MLA Commons | Nicole Eitzen Delgado | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/ned278/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Nicole Eitzen Delgado is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:22:50 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1ff0ae544a33c6d7030e23974b575637 Maria Windell created the doc Panel description for Latinx Fracasos: Past, Present, and Future in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1921433/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:55:51 -0400 0 f4b4f7bac86900e718d99e9a11f3ce9a Minni Sawhney deposited Buddhism in the Oeuvre of Severo Sarduy in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879221/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:03:19 -0400 The exiled Cuban French novelist, essayist, poet Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) converted to Mahayana Buddhism in 1971 after his journeys to Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. Untramelled by the rituals of his new faith, he remained unabashed in his critique of socio – political Buddhism (as in the novel Maitreya). Instead, Buddhism for him meant a creativity t…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae871c037a068653c970f170549b1dda Elena Machado Sáez started the topic "What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy" in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-the-american-dirt-controversy/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:19:47 -0500 An op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!

“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a94fef82b8efa1aaae343e862594d4e Minni Sawhney deposited Violencia e identidades: Elmer Mendoza y la creación de una saga detectivesca in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826717/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:50:04 -0500 The portrayal of narcotrafficking in the novels of Elmer Mendoza.

]]> 0 ea3c1e7fb24a0fdafc979d1cdc844bf4 Minni Sawhney deposited Surmounting Borders, The Corridos of Jenni Rivera in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1783821/ Sat, 11 Jun 2022 02:26:24 -0400 Ranchera music on the U.S. Mexican Border

]]> 0 0be1b38f77913d0ad99bd83f7085463b Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Call for Applications: Bucknell English MA Program in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/call-for-applications-bucknell-english-ma-program/ Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:14:14 -0500 Do you have any undergraduates who are interested in pursuing graduate studies but perhaps not ready to enter a PhD program yet?

 

I’m hoping that you’ll consider advising them to apply to Bucknell’s MA in English program. Admission comes with two years of tuition remission and an approximately $12,000 stipend.

 

The MA program features one-on-…[Read more]

]]> 0 2fefbf94fc0840357abbf2bcd7ec779c Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Nominations Welcome for Executive Committee of “LLC Latina and Latino” Forum in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/nominations-welcome-for-executive-committee-of-llc-latina-and-latino-forum/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 14:42:56 -0500 The MLA has just announced a new process for appointments to the executive committee which now allows us to “solicit suggestions directly from the forums’ members in the forums’ MLA Commons groups.”

The executive committee appoints one new member to the executive committee every year. We welcome recommendations of colleagues as well as sel…[Read more]

]]> 0 7708c5e3bb309a751d1a1003e9bf52c8 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/us-latinx-studies-2022-mla-convention-5/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:15:59 -0500 The Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!

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Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel

In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet

Presider: Alberto Varón

Recent events have demonstrated the…[Read more]

]]> 0 380547ef4b7b0396ef0b87299da5db55 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/us-latinx-studies-2022-mla-convention/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:56:34 -0500 The Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!

 

Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

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]]> 0 22e1a25870fbfc7d910bcf8371571bd8 Rielle Navitski started the topic Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/latinx-media-an-open-access-textbook/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:43:02 -0500 I’m excited to announce that a beta version of Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook is now available online: https://open.online.uga.edu/latinxmedia/

Edited by Leslie Marsh and myself (Rielle Navitski) with the support of the Affordable Learning Georgia initiative, the freely available textbook addresses a range of media forms (film, te…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b9c6e1924ad25b550151a05b2cf2958 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Job Searcjh for Late Associate & Full Professor at Southern Methodist University in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/job-searcjh-for-late-associate-full-professor-at-southern-methodist-university/ Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:48:56 -0400 Position No. 00005756.  The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]

]]> 0 72ed982193eecbfededefd86c7d965ec Renee Hudson started the topic CFP for Metheun Drama Handbook on Theatre and Social Action in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/cfp-for-metheun-drama-handbook-on-theatre-and-social-action/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 18:18:54 -0400 Theatre and Social Action Call for Papers for the Methuen Drama Handbooks series Theaters have closed everywhere. Theaters are reopening. And at the same time, the global pandemic and recent social movements have urgently been measured, mediated, and aided by the arts and theater makers to reshape the way we must now represent, facilitate, and p…[Read more]

]]> 0 f209b58481baa30acefcbbcd02f661df Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)  in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/sign-petition-to-save-centro-center-for-puerto-rican-studies/ Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:55:28 -0500 This is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.

Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8

Thanks,

Elena Machado Sáez

Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum

]]> 0 21eeda16aa8706fc9a4742da00d10380 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: "Democracy and the US Latinx Novel" in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/mla-2022-cfp-democracy-and-the-us-latinx-novel/ Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:20:41 -0500 “Democracy and the US Latinx Novel” 
Call for Papers
LLC Latina and Latino Forum

Recent events have demonstrated the simultaneous vulnerability and resiliency of democratic projects, and of our cultural frameworks for imagining the norms and processes of those institutions.

This collaborative panel seeks presentations that address democracy…[Read more]

]]> 0 19e64f00e09130bf463c575cc512fa54 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/mla-2021-afro-latinx-stories-and-latinx-affects-panels-jan-7/ Sat, 19 Dec 2020 02:47:24 -0500 Dear MLA members,

Please consider attending one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!

 

“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)

  • Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
  • Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los An…

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]]> 0 363ad54ddf0cc196934144770422f1e1 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/oct-28-decolonizing-diasporas-afro-atlantic-lit-a-panel-discussion/ Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:40:25 -0400 Join us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.

Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e268df09b6253941e1cf0d32dc29faaf Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Women & Language Journal CFP in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/women-language-journal-cfp/ Fri, 01 May 2020 14:51:06 -0400 Call for Papers | Women & Language

Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2781178568cad7541062dc805c174ff Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Just published: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/just-published-lin-manuel-miranda-and-the-politics-of-us-latinx-twitter/ Sat, 04 Apr 2020 01:03:44 -0400 If you’re interested, check out the essay I recently published in issue #4 of archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, edited by Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil: http://archipelagosjournal.org/issue04/machado-gratitude.html

 

In “Debt of Gratitude: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter,” I engage in an analysis of…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4285ea6dc695fccdf67390b6192cbb9 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: Afro-Latinx Stories in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/mla-2021-cfp-afro-latinx-stories/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 01:09:59 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting proposals for this panel on “Afro-Latinx Stories” for the 2021 Modern Language Association convention. See more info below. Thanks!

Cheers,

Elena

MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories

  • Papers analyzing Afro-Latinx cultural and literary production.
  • Send 150-word abstract and CV to Elena M…

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]]> 0 3802d7a3ba6b2fb4ee9fa631bebd4df8 Minni Sawhney deposited Ambivalent Fundamentalists and Reluctant Detectives: Living on the Edge in the Global South in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668644/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:32:27 -0400 This article discusses the confluence of the war on drugs and the war on terror with an analysis of the novels of Elmer Mendoza, (Balas de plata, Prueba de ácido, Nombre de perro, Besar al detective) Don Winslow (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel) and Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist)

]]> 0 820d5a3bf8ce27e59d76747c99de2d34 Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663744/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:33:12 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 a275b9a3dc711d68eebab0548aaf0c01 Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663743/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:33:10 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 7fe4947a79c144a23a6d6391557a30c7 Minni Sawhney deposited Excentric Affects in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642970/ Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:45:33 -0400 In this article I try to show how the Mexican Revolution was not only national in nature but also helped ordinary individuals break down barriers in their personal lives. The protagonist of Nadie me verá llorar was considered a madwoman in Porfirian society and with the Revolution she comes into her own and finds a space in post revolutionary Mexico D.F.

]]> 0 d366210133659d7dbb70d8e703b501ff Minni Sawhney deposited Jenni Rivera y sus corridos: la historia de un desafío in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642962/ Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:35:27 -0400 An analysis of the life and corridos of Jenni Rivera the sole woman narco corridista

]]> 0 41f7b2565493b061c707debcc6057cda Minni Sawhney deposited Stories on the Margins of History : Spanish Immigrants and the Mexican Revolution in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642906/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:37:31 -0400 The lives of Spanish immigrants during the Mexican Revolution, their participation therein.

]]> 0 e9510e0998c589aa591c1ae15ff69f7a Minni Sawhney deposited Mexican U.S. Border Literature and the Narco Novel in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642903/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:25:34 -0400 Analysis of Border literature, Narco novels in the U.S. and Mexico

]]> 0 c1ad99f5833a270654c3e12a2f5ae1fd Minni Sawhney deposited La ciudad como protagonista: México D.F. y la literatura mexicana in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642872/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 04:00:36 -0400 El retrato de la Ciudad de México en la literatura.

]]> 0 67927e678ba43e60850802816a9badf1 Minni Sawhney deposited Un nuevo espacio en la literatura mexicana: La obra fronteriza de luís Humberto Crosthwaite y Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642869/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:48:43 -0400 La literatura de la frontera norte

]]> 0 dfa0fe6c4976165115a03331291e9864 Lena Burgos-Lafuente replied to the topic Latinx Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/latinx-forum-sessions-at-mla-2019/#post-1019342 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 05:37:56 -0500 SATURDAY, 5 JANUARY 8:30 AM-9:45 AM

Forum: LLC Puerto Rican409. Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective

SATURDAY, 5 JANUARY 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, MISSISSIPPI (SHERATON GRAND)1. The Aesthetics of Toxicity: Vieques, Alejandra Bronfman (U at Albany, State U of New York)2. Better Nasty than Fishy: Media Responses to Hurricane Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6943b90d28b138b3dbff33cf53a08e8 John Alba Cutler started the topic Latinx Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/latinx-forum-sessions-at-mla-2019/ Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:55:07 -0500 Hi, everyone,

Please mark your calendars for the following Latinx Forum sessions at MLA in January:

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]]> 0 e0f5ed31399b262568c07717eadd1e0b Marissa K. López deposited The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography: The Case of Hubert H. Bancroft and Mariano G. Vallejo in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610070/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 04:17:42 -0400 This article compares the historiographic methods of two 19th century, California historians.. Mariano Vallejo, former Mexican military commander of Alta California, wrote his Recuerdos at the request of San Francisco-based, Anglo-American historian Hubert H. Bancroft. In his own memoir, Literary Industries (1915), Bancroft describes his…[Read more]

]]> 0 8fee172c3de66ebf96d2fe9805936691 Remy Attig deposited Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish: Common Considerations for the English Translator of Two Peripheral Lects in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597306/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 04:02:36 -0500 In the natural order of language development orality precedes literary production, but elements of the oral tradition do often appear in literature. In this presentation I will look at orality in some Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish texts to see how the study of these two lects together may better inform the translator. Though both are lects of…[Read more]

]]> 0 70f777244c169ffc2d096e83158ffbf5 Maia Gil'Adi posted an update in the group LLC Latina and Latino: Happy new year everyone!! For those attending the MLA […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594280/ Tue, 02 Jan 2018 20:07:28 -0500 Happy new year everyone!!

For those attending the MLA 2018, clear some space for the Latinx Forum panels!

– “Latina/o New York” (Friday 01/05, 12:00 – 1:15 pm)

– “Latina/o New York II” (Saturday 01/06, 3:30 – 4:45 pm)

– “The X Factor” (co-sponsored with LLC Chicana Chicano) (Sunday 01/07 8:30 – 9:45 am)

Stay warm and hope to see you there!

]]> 0 92730c79685643edcd73fa209037f7eb Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal - Latinx Literature & Politics Issue - Extended Deadline: Dec 15 in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/chiricu-journal-latinx-literature-politics-issue-extended-deadline-dec-15/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:57:23 -0500 Chiricú Journal announces a deadline extension for submissions for our upcoming issue on Latinx literature and politics. <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Submissions by December 15 to chiricu.indiana.edu</span> For questions, contact chiricu@indiana.edu
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Chiricú Journal</span><span class=”s2″> is a new, cut…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2c1c3bca41dd419f211bb3e2fc266e2 Amanda M. Smith posted an update in the group LLC Latina and Latino: Reminder that the deadline for submissions to the Latinx […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588507/ Tue, 14 Nov 2017 23:34:35 -0500 Reminder that the deadline for submissions to the Latinx literature edition of Chiricú Journal is a little over two weeks away. Please submit your critical articles, artwork, photography, creative writing, and interviews to chiricu.indiana.edu by December 1. If interested in reviewing a book, contact chiricu@indiana.edu. More information at our…[Read more]

]]> 0 0573e41e8ce798ffb9d2099c25d236c1 Maia Gil'Adi started the topic MLA Forum Elections in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/mla-forum-elections/ Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:31:22 -0400 Good afternoon everyone,

This is just a quick reminder to please vote in the MLA elections! The LLC Latina and Latino forum is electing a new member of the executive committee and we want your input. Voting opened October 26 and closes December 10. You should have received an email with instructions from MLA last week.

Stay tuned for MLA 2018…[Read more]

]]> 0 a390afb24a2e36fb72b34cd1771f2661 Anne Garland Mahler posted an update in the group LLC Latina and Latino: CALL FOR PAPERS: Global South Studies: A Collective […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582264/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:58:27 -0400 CALL FOR PAPERS: Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South

We are soliciting contributions to Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu

This digital platform aims to advance the field of Global South Studies by providing a conceptual mapping of key…[Read more]

]]> 0 50ffb33e62bf10cd629378aec3c2b4fc Josef Raab started the topic CFP: Reinventing the Social in the Americas: Movements, Resistance, Reconciliati in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/cfp-reinventing-the-social-in-the-americas-movements-resistance-reconciliati/ Fri, 18 Aug 2017 07:11:30 -0400 CFP

Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies:

Reinventing the Social: Movements and Narratives of Resistance, Dissension, and Reconciliation in the Americas. University of Coimbra, Portugal, 22-24 March 2018. Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2017. http://www.interamericanstudies.net/?p=6481

]]> 0 19749b8706daf167ac84eae829ab1ab0 Maia Gil'Adi started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Latina/o New York in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/latinao-new-york/ Sat, 25 Feb 2017 20:28:06 -0500 Papers examining the history and/or contemporary state of Latina/o literature and cultural production in New York. 200-300 word abstract, 1-page cv by March 10, 2017 to John Alba Cutler (john-cutler@northwestern.edu).

]]> 0 3d958e71d1c6c3dcc01a943d17a80483 Maia Gil'Adi started the topic Extended Deadline. CFP (MLA 2018): The "X" Factor in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2018-the-x-factor/ Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:32:45 -0500 CFP for MLA 2018; co-sponsored by LLC Latina and Latino and LLC Chicana and Chicano

Papers exploring the historical, gendered, and linguistic aspects of the shift from Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Chican@/Latin@ to Chicanx/Latinx. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv by March 20, 2017; Richard T. Rodriguez…[Read more]

]]> 0 9658ac14730950ad824cd37ed7598623 Raúl Coronado posted an update in the group LLC Latina and Latino: Dear Members of the MLA Latina and Latino Languages, […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555767/ Sat, 17 Dec 2016 23:00:07 -0500 Dear Members of the MLA Latina and Latino Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Forum:

Below is the list of our forum’s activities to be held at the MLA convention in Philadelphia January 5-8, 2017. Please note that this year we are inaugurating a new event. We are co-sponsoring a cash bar reception with the following forums: Chicana and C…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6b2faa29e2bc7b404d55819fcb4be65 Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Topic Hispanic Journal "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano\" in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/special-topic-hispanic-journal-rebeldes-historicos-en-el-imaginario-mexicano/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:02:50 -0400 SPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS FROM HISPANIC JOURNAL

“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”

Este número especial de Hispanic Journal se propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los…[Read more]

]]> 0 b327ff133f1ca124f21e26c32d1bb5e5 Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group LLC Latina and Latino: The editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/550621/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:17:08 -0400 The editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4fe65c29b427757f46a04890d6aba6c Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Rust Belt Literature in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/rust-belt-literature/ Thu, 01 Sep 2016 23:05:27 -0400 Rust Belt Literature
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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.

This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those who have been affected by the…[Read more]

]]> 0 8da5bf413f4120eef48b18f052a56237 Maia Gil'Adi started the topic CFP - Speculative Latin@: Histories of the Future in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/cfp-speculative-latin-histories-of-the-future/ Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:30:53 -0500 Call for Papers, non-guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum.

Speculative Latin@: Histories of the Future

Papers engaging speculative fiction by Latin@ authors: alternative archives; utopias/dystopias; futurity; disruption of nationhood, racial identity; historical violence; decolonial critiques. 300 word abstracts, CV, March…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d3d7c2fb18a5661363f7774e0f30020 Raúl Coronado started the topic CFP: Latina/o Materialisms in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/cfp-latinao-materialisms/ Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:30:24 -0500 Please consider submitting an abstract for a panel on Latina/o Materialisms.

queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of writing.

Send CV and 300 word abstract by 15 March 2016; Raúl Coronado (…[Read more]

]]> 0 61e58bd81f9bb445599f38d7a75c43be Josef Raab started the topic New Deadline: Inter-American Studies Conference "Human Rights in the Americas" in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/new-deadline-inter-american-studies-conference-human-rights-in-the-americas/ Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:04:00 -0500 The International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will hold its Fourth Biennial Conference at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is on “Human Rights in the Americas.” Keynote addresses will be given by Professor Lisa Hajjar (UCSB), Professor David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford…[Read more]

]]> 0 abcdc4b2f557f8aceb7a9f25804666b0 Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal Call for Submissions: Latina/o(s) and the Politics of Language in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/chiricu-journal-call-for-submissions-latinaos-and-the-politics-of-language/ Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:17:36 -0500 Deadline July 1, 2016

Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures invites submissions for our Spring 2017 issue, “The Politics of Language.” This issue will explore language as an instrument of power, identity, and politics from multiple disciplinary perspectives. We welcome submissions that, collectively, convey the linguistic dive…[Read more]

]]> 0 94d90425413e95d1b51b4eeb62dfbed1 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic CFP: (MLA 2017) US Latino/a Performance in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-us-latinoa-performance-3/ Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:11:12 -0500 MLA 2017 Proposed Special Session

 

“Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”

 

This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Bro…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ec8e7d8dcca0a014e4a4913159dc4f3 Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal Book & Film Reviews in the discussion Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/chiricu-journal-book-film-reviews/ Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:38:00 -0500 Chiricú Journal is seeking reviewers for our first issue on Latina/o film. We have several books and films available for review. Please see our review page  (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/chiricu/pages/view/reviews) for more information and contact our issue editor, Jonathan Risner (jtrisner@indiana.edu) to request a review copy.

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