Executive Committee January 2019:
Lena Burgos-Lafuente
Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé
Alaí Reyes-Santos
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.
We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]
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Benigno Trigo replied to the topic Introduction and many thanks! in the discussion
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoHello, everyone! I’ve been nominated to a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC Puerto Rican Forum Panel, so I’d like to tell you a little about myself. My research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American and Caribbean Literature; Women’s Writing; Psychoanalysis and Autobiography. My publications include Malady and G…[Read more]
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic (MLA Panel) Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective in the discussion
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoForum: LLC Puerto Rican
409. 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 María, Juan Carlos Rodríguez (Geo…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic (CFP: MLA 2019) Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoForum: LLC Puerto Rican
CFP: MLA 2019 in Chicago (Jan 3-6)
Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective
Digital archives, mapping projects, sound projects, aesthetic digital interventions before/after María, oceanic perspectives, disaster capitalism in the insular and continental Caribbean. Please send 250-words abstract by 2…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente posted an update in the group
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoCFP: MLA 2019 in Chicago (Jan 3-6)
Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective
Digital archives, mapping projects, sound projects, aesthetic digital interventions before/after María, oceanic perspectives, disaster capitalism in the insular and continental Caribbean. Please send 250-words abstract by 20 March 2018 to Lena…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente posted an update in the group
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Panel # 379 Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Fer…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona posted an update in the group
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoWhat’s the number of your session?
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York.
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing Imperial Frontiers: Puerto Ricans in the Dominican Republic, Santiago…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoCaribbean Space and Bodies at War
Forum: LLC Puerto Rican
Imperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu). -
Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Forms of Puerto Rican Debt: Critique and Conditions in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoForms of Puerto Rican Debt: Critique and Conditions
Forum: LLC Puerto Rican
How do literature and art imagine past/current Puerto Rican economic crises? Reflections on aesthetic interventions into conditions of capital and debt. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Liana Silva (liana.marie.silva@gmail.com). -
Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o studies CFP's in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s (due March 15).
1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & hi…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic CFP: (MLA 2017) US Latino/a Performance in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoMLA 2017 Proposed Special Session
“Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”
This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Br…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic CFP: (ACLA 2016) Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years agoWe welcome submissions for the 2016 ACLA proposed seminar:
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance
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Organizer: Yomaira Figueroa, Michigan State University
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Gerardo Pignatiello started the topic CFP Dossier "Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean" in the forum
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years ago<div>
CFP 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”…[Read more]
