MLA Commons | Jakob Rupp | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/jakob152/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Jakob Rupp is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:59:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2eca6f08b7828f8090a6953994f86a39 Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue "Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature" in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1729876/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 02:28:45 -0500 Special issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.

]]> 0 530f92d55a73d94bf3054a16df89de46 George Phillips deposited Are trees forms? On formalism, material feminism, and historical literature in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721971/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 03:49:12 -0500 This essay draws on formalist cultural studies and material feminism to argue for a new approach in modernist studies, which I call formalist materialism, an approach that reads ecological forms alongside aesthetic forms. Such an approach may have distinct advantages. Formalist materialism illuminates a new direction for formalists by connecting…[Read more]

]]> 0 078ad313ba00c5598999f4110a02fc5e Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism/forum/topic/cfp-edited-collection-the-enlightened-nightscape-1700-1830-3/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:13:05 -0400 Dear colleagues:

Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.

Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Traditional…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a4b5754a769f706326fc2b06961668b James S. Finley deposited Pilgrimages and Working Forests: Envisioning the Commons in "The Maine Woods" in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660927/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:25:22 -0400 This chapter examines the tendency of readers of Thoreau’s 1864 book “The Maine Woods” to read the landscape through which Thoreau travels as pristine wilderness. I argue, by contrast, that Thoreau presented a social landscape, a “working-forest” avant-la-lettre.

]]> 0 8bd099a4ad1789f2c23df96f23c9e8d5 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Two-Act In-Progress Play: Nobody goes to Gary in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627129/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 04:02:08 -0500 Two-Act Play

Nobody goes to Gary is a Swiftian satire. Gil Tolliver, an investigative reporter I New York City, makes a fateful journey into the real heart of Gary, Indiana, after hearing the musical tune “Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana” during _The Music Man_. Don’t measure the distance of Gary from New York in miles, but in emotional light…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ebd432f6277d02a168e8ddd7e41a01c Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism/forum/topic/cfp-current-and-future-ecocriticisms-of-the-americas-for-asle-2019/ Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:57:07 -0400 What is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies?  Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019.  Panel…[Read more]

]]> 0 92b2263ac93b2d29633d97e3cedb58c1 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Is a key to culture in the distance from "dirt"? in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1609735/ Sat, 02 Jun 2018 04:05:59 -0400 This Blog covers a new approach to culture via literary analysis. The hypothesis is that distance from dirt is a key aspect of culture that cuts across ideologies. To begin this work, we will use Big Data to study (content analysis) themes and characters in US novels from the 19th C. to the 21st C. Theory for this analysis will be Joel Kovel’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 54b0aa544897695302253c95f3a1e52f Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1608112/ Wed, 09 May 2018 03:48:43 -0400 This rhetorical analysis of the phrase “The Rust Belt” asks the question Is The Rust Belt real or mythical? Does Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Subaltern’ caste now inhabit the (so-called) Rust Belt? Why can’t Rust Belt writers be heard?
“The Rust Belt” is not a title anyone living there would have chosen and yet we use it. Why? Also why should we depend…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3ffa16a6600ec516d1feccdf17f1b57 James S. Finley deposited "Justice in the Land": Ecological Protest in Henry David Thoreau's Antislavery Essays in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1607457/ Tue, 01 May 2018 04:12:25 -0400 This essay surveys Thoreau’s antislavery writings from across his career and demonstrates the ecological concerns central to Thoreau’s abolitionist commitment.

]]> 0 690a2816a94bbca002538d45029ed4ee Tarren Andrews deposited Defamiliarizing Melancholy: The Functions of Eco-Aesthetics and the Pearl-poet in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599773/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 04:13:20 -0500 Scholarship on the Pearl-poem has seen a significant jump in recent years, due largely to the influx of eco-critical readings throughout Medieval studies. Gillian Rudd’s recent book Greenery: Ecocritical Readings of Late Medieval English Literature explores a new and exciting reading of the poem’s natural environment, claiming that the rose met…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ba10d305cc6730dae02197f7ff90564 Gulsah Gocmen deposited The Garip (Strange) Movement: A Poetic Return to “Naturality” or a Deep Ecological Reappraisal of “Nature”? in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595275/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 05:52:48 -0500 In 1941, Orhan Veli Kanik, Melih Cevdet Anday, and Oktay Rifat Horozcu, published a poetic manifesto, called Garip (or Strange), that heralded a new period in modern Turkish poetry, known as “The Garip Movement.” In the manifesto, Kanik, Anday, and Rifat declared a total aesthetic break from the conventions of the classical Ottoman poetry, and cha…[Read more]

]]> 0 7fc669a160502dc2b32772ce10b8f626 Caren Irr deposited Toward the World Novel: Genre Shifts in Twenty-First-Century Expatriate Fiction in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1590272/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 05:58:24 -0500 Presents an analysis of the emergence of new genres of international–especially expatriate–fiction in 21st-century US letters.

]]> 0 b9fd12b3d0c489431d693261a32d9aaf Caren Irr deposited The Space of Genre in the New Green Novel in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1590268/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 05:56:04 -0500 An examination of spatial themes in the emerging genre of environmental fiction. Originally presented as a talk at the Futures of American Literature event at Uppsala University (Sweden).

]]> 0 4490ee085b96ede0601e8757b46f0ba0 Gloria Lee McMillan created the doc Travel to Gary, IN, "Land of Rust Belt Romance and Adventure" in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1581808/ Mon, 18 Sep 2017 22:07:29 -0400 0 2a191c6ba21b85780818fa7b2421bf34 selisker deposited “Stutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange”: GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1570677/ Wed, 17 May 2017 01:00:00 -0400 This article raises questions about the aesthetics of scale as they appear relative to genetically modified organisms in science fiction and especially in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009). Bacigalupi makes the unusual choice of representing GMOs largely through science fictional tropes of automatism rather than the grotesque. Because of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ae8e373ad91c3cd4dc176b27aef11ca Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Story in NW Times of Children of Steel unity in diversity lit. project in the discussion Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism/forum/topic/story-in-nw-times-of-children-of-steel-unity-in-diversity-lit-project-2/ Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:39:56 -0500 Hello, and happy new year all!

Our writers have diverse roots. For instance, one such industrial community,  East Chicago, Indiana (host to Arcelor-Mittal’s current flagship and largest US full process steel mill) was listed on censuses in the 1940s and 1960s as having 82 nationalities.  As times have changed people have moved to suburbs s…[Read more]

]]> 0 6888ca9b712db5f0b05481c997b832aa Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism/forum/topic/new-rust-belt-literature-group-at-the-commons-2/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:55:36 -0400 <div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.  NOTE: we are seeking hosts for a panel on Bust belt Literature at the next NLA national convention.

This group will host discussions of all types of literary resp…[Read more]

]]> 0 6dab892366e317ca46896a8cea103b34 Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic Reminder: MLA teaching volume on Yamashita in the discussion Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism/forum/topic/reminder-mla-teaching-volume-on-yamashita/ Wed, 01 Jun 2016 05:52:13 -0400 Please complete the survey and propose an essay (submit an abstract) by 1 June 2016 at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/mlasurvey_yamashita. The co-editors enthusiastically welcome all input: from those who have taught a single work by Yamashita only once to those who have regularly taught her works over several years. <u>We want to hear from schol…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1f95eeb2121170d513d2b65921b76a3 Abby Goode started the topic Sustainability and Population in American Literary History in the forum Ecocriticism http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism/forum/topic/sustainability-and-population-in-american-literary-history/ Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:28:54 -0500 Special Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying ecocritical topics. The panel is on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in 116 VCC West. More information about the panelists and papers can be found at http://sustainabilityandpopulationinalh.mla.hcommons.org/.

]]> 0 a38b98519abc3433d98a1ff2cc61889d Manuel Jesús del Alto started the topic CFP: Eco-Materialisms: Organizing Life and Matter in the forum Ecocriticism http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism/forum/topic/cfp-eco-materialisms-organizing-life-and-matter/ Thu, 04 Dec 2014 18:09:09 -0500 Dear Colleagues:

It is with great pleasure that I invite you to participate in this graduate student conference held at the University of California in Irvine. Please visit the Eco-Materialisms website for further information.

 

EcoMaterialisms: Organizing Life and Matter

University of California, Irvine

Friday 15th May…[Read more]

]]> 0 e69b8530d88062c0f2fa67c151560025 David Del Principe started the topic EcoGothic Studies in the forum Ecocriticism http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism/forum/topic/ecogothic-studies/ Wed, 06 Aug 2014 01:56:22 -0400 EcoGothic Studies is a new critical field merging the ecocritical and the Gothic.

EcoGothic Studies Forum

EcoGothic Blog

]]> 0 75e34f51b1168517614f67e9d79e3747 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen edited the doc Prismatic Ecology (#mla14) Abstracts in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/54772/ Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:36:58 -0500 0 357a4d24b0c37b6a955c73f88581c4cc Jeffrey Jerome Cohen created the doc Prismatic Ecology (#mla14) Abstracts in the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/54771/ Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:32:19 -0500 0 3e9939aa60dc180691e501b5fa3c1553 James Pangborn, PhD started the topic Hello World! in the forum Ecocriticism http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism/forum/topic/hello-world/ Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:35:41 -0500 Greetings, everyone: thanks for showing up!  I’d like to get an idea of what members consider to be worthwhile topics for discussion, so please post freely.  I think the settings allow anyone to initiate topics, […]

]]> 0 5abcc5120357fc9514422090a20af8ab James Pangborn, PhD created the group Ecocriticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/17976/ Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:02:47 -0500 0