MLA Commons | Mario Ortiz-Robles | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/mortizrobles/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Mario Ortiz-Robles is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:04:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 642f420f2adee2033c131c1c8a450562 Rachael Mulvihill edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Rachael Mulvihill in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/03/27/hastac-scholar-spotlight-rachael-mulvihill/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:02:48 -0400 Rachael V. Mulvihill is a PhD Candidate in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research examines utopian and dystopian representations of capitalism across […]

]]> 084a019d484abc583af12fbee2ccf294 Domna C. Stanton replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/#post-1040987 Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:36:47 -0400 Thank you so much for sending me this announcement about the topic your plan investigate with your panelists at the 2027 MLA. It is enormously  timely and interesting and I know  members will want to attend. Unfortunately  I am on leave as of the end of december 2026 and very eager to return to my book project which is way over due. So sosry ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa10eb0e78fbd8db520238fa9a08ae57 Grace Monk started the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:20:47 -0400 Sharing a CFP for the MLA 2027 Convention in Los Angeles. I hope it is of interest!

Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem

Roundtable examining jobs beyond faculty roles, highlighting how humanities training informs career trajectories. All career stages welcome.

Deadline March 16, 2026

Link:…[Read more]

]]> 0 c63c9eda1be0fcde14629bace7a04c55 Grace Dignazio edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Grace Dignazio in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/03/06/hastac-scholar-spotlight-grace-dignazio/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:38:00 -0500 Grace Dignazio is an interdisciplinary scholar and MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The New School in New York City. Her digital humanities research focuses on hybrid poetics, electronic literature, and […]

]]> 0e5561b59b281793a85e18d8136623f5 Elisa Castro edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Elisa Castro in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/02/28/hastac-scholar-spotlight-elisa-castro/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:55:46 -0500 Elisa is a post-graduate fellow with the Transborder Digital Humanities Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where her research focuses on migration, archival studies, and transborder digital […]

]]> 9e5e5fa8894556fd0fa017b195ce65d6 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum Teaching and Learning https://hastac.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:48:09 -0500 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cc50d7ca56ca8135d1bc69d0c8a755f Ame Min-Venditti edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Ame Min-Venditti in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/02/08/hastac-scholar-spotlight-ame-min-venditti/ Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:55:38 -0500 Ame Min-Venditti (they/them/elle) is a scholar motivated by water stories, sharing and learning from ancestral wisdom to create just and peaceful futures. Ame is a participatory action researcher engaging in […]

]]> 38842ee7f8a17c84de4adc97253101bc Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic Nominations and Self-nominations for Executive Committee in the forum LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-for-executive-committee/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:01:06 -0500 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The English Romantic LLC Forum Executive Committee seeks nominations and self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning in 2027. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate d…[Read more]

]]> 0 12c9e260caac24bfe267dde16acaf09c Zhihui Zou edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Zhihui Zou in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2025/12/04/hastac-scholar-spotlight-zhihui-zou/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:34:02 -0500 Zhihui Zou

HASTAC Scholar

History and Computer Science Student at Duke University

Zhihui Zou is a History and Computer Science student at Duke University. His historical research focuses on the oil […]

]]> 40cab8c6b22e73db78dc89fa2daa21b9 Marianne Goldin edited the doc Comics and Machines Conference 2026 – Uppsala/Stockholm – Call for Submissions (Abstracts: 1 Dec, 2025) https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1933594/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:11:28 -0500 0 1f567e51740c81952a8f1fa042544a09 Marianne Goldin created the doc Comics and Machines Conference 2026 - Uppsala/Stockholm - Call for Submissions (Abstracts: 1 Dec, 2025) https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1933593/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:10:15 -0500 0 9a0828f599954a53e60ae5243aa1fa2b Linda Badley uploaded the file: REMINDER: Abstracts due 9/15: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive to TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1926260/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:51:26 -0400 Abstracts (300-400 words) and a short bio are due September 15th, first drafts March 30, 2026, and final drafts October 31, 2026. When needed, deadlines can be extended. Please send abstracts to Linda Badley (lbadley@comcast.net), Jenna Coughlin (coughl3@stolaf.edu), and Gitte Mose (gitte.mose@iln.uio.no). For more information, see below:

]]> 0 b094bfbbe1c1842a331b2fdbe494942d Linda Badley started the topic CFP: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-future-library-critical-approaches-to-an-unseen-archive/ Sun, 11 May 2025 18:35:21 -0400 Jenna Coughlin, Gitte Mose, and I are excited to be co-editing a collection of essays about Future Library. Please consider submitting a proposal and share the attached call with colleagues who may be interested in contributing.

]]> 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 a3959e4e2a62c924d45493a4a0b4b306 Dennis Denisoff started the topic extended deadline for a Vic/Ealy-20th-C Forum panel in the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/victorian-and-early-20th-century-english/forum/topic/extended-deadline-for-a-vic-ealy-20th-c-forum-panel/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:59:44 -0400 Dear all,

The “Victorian and Early-20th-C English” forum has extended the deadline to submit an abstract for Panel 30480 “Solidarity and Institutional (In)action ” to March 28! They have also tweaked the description to emphasize their openness to a range of approaches to the topic; here is the new description:

<span…[Read more]

]]> 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 e0f5b92dc79b61535ec1f51a1ecfec05 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-6/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:40:01 -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 66e44e5c2900995ffe9f23d7db788106 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-5/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:32:13 -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 9b86b0335629a13c5d77407cda471e6b Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-3/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:48:46 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

Date: September 29 – October 2, 2025

Deadline for submissions: March 10, 2025

Location: Wuppertal, Germany

Subject Field: Narratology

Since Roland Barthes’ formula “international, transhistorical, transcultural, narration is there, like life i…[Read more]

]]> 0 acb76370ab72d18339c580c8e87aa82a Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-2/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:45:48 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

September 29 – October 2, 2025, Wuppertal, Germany

 

In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is…[Read more]

]]> 0 3caf98fe3af4b0f34ce3d7bb50dc294e Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:41:11 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 – October 2, 2025

In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is ded…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e31108f736f4fd5332721c27565549b Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025 to TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912534/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:18:06 -0500 In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is dedicated to this reflection on the concept of narrative in order to sharpen it by defining its boundaries: Which phenomena cannot be appropriately lab…[Read more]

]]> 0 26d12671e6dbd2e3ec96da6e4e03152e Ian Balfour started the topic Self-nomination for this committee in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/self-nomination-for-this-committee/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:43:01 -0500 <div>

The Philosophy and Literature Forum Executive Committee solicits self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, starting in 2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate delegates to the MLA Delegate Assembly e…[Read more]

]]> 0 25b2886fd0994dafaf4392af840f9184 Tatiana Bertolucci edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Nazua Idris in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2025/01/10/hastac-scholar-spotlight-nazua-idris/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:40:09 -0500 Nazua Idris

HASTAC Scholar (2023-25)

Doctoral Candidate in Literary Studies, Department of English, Washington State University

Nazua’s (She/her) research focuses on the intersections of the ni […]

]]> aef748796a789733b7c5b1b1b2927cba Kevis Goodman started the topic Call for Self-nominations to Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-to-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:57:46 -0500 The British Romanticism Forum Executive Committee seeks self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning in 2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate delegates to the MLA Delegate Assembly every three y…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e690ac0215a5f7b0830ba601e63d931 Amy Wong started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/victorian-and-early-20th-century-english/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:27:28 -0500 Hello LLC Victorian and Early 20thC English Members,

I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome!) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables…[Read more]

]]> 0 2100708011846a82b918a18f62d19b8a Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-4/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:01:22 -0500 The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.

We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[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 89f0cf87394f60e5dc22df5f48823346 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/translation-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-6/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:12:45 -0500 Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

]]> 0 c1a72ef9b1b380d234d1b17765120f4d Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-2/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:34:40 -0400 Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

]]> 0 7583e36ca6b4738ea6c1e1f207c81ec5 Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP ACLA Seminar Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-acla-seminar-literature-resource-extraction-and-settler-colonialism-2/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:39:48 -0400 We are seeking papers for our ACLA seminar on Literature, Resource Extraction and Settler Colonialism for the 2025 ACLA conference (held online).

We invite papers that consider literary responses to various forms of resource extraction within settler colonial states. Extraction was and remains central to settler colonial projects around the…[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 03158f0036249fcd0239fd5e6103c0d6 Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects-2/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:15:02 -0400 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

]]> 0 7dcc36a6d19353c8ad8c235bfd4a2b9d Corine Tachtiris deposited Translation Matters undergraduate syllabus in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896113/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:02:31 -0400 Syllabus for a 100-level undergraduate, general-education course in translation studies. Aimed at giving students translation literacy and introducing major practical and ethical problems of translation. Also includes practical approaches for hands-on learning. Syllabus includes list of readings, intralingual translation exercises, assignment…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d5cfaca5510df82b7af4f424eaadf8b Corine Tachtiris deposited Literary Translation Workshop - Multilingual, Grad-level in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896112/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Syllabus for a multilingual literary translation workshop at the graduate-student level. Includes translation exercises, assignment guidelines, and links to online readings. First taught in Spring 2021.

]]> 0 2280319751e87a3cb8b20972929638cc Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-3/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:35:27 -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 1845e3dd2e102c7614b9d37b574fdb67 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-6/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 08:02:01 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 0 2e682e928f202731b027a2d21f536987 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890324/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 74ac9e9b043df28e8632b000dd676f27 Brian Gregory Caraher deposited "Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!": Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890209/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:05:39 -0400 This paper describes the social and cultural climate of teaching the works of James Joyce — including his journalism and major works of fiction from “Dubliners” through “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake” — over the years 1993 to 2016 when the author was the Chair of English Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. The author draws upon his…[Read more]

]]> 0 49a34afa92822a05df006168e57ae42c Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889767/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:02:18 -0400 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 1027fdb9a09a284718242aa9978c8c26 Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889378/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:02:47 -0400 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 51dbb91a449b9d3478027c53ec16c2bb Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889190/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:31:49 -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 973069b14dbaf2b127bbe76d5c2f1564 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889189/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:31:08 -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 d83a9ad157caec422913592927951e4f Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889187/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:24:47 -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 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 5c4dc6f3e54c4b336c421dcdd6815292 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889185/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:21:11 -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 7e466df197665225411a86d11c68e436 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889182/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:14:46 -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 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 70acda6b306b4d4012d51e830c63701b Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889178/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:04:39 -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]

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