MLA Commons | GS Travel Writing | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/ Activity feed for the group, GS Travel Writing. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:42:23 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 677646ccbf60b3825df5f5d7390f97a7 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-9/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:34:16 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 bace6e3e3e565e8883db206e91042b06 Minni Sawhney deposited Buddhism in the Oeuvre of Severo Sarduy in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879220/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:01:13 -0400 The exiled Cuban French novelist, essayist, poet Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) converted to Mahayana Buddhism in 1971 after his journeys to Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. Untramelled by the rituals of his new faith, he remained unabashed in his critique of socio – political Buddhism (as in the novel Maitreya). Instead, Buddhism for him meant a creativity t…[Read more]

]]> 0 0f1ceec8a33383ff85564faaad9da867 Bernadette Andrea started the topic Nominees to Executive Committee in the discussion GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/nominees-to-executive-committee/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:52:06 -0500 The MLA Travel Writing Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030. Please send nominations to bernadette.andrea@ucsb.edu by January 15, 2024. Self-nominations are welcome.

  • Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
  • Seven convention years must elapse…

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]]> 0 860fad05f0e0afca1b2fa4dad574ec73 Hashintha Jayasinghe created the doc Archive and Repertoire of the Esala of the Esala Perahera Performance in Sri Lanka in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865282/ Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:46:48 -0500 0 53cf24ddbf05a2c8c16ef093f9e92054 Ellen Cressman Frye started the topic Welcome to Antarctic Studies!!! in the discussion GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/welcome-to-antarctic-studies-2/ Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:28:40 -0400 With a lifetime of passion for studying other cultures, followed by a Ph.D. in Spanish and now nearly a decade of research, conference papers, and publications about Antarctica, I am most excited to bring Antarctica to North Amercia, via the Modern Language Association.

The Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences of Antarctica have always been…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7443022213abbe8d781eaf95983ab3f Jessica Howell started the topic Inviting nominations for the Executive Committee in the discussion GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/inviting-nominations-for-the-executive-committee/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:11:50 -0500 Hello,

The Executive Committee of the Travel Writing Forum invites suggestions for new members of the Executive Committee. Feel free to message one of us directly, or to post a reply here.

All best,

Jessica Howell, Bernadette Andrea, Patricia Akhimie, Natalya Din Kariuki and Churnjeet Mahn

]]> 0 a13d467796026e9393a160714d58d337 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-11/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:44:09 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 b339597a0738db6a8255fda2a913f76b Minni Sawhney deposited La figura del renegado en el teatro de Cervantes in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1783819/ Sat, 11 Jun 2022 02:23:44 -0400 On the renegades in Cervantes’s Captivity plays

]]> 0 7623780af42290ff68330962b0f0ba20 Noemi Martin Santo deposited La curiositas asiática en Conquista de las Islas Malucas de Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1740517/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 03:48:43 -0400 Este ensayo propone una lectura de Conquista de las islas Malucas (1609) del poeta, historiador y eclesiástico Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (1562-1631) como un gabinete de curiosidades textual lleno de narraciones y objetos maravillosos. El autor emplea sus propias ideas sobre la escritura de la historia para crear una crónica de conquista co…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f1c4ac4dcd07f6d0212872f2da4e321 Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713764/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 03:48:45 -0400 In the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]

]]> 0 fcd54f8ed19df126776da07bc9a2c8af Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680330/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 03:50:31 -0400 Global Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 Mar…[Read more]

]]> 0 21a9cc7f1d24a4200e50d9aac0513cfe Noemi Martin Santo deposited Conflictos de autoridad narrativa en la _Relación del reyno del Nippon_ de Bernardino de Ávila in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1679190/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 03:48:43 -0500 Please refer to the article. The abstract is misplaced.

]]> 0 dcba088292e6098bc7ca33735b33a2cd Minni Sawhney deposited Latin American Travelers in Modern India in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642908/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:39:37 -0400 The travels and writings of Octavio Paz and Severo Sarduy in India.

]]> 0 ca223d1e89c0926d58834c76af64b14b Minni Sawhney deposited Religion and Colonialism: Jesuits at Akbar's Mughal Court in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642851/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:42:45 -0400 The reception of Jesuit priests at the the court of Akbar the Mughal emperor of India

]]> 0 9fe3d6866b8bf79790bdd56beee33c7c Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1639491/ Fri, 03 May 2019 03:50:32 -0400 We are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more]

]]> 0 15cde3e2f2dde0a4376ae540ff78dbde Jessica Howell started the topic Jessica Howell, GS Travel Writing Forum Executive Committee Candidate in the discussion GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/jessica-howell-gs-travel-writing-forum-executive-committee-candidate/ Thu, 06 Dec 2018 20:20:45 -0500 Hello, I’m pleased to have been nominated as a candidate for the GS Travel Writing Forum Executive Committee election. Candidates have been invited to introduce themselves on the Commons during elections. I am an Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. My work…[Read more]

]]> 0 adbdf0a250b3d0ba4ac73edb1b758fc4 George Prokhorov deposited Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1624924/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 03:51:00 -0500 In the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Trave…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2f75d2711b065755d259cfeba05a954 yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619129/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 03:54:12 -0400 Call for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume

Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture

Co-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

]]> 0 38e8de3282b3130614762e0609a14520 James Gifford deposited Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615005/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:32:31 -0400 This chapter makes two critical interventions: one to redirect attention to women’s writing on Greece from a century that was dominated by either a masculine homosocial modernity or Byron’s long shadow in David Roessel’s sense (2002); and two, revising the critical scotoma that surrounds Hellenism as a process of power and style of thought in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 403b3dfdf265be2794fb0aaf3f2797f3 Lauren Coats started the topic GS Travel Writing: CFP MLA 2019: Commemorating Travel in the discussion Travel Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/gs-travel-writing-cfp-mla-2019-commemorating-travel/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:08:13 -0500 The CFP for this forum’s 2019 MLA panel is out. Please consider submitting:

*Commemorating Travel*
The circulations, aesthetics, politics of material artefacts of travel and travel writing throughout history: books and blogs, photos and Facebook, Tshirts and mementos. 250-word abstracts, cv by 12 March 2018; Lauren Coats (lac@lsu.edu).

]]> 0 5b892b128256b64c3c34ae7719a0ce7b George Prokhorov deposited A MIXTURE OF PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVITY, OR TRAVELOGUE AS A GENRE in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1589070/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 05:45:49 -0500 In the article, we trace some aspects of development of eventivity and narrativity in Medieval and early Modern Era travel literature. Dissecting episodes of Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), A Travel of Anonimous Citizen of Suzdal to The Council of Florence (15th century), Russian Primary Chronicle (12th century), and…[Read more]

]]> 0 7666a8c6da20c281bd015699c7382f3f Lauren Coats started the topic GS Travel Writing: CFP MLA 2018, "Papers, Please" in the discussion Travel Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/gs-travel-writing-cfp-mla-2018-papers-please/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:54:16 -0500 Please consider submitting a proposal for the Travel Writing forum’s guaranteed session at MLA 2018.  Details below.
<h1>“Papers, please”: Travel Documents and Travel Writing</h1>
<div> Forum: GS Travel Writing</div>
Critical approaches to how travel documents (of lack of) shape travel writing and mobility in a globalized world. 250 word abstr…[Read more]

]]> 0 68f3550f237c3f8b7d81baf31668f4a0 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: "Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity" in the discussion Travel Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/mla-2018-cfp-language-change-global-im-gration-and-linguistic-insecurity-3/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:22:14 -0500 Dear colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”.  See short and long CFP below.

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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8a9e584951233b868215f663d2cee4a Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions Needed for 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion Travel Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/suggestions-needed-for-2017-delegate-election/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 13:44:35 -0400 Call for Suggestions

This forum will need to hold an election for a Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. The executive committee is responsible for making nominations, b…[Read more]

]]> 0 1924cd3e22335dd42fe9404469cd8849 Lila Marz Harper deposited Self-Censorship in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552524/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:28:18 -0400 This article discusses changes that Mary Kingsley made to her 1897 Travels in West Africa when she abridged the text for a general audience.

]]> 0 d8f99e94907469d910d728b91c8f4553 Monica Cure started the topic CFP Travel, Religion, and Interpretation ACLA 2017 Netherlands, Deadline Sep. 23 in the discussion Travel Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/cfp-travel-religion-and-interpretation-acla-2017-netherlands-deadline-sep-23/ Thu, 08 Sep 2016 01:54:05 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.

If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper

Religion has…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc4648705665a204f820bfce60336d92 Lauren Coats started the topic MLA 2017 Travel Writing Forum CFP: "Orientalism" Revisited in the discussion Travel Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/mla-2017-travel-writing-forum-cfp-orientalism-revisited/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 04:59:46 -0500 The Travel Writing Committee welcomes proposals for the forum’s session at MLA 2017:
“Orientalism” Revisited: Travel Writing & Neo-Orientalism
Forum: GS Travel Writing
Reconsideration of Said’s theoretical framework for understanding aesthetic and political dimensions and implications of travel writing. 250 word abstract and c.v. to Ali Behdad b…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e531f2ba4cc202fa0c8390d96b536ba Marielle R. Risse deposited Verstehen/ Einfühlen in Arabian Sands (1959): Wilfred Thesiger as Traveler and Anthropologist in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538011/ Fri, 08 Jan 2016 08:02:43 -0500 Using Geertz’s Verstehen/ Einfühlen distinction, this essay begins with an overview of the travel writing and anthropological work about Oman, concentrating on the southern region of Dhofar. The author then situates Wilfred Thesiger’s classic Arabian Sands (1959) within these two genres as an example of a writer who is able to show unde…[Read more]

]]> 0 db3074b6f6adc3fd74369769196b8ad9 Suha Kudsieh started the topic FYI: MLA Panel (Jan. 7 @ 1:45 pm) on Russia & the Middle East (17th-19th Cent.) in the discussion Travel Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/fyi-mla-panel-jan-7-145-pm-on-russia-the-middle-east-17th-19th-cent-3/ Sun, 27 Dec 2015 12:36:50 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

FYI, this special panel at the MLA 2016:

48. Russia and the Middle East from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202, JW Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Suha Kudsieh, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York
1. “The Middle East in Arseny Sukhanov’s Pro…[Read more]

]]> 0 b657e58d1bbe4b59af2f329bc77620c0 James Gifford deposited Introduction to Panic Spring in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/535510/ Thu, 26 Nov 2015 02:45:37 -0500 Editor’s Introduction to Panic Spring. First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author’s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist…[Read more]

]]> 0 27a538698f2475fa61995616b86d6d5c Monica Cure started the topic CFP Vulnerable Travelers, ACLA 2016 Harvard, Deadline Sep. 22 in the discussion Travel Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-literature/forum/topic/cfp-vulnerable-travelers-acla-2016-harvard-deadline-sep-22/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:21:10 -0400 For colleagues writing on travel literature, please consider submitting an abstract (200-250 words) for our panel at the annual American Comparative Literature Association conference held at Harvard from March 17-20, 2016. Abstracts are due by September 22.

This panel invites scholars to explore vulnerability in travel writing from a range of…[Read more]

]]> 0 78946a927d713318557c15f1cd9767ca Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP on Travel - deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion Travel Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-literature/forum/topic/cfp-on-travel-deadline-june-12-2015regards/#post-7867 Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:24:49 -0400 CFP on Travel – Deadline extended to July 12, 2015.

30th ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE IN THE HUMANITIES

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the University of West Georgia (UWG) invite you to celebrate the 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, October 8-10, 20…[Read more]

]]> 0 81741567b47b5db14df70db8e3b9ba12 Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP on Travel - deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion Travel Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-literature/forum/topic/cfp-on-travel-deadline-june-12-2015regards/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:42:12 -0400 The 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.

Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes, uwgconference2015@gmail.com.

More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.

 

 

]]> 0 383d676f4088275c0b7b236b90c08772 Suha Kudsieh started the topic "Russia and the Middle East" (Pre-modern) - MLA, Austin, 7–10 Jan. 2016 in the discussion Travel Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-literature/forum/topic/russia-and-the-middle-east-pre-modern-mla-austin-7-10-jan-2016/ Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:10:12 -0500 Dear colleagues,

Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:

131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b42dee4d61e304bd710bb0bfc883ca8 Gaurav G. Desai posted an update in the group GS Travel Writing: CALL FOR PAPERS -- MLA 2015, VANCOUVER Around the World in […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/59359/ Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:32:48 -0500 CALL FOR PAPERS — MLA 2015, VANCOUVER

Around the World in Eighty Clicks: Travel and New Technologies

Discussion Group: Travel Literature

How have new technologies – the internet, planes, trains and automobiles influenced the experience of travel? 250 word abstract and c.v. by 15 March 2014; Gaurav G. Desai (gaurav@tulane.edu).

]]> 0 43b5663151b3d147553aaaf97f58b723 Gary Totten started the topic African Diaspora Heritage Studies Assistant Professor Position in the forum Travel Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-literature/forum/topic/african-diaspora-heritage-studies-assistant-professor-position/ Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:31:40 -0500 I wanted to bring to your attention a tenure-track assistant professor position in African Diaspora Heritage Studies, which may be of interest to travel writing scholars in this group.  North Dakota State University is a Carnegie RU/VH institution, and English Department faculty teach a 2/2 course load.  Here is the MLA JIL p…[Read more]

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