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Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoCFP 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]
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Arianne A. Hartsell-Gundy started the topic Relevant Sessions at the 2025 MLA Annual Convention in the forum
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week agoJust want to draw people’s attention to a couple of relevant sessions for those who will be attending the convention!
First we have our forum’s session 747 – Invisible Labor: Supporting Emerging Technologies in Academic Institutions. It is going to take place on Sunday January 12th from noon-1:15 in Hilton New Orleans Riverside – Salon 21 (1st…[Read more]
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Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoThe editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.
We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoThis article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more] -
Brian Vetruba deposited Handbook for European Studies Librarians in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoOpen-access monograph of 30 chapters by 36 authors in three parts: “Resources and Tools for Regions of Europe,” “Resources on Underrepresented Groups in Europe,” and “Current Issues in European Studies Librarianship.” This handbook helps librarians new to collection development for regions of Europe get up to speed on key resources and offers…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls’ Studies in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoDear 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 Perspec…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls’ Studies in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoDear 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]
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Ramzi Salti deposited Women’s Voices in Arabic Music by Ramzi Salti (Stanford University) in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis 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).
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Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoMaría 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]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoDear 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]
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Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago#26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI Nonguaranteed Session
Title: Helen Barolini’s Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women at Forty
This panel celebrates one of the seminal classics of Italian American literature on the advent of its fortieth anniversary. Helen Barolini’s 1985 anthology marked a fundam…[Read more]
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Alan J. Gravano started the topic #25997: Guaranteed Allied Organization Session for IASA in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago#25997: Allied Organization Session for IASA Guaranteed
Title: (In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies
MLA Description: Examines Morrison’s assertion that “Invisible ink is what lies under, between, outside the lines, hidden until the right reader discovers it,” then can only Italian Americans be the “right…[Read more]
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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 on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoDear 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]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoPoet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]
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Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoThis 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.
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Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoThis essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more] -
Arianne A. Hartsell-Gundy started the topic Call for Presenters: “Marked for Death? Challenges to the Humanities in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoCall for Presenters: “Marked for Death? Challenges to the Humanities and Humanities Librarianship”
All faculty members in humanities disciplines are invited to submit proposals to present at a session entitled “Marked for Death? Challenges to the Humanities and Humanities Librarianship,” at this year’s American Library Association Conferenc…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept… in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
We would like to announce the publication of our new article titled “The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept in the Housewife Poems of Ziya Gökalp and Halide Nusret Zorlutuna” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies. It is possible to download the article from the following link for free:…[Read more]
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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 on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoDear 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] -
Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoCentering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]
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