MLA Commons | LLC West Asian | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/west-asian/ Activity feed for the group, LLC West Asian. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:25:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 25130d2c98e831b0816b78a35d001663 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due by 1/15/26 in the forum LLC West Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/west-asian/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-by-1-15-26-2/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:55:40 -0500 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e18e2e74bdb01c6cf26558b14adf0b7 Kamran Rastegar deposited Trauma and Maturation in Women’s War Narratives: The Eye of the Mirror and Cracking India in the group LLC West Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1731701/ Wed, 17 Mar 2021 02:24:38 -0400 A comparative study of Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India shows that these two novels present intriguingly similar feminist frameworks through which the traumas of war and communal violence may be addressed. They do so by erasing the distinction between literary work and critical social history, producing what we…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b7e33514bb8b86271c3d336b173360a Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to LLC West Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663733/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:11:02 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 361ca44f9083bd1d83554a344160ab74 Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group LLC West Asian: Graduate students, please apply! Those who teach grad […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598818/ Sun, 28 Jan 2018 19:17:37 -0500 Graduate students, please apply! Those who teach grad students, please circulate this CfP for MEHAT:

33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars about the Middle East from…[Read more]

]]> 0 65b1d3ad1e711ab07155411deb67b4b2 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for the Forum's First Delegate Election in the discussion West Asian Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/west-asian/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-the-forums-first-delegate-election/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:10:15 -0400 The first election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held 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. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is req…[Read more]

]]> 0 f36b6f4f3c8696172eae3cd3eca5bfc0 Suha Kudsieh started the topic Endorsing the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American in the forum West Asian Languages and Literatures http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/west-asian-languages-and-literatures/forum/topic/endorsing-the-new-forum-on-global-arab-and-arab-american/ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:04:31 -0400 Hello everyone,

I would like to ask those of you who are current MLA members to take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.

You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab American to endorse the new…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba7d4f63074cd4f61843567be7931142 Suha Kudsieh started the topic Reminder: Pls. cast your vote: MLA Resolution 2014-1 in the forum West Asian Languages and Literatures http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/west-asian-languages-and-literatures/forum/topic/reminder-pls-cast-your-vote-mla-resolution-2014-1-2/ Thu, 22 May 2014 01:39:55 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

Please remember to cast your vote concerning Resolution 2014-1. Regardless of how you intend to cast your vote, please vote.

You can read the  MLA Executive Director’s letter, Rosemary G. Feal, here: http://t.e2ma.net/message/mx8ig/yum5sh

Please click on http://t.e2ma.net/click/mx8ig/yum5sh/6c2vcc (you need to log into your…[Read more]

]]> 0 d88a0b8a0097dc6265182e867bc32c10 Stephen Sheehi uploaded the file: ABSTRACTS: Language, Colonialism, and the State in Nineteenth Century Southwest Asia to West Asian Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/37943/ Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:22:55 -0400 Jeff Sacks (UC Irvine)

Shaden Tageldin (Minnesota)

Nergis Erturk (Penn State)

Kamran Rastegar (Tufts)
Stephen Sheehi (South Carolina)

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