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Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
Review of Consider David Foster Wallace.
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
This 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 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
This 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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Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
Excerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin Receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Alexa Alice Joubin received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, which recognizes Professor Joubin’s “contributions to social justice and inclusive excellence ” that exemplify “the ideals that Dr. King espoused,” particularly “community-based social justice organizing rooted in non-violence.” The MLK Award comes on the heel of her bell hook…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Afterword: Adaptation studies and interactive pedagogies.” Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences, ed. Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 187-200. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Criticism of the Shakespearean canon through adaptation as a genre has the capacity for liberation and social reparation. As a cluster of complex texts that sustains both past practices and contemporary interpretive conventions, Shakespeare provides fertile ground for training students to listen intently and compassionately to other individuals’ v…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “What makes Global Shakespeares an exercise in ethics?” Global Shakespeare and Social Justice: Towards a Transformative Encounter, ed. Chris Thurman and Sandra Young (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 58-77. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Stage and screen adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays raise ethical questions – that is, questions about how human beings should act and treat one another. In which contexts might cross-cultural enterprises be naturalising the values associated with Shakespeare to exploit unequal power relations among artists of different backgrounds? Con…[Read more]
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Pork production in Yucatan, Mexico, and Merida’s export driven pork region: pigs and the global market in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 6 days ago
This map was featured in Mexico’s La Jornada supplement, Ojarasca, in its 312th edition. See article: “Represión en la granja: los cerdos y el mercado mundial” For information regarding sources, please refer to the aforementioned article. You may also consult the article’s English version here: https://doi.org/10.17613/8c2v-j144
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Capital Farm: Pigs and the global economy. Repression in the Yucatan Peninsula in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 6 days ago
This article is a translation of “Represión en la granja: los cerdos y el mercado mundial,” published in Mexico’s La Jornada supplement, Ojarasca, in its 312th edition.
The impacts of pork production in the Yucatan Peninsula and its relationship to the “Mayan” Train, export driven economies, and Mayan communities protecting water and land. -
Hania A.M. Nashef deposited J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy: A Search for Answers in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
The 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Do English Audiences Have the Toughest Time with Shakespeare?,” Quarto: The Magazine of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, Spring/Summer, 2023 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
All the world’s a stage, but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. “English audiences are at a disadvantage because the language has evolved and is more and more distant. They need footnotes, props and staging to understand,” said Alexa Alice Joubin, a Shakespeare schol…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “English Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory.” GW Today, April 12, 2023 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
When ChatGPT was launched, Alexa Alice Joubin realized it was here to stay. She views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use it responsibly, not as a shortcut. “This technology is going to be with us, and students need employable skills in terms of curation, editorial repackaging and prompt engineering,” Joubin said. “They need…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Joubin receives the bell hooks Legacy Award in the group
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Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. The award recognizes Joubin’s a…[Read more]
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited La producción porcícola en Yucatán, México y la región de exportación porcícola de Mérida: Los cerdos y el mercado mundial | Pork production in Yucatan, Mexico, and Merida’s export driven pork region: pigs and the global market in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Este mapa salió en la edición número 312 del suplemento de la Jornada, Ojarasca, en el artículo titulado: “Represión en la granja: los cerdos y el mercado mundial”
Para más información de las fuentes, véase el artículo: https://www.jornada.com.mx/2023/04/07/ojarasca312.pdfThis map was featured in Mexico’s La Jornada supplement, Ojarasca…[Read more]
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Massih Zekavat deposited Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises explores how satire and humor can be employed to address and mitigate ecological crises at individual and collective levels.
Besides scientific and technological endeavors, solutions to ecological crises must entail social and communicative reform to persuade citizens, corporations, organizations, and…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Trans as Method: The Sociality of Gender and Shakespeare.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 1 month, 4 weeks ago
This special issue on contemporary performance proposes “trans” as method and as a social practice rather than as an immutable identity category that stands in opposition to more established ones such as cis-gender men or cisgender women. We ask new questions about Shakespearean performance: How might the meanings of the plays change if we…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Shakespearean Performance through a Trans Lens.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Gender is a set of interpersonal relationships and social practices that evolve in the presence of other people , in social spaces, and over time. My theory of trans lens corrects the institutionalized cis-sexism that assumes the cis status of even those characters with fluid gender practices. It does so by questioning the purported neutrality of…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Tempest as Trans Archive: An Interview with Scholar Mary Ann S. Saunders.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 1 month, 4 weeks ago
This interview with Dr. Mary Ann Saunders, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, offers a new interpretation of Julie Taymor’s 2010 film The Tempest. Bringing her life experience to bear on cisgender biases in non-trans artists’ works, Saunders proposes a new interpretation of Ariel, as performed by Ben Whishaw, as a trans woman who is “both beautiful…[Read more]
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