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McKinley Melton started the topic SMU – Kahn Chair in the Humanities in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 2 days agoThe Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of advanced Associate or early Full Professor to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities beginning August 1, 2024. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary study in English,…[Read more]
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Samantha Pergadia started the topic SMU Job in African American Literature and Urban Studies in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 5 days agoDear colleagues,
I wanted to pass along this job ad for an assistant professor position in African American literature, joined to an urban studies research cluster.
Please do pass it along to anyone who pay be a good fit and encourage them to apply.
https://joblist.mla.org/job-<wbr />details/7961/assistant-<wbr…[Read more]
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Epifanio San Juan deposited CHALLENGING AMERICAN STUDIES in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoCritique of orthodox American Studies in the last quarter of the twentieth=century.
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Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Frank D. Rashid started the topic The Marygrove African American Literature Collection (MAAAC) in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 4 days agoThe Marygrove Conservancy announces the Marygrove African American Authors Collection (MAAAC), a digitized archive of video recordings, photographs, printed materials, and teaching resources generated by the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS). The MAAAC was developed with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. 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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Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Introduction: Infrastructures of African American Print in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago“The essays in this volume attend to both of these possible relations to the infrastructures of inscription. They explore not only how white supremacist histories and infrastructures have limited and foreclosed black expression but also how black expression has extended, recoded, and transformed some of these very structures, affording new possibilities.”
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week agoThis interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week agoThis interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]
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Laura Helton started the topic MLA 2024 CFP: Bibliography and Scholarly Editing in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 9 months agoThe Forum on Bibliography and Scholarly Editing invites proposals for two sessions:
Intention
Authorial intention has long been rejected as a viable constraint upon literary interpretation, but to what extent is it still operative in textual scholarship? Seeking 250-word abstracts on textual theory, collaboration, coercion, publishing, and…[Read more]
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Andrea R. Malone replied to the topic CFP for MLA Convention 2024 in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 months, 1 week agoTo clarify, this session is sponsored by the Libraries and Research forum.
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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Habiba Ibrahim started the topic Self-Nominations & Suggestions | TC Race & Ethnicity Studies Forum EC in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoEvery year, Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. This year, the Race and Ethnicity Studies Forum executive committee seeks self-nominations and suggestions for a new committee member from our membership so as to allow for broad participation. Our hope is that broad participation will ensure diversity of…[Read more]
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David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group
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Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 11 months agoThe Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
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