MLA Commons | Sarah J. Townsend | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/sarita17822/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Sarah J. Townsend is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 36a26344cc3920444f5be8a412b2cade Cynthia Chase replied to the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/#post-1040991 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:40:39 -0400 That is: How long is the paper I would deliver supposed to be? How many pages? (It used to be 15-20 minutes, always a strain to condense it to that.)

From: Cynthia Chase <noreply@hcommons.org>
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2026 6:30 AM
To: Cynthia Chase <cc97@cornell.edu>
Subject: [MLA Commons] re: DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING – CFP MLA 2027 (GS Drama and…[Read more]

]]> 1 cd1688f61d0a43626779f8fd963d4f78 Cynthia Chase replied to the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/#post-1040990 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:28:41 -0400 I’m thinking about it. I just arrived in Paris and am jet-lagged and have only 3 days to meet the Friday Mar. 20 deadline. I need to know exactly how long the paper should be, in terms of minutes and in terms of pages.

My paper would be about the power of resistance in differentiated productions (in the process of re-canonization) of, in p…[Read more]

]]> 0 04ee16898b00419ad5fd7a642dc2b1b7 Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:59:11 -0400 Dear Colleagues

Please do consider proposing a paper for the panel below. Reach out if you have ideas or questions you’d like to discuss. Thanks!

*****

Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century

How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for,…[Read more]

]]> 0 20d457672d9297e9a3e980500064c9e4 Jennifer Buckley started the topic 2026 Summer Shaw Symposium (July 24-26) CFP in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/2026-summer-shaw-symposium-july-24-26-cfp/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:30:36 -0500 <p class=”p1″>The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival warmly invite scholars and theatre artists to the annual summer Shaw Symposium, which will take place July 24-26 in Niagara- on-the-Lake, Ontario,Canada. Registration is free for ISS members.</p>
<p class=”p1″>Focused on Bernard Shaw’s writings, his legacies, and his c…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8a62bb169ed59bc2daedd99a6aa2979 Ju Yon Kim started the topic New committee member and delegate assembly representative nominations welcome! in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/new-committee-member-and-delegate-assembly-representative-nominations-welcome/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:57:54 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing 1) an additional member to the committee, starting January 2027, and 2) the forum’s delegate assembly representative. Please see below for more information.

#1: Annual new app…[Read more]

]]> 0 209e48696653b95d79fdc6f3795ee3cc Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aural-reorientations-or-sound-studies-as-listening-otherwise/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:35:39 -0500 Dear Sound Studies Communities,

The MS Sound Forum executive committee has just published the CFP for our guaranteed session at MLA 2027. We look forward to receiving many of your proposals! :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

]]> 0 a6c1b287328e2d262fae990514e094d8 Pedro Craveiro started the topic [MLA 2027] Call for Papers in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/mla-2027-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:11:30 -0500 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles:
1. Global Pretuguês: Language and Literature beyond Translational and Transnational Borders
We invite papers examining the creative expressions of Pretuguês in literatures across Africa, Brazil, a…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ea640888bd7c2b1aa8e43d6a820a513 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-6/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:55:05 -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 b0d0caa70655bbd0ee0202651d99f7de Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP - MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:16:37 -0500 Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century

How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for, and potentially provoking a reconceptualization of, emancipatory ways of being in the world? 250-word abstracts, brief bios.

Deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 0 eed160b9adf7eb4744a28cbd016c0b6c Cole Rizki started the topic Nominations for Candidates to Delegate Election in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-for-candidates-to-delegate-election/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:19:15 -0500 Hi everyone, I write to solicit nominations for candidates to the MLA delegate election. For eligibility: any candidates for election must have been included in the membership list of the association for the preceding year. No one can occupy more than one delegate seat at a time and delegates may only serve two consecutive terms on the Delegate…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ff7fca4cbefb3a9a31dfb533aea9b08 Scott Poulson-Bryant started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee-3/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:42:53 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum 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. If you’d like to be considered, please email me directly at scottpb@umich.edu with your int…[Read more]

]]> 0 21613f4d7281e7e57f243100ab1f58c4 Cole Rizki started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:07:48 -0500 Hi everyone, I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Friday January 23rd with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 f138030239ed8176067934af4463cdd5 Krista Brune created the doc Found Families: Migrant and Diasporic Voices in Portuguese in the group LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936699/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:22:21 -0500 0 331fdbb76ec0d66fd7caa3e7ff63e943 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cf-applications-for-the-position-of-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:10:00 -0500 The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies.

 

Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: global animation; cinemas of East, Southeast, South, or Western Asia and…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc23953ca41a5b0470b18ce556a91ae7 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-3/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:03:43 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5412b4a8231677c9500557177f42efb Sarah Balkin started the topic CFP: IFTR 2026 at the University of Melbourne in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-iftr-2026-at-the-university-of-melbourne/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:30:19 -0400 Submissions to the 2026 IFTR Conference “What Theatre Does” will open Saturday, November 1, 2025.

 

Over time and across cultures, performance has variously been said to beguile, celebrate, empower, entertain, exalt, instruct, oppress, provoke, purify, moralise, remember, subvert, transfigure, and welcome. 

 

But does it real…[Read more]

]]> 0 348afd253ba702abdce5b0cd9cb9a772 Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP: MLA Toronto 2026 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-mla-toronto-2026/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:53:00 -0400 So much drama! The view from abroad: a roundtable

How does the current dramatic state of the American union appear as performance, especially when projected to audiences beyond USA borders? How might the spectacle broadcast from the USA seem to shape socio-political performances elsewhere?

 

Deadline for submissions (extended): 7 September…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f857c771cd76cdfcf61330a36028b65 Aparna Dharwadker started the topic Publication of COSMO-MODERNISM AND THEATER IN INDIA (Columbia UP, 2025) in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/publication-of-cosmo-modernism-and-theater-in-india-columbia-up-2025/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:27:59 -0400 Dear colleagues: I am happy to announce the publication of my monograph, Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms, in the Modernist Latitudes Series at Columbia University Press. Paula Krebs confirmed that we can share such news with the Forum membership, so I look forward to similar posts from other…[Read more]

]]> 0 619d74ca55798701cebc4e1a0e9e084d Jennifer Stoever started the topic Recommendation for real-world assignment with Wiki Education! (not spam!) in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/recommendation-for-real-world-assignment-with-wiki-education-not-spam/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:45:32 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear all,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I wanted to share with everyone a high-impact teaching opportunity that has added a lot to my own classroom – the </span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Wikipedia assignment</span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>. </span>

I have had great success and enjoyment fr…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee658bc86a722c27351a576af5880a22 Jennifer Stoever started the topic CFP: Hate and NonHuman Listening, Due 14 July 2025 in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-hate-and-nonhuman-listening-due-14-july-2025/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:15:47 -0400 Call for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
A Guest Series for Sounding Out! guest edited by Kathryn Huether
Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT

Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: kathryn.huether@gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.

We invite subm…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c96bcc39400711eaf75e3b668f81da6 Sarah Balkin started the topic MLA Drama and Performance 2026 CFPs in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/mla-drama-and-performance-2026-cfps/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 04:33:21 -0400 <div class=”html-div xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd”>
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]]> 0 ad3a4f55f7fe48a0b41921495368c2b4 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2026 CFP – Clapping Back in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-clapping-back-2/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:34:05 -0500 Dear MS Sound Forum,

I write on behalf of the MS Sound Forum Executive Committee members to share the MLA2026 CFP “Clapping Back: Responses from Sound Studies to Censorship & Silencing.” Please consider applying & help spread the word :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

p.s. We will soon launch a Discord channel for the Sound Studies scholars, in hopes of…[Read more]

]]> 0 266d0d1713e443cc981345600cdbbe26 Krista Brune started the topic Call for Papers for 2026 MLA in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-2026-mla-2/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:38:00 -0500 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto:

Afro-Brazil as Method and Theory. Papers exploring Black theorists’ epistemological contributions to (re)thinking Brazil and its racial contradictions. Trends in Afro-Brazilian literary theory and i…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3704e0d64890279b554fff3dd635de9 Sarah Balkin started the topic Self-nominations for the Forum's Delegate Assembly representative in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/self-nominations-for-the-forums-delegate-assembly-representative/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:10:18 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has been suggested by the forum’s membership (unless there are too few suggestions). I write to encourage you to submit you…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc9583b1ca27376010641589da70461f Krista Brune started the topic CFP: Modernisms in Portuguese for Portuguese Cultural Studies (deadline 3/20/25) in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-modernisms-in-portuguese-for-portuguese-cultural-studies-deadline-3-20-25/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:24:59 -0500 Fernando Guimarães (2007) elucidates the intrinsic connection between avant-gardes and the overarching paradigm of Modernism. Within the rich tapestry of the Portuguese language, seminal movements such as Orpheu, Futurism, Brazilian Modernism, Surrealism, and Concretism emerge as pivotal in shaping the artistic and literary landscape during the…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb77c98ed2495bf6fe7d52b823c99daa Sarah Balkin started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee-2/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:21:17 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum 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 will meet during the 2025 convention to discuss and organize panels for the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 0 8764972e24cc7d05ecb3268cd2f3576d Krista Brune started the topic Nominations for LLC Luso-Brazilian Executive Committee in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/nominations-for-llc-luso-brazilian-executive-committee/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:53:55 -0500 Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to be a part of the executive committee of the LLC Luso-Brazilian Forum. The new EC member will serve from after the 2026 MLA through the 2031 conference. We are accepting nominations until Thursday, January 16. Thanks! Obrigada!

]]> 0 9d5e2d3e60d71708ad9ac3c103810696 Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the call for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907864/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:37:56 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce the call for Guaranteed Session Proposals for the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto. If accepted by our Forum, your panel is guaranteed a place at next year’s convention. We invite proposals that engage with a wide range of topics related to 20th- a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d62191f783a3cb76c17bd6d381ac13b Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907863/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:34:06 -0500 Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 15th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 0565a01f746dc2e6020adf5e71d8b024 John Melillo started the topic MS Sound Rountable at MLA 2025: Sound and Literature Now in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/ms-sound-rountable-at-mla-2025-sound-and-literature-now/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:20:39 -0500 Please join the MS Sound forum for a wide-ranging roundtable on “Sound and Literature Now.” Our roundtable will take place on Friday morning, January 10th, at 8:30 AM in Salon 16 of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside (first floor):

Description:

Panelists describe and discuss new academic and creative interventions that connect sound and literary…[Read more]

]]> 0 0294a5cc2013cfb5fed00f220e15be1a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-7/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:55:05 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 10e0822b8fa7b2282eed7eb1e6e586a6 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-4/ Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:55:06 -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 10697a60384a7ca03d821b6499d898fa Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902702/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:00:06 -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 4cdc505d6974a63bb5a0109cc3c5ab89 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902282/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:00:08 -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 2fefff99434499ac9c1c4efad33eb939 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900965/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:11:04 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 98412a2e171d72d17c3d1a23ff1aa1ce Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900963/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:05:42 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef54abba0ac1222513086091b1913190 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics," Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900894/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:17:57 -0400 Whom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 b155b6073243a0b1eec92a5a004a0671 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900888/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:10:09 -0400 How do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a23080c6edfb9a974825760533648f9 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China," in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900883/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:02:06 -0400 This chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin’s interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdac2f491cffb3deba520c196f504906 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900081/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:02:02 -0400 Focusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[Read more]

]]> 0 56d50c041cc9233b51c0e018c6f1eca9 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891694/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:02:05 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 a90cece668b78dc5d5b971bf24679c49 Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890469/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:00:20 -0400 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody’s muse.

Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f9442367a2527580c0220213c974ab3 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890327/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:08:57 -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 489a162a816d58c7ea25774145c951e8 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889180/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:39 -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 71e06ab33ff4fcaae20d2d377bac2c52 Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889175/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:07 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 14335be4a82325dcddb92c9d04e6c2f7 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886049/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:15:42 -0400 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

This year’s Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on the theme of global disability performances of Shakespeare. Curated by K…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1e6489c360bb09bd7e42a82ab2bd1f4 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886044/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:07:48 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 94cd4edd2fc699e0ce59ff16b9868e8d Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:24:30 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5c1a6246aefaa5928c096d339b5a69b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Keynote: Cinematic Representations of East Asian American Women, Tucker-Boatwright Festival and Symposium: Hollywood & the Asian American Imagination, Richmond, February 23, 2024 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878848/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:00:13 -0500 My keynote explores such questions as: What are the patterns in Hollywood representations of East Asian American women from romantic comedy to science fiction films? How do racism and sexism intersect in these patterns? Watch the video recording on YouTube (https://youtu.be/iHjKOYf-IXQ) to gain a better understanding how gender biases are…[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]

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