MLA Commons | Keith Anthis | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/dka0790/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Keith Anthis is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:13:19 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6cc787ce89f07b5dffb5383d1d64c73b Pamela Phillips started the topic Deadline Extended -- CFP for 2 18thC panels at MLA 2027 in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/deadline-extended-cfp-for-2-18thc-panels-at-mla-2027-3/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:29:27 -0400 Please consider submitting a proposal for either of the following 2027 MLA panels in eighteenth-century comparative studies (CLCS 18th-Century).

Panel: Places and Traces: Eighteenth-Century Networks and Neighborhoods

Inspired by Los Angeles as a city of neighborhoods and networks of missions that characterize California, this panel seeks…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c40929115590ed39ff22f250c94092e Lennie Amores uploaded the file: CFP: MLA Convention 2027 Los Angeles ( to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1945300/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:47:11 -0500 MLA Annual Convention
Los Angeles, January 7-10, 2027
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
LLC 20th- and 21st- Century Spanish and Iberian Forum
Emancipatory Narratives of Aging
This guaranteed session will examine cultural and literary representations of aging, old age, and memory in Spain, its emancipatory potential, challenges to aging, ageism, discrimination,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6c1b287328e2d262fae990514e094d8 Pedro Craveiro started the topic [MLA 2027] Call for Papers in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/mla-2027-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:11:30 -0500 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles:
1. Global Pretuguês: Language and Literature beyond Translational and Transnational Borders
We invite papers examining the creative expressions of Pretuguês in literatures across Africa, Brazil, a…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d2331b86208f730b5a350865fdd59db Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941342/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:52:17 -0500 CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. Special Issue of Hispanófila.
Edited by: Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College) and Adam Cohn (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Proposals due March 6, 2026

]]> 0 0b570da289a6bc7576adf6e8606bfd66 Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941341/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:50:36 -0500 CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. Special Issue of Hispanófila.
Edited by: Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College) and Adam Cohn (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Proposals due March 6, 2026

]]> 0 631f0861a5db02afe37e97d9f4cf058f Laura Vilardell Domenech started the topic New MLA Delegate for the LLC Catalan Studies (2026-29) in the forum LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/catalan-studies/forum/topic/new-mla-delegate-for-the-llc-catalan-studies-2026-29/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:51:17 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to share that I have been elected as the new MLA Delegate for the LLC Catalan Studies forum in the Delegate Assembly election held last fall. This three-year term runs from January 12, 2026, through January 2029.

It is a great honor to serve in this role, and my primary goal is to ensure that Catalan continues to be…[Read more]

]]> 0 f138030239ed8176067934af4463cdd5 Krista Brune created the doc Found Families: Migrant and Diasporic Voices in Portuguese in the group LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936699/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:22:21 -0500 0 17fd2c14f0e6fff5b9dd3c0122dc9e25 Daniel Da Silva replied to the topic Call for Papers MLA Global Portuguese 2026 in the forum LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-global-portuguese-2026/?view=all#post-1039649 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:16:10 -0400 Deadline Extended to March 22, 2025 – submit an abstract and join us! – Global Portuguese panel for the upcoming MLA Conference in 2026 on Family Resemblances: Acts of Kinship, Comparison, and Relational Thinking in Lusophone Cultural Production . You can explore a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, comparative, relational, and in…[Read more]

]]> 0 abeaf91f0cec80ad29f1dc71961aa055 Daniel Da Silva started the topic Call for Papers MLA Global Portuguese 2026 in the forum LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-global-portuguese-2026/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:49:27 -0400 Join our Global Portuguese panel for the upcoming MLA Conference in 2026 on Family Resemblances: Acts of Kinship, Comparison, and Relational Thinking in Lusophone Cultural Production . You can explore a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, comparative, relational, and interdisciplinary perspectives on Lusophone cultural production…[Read more]

]]> 0 226cb5486e7af9c3765c19a33b6d2278 Yvonne Fuentes started the topic LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Calls for Papers in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/llc-18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian-calls-for-papers/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:58:11 -0500 Reminder:  We have two great sessions proposed for the 2026 MLA. Please submit your abstracts before the deadline.

1. Can You Guess My Name? Pen Names, Pseudonyms, and Anonymous Authorship in 18th and 19th Century Iberian Texts
This panel explores hidden or concealed representations of authorship in 18th and 19th century Iberia and the texts…[Read more]

]]> 0 266d0d1713e443cc981345600cdbbe26 Krista Brune started the topic Call for Papers for 2026 MLA in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-2026-mla-2/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:38:00 -0500 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto:

Afro-Brazil as Method and Theory. Papers exploring Black theorists’ epistemological contributions to (re)thinking Brazil and its racial contradictions. Trends in Afro-Brazilian literary theory and i…[Read more]

]]> 0 b09d06f6b6d8806086a2edb954759e84 Pamela Phillips started the topic CLCS–18 Sessions at the MLA 2026 in Toronto CFP in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/clcs-18-sessions-at-the-mla-2026-in-toronto-cfp-3/ Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:16:12 -0500 The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies–18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed sessions:

Comparative Liberties

The concept of liberty in the eighteenth century underwent significant development, particularly through the Enlightenment, which challenged existing ideas about g…[Read more]

]]> 0 10fbd328b01c8fea7b8ff0bdeb997b4a Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic MLA 2026 in Toronto, Call for Papers in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2026-in-toronto-call-for-papers/#post-1039479 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:40:11 -0500 Repeating garbled message:

We have two guaranteed sessions, please consider submitting an abstract:

1. Can You Guess My Name? Pen Names, Pseudonyms, and Anonymous Authorship in 18th and 19th Century Iberian Texts
This panel explores hidden or concealed representations of authorship in 18th and 19th century Iberia and the texts they claimed, in…[Read more]

]]> 0 71afc862f58894c6c055b71565ae32f8 Yvonne Fuentes started the topic MLA 2026 in Toronto, Call for Papers in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2026-in-toronto-call-for-papers/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:34:38 -0500 <div>
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<div class=”x_elementToProof”><b data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>1. Can You Guess My Name? Pen Names, Pseudonyms, and Anonymous Authorship in 18th and 19th Century Iberian…[Read more]

]]> 0 3242f320294264250fb5a442dbb78bee Leslie Harkema started the topic CFP for MLA 2026: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN CATALAN STUDIES AND THE GLOBAL HISPANOPHONE in the forum LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/catalan-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2026-encounters-between-catalan-studies-and-the-global-hispanophone/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:36:49 -0500 Co-organized by CLCS Global Hispanophone and LLC Catalan Studies Forum

Catalonia occupies a paradoxical position in colonial and global history: as both a participant in Spanish imperial projects and a region historically marginalized within the Castilian-centric state. While the wealth of modern Barcelona—and other Catalonian cities—was dee…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc9583b1ca27376010641589da70461f Krista Brune started the topic CFP: Modernisms in Portuguese for Portuguese Cultural Studies (deadline 3/20/25) in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-modernisms-in-portuguese-for-portuguese-cultural-studies-deadline-3-20-25/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:24:59 -0500 Fernando Guimarães (2007) elucidates the intrinsic connection between avant-gardes and the overarching paradigm of Modernism. Within the rich tapestry of the Portuguese language, seminal movements such as Orpheu, Futurism, Brazilian Modernism, Surrealism, and Concretism emerge as pivotal in shaping the artistic and literary landscape during the…[Read more]

]]> 0 6dc4ed9716cd7e3be682bcd895c73224 Elizabeth Franklin Lewis started the topic Grants and Award opportunity Duques de Soria in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/grants-and-award-opportunity-duques-de-soria/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:13:49 -0500 <p class=”x_elementToProof”><span data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>Please see the exciting opportunity from the Duques de Soria Foundation for Science and Hispanic Culture (FDS) below. Through its Permanent Observatory of Hispanism (OPH), the Foundation has announced the third edition of its International Hispanism Seminar Awards. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 8764972e24cc7d05ecb3268cd2f3576d Krista Brune started the topic Nominations for LLC Luso-Brazilian Executive Committee in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/nominations-for-llc-luso-brazilian-executive-committee/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:53:55 -0500 Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to be a part of the executive committee of the LLC Luso-Brazilian Forum. The new EC member will serve from after the 2026 MLA through the 2031 conference. We are accepting nominations until Thursday, January 16. Thanks! Obrigada!

]]> 0 10e0822b8fa7b2282eed7eb1e6e586a6 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-4/ Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:55:06 -0400 Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b548460633c2324e68208139933c5fc Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890325/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:03:58 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 5173774325a41d7f6cca49fe58975158 David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884547/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:17:01 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5df3de38a312a30708db9fe8e6801dda David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884542/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:11:25 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4ff2d4ac5562ff178ddcbd09b01bca0 David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879892/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:10:59 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0f6b9c9ff4bfca026859d5da9b37328d David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879888/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:06:06 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b702f905345ef3ff13f537adf272e462 Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic CFP CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL Universitat de València 6-8 nov 2024 in the discussion LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-congreso-internacional-universitat-de-valencia-6-8-nov-2024/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:49:53 -0500 Call for Papers Congreso Internacional Recreando pasados: diálogos entre emociones, imperios y género (ss. XVII-XIX) 6-8 noviembre 2024, Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de València

El grupo de investigación emergente EMODER (Emociones de la Modernidad. Sentidos y significados globales a través del imperio, el género y la nación…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cb4d0a697afc921ee33c648a9d21c34 Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037800 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:05:17 -0500 Adding a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture TeachingThis panel explores repositioning Iberian Studies by connecting students with communities, decolonizing the syllabus, and diversifying curricular perspectives and…[Read more]

]]> 0 ace3f098733860d7a0095c40978f961f Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037799 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:04:36 -0500 A revised CFP, including a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

 

Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture TeachingThis panel explores repositioning Iberian Studies by connecting students with communities, decolonizing the syllabus, and diversifying curricular…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdf3168b9cf15bc2923b7d2ee01830ff Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037797 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:01:43 -0500 Revised CFP, including a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

 

 

]]> 0 ddb2191c792b63c1e76e8b22edd4c452 Pamela Phillips started the topic MLA 2025/CLCS 18th CFP — New Methods in 18th-C Comp Lit in the discussion LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2025-clcs-18th-cfp-new-methods-in-18th-c-comp-lit-5/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:58:12 -0500 The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies- 18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed session:

New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading

It has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical r…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd296552e53c3da54bff89162138c0a7 Yvonne Fuentes started the topic MLA 2025 /LLC  18th and 19th Century Spanish and Iberian Calls for Papers. in the discussion LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2025-llc-18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian-calls-for-papers/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:11:10 -0500 MLA 2025 /LLC  18th and 19th Century Spanish and Iberian Calls for Papers. Please consider participating in our forum sponsored sessions. 

1. Masking and Unmasking: 18th-and-19th Century Spanish Literature and Art
We invite papers that explore masking/unmasking either by the use of pseudonyms that reveal uncomfortable truths, or disguises as me…[Read more]

]]> 0 35fbb3749f36cb2b33a756d6429d7461 Pamela Phillips started the topic MLA 2025/CLCS 18th CFP -- Enlightening Encounters in the discussion LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2025-clcs-18th-cfp-enlightening-encounters/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:32:44 -0500 The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies- 18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed session:

Enlightening Encounters: confronting the invisibility of the non-humans, the less-than-humans and the-more-than humans, in the long 18th century.

This panel invites papers that explore en…[Read more]

]]> 0 31dd13cc24fcf20ac9ab6d00f3eb6a86 Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues started the topic Call for Papers for MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-mla-2025/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:51:28 -0500 From Hip-Hop to Slam poetry hoje and beyond
Papers examining the scope of artistic performances and perspectives for theoretical approaches to slam poetry, rap, and similar forms of poetic expressions. Comparative studies are welcome. 200 words abstract + short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
Paulo Dutra, The University of N…[Read more]

]]> 0 681224dedf6267543945b5e2562da7b3 Gabrielle Miller started the topic CFP for III Simposio Galdosista in the discussion LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-for-iii-simposio-galdosista/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:18:43 -0500 Sharing the CFP for the III Galdós Symposium (November 14-15, 2024 at Baylor University)

]]> 0 b8b9fbf27c376e23d999b07495d1d177 Catherine Barbour started the topic Cfp Foro Galego MLA New Orleans xaneiro de 2025 in the discussion LLC Galician https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/galician/forum/topic/cfp-foro-galego-mla-new-orleans-xaneiro-de-2025/ Sat, 27 Jan 2024 13:38:09 -0500 Dende o foro de Estudos Galegos do MLA convidamos a enviar propostas para o panel garantido que terá lugar durante o congreso de dita asociación en New Orleans no mes de xaneiro de 2025.
 
Reimagining Tradition in Galicia/Iberia
This panel explores traditional music, dance, and cultural/social practices in Galicia/Iberia, from perspectives s…[Read more]

]]> 0 252823137734ad2cbec39196fbae7167 Lennie Amores started the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:15:37 -0500 MLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section 

The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit their proposals for the following panels:  
Iberian Exteriorities
What are the dynamics at play in the historical, political, and theoretical configurations of Spai…[Read more]

]]> 0 452f4231fdb69a174f989b1f23a05394 Ligia Bezerra started the topic Seeking nominations for Forum Excecutive Committee Appointment in the discussion LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-forum-excecutive-committee-appointment/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:54:00 -0500 Dear members of the LLC Global Portuguese Forum,

Happy 2024! I am writing on behalf of the current Executive Committee to ask the membership for nominations for a new Executive Committee member. The MLA is testing a new model based on appointment. The appointed person will begin their term in January 2025 and will serve for five convention years.…[Read more]

]]> 0 640b48b3300cf32aca673427d4093274 Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic MLA 2024 Convention session on modern Spanish memoir and autofiction in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2024-convention-session-on-modern-spanish-memoir-and-autofiction/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:54:14 -0500 You are cordially invited to a session sponsored by the Religion and Literature forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:

#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)

Presider:  Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York…[Read more]

]]> 0 3cc9218fb10bc6aecfb1dd09f163ca34 Catherine Barbour started the topic EVENTO GALICIA MLA24 - sábado 6 de xaneiro ás 19h in the discussion LLC Galician https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/galician/forum/topic/evento-galicia-mla24-sabado-6-de-xaneiro-as-19h/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:01:48 -0500 Dende o foro de Galicia do MLA queremos invitaros ao evento “Of Scorpions and Translation: When Worlds Meet and Don’t Collide” que terá lugar o sábado 6 de xaneiro ás 7.00pm na librería Big Blue Marble Bookstore en Philadelphia e que contará coa participación da poeta Lara Dopazo Ruibal e da tradutora Laura Cesarco Eglin. 


Adxunto o cartaz…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd4a5a8f5fe6f89c6310b0108b039a68 Mike Phillips deposited West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil in the group LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863753/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 03:08:27 -0500 This chapter examines the relationship between American Westerns and Brazilian Nordesterns, films set in the arid northeastern region known as the sertão. US cultural and economic imperialism, in Brazil and throughout Latin America, is both cause and effect of persistent underdevelopment. The northward flow of natural resources has long been…[Read more]

]]> 0 d06104a6131274f917d54488f4681e0d Elizabeth Franklin Lewis started the topic Ibero-Amercian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Coloquio Virtual 8 de nov. in the discussion LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/ibero-amercian-society-for-eighteenth-century-studies-coloquio-virtual-8-de-nov/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:06:46 -0400 Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Invita al 1º Coloquio Virtual IASECS

La Leyenda Negra de España y su imperio en el siglo XVIII 

Presentada por Karen Stolley y Cathy Jaffe, con la colaboración de Antonio Calvo Maturana (Universidad de Málaga) y otros autores del volumen de próxima aparición

el miércoles, 8 de noviemb…[Read more]

]]> 0 081e190f63265a7f2be65abc8f220002 Angela Acosta started the topic CFP Spanish Sapphic Modernity - Feminist Modernist Studies in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-spanish-sapphic-modernity-feminist-modernist-studies/ Sat, 30 Sep 2023 02:51:57 -0400 CFP: Spanish Sapphic Modernity, Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies

Article proposals (250-300 words) and short bios (50-75 words) due by November 15.

Co-editors: Angela Acosta (Davidson College) and Rebecca Haidt (The Ohio State University)

Given the relative dearth of scholarship exploring sapphic modernism in Spain, Europe, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 d20c67e1cf376751ed1bd3fd4a839696 Danny Barreto started the topic CFP: COUNTERDISCOURSES OF FAMILY: UNDOING (THE) TIES in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-counterdiscourses-of-family-undoing-the-ties/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 02:16:33 -0400 In this thematic issue of Journal 2i we explore the images and the discourses of the family that circulate in literature and cultural production. The articles in this volume, therefore, will offer a broad vision of non-normative families, past or present. Some of the topics to be explored in this issue include:

  • Representations of chosen…

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]]> 0 b2d88f8be8b15be8ae3e39432f87ddc7 William Christopher Brown created the doc Minutes for Wednesday, 07 August 2023 Zoom Meeting in the group Committee on Community Colleges https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854676/ Sat, 12 Aug 2023 04:58:34 -0400 0 a2fcb94034912473c7363581c89357b7 William Viestenz started the topic CFP: 19th North American Catalan Society Colloquium in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-19th-north-american-catalan-society-colloquium/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:51:08 -0400 Dear colleagues,

The 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society will be held April 18-20, 2024, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Please see the attached CFP for more information on how to submit an abstract or panel proposal.

 

All best,

Bill Viestenz

]]> 0 fc6f3b03d6418c0078e70f4906c88c59 Francesco Ardolino deposited Una nota maragalliana de Guillem Viladot in the group LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840660/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 03:48:47 -0400 Analysis of he influence of Joan Maragall in the writing of Guillem Viladot

]]> 0 df8ea019526d77cd145720d24014835f Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 2024 CLCS-18th Century Panels -- Deadline Extended in the discussion LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2024-clcs-18th-century-panels-deadline-extended/ Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:39:34 -0400 March 20, 2023 is the deadline to apply to the CLCS-18th Century Forum’s panels at next year’s MLA in Philadelphia.

I. Comparative Media Histories

Recent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen…[Read more]

]]> 0 00762acad97dad3216277809b46268d5 Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian: Reminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1836681/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 14:57:48 -0500 Reminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a3cd46cabb0d18f1bec7a30d8e0d0ca Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-mla-24-new-methods-in-18th-century-comparative-and-cross-cultural-reading-6/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 20:41:35 -0500 It has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]

]]> 0 f14908384fa28f20e97ee5a0a1203f52 Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-mla-24-new-methods-in-18th-century-comparative-and-cross-cultural-reading-5/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 20:39:05 -0500 Recent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen an interest in non-print media, queer and trans book history, speculative archives, and critical making, among other approaches. This panel seeks con…[Read more]

]]> 0 16df79c02379040321630644945c6a13 Catherine Barbour started the topic CfP guaranteed panel Philadelphia, Jan 2024 in the discussion LLC Galician https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/galician/forum/topic/cfp-guaranteed-panel-philadelphia-jan-2024/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 09:37:11 -0500 CfP guaranteed panel Philadelphia, Jan 2024: ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to Galician Im/Migration’

Submissions invited for guaranteed panel on Galician im/migration at MLA Convention in Philadelphia, 4 to 7 January 2024. Please submit 250 word proposal + short bio to Catherine Barbour (barbourc@tcd.ie) and Nicola Bermingham…[Read more]

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