MLA Commons | LLC Puerto Rican | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Puerto Rican. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1d3ce99fd2c0c4afd3b5bd13d01379a8 Israel Reyes started the topic Boricua Pop(ulist) Art: Reassessing Puertorriqueñidad in the Bad Bunny Era in the forum LLC Puerto Rican https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/boricua-populist-art-reassessing-puertorriquenidad-in-the-bad-bunny-era/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:29:17 -0400 During the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries, Puerto Rican artists helped lead the charge of what at the time was denominated the Latin Boom. Artists like Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, and Jennifer Lopez became ubiquitous, which led some to sound the clarion call for further visibility and representation. However, while their careers…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae29b15624254dc94fb1447bc503fd8c Monica Vega Gonzalez created the doc Between "Residente" and "Benito": Naming and the Performance of Puertorriqueñidad in the Bad Bunny Era in the group LLC Puerto Rican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947242/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:54:11 -0400 0 d90e291b0cabb700e18f34c3eaf3a8d2 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion LLC Puerto Rican https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/update-re-us-latinx-studies-2022-mla-convention-9/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 20:34:31 -0500 Due 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]

]]> 0 132fb294fee35c26e3a34d05a061a346 Benigno Trigo replied to the topic Introduction and many thanks! in the discussion LLC Puerto Rican https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/introduction-and-many-thanks/#post-1024910 Thu, 08 Oct 2020 21:11:47 -0400 Hello, 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]

]]> 0 0741eb2a4920af0ccf699529d3769866 Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic (MLA Panel) Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective in the discussion LLC Puerto Rican https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/mla-panel-puerto-rico-in-the-greater-caribbean-a-digital-perspective/ Sat, 24 Nov 2018 19:27:17 -0500 Forum: 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]

]]> 0 7022cd533e37e7f8e0fad688b33e3a16 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Puerto Rican Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-35/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:36:52 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 0bb7759b9a8c116aaa8a685daa24dfd2 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2019-puerto-rico-in-the-greater-caribbean-a-digital-perspective/ Sat, 03 Mar 2018 18:17:23 -0500  

Forum: 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]

]]> 0 498828d26c1429d4a2ed38378cfb2a1d Lena Burgos-Lafuente posted an update in the group LLC Puerto Rican: CFP: MLA 2019 in Chicago (Jan 3-6) Puerto Rico in the […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1602284/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:46:02 -0500 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 20 March 2018 to Lena…[Read more]

]]> 0 b68cc6a4dd95f0113accd12f55297b7f Lena Burgos-Lafuente posted an update in the group LLC Puerto Rican: We would like to share with you the details of our panel, in […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594485/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 18:16:32 -0500 We 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]

]]> 0 70907c09120e245f1863ad1dba9464d3 Mariana Romo-Carmona posted an update in the group LLC Puerto Rican: What's the number of your session? https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593814/ Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:42:03 -0500 What’s the number of your session?

]]> 0 f562e11a4c5c57d3ca87d9d5362fca56 Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion Puerto Rican Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/puerto-rican-forum-panel-caribbean-space-and-bodies-at-war/ Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:26:53 -0500 We 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]

]]> 0 f562e11a4c5c57d3ca87d9d5362fca56 Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion Puerto Rican Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/puerto-rican-forum-panel-caribbean-space-and-bodies-at-war/ Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:26:53 -0500 We 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]

]]> 0 f562e11a4c5c57d3ca87d9d5362fca56 Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion Puerto Rican Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/puerto-rican-forum-panel-caribbean-space-and-bodies-at-war/ Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:26:53 -0500 We 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]

]]> 0 cff5d42f681b75058f70fa5288534a74 Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion Puerto Rican Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/puerto-rican-forum-panel-caribbean-space-and-bodies-at-war/ Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:26:53 -0500 We 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]

]]> 0 15aa1c728f379303d316831d764c6032 Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion Puerto Rican Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2018-caribbean-space-and-bodies-at-war/ Sat, 04 Feb 2017 20:27:58 -0500  Caribbean 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).

]]> 0 2b3257d23d269379e2245fc536f6af83 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-forms-of-puerto-rican-debt-critique-and-conditions/ Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:32:20 -0500 Forms 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).

]]> 0 15ca53ac513fb77886315d1b8995f670 Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o studies CFP's in the discussion Puerto Rican Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/latinao-studies-cfps-3/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:55:06 -0500 Please 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]

]]> 0 6fbe5c022958c283a657289a60bbdfd0 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic CFP: (MLA 2017) US Latino/a Performance in the discussion Puerto Rican Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-us-latinoa-performance/ Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:02:39 -0500 MLA 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]

]]> 0 351d231f0c083ed9f86be56d2a25a165 Yomaira Figueroa started the topic CFP: (ACLA 2016) Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance in the discussion Puerto Rican Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican-literature-and-culture/forum/topic/cfp-acla-2016-love-as-theory-desire-and-performance/ Sun, 06 Sep 2015 17:07:21 -0400 We welcome submissions for the 2016 ACLA proposed seminar:
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance
http://www.acla.org/seminar/what%E2%80%99s-love-got-do-it-theory-desire-and-performance

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Organizer: Yomaira Figueroa, Michigan State University
Co-Organizer: Carolyn Ureña, Rutgers…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e643ae628aa6eba820776c0f908cc32 Gerardo Pignatiello started the topic CFP Dossier "Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean" in the forum Puerto Rican Literature and Culture http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican-literature-and-culture/forum/topic/cfp-dossier-crimedetective-fiction-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-2/ Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:32:17 -0400 <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]

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