MLA Commons | Marc Blanc | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/mblanc96/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Marc Blanc is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:17:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5227434fde7c687dc1b9926128c005a0 Eric Aronoff started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (April 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/deadline-extended-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-april-1/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:43:27 -0500 EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 1 2026 

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors

Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition

Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 0163dd257b312c6442067668ed2ac7ec Eric Aronoff started the topic Contribute to New edition of MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (Feb. 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/contribute-to-new-edition-of-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-feb-1/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:33:43 -0500 Call for Survey Participants and Contributors
Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition
Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and materials available to teachers of Moby-Di…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cdd25a78e579a1361394e8141dc22c3 Rob Wilkie started the topic Radical Caucus Resolution Signatures Needed by October 1, 2025 in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/radical-caucus-resolution-signatures-needed-by-october-1-2025/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:13:41 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

Do you feel the need for the MLA to take a stand against the fascistic attacks on higher education, the genocide in Gaza, and the spurious distortion of antisemitism as justification for these assaults?

The MLA Radical Caucus is sponsoring a resolution for the 2026 MLA Convention that will address these concerns. It is titled…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebacf549ff1f52a98624f3fa889d83a4 Rhone Fraser started the topic A Panel on Hurston's "Herod the Great" in the forum LLC African American Forum https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/a-panel-on-hurstons-herod-the-great/ Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:34:15 -0400 Greetings LLC Forum! I am looking for one presenter and one presider for a panel on Hurston’s latest novel “The Life of Herod the Great.”  I have until tomorrow to finalize the panel. -RF.

]]> 0 929d484a9f320217cc99bd0d7f1c7515 Jim Kavanagh replied to the topic Resignation Executive Committee TC Marxism, Literature, and Society Forum in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/resignation-executive-committee-tc-marxism-literature-and-society-forum/#post-1039474 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:35:30 -0500 Thanks for standing up for humanity.

]]> 0 5c8d7113a2159116a63f1aa889f268e4 Nattie Golubov started the topic Resignation Executive Committee TC Marxism, Literature, and Society Forum in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/resignation-executive-committee-tc-marxism-literature-and-society-forum/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:15:37 -0500 Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee officers of our forum to let you know that we have resigned our appointments to protest the Council’s refusal to allow for an open debate of MLA Resolution 2025-1, which concerns an endorsement of the 2005 BDS call to action:…[Read more]

]]> 0 b64d254c9b0fd2e63c4c2b6d136fbc32 Betty Joseph started the topic INVITATION: Panel Topics for HISTORY & LITERATURE, MLA 2026 in the forum TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/invitation-panel-topics-for-history-literature-mla-2026/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:24:10 -0500 Dear Forum Members/Colleagues,

We will organize two panels at MLA 2026 (Toronto) and invite you to play a key role in shaping the event! As a valued member of this forum, we would love to hear your ideas for panel topics. This is an opportunity for you to contribute to the discussions and offer fresh perspectives.

To submit your topic, simply…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c9de188b4efcda2fd4856bf2d125d62 Nattie Golubov started the topic Call for Chapters Atmospheres of Extinction in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-atmospheres-of-extinction/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:07:38 -0500 Atmospheres of Extinction: Architecture & Post-Cold War Structures of Feeling

This collection seeks to understand post-Cold War built atmospheres that reference or update far-ranging Cold War affective geographies, geopolitical atmospheres and subjective forms in architecture, literature, popular culture and the arts by exploring the relationship…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ea51b07e37e0f6ef015235a17f9ae15 Betty Joseph started the topic JOIN THE HISTORY & LITERATURE FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE! in the forum TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/join-the-history-literature-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 03:13:13 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee is seeking self-nominations for a five-year term starting 2025-2026. The committee organizes two panels at the annual convention and occasionally, an additional collaborative panel with another forum. Committee meetings take place during or after the annual convention (over Zoom). If you would like to be considered,…[Read more]

]]> 0 796971bce75bc3c605a66641c8db8c6d Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902703/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:01:49 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 d34927ce4e55de52f921986d63b92140 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902283/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:01:50 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 998163ae8aa4c83b79591056d8de2342 Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1899999/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:04:35 -0400 SHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- o…[Read more]

]]> 0 52b2c57fc247d4374dd1b30b24325837 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-5/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:45:07 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title “A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspec…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d4f65344b789e2605a2ff2823f2b30f Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/MARX/PEIRCE in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886475/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:01:39 -0400 Exploration on the linkages among the modes of discourse and presentation in Hgel, Marx and Peirce
with a view to inferring a common dialectical tendency in their inquiries.

]]> 0 583238d4880008c95636f50a3bf552ad Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26425-italian-american-llc-guaranteed-session-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:15:12 -0500 #26425 – Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers

Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

New Orleans has for centuries been a port of call and interstitial space beckoning people to its banks, whether through choice, coercion, or bondage.

For the Italian diaspora, New Orleans has been one…[Read more]

]]> 0 e903db105c16658b452a2750b9efd075 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26426-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-session-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:10:53 -0500 #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session

Title: Italian Creole: Accents and Intersections

This panel takes the rich history of Italian Americans in New Orleans as a starting point for exploring the politics and power of ethnic visibility in New Orleans. Italians and Italian Americans were foundational to the early infrastructure…[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 849550a9463cac91221997bfe4af8eb5 Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:35:33 -0500 Hi all.

I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.

MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html

Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives,…[Read more]

]]> 0 329e7406af3271ede582237826fb74d9 Purnima Bose started the topic Convention 2025: "Postcolonial Capitalism: Southeast Asia & Its Diaspora" in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/convention-2025-postcolonial-capitalism-southeast-asia-its-diaspora/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:41:50 -0500 Postcolonial Capitalism:  Southeast Asia and its Diaspora
(a co-sponsored proposal on behalf of the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Forum and the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum)
Short CFP:
How do representational narratives, forms, and genres register the articulation of emergent
capitalist imperatives as recompense…[Read more]

]]> 0 c313b8ed76dd74a8dfbac49b0a61b76f Purnima Bose started the topic CFP: MLA Convention 2025 in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-mla-convention-2025/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 15:01:03 -0500 The Executive Committee invites abstracts for two 2025 MLA sessions organized by the TC Marxism, Society and Literature Forum. More information is below.

Exhaustion, Involution, Bullshit Jobs: Virtual roundtable on the conditions and afflictions of over/underwork in response to a reading by David Graeber (the preface and first chapter “What is a…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ad7a9187ad4bb0a7f389a378f5c27a8 Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/PEIRCE in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876759/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:00:32 -0500 Speculative notes on the relation between Peirce’s pragmatist method and Hegel’s dialectics

]]> 0 41d441d8ccd5734b9d09c50076adb629 Kristin Moriah started the topic Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women's Lives in the discussion LLC African American Forum https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/un-bioed-radically-reimagining-black-womens-lives/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:13:35 -0500 Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

]]> 0 95f658cf022208640d2cbe0819693b4f Eva Cherniavsky started the topic Updates from the Forum Executive Committee 12/28/23 in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/updates-from-the-forum-executive-committee-12-28-23/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:56:17 -0500 Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]

]]> 0 0311d6a54d3f3804f28681f6806f3a45 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept... in the discussion TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/new-article-the-turkish-angel-in-the-house-a-travelling-concept-2/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:27:14 -0500 Dear Colleagues,
We would like to announce the publication of our new article titled “The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept in the Housewife Poems of Ziya Gökalp and Halide Nusret Zorlutuna” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies.
It is possible to download the article from the following link for fre…[Read more]

]]> 0 501218b58df0ba4e4215593dc398ca26 McKinley Melton started the topic SMU - Kahn Chair in the Humanities in the discussion LLC African American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/smu-kahn-chair-in-the-humanities/ Sat, 18 Nov 2023 01:47:15 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 98a66eecda762d6f8ee9a3a3c9f266a5 Samantha Pergadia started the topic SMU Job in African American Literature and Urban Studies in the discussion LLC African American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/smu-job-in-african-american-literature-and-urban-studies/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:16:36 -0500 Dear 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]

]]> 0 29f9630c46d3b85ce8e2361b8dc165b9 Epifanio San Juan deposited CHALLENGING AMERICAN STUDIES in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864252/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:11:49 -0500 Critique of orthodox American Studies in the last quarter of the twentieth=century.

]]> 0 6c80c11cd45005c6cf5225ca6a4a523f Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864248/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:00:15 -0500 Survey 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.

]]> 0 0e03b0ed5a8ad34a89b35be39d7d4337 Frank D. Rashid started the topic The Marygrove African American Literature Collection (MAAAC) in the discussion LLC African American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/the-marygrove-african-american-literature-collection-maaac/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:56:53 -0500 The 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]

]]> 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 18193fa29726cccfe903fb3be5ab3938 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861768/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:54 -0400 The “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
traces the…[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 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 20c11c8ce1daac57869ce0a800a0a985 Jonathan Senchyne deposited Introduction: Infrastructures of African American Print in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855437/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:24:42 -0400 “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.”

]]> 0 f51352f967f884885e3b283540e3cd83 Jonathan Senchyne deposited Introduction: Infrastructures of African American Print in the group LLC African American Forum https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855436/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:24:11 -0400 “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.”

]]> 0 ce4586753cb362736337888d3e358b70 Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855398/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:16:06 -0400 A book’s a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on “Counting (in) Early Modern Drama,” I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]

]]> 0 416ad088540f97a93c91e978686167ee Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854432/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:13:23 -0400 According to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section “until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types.” 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4’s printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[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 21f7d508e367a9adafbb932ffc469994 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847389/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:15:26 -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 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 1303c0fe22af3c669c7e10c4eaba03bd Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847387/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:07:53 -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 f746fdba991b01f88844310ee9302132 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847384/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:54:55 -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 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 fd08663d6959cf5867ce013ceaabbb38 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847382/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:47:11 -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 aa900f880f77b32da8946ae233689f48 Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841285/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:35:48 -0400 This article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b178c677e3831c2220755f6c011e6f4 Amel Abbady deposited Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter in the group TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841280/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:24:53 -0400 McDonagh is arguably one of the most celebrated yet most controversial of contemporary Anglo-Irish playwrights. His plays have received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mostly for featuring graphic violence and obscene dialogues. Even though comedy is mostly seen as an inferior genre compared to tragedy, McDonagh, among many…[Read more]

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