MLA Commons | MS Sound | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/ Activity feed for the group, MS Sound. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 209e48696653b95d79fdc6f3795ee3cc Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aural-reorientations-or-sound-studies-as-listening-otherwise/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:35:39 -0500 Dear Sound Studies Communities,

The MS Sound Forum executive committee has just published the CFP for our guaranteed session at MLA 2027. We look forward to receiving many of your proposals! :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

]]> 0 619d74ca55798701cebc4e1a0e9e084d Jennifer Stoever started the topic Recommendation for real-world assignment with Wiki Education! (not spam!) in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/recommendation-for-real-world-assignment-with-wiki-education-not-spam/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:45:32 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear all,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I wanted to share with everyone a high-impact teaching opportunity that has added a lot to my own classroom – the </span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Wikipedia assignment</span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>. </span>

I have had great success and enjoyment fr…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee658bc86a722c27351a576af5880a22 Jennifer Stoever started the topic CFP: Hate and NonHuman Listening, Due 14 July 2025 in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-hate-and-nonhuman-listening-due-14-july-2025/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:15:47 -0400 Call for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
A Guest Series for Sounding Out! guest edited by Kathryn Huether
Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT

Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: kathryn.huether@gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.

We invite subm…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad3a4f55f7fe48a0b41921495368c2b4 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2026 CFP – Clapping Back in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-clapping-back-2/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:34:05 -0500 Dear MS Sound Forum,

I write on behalf of the MS Sound Forum Executive Committee members to share the MLA2026 CFP “Clapping Back: Responses from Sound Studies to Censorship & Silencing.” Please consider applying & help spread the word :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

p.s. We will soon launch a Discord channel for the Sound Studies scholars, in hopes of…[Read more]

]]> 0 0565a01f746dc2e6020adf5e71d8b024 John Melillo started the topic MS Sound Rountable at MLA 2025: Sound and Literature Now in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/ms-sound-rountable-at-mla-2025-sound-and-literature-now/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:20:39 -0500 Please join the MS Sound forum for a wide-ranging roundtable on “Sound and Literature Now.” Our roundtable will take place on Friday morning, January 10th, at 8:30 AM in Salon 16 of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside (first floor):

Description:

Panelists describe and discuss new academic and creative interventions that connect sound and literary…[Read more]

]]> 0 29a83e6cb3e5c3cf9fa36545405c85b3 andré carrington started the topic Open General Business Meeting for the Forum:MS Sound at #MLA2024 in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/open-general-business-meeting-for-the-forumms-sound-at-mla2024/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:11:42 -0500 Good day everyone! If you’re attending the annual convention and you’d like to join the Forum MS Sound (or you’re already a member) please join us at 3:30p.m. on Saturday, January 6, in the Marriott – Grand D (Level 5). We’ll catch up and solicit interest in potential topics for sponsored sessions, and we have seats opening up, so you can become a…[Read more]

]]> 0 d14409d50ee921ee3795570127b849a5 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus's motion in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/the-executive-committee-endorses-the-radical-caucuss-motion/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:16:11 -0500 Dear Forum Participants,

The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a057da11b45938b30d41232ee41cfe0 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus's motion in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/the-executive-committee-endorses-the-radical-caucuss-motion/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:16:11 -0500 Dear Forum Participants,

The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9a4d1d41ee66e08e8fa77ec3d1a28a8 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 MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864816/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:03:47 -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 05c69f2b49a047a939fc61be4ea1cc94 andré carrington started the topic CFP for 2024: Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-for-2024-putting-the-bowtie-on-funk-the-sound-of-philadelphia/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:07:48 -0400 Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia

Guaranteed session for MLA 2024 sponsored by Forum MS Sound, in collaboration with Forum African American Literature, Language, and Culture

Philly Soul, with its roots in the Black performance traditions of gospel, funk, and rhythm & blues, transformed popular music in the 1970s. How have…[Read more]

]]> 0 bfde0d04528ead900773333e3228a310 Scott Newman started the topic CFP African Sound Studies in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-african-sound-studies/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:57:51 -0500 Call for Papers

A Panel on “African Sound Studies” at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association

November 16 – 20, 2021

Sound studies has exploded over the past decade, drawing heightened attention to how sound and sonic media shape both the everyday and the exceptional. But even as sound studies has attended closely to qu…[Read more]

]]> 0 fda6f396ce3ccee0f101e6786e249150 Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727472/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 03:54:55 -0500 In this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3951479a4040ea688ddb33764ca501b Gerard Holmes deposited "‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation" in the group MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1724418/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:36:08 -0500 Birds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]

]]> 0 be41d1d328fab60eacaf2b46e5080df0 Albertine Fox deposited Hearing the Crackles in the Background: Listening and Female Intimacy in 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' in the group MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685126/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 03:56:03 -0400 Online at: https://screen-queens.com/2020/04/14/listening-and-female-intimacy-in-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/

]]> 0 b52ddf5e76c13f441a0b3786e88fce36 Jennifer Stoever started the topic MS SOUND Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Panels at MLA 2020 in Seattle!!! in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/ms-sound-sponsored-and-co-sponsored-panels-at-mla-2020-in-seattle/ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:54:28 -0500 MS Sound will be in full force at the MLA convention this week in Seattle! Check out these three great panels that the MS Sound Executive Forum is sponsoring and co-sponsoring this year. Sound studies is making interventions this year on so many levels– these aren’t the kind of panels we usually see and hear at MLA and it’s exciting!

1.…[Read more]

]]> 0 96e31722eb7d0c075de5233249a5d4d0 Marci McMahon started the topic CFP: Sound Acts: Unmuting Performance Studies (Performance Matters) in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-sound-acts-unmuting-performance-studies-performance-matters/ Tue, 07 May 2019 16:01:02 -0400 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Deadline extended: CFP: Special Issue of Performance Matters Sound Acts: Unmuting Performance Studies
Deadline: Full submissions by 31 May 2019.</p>
<p style=”text-align: left;”>This special issue of Performance Matters places theater and performance on the map in sound studies by tracing out how sound acts. “Sound a…[Read more]

]]> 0 82184e30e353f49bcd83185a7d4161bc Jennifer Stoever started the topic MS Sound Forum CFP is live on the MLA website! in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/ms-sound-forum-cfp-is-live-on-the-mla-website/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 22:02:07 -0500  

Decolonizing Sound
<div></div>
This panel explores sound and decolonizing Western methodologies, epistemologies, and archives, and the necessity of decolonizing sound studies. Intersectional scholarship encouraged; non-English and pre-20th century research welcomed. 250-word abstracts to MLAMediaSound@gmail.com by 15 March 2019.

Deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6672216d7a847b07c7532280b377cba Julie Beth Napolin started the topic Candidate Statement - Executive Committee - last day to vote (December 10) in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/candidate-statement-executive-committee-last-day-to-vote-december-10/ Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:54:46 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Though a new member of the Sound forum, I am writing to ask for your support for my nomination to the forum’s Executive Committee. For 20 years, I have been producing scholarship in the field of sound. Since 2001, I have presented on the topic of sound at MLA, beginning with “The Negative Dialectics of Phonographic Sound” (2001,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef914414488e8f9608a6b4db84f86e22 Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones in the group MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615142/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:21:07 -0400 This article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]

]]> 0 06eb7920d2ddf959a3a2f8772bfaa90c Janet Ruth Heller replied to the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. October 16 and Sat. October 17, 2015 in the discussion Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mcea-conference-on-fri-october-16-and-sat-october-17-2015/#post-12250 Sat, 29 Oct 2016 05:01:41 -0400 Dear Nicky Agate,

Thank you for your help with publicizing this conference!  Best wishes!  Janet

]]> 0 685c360d87a3a0902fa59123d15526a7 Roger Whitson deposited DTC 375: Languages, Text, and Technology in the group MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549832/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 22:44:31 -0400 DTC 375 is an introduction to the historical relationships between technology, communication, and forms of writing or material inscription. The course gives students an appreciation of the technological history of media, including hands-on encounters with the components and signals that create various technological effects: from sound to graphics…[Read more]

]]> 0 c02c85af790d6a63b6acb25b27b77109 Albertine Fox deposited 'EXTREME STATES: Remixing Cinema, Visual Art and Music in Godard’s Puissance de la parole’ in Sequence, 3.1 (2015). Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence3/archive/sequence-3-1/. in the group MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/535796/ Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:42:59 -0500 This article offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Jean-Luc Godard’s video short Puissance de la parole (1988). It engages with key historical figures in film, visual art and music, positioning Godard’s video mashup as a violent intermedial space where past and future meet. Exploring techniques of fragmentation, decontextualization and rec…[Read more]

]]> 0 89d9c90ee2febc670a82ef3d006ad15b Elizabeth Swanstrom started the topic CFP "Small Screen Fictions" in the discussion Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-small-screen-fictions-2/ Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:58:43 -0400 Paradoxa, Issue in Preparation

Volume 29, “Small Screen Fictions”

Anticipated publication date: December, 2017

Editors:
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales)
Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland)
Lisa Swanstrom (Florida-Atlantic, Boca Raton, Florida, USA)

In the last few decades, digital technologies have dram…[Read more]

]]> 0 159c4a298f1d03d487e104edd5ff97fc Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: Between the Public and its Privates (MLA Subconference) in the discussion Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-between-the-public-and-its-privates-mla-subconference/ Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:44:28 -0400 The Public and its Privates

Submission deadline: October 16, 2015
Submit to: mlasubconference@gmail.com

Between the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books
January 6-7, 2016
Location: Studium Art Space
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702

Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public…[Read more]

]]> 0 09018fb5495cce4bbe64c4f7bc70181a Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: World Novels and 21st-Century Media (ACLA 2016, abstracts due Sept 23) in the discussion Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-world-novels-and-21st-century-media-acla-2016-abstracts-due-sept-23/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 03:05:17 -0400 We welcome submissions to the “World Novels and 21st Century Media” seminar at ACLA 2016. Please find the CFP reproduced below; it’s also available through this link: http://www.acla.org/seminar/world-novels-and-21st-century-media. Abstracts are due by September 23, 12am PST, and must be submitted through the ACLA online portal at…[Read more]

]]> 0 afbf2ab4b08449f79ec50f4e318adb86 Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-unsettling-the-gendered-west-c19/ Thu, 06 Aug 2015 13:24:07 -0400 CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org</div>
<div>
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca8a2b58e83080b88ff4b144b0f0bdbd Matthew H. Brown started the topic Deadline Extended - CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis & Pop Cultu in the discussion Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/deadline-extended-cfp-forms-of-informality-textual-analysis-pop-cultu/ Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:10:50 -0400 Symposium
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016
Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and
Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate…[Read more]

]]> 0 19cdd18372e7114531c94fd1fc1b69ae Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group MS Sound: Dear Colleagues, Joyce Meier of Michigan State University […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/270552/ Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:38:17 -0400 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]

]]> 0 dffd01065e5cb7727fafadd43001c650 Alexander L. Kaufman started the topic New Journal:The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies in the discussion Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/new-journalthe-bulletin-of-the-international-association-for-robin-hood-studies/ Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:00:59 -0400 The International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS) is pleased to announce the creation of a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies. The journal will be published bi-annually beginning in Spring 2016 and will be available on the IARHS’ website, Robin Hood Scholars: I…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a4456a0e720db217a7cd373d6fbecea Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic CFP- Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Special Issue on Early Film in the discussion Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-nineteenth-century-theatre-and-film-special-issue-on-early-film/ Wed, 01 Jul 2015 18:17:01 -0400 Early film provides a wealth of information about Victorian performance practices, and Victorian theatre greatly influenced the development of film.  Both points have been well documented by David Mayer, among others, as exciting new work continues to demonstrate.  But there is much more to be learned and said about the reciprocal relationship b…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4ba4a2763a4e29c8dd0aacc818374c3 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Infinite Summer: Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network in the group Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/211399/ Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:44:26 -0400 This chapter explores the Infinite Summer reading project, in which a group of bloggers read and discussed David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in dialogue with one another and with a wide readership, arguing that such social reading projects present the potential for developing crucial kinds of ethical human connection (of which the novel depicts…[Read more]

]]> 0 1077d6cb47a62d1543f89a711c40e54d Bhakti Shringarpure started the topic Great post by Kenneth Harrow on the African Film Fest in Burkina Fa in the discussion Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/great-post-by-kenneth-harrow-on-the-african-film-fest-in-burkina-fa/ Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:19:11 -0400 For film folks, the premier scholar on African Cinema, Kenneth Harrow, has a dispatch from this years FESPACO in Burkina Faso. There’s short reviews of films that Harrow finds notable and some thoughts on where the festival is as viable and important as in the past. Check out “Has the Magic Gone Out of Africa’s Largest Film Festi…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbcacee771d560d11fa5be26af3bfcc9 Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. October 16 and Sat. October 17, 2015 in the discussion Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mcea-conference-on-fri-october-16-and-sat-october-17-2015/ Thu, 19 Mar 2015 23:47:21 -0400 Call for Papers:  MCEA Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme:  Conflicts and Resolutions
Featured Luncheon Speaker:  Poet Linda Nemec Foster

Location:  Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512 

We live in a society that has conflict among different soci…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad11e5d17c83e653c43ee6496e0c0334 Lisa Stein Haven started the topic MAD Magazine Special Offer AHSA in the discussion Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/mad-magazine-special-offer-ahsa-4/ Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:05:25 -0500 ***SPECIAL OFFER***
Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—
“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”
a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time
For new members, or members who were not m…[Read more]

]]> 0 cbe883902cd5cbafae7efe93929c2699 David Pratt started the topic CFP: MLA 16 Special Session - The Publics of Charles Bukowski and Henry Chinaski in the discussion Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-16-special-session-the-publics-of-charles-bukowski-and-henry-chinaski-2/ Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:15:34 -0500 This panel will consider the audiences for Bukowski’s oeuvre and public self in conversation with the social milieus of his fictional counterpart, Chinaski. Specific topics panelists might explore include, but are not limited to:

Bukowski/Chinaski and media other than print (film, television, audio recording, etc.)
The varying nature of…[Read more]

]]> 0 1bf023e99346578b44162bd5bc987f3a Verena Kick started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Readers, Listeners, Viewers, Users in the discussion Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2016-readers-listeners-viewers-users-2/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:00:06 -0500 Call for Papers

2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX

Forum: 20th- and 21st-Century German LLC

Readers, Viewers, Listeners, Users

What ever happened to readers, and do they have a future? For all the work that has been done on the state of reading in today’s world, the audience remains a problem. Or does it? In film studies, a discipline once e…[Read more]

]]> 0 80248c443025f6dc46eb7992f2cf83c2 Verena Kick started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Readers, Listeners, Viewers, Users in the discussion Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2016-readers-listeners-viewers-users/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:53:08 -0500 Call for Papers

2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX

Forum: 20th- and 21st-Century German LLC

 

Readers, Viewers, Listeners, Users

 

What ever happened to readers, and do they have a future? For all the work that has been done on the state of reading in today’s world, the audience remains a problem. Or does it? In film studies, a discipline o…[Read more]

]]> 0 909c0b1c0b1a8582e05d854fa7fb5bd5 María Gil Poisa replied to the topic CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life in the discussion Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-body-memory-trauma-exhibition-water-art-women-life-3/#post-6435 Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:48:16 -0500 Deadline extended until January 31st. Please, see below:

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE TITLE:

BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA

Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program…[Read more]

]]> 0 380818e701f85b527d8e3271cf77ea54 María Gil Poisa started the topic CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-body-memory-trauma-exhibition-water-art-women-life-3/ Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:28:54 -0500 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE TITLE:

BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA

Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University

Indigenous studies Working Group – Texas A&M…[Read more]

]]> 0 04bd261b4f11071d40f1450bc4e29221 María Gil Poisa started the topic CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-body-memory-trauma-exhibition-water-art-women-life/ Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:18:30 -0500 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE TITLE:

BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA

Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University

Indigenous studies Working Group – Texas A&M…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ceafb92d0d117b8bcc1006460ed4ed4 Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/literary-scholarship-for-non-academic-pleasure-3/#post-5930 Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:02:01 -0500 Dear Jeremy,

thank you so much!

I feel very grateful and slightly guilty to have provoked such a detailed response. I had a look at some of the lists you suggest, and, of course, I have my own favorites (some of which you mention), but I was curious to see what people here in the MLA forum would say…

P.S. Among the books I haven’t read yet,…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f9df020c37c00b3b12d35e8ca870687 Jeremy Douglass replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/literary-scholarship-for-non-academic-pleasure-3/#post-5926 Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:44:40 -0500 Literary scholarship for book-loving non-academics? That is a really interesting (and quite broad) challenge. I like the idea of promoting literary criticism to a broad audience — whether through public reviews or through holiday gift-giving.

It occurs to me that the top social book platforms on the web may already have an approximate answer to…[Read more]

]]> 0 edc6c3d158986846582d2c84b1fd4fac Sharon Shaloo replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/literary-scholarship-for-non-academic-pleasure-3/#post-5856 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:27:08 -0500 James Woods would seem to fill your bill.  HOW FICTION WORKS is the more “litcrit,” to invoke your categorization,  and THE FUN STUFF has gestures to other arts/performance.  Both are wonderfully readable.

Sharon Shaloo, Mass Center for the Book

]]> 0 984ced0e9727b69f3ff8f54b630339c0 Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/literary-scholarship-for-non-academic-pleasure-3/#post-5853 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:52:33 -0500 not a litcrit book, alas — still, thank you!

]]> 0 58e21642f61eda45a1ac073280861f63 Patrick Crapanzano replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/literary-scholarship-for-non-academic-pleasure-3/#post-5852 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:23:55 -0500 Dear Alexandra,

I like the idea of your post. One book that comes to mind is A Brave Vessel, by Hobson Woodward. It doesn’t have the pop-currency potential as Will of the World, but it’s approachable for normal people interested in The Tempest and the Sea Venture’s wreck on Bermuda.

]]> 0 85ce04c4314737f38f17254a82555611 Alexandra Berlina started the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/literary-scholarship-for-non-academic-pleasure-3/ Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:05:02 -0500 Dear all,

could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not the only one interested in showing friends what it is we as a species actually do: perhaps w…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b22f8aac328d262f9f69ca33f537f03 Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-queers-comics-conference-9/ Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:35:42 -0400 View the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals

Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch O…[Read more]

]]> 0 14f4741abebfa4472009a701e2ad40ea Elizabeth Hochberg started the topic CFP, NeMLA 2015 (Spanish / Portuguese) in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-nemla-2015-spanish-portuguese/ Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:43:06 -0400 Advertising and Counterculture in Spanish and Latin American Film
This panel invites 20-minute contributions on filmic portrayals of TV and radio commercials, magazine ads, billboards, and other aspects of marketing in connection to emerging forms of oppositional culture during the 1960s and 70s. Topics s may include material and consumer…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc25e4472528571409772c3b48b47e78 Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-2015-nemla-conference-toronto-canada-3/ Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:29:09 -0400 <header class=”entry-header”>
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This roundtable explores the impact of the Humanities going digital in Latin America, from both a Latin American and United States perspective. Papers will explore new trends a…[Read more]

]]> 0 62aa56290ff04abaee5584b31ce8928e Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum Media and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-2015-nemla-conference-toronto-canada-2/ Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:23:52 -0400 <header class=”entry-header”>
<h1 class=”entry-title”>Panel: “Digital Humanities and Latin America: New Trends, Challenges, and Developments”
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This roundtable explores the impact of the Humanities going digital in Latin America, from both a Latin American and United States perspective. Papers will explore new…[Read more]

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