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Christopher M. Lupke's profile was updated on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature We are inviting proposals for papers featuring ritual as a theme or structuring device in East Asian (including diasporic) literature in relation to belief, kinship, and/or community. This will be a collaborative session between the TC Anthropology and Literature and TC Religion and Literature…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke's profile was updated on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP East Asian Literature and Dialectical Thinking in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
East Asian Literature and Dialectical Thinking
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Christopher Lupke
University of Alberta
The study of literature and dialectical thinking has been around for a long time and is still going strong. What is less studied is the impact of dialectical thinking on East Asian literary texts. To be sure, Marxism has…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic Forum Exec Ctte Election — Christopher Lupke Statement in the discussion
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
Dear Colleagues:
I am running for the TC Anthropology and Literature Forum Exec Ctte and am asking for your vote! Here is a little information about me. As a Chinese specialist, I may be unfamiliar to most of you but I’ve actually been a member of the MLA for 30 years and now am a Life Member. I am Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies and Chair…[Read more]
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Rosemary G. Feal started the topic Achy Obejas at the MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
Going to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons.org/ for bios.
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Rosemary G. Feal posted an update on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
Going to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons.org/ for bios.
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Rosemary G. Feal's profile was updated on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
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Rosemary G. Feal's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
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Christopher M. Lupke posted an update on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
@shengsl09 Shiao-ling: To answer your questions. (1) Of course, drama (plays) is considered under literature. (2) Yes, as I said, title, abstract, and bio are all required. (3) My email address, easily found by simply googling my name or looking in the MLA On-Line Directory, is: lupke@ualberta.ca. (4) No. Submitting to this Session proposal has…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
Reconsidering Family Relations in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
A Forum Session at the 2018 MLA in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019.
Family relations over the past 120 years in Chinese society(ies) have changed dramatically, and some would argue that the emergence of individualism as a modern, atomized, subjective formation has risen in inverse…[Read more]
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Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, “¡Miel, éste es el Trópico!”: Survival American, on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
Originally published in the Summer 2017 MLA Newsletter
As I stood near the Hotel Inglaterra on the Parque Central in Havana in early March, I was consciously occupying Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s vantage p […]
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Christopher M. Lupke replied to the topic Navigating the MLA: A Guide for East Asian Scholars in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
Colleagues:
Thanks for your interest. The MLA is a multifaceted organization with lots of different things going on. Those in East Asian Studies are mostly fairly new to the MLA. Thus, we are organizing this session to give an overview of what the MLA does and how to navigate it. There also will be ample time for questions and comments. Members…[Read more]
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Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, Advocacy in 2017: What We Can Do Together, on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
Originally published in the Spring 2017 MLA Newsletter
I write these words ten days after the forty-fifth president of the United States was inaugurated. The landscape for MLA advocacy has already registered the […] -
Christopher M. Lupke changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months ago
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Christopher M. Lupke changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months ago
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic East Asian Languages and Literatures — Reception — ALL WELCOME in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months ago
Please come to the East Asian Languages and Literatures Reception on Saturday night at 8:45 pm in Marriott 411-412. There will be food and drink! I hope to see you there.
Christopher Lupke
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic East Asian Languages and Literatures — Reception — ALL WELCOME in the discussion
Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months ago
Please come to the East Asian Languages and Literatures Reception on Saturday night at 8:45 pm in Marriott 411-412. There will be food and drink! I hope to see you there.
Christopher Lupke
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Marc Snyder changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
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Margaret W. Ferguson started the topic MLA Session with Presidents of Sister Organization on BDS in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
<p>MLA Sessions in 2017 Related to BDS–please add to this list and check the first entry out out if you are coming to the Philadelphia MLA Convention! Early and important is Session 53, “Association Presidents’ Perspectives on Boycott,” with speakers from our sister organizations that have strenuously debated and voted in favor of supporting the…[Read more]
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