MLA Commons | Mattthew Pincus | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/matthewpincus17/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Mattthew Pincus is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:56:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 243dc67f3408c686df01358e00a1f606 Francisco Delgado replied to the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/?view=all#post-1041054 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:43:37 -0400 Sure, no problem.

]]> 0 d40e147c807e712b6cf1c430060dfe7e Amee Schmidt replied to the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/#post-1041053 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:58:36 -0400 This is great, Francisco. Are you comfortable submitting it?

AMEE SCHMIDT, M.A.
Associate Professor of English
Marshalltown Community College
3700 S. Center St. • Marshalltown, IA 50158
Office 403F • 641-844-5777<tel:+16418445777>
Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu<mailto:Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu>

]]> 0 79a08983560475b1d26311d8a8e7290a Amee Schmidt replied to the topic Draft of Program Copy for Decolonizing the MLA - Feedback Needed, Please in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-of-program-copy-for-decolonizing-the-mla-feedback-needed-please/#post-1041052 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:58:10 -0400 That’s a great suggestion! I will do that.

Also, I’ve been very, very ill, but I will get this submitted before tomorrow’s deadline.

AMEE SCHMIDT, M.A.
Associate Professor of English
Marshalltown Community College
3700 S. Center St. • Marshalltown, IA 50158
Office 403F • 641…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2343e8892fd60bf0b48f221493d0248 Margaret A. Noodin replied to the topic Draft of Program Copy for Decolonizing the MLA - Feedback Needed, Please in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-of-program-copy-for-decolonizing-the-mla-feedback-needed-please/#post-1041032 Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:04:25 -0400 This looks good to me! Beth did mention that this feels like important work and fits with the 2027 MLA theme of “emancipation” if you want to work that word in there but it’s totally up to you. Thanks for taking care of this!

]]> 0 2d891d26651737784b1c913ea5ef296f Francisco Delgado started the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:28:21 -0400 Please see below for a program description for the panel, “Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California.” All feedback welcome!

A more detailed description of the panel and the presentations is available under “Files.”

This panel aims to promote the literatures, languages, and cultures of Indigenous peoples of present-day California, as…[Read more]

]]> 0 7beab847825ad852e39520fc05c47093 Francisco Delgado uploaded the file: Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California - MLA 2027 to LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1946977/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:20:12 -0400 Attached is the line-up for our panel, “Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California.”

]]> 0 b399963e54f15c040ad3738279478770 Amee Schmidt started the topic Draft of Program Copy for Decolonizing the MLA - Feedback Needed, Please in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-of-program-copy-for-decolonizing-the-mla-feedback-needed-please/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:48:06 -0400 Decolonizing the MLA: A Unique Framework for Inclusion

Four panelists discuss complications in the teaching, learning, and representation of indigenous literatures and cultures, and offer new ways of understanding these stories. Academic spaces such as the MLA Conference can call attention to the intersections of indigenous voices and colonial…[Read more]

]]> 0 8be30c0b0d175fad58c3e6c83272028e Amee Schmidt uploaded the file: Proposals for Decolonizing the MLA - for 2027 to LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1946926/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:29:31 -0400 These are the three proposals we received for the Decolonizing the MLA panel.

]]> 0 1672bc709cfe3146d60ebb0b4f8485e8 Francisco Delgado started the topic CFPs EXTENDED to March 23rd! in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/cfp-extended-to-march-23rd/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:23:17 -0400 Our CFPs for MLA 2027 (Los Angeles, CA) will remain open to submissions until March 23rd:

  1. Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California – https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33577.html
  2. Decolonizing the MLA – https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33578.html

More information, including to whom…[Read more]

]]> 0 664579ad3763b67ebb27fd77d9825d53 Amee Schmidt replied to the topic MLA 2027 - Calls for Papers in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-calls-for-papers/#post-1040938 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:39:27 -0500 You can also direct folks to this page at hte MLA: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Session24153.html

 

]]> 0 ee054cf6ae9ce0b441763985fe55d69f Amee Schmidt started the topic MLA 2027 - Calls for Papers in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-calls-for-papers/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:02:08 -0500 Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California

How does Indigenous California’s historical significance appear in Indigenous-made creative work? Moreover, how does this body of work contribute to, deepen, undermine, or challenge what visitors think they know about California?

200-word abstracts should be sent to Francisco Delgado at FDelgado@…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0662f466fa3a1878eb61b55b1c075fb Francisco Delgado started the topic Notes from Executive Committee Meeting - Feb. 17th in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/notes-from-executive-committee-meeting-feb-17th/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:19:49 -0500 This document contains notes from the executive committee’s meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 17th – including finalized versions of our CFPs.

]]> 0 39be42f1eb4269ccd32355995fc0f8af Amee Schmidt started the topic Ideas for Better Utilization of this Commons Page in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/ideas-for-better-utilization-of-this-commons-page/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:57:39 -0500 Post your ideas here.

]]> 0 31291192d3d52559252c3c58303f00d2 Francisco Delgado replied to the topic MLA 2027 CFP - Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-indigenous-california/?view=all#post-1040806 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:21:03 -0500 Hi Amee,

The deadline is similar to the CFPs currently posted on the MLA website: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/index.html (and could be subject to change).

I wanted to share the call now, so that interested folks can start drafting proposals.

 

]]> 0 de8cb73348cae96a8fbe63cafc49fd8d Amee Schmidt replied to the topic MLA 2027 CFP - Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-indigenous-california/#post-1040800 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:23:43 -0500 Do we know what the deadline is from MLA yet?

AMEE SCHMIDT, M.A. (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of English and Communications

Vice President, MCC Faculty Senate

Marshalltown Community College

3700 S. Center St. • Marshalltown, IA 50158

Office 403F • 641-844-5777

[cid:d8736a74-53b1-4425-9970-f7716c97ef40]

Chair, MLA Executive Forum Com…[Read more]

]]> 0 85cfd1d71ee50f1c4cdc44266067e850 Francisco Delgado started the topic MLA 2027 CFP - Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-indigenous-california/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:52:18 -0500 Below is one CFP from the LLC Indigenous Literatures of the US and Canada forum:

Indigenous California

Let us make space at MLA for the literatures and communities of the state in which we will be gathering. Indigenous California aims to promote the literatures, languages, and cultures of Indigenous peoples of present-day California, as well as…[Read more]

]]> 0 58c187fd3e83e8e5d3a08e6724c0f998 Francisco Delgado started the topic Notes of Executive Committee Meeting - January 23, 2026 in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/notes-of-executive-committee-meeting-january-23-2026/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:45:28 -0500 The executive committee met on Zoom on Friday, January 23, 2026. Attached are the minutes of the meeting.

Submitted by Francisco Delgado, Secretary of LLC Indigenous Literatures of US and Canada

]]> 0 a3166754357999561411cebfb54f2992 Autumn Womack started the topic Seeking Nominations For Prose Fiction Executive Committee in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:47:10 -0400 We’d very much like nominations (self nominations count!) for new committee members for the Prose Fiction Forum.  The term would begin Jan 2026 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas: amwomack@princeton.edu

]]> 0 daa2de088a7ab1be014cd337cae1f691 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-8/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:26:29 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5b81ec6a27df050f42ff3e4444b7653 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session in the forum MLAgrads https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mlagrads/forum/topic/session-413-navigating-the-academy-a-mentoring-session/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:46:34 -0500 Please see the mentoring session below and share widely.

MLA 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 (…[Read more]

]]> 0 abf433b8577472fd5761649b8b27d9c4 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-14/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:15:38 -0500 Hello!

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]

]]> 0 13ba7be5f3cd204b8809c48eb3104b06 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:58:34 -0500 NOVEL 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]

]]> 0 1c7eee83e6c1050917a831971f326076 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:48:12 -0400 SNS 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: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2025 conference t…[Read more]

]]> 0 35509d6899737496d6df1fffec6cee0d Aarthi Vadde started the topic Society of Novel Studies 2025 CFP: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/society-of-novel-studies-2025-cfp-novel-languages/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:31 -0400 “NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference 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 website

The 2025 conference theme—…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d7c6486c99ba64dab093d69d0b2bfb1 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889186/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:21:53 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3cfa136dddbc55ff6bc164146493c0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889181/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:53 -0400 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 c66d5f0bbd7bdb647ff290fb6a4bf5af Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889176/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:35 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f36217dcaa6136d36924bb8c7825f3b Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/26428-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-and-aati-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:07:58 -0500 #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]

]]> 0 4e8f08b9eb09ab00a8e0a5eb284bc2e1 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #25997: Guaranteed Allied Organization Session for IASA in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/25997-guaranteed-allied-organization-session-for-iasa-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:04:41 -0500 #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]

]]> 0 ff084706159c2ecf7f3e8fc3524deb38 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877012/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:05:35 -0500 Abstract
In his email conversations with Arabella Kurtz in The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, J.M. Coetzee entertains the notion of settling on fictions of ourselves, which we are able to inhabit more comfortably than what is perceived as our real life. In addition, he implies that in order to form fictions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f16633d3d893f4c79bc09d7d40fbf75b Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-5/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:35:48 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS.)

We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 0 22c51628c59efe7b38796c9b00f9d75d Christine Y Lupton started the topic Seeking Nominations for committee members in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-committee-members/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:09:16 -0500 We’d very much like nominations for our new committee member.  The term would begin Jan 25 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas (self nomination totally OK!):  c.lupton@warwick.ac.uk. DEADLINE:  Jan 15th 2024.

]]> 0 a4e6cdd7e9c478623c66d3ee14f0da1c Stacey Amo started the topic Discussion Group on What Contingency Means to You in the discussion MLAgrads https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mlagrads/forum/topic/discussion-group-on-what-contingency-means-to-you-5/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:26:49 -0500 Join members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063

]]> 0 7b89a1e64b8e0d438dae42cc1c28894d Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865790/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:04:02 -0500 Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 7beeceb1ef2bb3838e45fe388fcb0fd7 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-12/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:53:34 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 8736ba23e2d0061913427cec10657c36 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860580/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:03:06 -0400 ‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8738e5b3ae6c76147f6ec3171a0b4cb Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858166/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:10:58 -0400 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

]]> 0 b97a31ba9603264fa6821c6b6d5de687 Arthur Wang started the topic CFP: Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes for Emerging and Contingent Scholars in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-inaugural-post45-essay-prizes-for-emerging-and-contingent-scholars/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:31:57 -0400 Post45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholars. The Emerging Scholar prize is named in honor of two-time Post45 Journal editor Mary Esteve to celebrate her commitment to the work of the journ…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d63245016c9e13af946c7ebccfe51ec Stephanie Rountree started the topic CFP: Record, Document, Archive [edited collection, advance contract LSU Press] in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-record-document-archive-edited-collection-advance-contract-lsu-press/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:09:28 -0400 Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region [edited collection]

Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press

Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison

Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023

Completed Chapters (7,000 words): March 15, 2024

 

As the double meaning of our title suggests,…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e7e8264f2e197870aa427aea8dbc537 Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real" in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856305/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:19:23 -0400 Zunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7a2d4550837e07aec2ee67ca16ae58d Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures (Introduction) in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855419/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:19:29 -0400 Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural
disasters: images of the “gray flood” and “silver tsunami” imbue
senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This
Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative
shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children,
but of one…[Read more]

]]> 0 93538900b3546bc5791869908eaa5261 Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847392/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:28:00 -0400 Review of Consider David Foster Wallace.

]]> 0 fecc9ca554e24fba362032d0cfed7522 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847388/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:10:34 -0400 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]

]]> 0 4b9ac4cca9adb060a84b0f7f630cfa9d Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847383/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:50:03 -0400 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]

]]> 0 65e49f2b44706a042e7e19a069edf897 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847379/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:38:10 -0400 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]

]]> 0 c9c519e8f299e85d32b5c1c938a08dc8 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847377/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:28:38 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f80e06d0d97a09b764e4c22fc1e47ae1 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841276/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:15:38 -0400 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]

]]> 0 85b86f6e19a9792f11b87eb44c316a96 Janine M. Utell edited the post The Road Towards a PhD in the group MLAgrads https://mlagrads.mla.hcommons.org/2023/04/12/the-road-towards-a-phd/ Wed, 12 Apr 2023 19:54:58 -0400 Thais Rutledge

(Note: Thais Rutledge is co-chair of the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities.)

The impetus for this blog post was a conversation that took place in the Graduate […]

]]> 8fb4bfbdae49c6c75d4a41bc0507375c Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Journeys across fragmented lands: Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K and Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840266/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:40:56 -0400 Solidarity between South Africa and Palestine has a long history, and often times, a comparison is drawn between the apartheid system in South Africa and the Israeli occupation and settler-colonial project in Palestine. In 1997, the late South African President, Nelson Mandela, said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete without t…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0bad784b67525a89225838ddcb1ffef Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/mla-proposed-session-political-oratory-and-african-am-lit-abstracts-by-3-13/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:54:11 -0500 I am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on “Political Oratory and African American Literature.”  Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse.   Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.

Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]

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