MLA Commons | Caren Irr | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/carenirr/activity/ Activity feed for Caren Irr. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:42:26 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 9d99930d58c94bafab27fea0d9ac721c Caren Irr started the topic CfP: Writing After Plastic, panel for MLA 2019 in the discussion Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-writing-after-plastic-panel-for-mla-2019/ Sat, 03 Feb 2018 14:51:44 -0500  

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<b>Writing After Plastic</b>

How does a political economy of plastic confront its contradictions? Which aesthetic faces does a plastics-based materialism present? How do eco-socialisms envision the excesses, alternatives, and after-lives of plastic? In what forms (aesthetic and/or political) does plastic break…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8b24a63c4ce8f0dd806591573ddfaf1 Caren Irr deposited Toward the World Novel: Genre Shifts in Twenty-First-Century Expatriate Fiction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590273/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 05:58:31 -0500 Presents an analysis of the emergence of new genres of international–especially expatriate–fiction in 21st-century US letters.

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]]> 0 e0ed9c5b44c95b614e9efe64f884edaf Caren Irr deposited Climate Fiction in English in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1590266/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 05:44:35 -0500 An introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. “cli-fi”) in English. Written with an international readership in mind.

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