MLA Commons | Teresa Marie Purvis | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/stac75/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Teresa Marie Purvis is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:37:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d5bf060489bc102f6c04f2ba648e37f0 Philip Nel started the topic CFP, MLA 2027: Migration in Children’s & YA Graphic Narratives in the forum GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-migration-in-childrens-ya-graphic-narratives/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:30:17 -0500 A collaboration between the Comics and Graphic Narratives Form and the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum, this panel examines migration in comics and graphic narratives for children and young adults. Images of children are frequently mobilized to solicit empathy for the plight of migrants and to call attention to the inhumane treatment t…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0bdc94091ffb0c8bdfd05314223c3bd Karin E. Westman started the topic CFPs for MLA 2026 in the forum GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2026/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:26:10 -0500 With apologies for cross-posting, in case these CFPs are not already on
your radar —

1) Call for papers for MLA 2026 Guaranteed Session: “Stories of the Land
and the Land of the Stories: Highlighting Critical Indigenous Literacies”

This guaranteed panel is sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult
Literature Forum for the Modern L…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e31990f05811ce483eaeb46141c6469 Paige Gray uploaded the file: Panel Sessions for Children's and Young Adult Literature Forum, 1980–2025 to GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1909012/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 02:16:18 -0500 0 3d8b297645fd5eefc2b6895d233d551b Karin E. Westman started the topic Nominations for Exec Committee and for session proposals for MLA 2026 in the forum GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/nominations-for-exec-committee-and-for-session-proposals-for-mla-2026/ Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:04:20 -0500 <span class=”x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u” dir=”auto”><span class=”x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u”><span class=”html-span xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd186febcb006dd48e0430b59c3aa9f3 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum HEP Community Colleges https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/community-colleges/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-10/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:00:26 -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 198215b35f5d6d08f39e652f6d449005 Maria Truglio uploaded the file: ChLA Global South Speaker to GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1880903/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:09:55 -0400 Please see attachment for information on the second speaker in our Global South Speaker Series. We are happy to present Dr. Fatemah (Neda) Farnia in webinar format on April 17, 2024.

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

Title:  Helen Barolini’s Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women at Forty

This panel celebrates one of the seminal classics of Italian American literature on the advent of its fortieth anniversary. Helen Barolini’s 1985 anthology marked a fundam…[Read more]

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

Title: (In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies

MLA Description: Examines Morrison’s assertion that “Invisible ink is what lies under, between, outside the lines, hidden until the right reader discovers it,” then can only Italian Americans be the “right…[Read more]

]]> 0 80697aed9f33c02be1f8a74c60d1a180 Simon Abramowitsch started the topic CFP MLA 2024: Engaged Activism, Arts, Public Humanities, and Scholarship at CCs in the discussion HEP Community Colleges https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/community-colleges/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2024-engaged-activism-arts-public-humanities-and-scholarship-at-ccs/ Fri, 09 Feb 2024 17:39:32 -0500 Hello all! Please consider submitting a proposal or sharing the HEP Community College Forum’s MLA 2025 CFP with others!

Engaged Activism, Arts, Public Humanities, and Scholarship at Community Colleges

This panel explores the past, present, and future of critically engaged work at community colleges. We invite proposals for presentations that…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd6a6112a6190ce10d89ab76b456cfd3 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-6/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:38:32 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

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

]]> 0 8f262afd8dd2fd0e4eeac9dd17033d0b Karin E. Westman replied to the topic Updates from the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum Exec Committee in the discussion GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/updates-from-the-childrens-and-young-adult-literature-forum-exec-committee/?view=all#post-1036548 Sun, 31 Dec 2023 16:21:41 -0500 Correction to the meeting time! The Forum meeting will be Weds Jan 10, 2:00pm ET / 1:00pm CT.

Register for the Zoom link at https://tinyurl.com/mlachildlitexec2024

]]> 0 da26ad862ca8967a9aeba31d5ae02412 Karin E. Westman started the topic Updates from the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum Exec Committee in the discussion GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/updates-from-the-childrens-and-young-adult-literature-forum-exec-committee/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 04:12:04 -0500 Greetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!

Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 4-7).

At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2025 in New Orleans (Jan 9-12).

So we can ensure r…[Read more]

]]> 0 8771cba4aca5223da953e49779f4abe3 Karin Bagnall started the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-5/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:04:29 -0500 If you’re a Philadelphia local (or power user!), please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.

]]> 0 7beeceb1ef2bb3838e45fe388fcb0fd7 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-12/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:53:34 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 c73ed70447f1dae1327adf38912bb124 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-5/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:41:16 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

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

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

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

Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press

Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison

Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023

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

 

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

]]> 0 d27ad6732292f6f22435d487998fdf07 Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real" in the group GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856304/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:18:20 -0400 Zunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]

]]> 0 658c7b6215bd80effa8b8af04fb1ae10 Maria Truglio uploaded the file: CFP ChLA International Committee Focus Panel to GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854826/ Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:40:04 -0400 The International Committee’s Focus panel for the 2024 Children’s Literature Association Conference is “Memories”. Please see attachment for details.

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

]]> 0 fecc9ca554e24fba362032d0cfed7522 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847388/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:10:34 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b9ac4cca9adb060a84b0f7f630cfa9d Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847383/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:50:03 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 65e49f2b44706a042e7e19a069edf897 Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847379/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:38:10 -0400 Excerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9c519e8f299e85d32b5c1c938a08dc8 Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847377/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:28:38 -0400 This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]

]]> 0 f80e06d0d97a09b764e4c22fc1e47ae1 Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841276/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:15:38 -0400 The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

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

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

]]> 0 c16f8593ffe3f2174fdf63eca8892160 Elizabeth Hutton started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies CFP for MLA 2024: Literacies of self-care in the discussion RCWS History and Theory of Composition https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-composition/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-cfp-for-mla-2024-literacies-of-self-care-2/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:46:57 -0500 The RCWS Literacy Studies forum committee invites 250-word proposals addressing the MLA 2024 conference theme of celebration: joy and sorrow, with a focus on self-care literacies. What are the varied ways that instructors, artists, students, scholars, writers and readers enact and enable literacies of self-care? How do such literacies commemorate,…[Read more]

]]> 0 860038066c6c56cfe47a64407ce6557b Faye Hammill deposited The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830475/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:50:53 -0500 Transatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships’ libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8379fe04526b904dd5b822bf38ce2ff Karin E. Westman uploaded the file: MLA Sessions 2004-2023 to GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829211/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 22:33:59 -0500 An archive document listing MLA sessions in children’s / YA literature, 2004-2023.

]]> 0 b9212c7b84dc63fc63c080132f6a4ea7 Karin E. Westman uploaded the file: MLA Sessions 1980-2003 to GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829210/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 22:31:49 -0500 An archive document listing MLA sessions in children’s / YA literature, 1980-2003.

]]> 0 65a8861ce3733801ef8bf1d79194a8f4 Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Session, "Ecology of the Community College Classroom" in the discussion HEP Community Colleges https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/community-colleges/forum/topic/hep-community-colleges-session-ecology-of-the-community-college-classroom/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:44:13 -0500 Hello everyone!

I hope all of you have arrived safely in San Francisco and are having a great experience at the MLA this year.

This is a friendly reminder that our session, “Ecology of the Community College Classroom” is tomorrow, Saturday, 1/7/23, at 10:15 am, in Moscone West – 3018.

For more information about the panel, click here.

This…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf5848ba0f257a097924e70c23bab145 Karin E. Westman started the topic Updates from the MLA Children's and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee in the discussion GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/updates-from-the-mla-childrens-and-ya-lit-forum-executive-committee/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 13:57:12 -0500 Greetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!

Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 5-8). At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2024 in Philadelphia (Jan 4-7).

So we can ensure representation…[Read more]

]]> 0 f27d9e0fd0f2119e39fa1d1623c445f8 Joseph R. Millichap deposited James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823109/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:35:02 -0500 James Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Mor…[Read more]

]]> 0 00d257544804106c81231699dfb4d66d Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Panel at MLA 2023 in the discussion HEP Community Colleges https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/community-colleges/forum/topic/hep-community-colleges-executive-committee-panel-at-mla-2023/ Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:10:29 -0400 Hello everyone!

We look forward to seeing you this winter at MLA 2023, in San Francisco, CA!

Our panel, “The Ecology of the Community College Classroom,” will have presentations by Swan Kim, Nayah Boucaud, and Amanda Christie. We have an incredibly diverse group of topics under the panel’s theme, and the MLA has seen fit to place our panel under…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ef955812f523cdc56e38ef2fb915656 Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Proposals: Children's Literature Association Conference to GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1791874/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 17:00:01 -0400 The International Committee invites paper abstracts for its panel at the 2023 ChLA Conference. The theme is “islands”. Please see attached file.

]]> 0 a6c9bdea4d7e9cd4e6f3c2d61e2580ce Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Proposals: Children's Literature Association Conference to GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1791873/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:58:51 -0400 The International Committee invites paper abstracts for its panel at the 2023 ChLA Conference. The theme is “islands”. Please see attached file.

]]> 0 a0ac8eea82a7ad3730039f42b79e2af5 Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1789159/ Sat, 30 Jul 2022 03:48:49 -0400 This article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0660ae358322d6ee4346a8f6b1d9dab Amel Abbady deposited "'You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts' : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman" in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788676/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 03:48:53 -0400 In The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]

]]> 0 6210ae1e10cd817ec982acb171cc6c32 Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/call-for-essays-on-african-american-literature-and-culture-3/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:51:00 -0400 The non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.  

We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]

]]> 0 199e47ac98f42d25e87ebef10b7eeec3 Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic Call for Papers for MLA 2023: The Ecology of the Community College Classroom in the discussion HEP Community Colleges https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/community-colleges/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-mla-2023-the-ecology-of-the-community-college-classroom/ Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:06:29 -0500 We are currently looking for presenters for next year’s HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Forum. This is a guaranteed session set for the convention in San Francisco, on January 5-8, 2023. If you are interested, please see the detailed call description below and the shortened call posted on the MLA site below it.

CFP for MLA 2023: The…[Read more]

]]> 0 dae9a5931ba00017087aa15b684373fd Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769326/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 02:23:52 -0500 A sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.

]]> 0 93bb1f5577c460eb6f0a0278edb524f3 Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee service in the discussion HEP Community Colleges https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/community-colleges/forum/topic/hep-community-colleges-executive-committee-service/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:20:34 -0500 Hello Forum Members!

I recently posted information regarding the election for the community colleges representative in the MLA Delegate Assembly. The HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee is also interested in hearing from forum members who might be interested in serving on the Executive Committee. If you are interested in the committee,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec9e8698d5bc91694f893d9215b55fb5 Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic Delegate Assembly Election Nominations for Community College Representative in the discussion HEP Community Colleges https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/community-colleges/forum/topic/delegate-assembly-election-nominations-for-community-college-representative/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:35:17 -0500 Hello Forum Members!

My name is Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta, and I am the current Chair of the HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee. I hope all of you are well.

We are currently asking for nominees for the MLA Delegate Assembly election that will take place later this year. Folks who would like to represent the HEP Community Colleges forum in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b80a60795b6bfd77721a868c65a0b8c Shawn Casey started the topic New 2022 Virtual Format: 600AV - Conflict and Contradiction... in the discussion HEP Community Colleges https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/community-colleges/forum/topic/new-2022-virtual-format-600av-conflict-and-contradiction/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:14:14 -0500 Hi Everyone,

The HEP Community College Panel, 600AV – Conflict and Contradiction: Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Language Justice, and Institutional Priorities has been moved online. Panel time is still Saturday, January 8, 5:15 – 6:30 PM.

To access the panel, follow these instructions from the MLA Convention Online Session FAQ page. We hope to see you…[Read more]

]]> 0 e50bf75d4e02b2440cf94dc363134c73 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion RCWS History and Theory of Composition https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-composition/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2022-forum-delegate-election-45/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:10:34 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b0cd8421792f92cfef9abb81c5dd485 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755574/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 03:50:44 -0400 Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]

]]> 0 266c2c10e034db335f945417ec0110db Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW - PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-american-writers-in-paris-then-and-now-proposals-by-august-31-2021-3/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:26:39 -0400 I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.

Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fefae5f2456819873c9458c62b8a1f5 Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion HEP Community Colleges https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/community-colleges/forum/topic/invitation-to-join-a-new-commons-group-on-teaching-remotely-3/#post-1026682 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:00:35 -0500 I’m sorry for the trouble, Anne! It looks like despite the error you were joined to the group (or maybe you tried again since posting). Thanks for joining!

]]> 0 1fb6bc88a947dfad356ed1a24225e77f ANNE MCGRAIL replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion HEP Community Colleges via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/community-colleges/forum/topic/invitation-to-join-a-new-commons-group-on-teaching-remotely-3/#post-1026681 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 20:17:20 -0500 Hi Anne, I keep getting a “Bad Gateway” message when I click “join group”.
Is that on my end.
Thanks so much,
Anne

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