Register Log In

An online community for MLA members

MLA Commons
  • News Feed
  • Members
  • Groups and Forums
  • Sites and Blogs
  • CORE Repository
  • Help
  • MLA Online Publications
  • mla.org
  • HC Organizations
    • HC
    • ASEEES
    • AUPresses
    • MSU
    • SAH
  • Log in
Register Login
  • News Feed
  • Members
  • Groups and Forums
  • Sites and Blogs
  • CORE Repository
  • Help
  • MLA Online Publications
  • mla.org
  • HC Organizations
    • HC
    • ASEEES
    • AUPresses
    • MSU
    • SAH

LLC Scottish

active 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Group logo of LLC Scottish
  • Public

    Group

  • 97

    Members

Group Admins

  • Profile picture of John Corbett
  • Profile picture of Steven L. Newman
Group logo of LLC Scottish
  • Activity
  • Discussion
  • Events
  • From CORE 8
  • Docs
  • Files 3
  • Members 97
  • RSS
  • Profile picture of Carla Sassi

    Carla Sassi deposited Muriel Spark’s Italian palimpsests in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 2 days ago

    Italy was Muriel Spark’s elective country of residence for 40 years, the first decade of which, from 1967, when she settled in Rome, till the end of the 70s, represented one of the most contradictory and yet intellectually fertile periods of Italian modern history. Notwithstanding such long-lasting and meaningful bond, explicitly represented in a…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Carla Sassi

    Carla Sassi started the topic THE JACK PRIZE – International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 4 months ago

    In 2018, the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures launched the Jack Prize, awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The prize is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack D.Litt. FRSE (1941-2016),…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Carla Sassi

    Carla Sassi posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    The 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures (IASSL 2020, Prague) programme and information on registration and accommodation are now available at https://scotlit2020.ff.cuni.cz/in-prague/

  • Profile picture of Leigh A. Neithardt

    Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Carla Sassi

    Carla Sassi deposited Sir Walter Scott and the Caribbean: Unravelling the Silences in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago

    My essay interrogates the striking silences in Scott’s oeuvre in relation to Scotland’s involvement as a partner of the British Empire in the colonization of the Caribbean and in the exploitation of slavery in this region. By drawing from narratological theories (especially those articulated by Robyn R. Warhol and Ruth Rosaler), I treat Scott’s…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Juliet Shields

    Juliet Shields posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago

    CFP: Ways of Reading Scotland
    I’m seeking papers for a guaranteed panel at the 2018 MLA on the topic “Ways of Reading Scotland.”
    How have new technologies and modes of reading (digital, distant, surface, affective, ethical, ecocritical…) changed our understanding of Scottish literature—whether of an individual text, a corpus of works, a particula…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Susan Oliver

    Susan Oliver deposited Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months ago

    This sample chapter is a pre-copy edited version, in accordance with copyright and open access regulations.

    ABSTRACT OF SCOTT, BYRON AND THE POETICS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER:
    Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott’s and Byron’s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Susan Oliver

    Susan Oliver deposited “Introduction,” Walter Scott: New Interpretations in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    Preview of “Introduction” to The Yearbook of English Studies 47 (2017), Walter Scott: New Interpretations.

    Just over half a century ago, Marxist critic Georg Lukács proposed that Walter Scott — writing more than a century earlier — was responsible for a new kind of historical narrative: readers, by identifying with everyday kinds of fict…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Susan Oliver

    Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    Abstract:
    This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Susan Oliver

    Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    This essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Carla Sassi

    Carla Sassi posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months ago

    CFP: CREATIVE ARCHIPELAGOS
    Explorations of Islands in Scottish Literature and Culture
    29 June–1 July 2018, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye

    This conference will investigate the many portrayals, both historical and contemporary, of the rich, distinctive cultures of the Scottish islands or islands with Scottish connections through poetry and so…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Juliet Shields

    Juliet Shields started the topic CFP Reminder: World Congress of Scottish Literatures in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishScottish Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago

    The deadline to submit proposals for the World Congress of Scottish Literatures (Vancouver, BC, 21-25 June, 2017) is fast approaching!  Please send proposals for individual papers or complete panels  that speak to the theme of “dialogues and diasporas” to scotlit@sfu.ca by Oct. 1.

    For further information about the conference, s…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Juliet Shields

    Juliet Shields started the topic CFP: Second World Congress of Scottish Literature in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishScottish Literature on MLA Commons 5 years ago

     

    World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Dialogues and Diasporas

    The second World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from June 21-25, 2017 and will coincide with the annual meeting of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society.  The Congress’s subtitle, “Dialogues and Diasporas,” speaks…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Steven L. Newman

    Steven L. Newman started the topic Steve Newman: Candidate for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishScottish Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago

    Dear Fellow Scottish Forum members,

    Hello all!  I just wanted to introduce myself as one of the two candidates for the Executive Committee this year.  My friend, Tony Jarrells, is the other, which is great, since I’d also be happy if he won.

    As a member of the Executive Committee, I would strive to continue the fine work the committee has done i…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Carla Sassi

    Carla Sassi started the topic Scottish Seminars: ESSE 2016 (Galway) in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishScottish Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months ago

     ESSE 2016: GALWAY, 22–26 AUGUST

    PAPER PROPOSALS
    Deadline of submission: February 28, 2016
    http://www.esse2016.org

    CALL FOR PAPERS: Scottish studies seminars (for more detailed information see the conference website at the end of September or contact individual convenors):

    “Regional and World Literatures: National Roots and Transnational Route…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Janet Ruth Heller

    Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishScottish Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months ago

    Dear 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]

  • Profile picture of Rivka Swenson

    Rivka Swenson started the topic CFP: MLA 2016: THE BRITISH PHARMACOPOEIA in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishScottish Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago

    Papers on Scottish physicians/rhetoricians–Enlightenment redefinitions of British bodies/bodies politic. Collaborative session between Late 18th-Century English Literature and Scottish Literature forums. 250-word abstracts by 5 March 2015; Rivka Swenson (rswenson@vcu.edu) and Juliet Shields (js37@u.washington.edu).

  • Profile picture of Carla Sassi

    Carla Sassi started the topic CFP: EMPIRES AND REVOLUTIONS R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writer in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishScottish Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago

    CALL FOR PAPERS – DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 28 FEBRUARY
    EMPIRES AND REVOLUTIONS
    R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers
    on Globalisation and Democracy
    3–5 July 2015, Stirling, Scotland
    This 2015 conference aims to promote inter-disciplinary scholarly engagement with Cunninghame Graham and his time, with particular emphasis on issues of <…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Susan Oliver

    Susan Oliver deleted the file: MLA Session 323: Paper Abstract Prof. Corey E. Andrews from Group logo of LLC ScottishScottish Literature on MLA Commons 6 years ago

  • Profile picture of Susan Oliver

    Susan Oliver uploaded the file: MLA Session 323: Paper Abstract Prof. Corey E. Andrews to Group logo of LLC ScottishScottish Literature on MLA Commons 6 years ago

    MLA Session 323. Paper abstract: Professor Corey E. Andrews
    Title: “Writing in Burns’s Shadow: The Great Unknowns
    of Nineteenth-Century Scottish Labouring-Class Verse.”

  • Load More
Group logo of LLC Scottish

About this group

Group Admins

  • Profile picture of John Corbett
  • Profile picture of Steven L. Newman

Contact Us

Modern Language Association
85 Broad Street, suite 500
New York, NY 10004

On the Web: mla.org

E-mail: commons@mla.org

Phone: 646 576-5151

FAQ

How do I set e-mail notifications?
What is CORE?
What can the Commons do for my forum?
Why do unwanted characters appear in my post, comment, or page?
More FAQ

User Guides and Support

Getting Started

Groups on the Commons

Sites, Blogs, and WordPress

More MLA Commons Support
HUMANITIES COMMONS. BASED ON COMMONS IN A BOX.
TERMS OF SERVICE • PRIVACY POLICY • GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPATION

User Groups

@

Not recently active