481b89cd5f10b2d Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634065/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:09:54 -0500 Explores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]

]]> 0 73b9ab668261d16d8e1c4994b3bcc734 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634063/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:05:20 -0500 Explores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]

]]> 0 80af48f9532f03f1f74604e5ec8d315f Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Search for a Way of Being in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1632978/ Sat, 23 Feb 2019 03:51:05 -0500 Explores a clip of “Blade Runner” as if it were an artifice for suggesting means by which we might find meaning, purpose, in our own world. Decker as extension of ourselves, experimenting, failing… but ultimately succeeding, to discover purpose that is palpable to many of us, in a world we find actively seeking to degrade the possibility of it.

]]> 0 68ff0708260fad135f74ac36f117405c A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine (HUM450AJ.O) syllabus in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627997/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:29:12 -0500 At the intersection of comics and medicine is the rise of the Graphic Medicine scholarship field. This course examines the ways in which the sequentialized hybrid of word and image is bringing new insights to patient, healthcare, and clinical experiences.

In any manner of ways, the comics medium (whether known as comic books, graphic novels,…[Read more]

]]> 0 88ea30a03ea4987cece1bd4a2d2285f3 Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622917/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:32:01 -0500 Bound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]

]]> 0 df414e9e58c75b33d911573c61a16fec religioncomics deposited Distinguishing the Comic Book Subgenre of Cancer Narratives in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615879/ Sun, 19 Aug 2018 16:28:18 -0400 An overview of proposed categories for the growing graphic medicine genre of cancer comics (i.e. cancer narratives in comic book form) and an initial theory on the significant linkage between this illness and particular medium.

]]> 0 e47010a6509fa96fd091afd4761e97e2 Stephen A. Ross deposited Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel: From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1614499/ Fri, 03 Aug 2018 04:00:38 -0400 From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many tribes and subcultures of Britain’s teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of the most important contemporary British wri…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ebe8824ee3bdce5d2aaaa6accfe6cf7 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Coming of Age in Troubled Times: Son of Babylon and Theeb in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1613973/ Thu, 26 Jul 2018 03:57:56 -0400 Jordan and Iraq are not countries that are often associated with a local film culture. Recently, however, a nascent film industry has started to grow in both Iraq and Jordan, producing films that have been shown in international film festivals. Even though the Jordanian film industry remains in its infancy, the films that have emerged of late…[Read more]

]]> 0 f31ec52bc26fab86095fdb4c12860b25 religioncomics deposited It's Time for LISSA in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1611355/ Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:15:46 -0400 Review of LISSA: A STORY ABOUT MEDICAL PROMISE, FRIENDSHIP, AND REVOLUTION (University of Toronto Press) by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, and Caroline Brewer

]]> 0 7e871857879e5e9947599efca8578d9b William Lenz started the topic CFP: Travel & Tourism at 2019 Popular Culture Conference in Washington DC in the discussion Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/cfp-travel-tourism-at-2019-popular-culture-conference-in-washington-dc/ Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:02:27 -0400  

CFP: Travel and Tourism Studies

POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION

2019 JOINT NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Wardman Park Marriott, Washington DC

Wednesday, April 17, to Saturday, April 20, 2019

For information on PCA/ACA, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org

For conference information, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org/nationa…[Read more]

]]> 0 85b3348b88f6cca3cf48aef17e09af28 Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 3: Assembled in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604671/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:26:58 -0400 Assembled cigar box fiddle. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”

]]> 0 f706bf363ae78af0f290b41a57b15b38 Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 2: Disassembled in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604666/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:16:32 -0400 The label is under the soundboard. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”

]]> 0 d6de8e329f804f428999efb047487ab7 Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 1: Disassembled in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604654/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:52:25 -0400 Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”

]]> 0 f3e343c6879e4cb7dc7b76ed99afd0ee Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Eng 260 Introduction to Women Writers, or,Books That Cook! Syllabus in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604164/ Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:50:16 -0400 Course syllabus for Eng 260: Introduction to Women Writers focused on the theme of food fiction. Taught at Central Oregon Community College as a general education course. We are on the quarter system which limits the number of readings. The course will require that students complete a collaborative digital project.

]]> 0 3b2c38b5ca0ec72021c07ff692261f98 A. Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599888/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 04:16:39 -0500 And interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).

]]> 0 1f06c34821ad403bcd1b74e355fb3271 Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/cfp-literature-as-activism-stony-brook-university-english-graduate-conference-3/#post-1015837 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:41:27 -0500 The deadline is approaching!

To participate in the 2018 Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit all abstracts to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18th, 2017.

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