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Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century 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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Michael Subialka started the topic CFP “Who Do We Resemble? Selfhood, Perception, and Modernist Multiplicity” MLA in the forum
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoLuigi Pirandello’s One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (1926) presents a radical meditation on the fragmentation of identity, the impossibility of “true” self-perception, and the crisis of being seen differently by others. Published exactly a century ago, the novel interrogates the ways in which individuals exist not as unified selves but as…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session in the forum
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week agoMLA 2025 Convention
MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session
NB: Session Information Follows. The mentoring session will continue informally following the roundtable via happy hour. Location: Ernst Café (600 S. Peters St.; across the street from the Hilton R…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election in the forum
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 months agoHello!
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum
CLCS Global Anglophone 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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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on “Australia And…” in the forum
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoCFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”
Priority Deadline 1 November 2024
Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on “Australia And…” in the forum
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoCFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”
Priority Deadline 1 November 2024
Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on “Australia And…” in the forum
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoCFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”
Priority Deadline 1 November 2024
Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography 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
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year agoBiennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES
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: h…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Review of Joseph O’Neill, in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoEarly, refereed review of Joseph O’Neill’s third, groundbreaking novel set in post-9/11 New York City: the review charts key plot developments, a transatlantic mapping of the characters (Netherlands, Trinidad, UK and US) and its structural similarities to F Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. Originally published in the third issue of the…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited “Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!”: Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis paper describes the social and cultural climate of teaching the works of James Joyce — including his journalism and major works of fiction from “Dubliners” through “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake” — over the years 1993 to 2016 when the author was the Chair of English Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. The author draws upon his…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited “Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!”: Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis paper describes the social and cultural climate of teaching the works of James Joyce — including his journalism and major works of fiction from “Dubliners” through “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake” — over the years 1993 to 2016 when the author was the Chair of English Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. The author draws upon his…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThe Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing the ineffable qualities of…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThe impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South–Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoInterim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more] -
Louise Bethlehem deposited African Futurism Interim Bibliography in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoA compilation of articles on African Futurism generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism research project supported by THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), updated May 2024.
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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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Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy’s The Well-Beloved and André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]
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