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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 1 month agoVery excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle
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Ross Wilson deposited Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861 in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 months agoThis is the proposal for ‘Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861’, a (putative) panel for MLA 2024. Individual paper abstracts and other materials will follow.
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Jonathan Hiller replied to the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Philadelpia: 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian Literature in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoNote to all: The deadline for submissions has now been moved to March 28, 2023.
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Jonathan Hiller started the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Philadelpia: 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian Literature in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC 17th, 18th, and 19th Century Italian Forum is pleased to invite submissions for two guaranteed panels and one non-guaranteed roundtable for the 2024 MLA Conference (Philadelphia, Jan. 4–7).
The deadline to send your abstracts to the panel organizers is March 22, 2023.Thank you for considering and we hope to see you in P…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Bridges within the Arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week agoTracing the collaboration between Dylan and Scorsese from the 1960s on to the Netflix original ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ (2019), this article argues that the mutual respect of the two artists rests on a shared contestation of borders between fact and fiction. In the spirit of romanticism, both Dylan and…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Deborah Elise White started the topic Forum Exectuive Committee Suggestions in the discussion
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 5 months agoHello — Please email me with any suggestions you may have for people to serve on the forum executive Committee for CLCS Romanticism & 19th Century. (Every year needs new names so even if someone is not considered for this year, it’s good for us to have several names in mind.) My email: dwhite2@emory.edu Thanks!
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Jonathan Hiller replied to the topic CFPs for MLA 2023 San Francisco: 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC 17th, 18th, and 19th-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee wishes to communicate an extension to the submission deadline of two of its sessions: the panel “Intersectional Work in the Italian 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries” and the roundtable “Homework Conditions: Uses of Translation in the Italian Language and Culture…[Read more] -
Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Jonathan Hiller replied to the topic CFPs for MLA 2023 San Francisco: 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoGood morning all,
Just a reminder to please submit your proposals by the March 15 deadline for our panels.
Regards,
Jonathan Hiller
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Adrienne Brown started the topic Visual Culture MLA Convention CFPs in the discussion
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoBelow you’ll find four CFP’s for proposed panels sponsored by the Visual Culture Forum for this year’s MLA. Please do circulate widely and consider contributing.
1- Visual Culture Forum seeks proposals for guaranteed MLA session, Women and Frames of Violence. How do women engage, practice and perform violence in visual culture? Considerations b…[Read more]
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Jonathan Hiller started the topic CFPs for MLA 2023 San Francisco: 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian Forum is pleased to invite submissions for two guaranteed panels and one non-guaranteed roundtable for the 2023 MLA Conference (San Francisco, CA, January 5-8).
The deadline to send your abstracts to the panel organizers is March 15, 2022.
“Interpretation and Expression Under…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited De nostri temporis studiorum ratione and the Digital Humanities in the group
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoTaking a page from eighteenth century philosopher Gianbattista Vico, this is a brief reflection on how Italian Studies scholars might view their work differently in light of the digital turn.
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Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThis syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]
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Emily Friedman deposited “Let people tell their stories their own way”: Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months agoIn the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Emily Sun started the topic Statement about Candidacy for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoI am glad to have been nominated to serve on this Forum’s Executive Committee. Please find my brief statement below.
I am Associate Professor in the Program in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Barnard College, having taught previously in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Tsing Hua University in…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Enigmas de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoThis article reviews four crucial moments of the editorial life of Guaman Poma de Ayala’s “Nueva corónica y buen gobierno” [New Chronicle and Good Government], a 1189-page history of Peru before, during, and after the Spanish conquest. The chronicle includes 399 ink drawings made by the author. The essay also addresses unanswered questions…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoInvited 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]
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Michael Subialka started the topic Candidate's Statement for Forum Executive Committee – LLC 17th, 18th, and 19th C in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoI am happy to have been nominated to serve on this Forum’s Executive Committee. Please find a brief statement below. I would be happy to answer any questions should you have them.
I am an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis, where I teach Italian and Comparative Literature and focus on the long modernist period of the 19th…[Read more]
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