MLA Commons | TC Women’s and Gender Studies | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/ Activity feed for the group, TC Women’s and Gender Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:05:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5db699579b9a1163567e55cf51c326f9 Philip Trotter started the topic MLA 2026 Convention Session in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/mla-2026-convention-session-2/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:45:32 -0500 Please find attached a link to the abstract and details for the MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing, and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing.”

]]> 0 705489ea008668cfaa17a8195b2fb19b Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-2/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:01:55 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

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]]> 0 f2abc3a6ad564a418ef1822a9abe18df Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-amplifying-womens-voices-of-resistance-2/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:06:21 -0400 CFP for “Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance: Challenging Power, Shaping Change”, for a special issue of the South Atlantic Review: The Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

This special issue seeks to honor and amplify the voices of women who have resisted, challenged, and redefined societal norms—both histori…[Read more]

]]> 0 15b34bb549682037fd6cf2ff025a9519 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:28:57 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title “A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspect…[Read more]

]]> 0 7713e2e4cab1acc57a5b2dccec2ec358 Ramzi Salti deposited Women’s Voices in Arabic Music by Ramzi Salti (Stanford University) in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890606/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:01:15 -0400 This is the corrected and edited transcript of Dr. Ramzi Salti’s talk about “Women’s Voices in Arabic Music” which was presented for Women’s History Month at Santa Rosa Junior College on March 7, 2024. You can also watch the video on YouTube (with CC on).

]]> 0 e8bca9b0d17ea827485eb9f34050f6bb Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890472/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:08:37 -0400 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody’s muse.

Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]

]]> 0 6fb2118fa6fa234001c47c185652e93a Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-at-the-beginning-of-the-multi-par-2/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:14:48 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed00f5554fd02608613332491b43ee0c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New short story: Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-short-story-professor-mali-romantic-longhair-and-the-girl/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:24:23 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS.) We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef8b7e8201ae71c5ae7e7de670de3117 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870108/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:07:49 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

]]> 0 b1d48430d1efef11828098d075de4822 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-osman-hamdi-bey-an-ottoman-orientalist-or-a-humanist-ottoman-7/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:12:19 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f6f8db6524872e65eeeb7d59aac5688 Dorothy Stringer replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2024-mla-convention-3/#post-1036033 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:38:53 -0500 Apologies for missing info; dates and times as follows:

194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti

Friday, 5 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level 4)

 

648 – Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis

Sunday, 7 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Marriott – Franklin 2 (Level 4)

]]> 0 e29e4f73658750f3bfd0747a623fcc7e Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation - revised in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1859973/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:08:31 -0400 This is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.

]]> 0 e91534eb2c7328a59857bc41076e1838 Atia Sattar started the topic NWSA CFP: Decolonizing Feminist and Queer Pedagogies in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/nwsa-cfp-decolonizing-feminist-and-queer-pedagogies/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:26:37 -0500 The CFP below is for a pedagogy workshop to be conducted at the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore, October 26–29, 2023.

“This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 0018af13ccd57109ababffac840bc9c3 Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1833564/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:27:11 -0500 Salaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]

]]> 0 04fe59dfaad14625ec9e73116e7792f1 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP Conference: USES OF MODERNISM (Ghent, Belgium - 20-22 September 2023) in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-conference-uses-of-modernism-ghent-belgium-20-22-september-2023/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:53:05 -0500 Dear colleagues,

Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.

CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023

The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5d11c8f5d58ddb37a827ab55ec5db8a Cheryl Farris-Clayton deposited On Dickinson in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1780859/ Fri, 06 May 2022 03:48:59 -0400 Essay on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her impact upon literature. This essay celebrates her global reach from within societal spheres of gender. “Emily Dickinson transformed the genre of poetry from the academic salon styled idealism to the personal poignant voice of reality from the poet’s point of view.”

]]> 0 8eb39ec897051a5886e9b0a688abf635 Kristin E. Pitt started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor, Queer and Sexuality Studies, UW-Milwaukee in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/visiting-assistant-professor-queer-and-sexuality-studies-uw-milwaukee/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 01:01:24 -0400 Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in Queer and Sexuality Studies for 2022-2023. Must be able to teach Queer Theory and Feminist Theory courses. Apply by April 10, 2022 to ensure consideration. https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/33994

]]> 0 1873f657483ccc356448a9925e675f3d Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771175/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 02:26:41 -0500 This chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.

]]> 0 3ce419cddae3c34250e7eb2c3d26d059 Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1763725/ Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:25:32 -0500 This article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.

]]> 0 bc6e4c522c48ba7c9310a4f9efc2d49e Leigh Gilmore started the topic Job Opportunity in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/job-opportunity/ Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:01:11 -0400 Position No. 00005756.  The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]

]]> 0 6194182a0a74d8ee5c75ebdf40e7a9f1 Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/womens-historical-fiction-across-the-globe-online-conference-28-29-october-2021/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:41:39 -0400 ‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register

Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London

This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ec5dcb59f35c54eb50867e1edc3d172 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756114/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:28:40 -0400 Invited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]

]]> 0 03a4d05c6d83f8e0486297dcd3a57764 Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1753237/ Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:24:18 -0400 Review of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c8dbec45963dee385da81804a876746 Jesse A. Goldberg started the topic CFP: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies” in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-2022-quarry-farm-symposium-on-abolition-studies/ Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:34:43 -0400 CALL FOR PAPERS: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies”

Sept 30 — Oct 1, 2022

Elmira, NY

The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College is hosting its annual Quarry Farm Symposium during the Fall 2022 semester, from September 30th to October 1st, organized around the theme of Abolition Studies. This year’s Keynote Address will…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2dd3b432b4612cea18093718e5acbd8 Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/call-for-abstracts-making-queer-comics-edited-collection-up-mississippi-7-1/ Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:25:12 -0400 Call for Papers (please share)

Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones

“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract).  This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ff9ee04437057eee844033decfca5ed Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1730879/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 02:28:31 -0500 *Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]

]]> 0 e60ff2fabaa08790d744f38d462ab2f1 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Gender and Genre Bias: Women Writers & Networks in Latin America in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1715798/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 02:24:47 -0500 It is well known that the literary history of Latin America and its canon has been/is written by a patriarchal Eurocentric society that controls what constitutes national literature. It is also established that (colonial/contemporary) Latin American subjects in the periphery of the urban republic of letters are not included due to their gender…[Read more]

]]> 0 eec903804af50d3f5f59e083512a1937 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Secular Women Writers of Colonial Spanish America.” in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1714433/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 04:05:40 -0400 New directions of research in colonial women’s studies on gender roles, periphery and margins, and discursive practices that expand the notion of “literary text” (Adorno 177), indicate that the textual corpus of colonial women’s writings continues to increase. This emergent group of texts reveals patterns of rhetorical strategies and recurre…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc18e7c8f7eda05feb68676e5db49f0f Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713766/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 03:53:35 -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 a35356c18b13b434aefbd9360d5486d1 Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713623/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 03:59:18 -0400 It is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e31e29d7256c0bae3242d1a48579211 Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1708557/ Wed, 16 Sep 2020 02:33:35 -0400 The influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]

]]> 0 0acdf1891e7f1bd4401e83826134eb16 Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1684089/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:28:03 -0400 In this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc2cb6950781ad0144c7204432214252 Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680213/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 03:51:04 -0500 How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]

]]> 0 f18eafef916a4e5a99bfbf8693fa21c5 Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-reproductive-justice-and-literature-handbook-2/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:22:43 -0500 CFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2db05c38f8ab58154476572a70b0819 Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-reproductive-justice-and-literature-handbook/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:11:05 -0500 CFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9bf2cff2d97836827ccb0265014c7e9 Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/contribute-to-edited-volume-historicizing-metoo/#post-1023089 Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:49:35 -0500 This is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere.  I too am looking forward to more information!

]]> 0 74ce80a738bdbb4782e8d6dac678f7e9 Beth Widmaier Capo replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/contribute-to-edited-volume-historicizing-metoo/#post-1023088 Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:18:43 -0500 This sounds fantastic. Do you have instructions (deadline, length, address) for abstract submissions?

]]> 0 e6339f7f7dba6df0dd0f7d2efa2fa160 Shannon Herbert started the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/contribute-to-edited-volume-historicizing-metoo/ Thu, 16 Jan 2020 23:47:29 -0500 In 2017, when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to use the hashtag #metoo if they’d ever “been sexually harassed or assaulted” social media feeds were suddenly flooded with the phrase. People were quick to point out that #metoo did not originate with Milano, but with Tarana Burke, a social worker and activist who proposed the phrase in 2006. Since…[Read more]

]]> 0 7fd871cab4cabbfacf014fa19fedb5e0 Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP - Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-symposium-documenting-diversity-democracy-in-brazil-14/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:36:37 -0500 Hello everyone,

I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.

<a title=”Original URL:
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019

Click to follow link.”…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e2f11d504f07801effc8c4f8e7dbe80 Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663725/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:54:40 -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 134cf85088d91a6d1b73b4f98d05049b Kendra Leonard deposited "Excellence in Execution" and "Fitness for Teaching": Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1662694/ Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:27:07 -0400 “Excellence in Execution” and “Fitness for Teaching”: Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain

]]> 0 b70c94a12f6c2675151eaae681b5aa43 Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660370/ Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:33:49 -0400 This essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]

]]> 0 d69d8a534693b9117de35fc437d07935 Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett's Natural History of Sexuality in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658844/ Sat, 27 Jul 2019 16:33:54 -0400 In this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca4a56156dd513477f93558ea826fc6a Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657659/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:38:32 -0400 This class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3a0f032a270b3ec4c6fc7b9e9c09843 Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636854/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 16:36:46 -0400 Abstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.

]]> 0 b13dc465d71bceb13c461f0fe3c4fae7 Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Proposal Deadline Extended to April 1: Contemporary Women's Writing Conference in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/proposal-deadline-extended-to-april-1-contemporary-womens-writing-conference/ Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:02:34 -0400 Locations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing

International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference

3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

Call for Papers

The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association invites submissions for 20-minute presentations that examine how conte…[Read more]

]]> 0 940e1cd65420789e8d227e08fcb61877 Alice Rachel Ridout replied to the topic Contemporary Women's Writing Association International Conference CFP in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/contemporary-womens-writing-association-international-conference-cfp-2/#post-1020517 Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:31:36 -0400 Thank you for posting! My MLA membership renewal had not processed in time for me to post. Expressions of interest with late proposal to follow will be considered.

]]> 0 f78f8bf8cc0b85d83b6a9f1d5165792e Krilka Stavreva started the topic CFP International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-international-contemporary-womens-writing-association-conference/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:39:03 -0400 Locations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers

The 2019 Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference theme is inspired by its location at Algom…[Read more]

]]> 0 e43ae033f8e1be6da926d23bd02aa25c Krilka Stavreva started the topic CFP Women & Language in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-women-language-2/ Thu, 07 Mar 2019 22:48:48 -0500 Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]

]]> 0 b840fa6e051484b81a7647acbd6bb20d Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Useful Object in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634166/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 04:00:56 -0500 Explores Maureen Folan, in Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” as a psychological borderline, someone who is afraid to achieve a man she can have a relationship with, and so defaults to using him as simply another object she can use in warfare against a mother she is only yet capable of playing at being able to leave behind her.

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