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José Alonso de la Garza Valenzuela uploaded the file: Pasados Special Issue: Against the Past/Contra Pasados to
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoDeadline: January 15, 2026
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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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Robert Nguyen started the topic MLA 2026 CFPs, TC Adaptation Studies forum in the forum
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week agoGood morning,
Good morning,
As I thought they may be of interest to folks working in Screen Arts and Culture, I am posting here info on the panels that the TC Adaptation Studies forum will be sponsoring for the 2026 MLA convention. Also included is further detail on the panel we are co-sponsoring with the GS Comics and Graphic Narratives…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers MLA 2026 in the forum
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(Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities (Online)
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases,…[Read more] -
Tanya Shilina-Conte started the topic New Book: Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine in the forum
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 months agoBlack Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine by Tanya Shilina-Conte is now available from Oxford University Press<u>: </u><u>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-screens-white-frames-9780197511336?cc=us&lang=en&#</u>
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Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum
TC Digital Humanities 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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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 months, 1 week agoNOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies
Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)
Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!
Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for “Reading Cultures,” a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 months agoReading 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]
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Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 months agoThis chapter argues that
by including fan studies as part of appropriation theory scholarship can account for
this conversation, manifest in likes, re-posts and experimental fan work. Because of
the interplay between creator and audience, the focus of appropriative study shifts
from the end product, the new Shakespeare iteration, to the fan…[Read more] -
Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoThis article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[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
MS Screen Arts and Culture 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] -
Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics,” Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoWhom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoHow do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China,” in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoThis chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin’s interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoFocusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoSHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- o…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year ago“NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies
Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!
Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Duffy Encoding Editorial Decisions in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year agoThis document provides guidelines for encoding the first five books of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy into TEI-XML. It was collaboratively authored by my students and I during the Winter 2018 and Winter 2019 semesters at Brigham Young University.
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Inés Vañó García started the topic Newly extended CFP (through 07/21) – JITP Special Issue in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago<div class=”entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-constrained”>
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue 24:
Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital MediationIssue Editors:
Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University
Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University
Anna Alexis Larsson,…[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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