Knowledge Commons | Amber Brian | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/abrian/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Amber Brian is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 651b9ff81676ea0c0061aff8d40e11f2 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria replied to the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Embodied Difference and the Making of Ability in Early Modern Span in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-embodied-difference-and-the-making-of-ability-in-early-modern-span/#post-1040931 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:58:51 -0500 CORRECTION:  Submit a 250-word abstract by March 18, 2026.

]]> 2dd2f4e6b64691c7d49118a02b7be672 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Empowering Others in Early Modern Spanish Poetry and/or Prose in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-empowering-others-in-early-modern-spanish-poetry-and-or-prose/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:55:28 -0500 This panel invites paper proposals that explore the multiple representations of the empowerment of the “Other” in early modern Spanish poetry and prose of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We are particularly interested in literary articulations that represent or problematize agency, resistance, mediation, and the visiualization of rac…[Read more]

]]> bfdf75869ef24b6c263fd5f967cd44a6 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Embodied Difference and the Making of Ability in Early Modern Span in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-embodied-difference-and-the-making-of-ability-in-early-modern-span/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:50:09 -0500 Over the past two decades, disability studies has transformed medieval and early modern scholarship and continues to expand across literary, historical, and comparative fields. The scale and global circulation of Iberian writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries make early modern Spanish prose and poetry a uniquely capacious tradition for…[Read more]

]]> 979a29570c073e22868d98f366c77a00 Paula Park started the topic CFP - MLA 2027- Global Hispanophone Forum in the forum CLCS Global Hispanophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-hispanophone/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-global-hispanophone-forum/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:45:28 -0500 Aesthetics of Anti-Authoritarianism in the Global Hispanophone

In memory of the author Francisco Zamora Loboch, who passed away in 2025, the MLA Global Hispanophone committee invites proposals exploring literary and other cultural productions that respond to authoritarianism across the diverse Spanish-speaking world, with a specific focus on the…[Read more]

]]> 6fb44110c847f56105435123316c33c3 Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic CFP MLA 2027 Roundtable in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-roundtable/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:58:27 -0500 MLA 2027 CFP Sponsored by the LLC Colonial Latin America Forum (guaranteed session)
 Unbounding the Colonial Latin American Archive
Round table examining historical and critical approaches to the colonial archive and their political implications. Dissident narratives, emerging subjectivities, new geographies, displacements, regimes of visibility,…[Read more]

]]> 95d8e9de66817bc686ac5685c72f20d0 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-2/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:49:34 -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]

]]> 6e62d447801dc538b9b9ac4f4eae8397 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic Invitation for self-nominations to the Forum Executive Committee in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/invitation-for-self-nominations-to-the-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:34:16 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee of CLCS Renaissance / Early modern invites self-nominations for TWO positions on the committee: one replacement position for a 3-year term, and one new member for a five-year term. Our primary responsibility is to organize panels and roundtables for the MLA convention; we have two guaranteed panels per…[Read more]

]]> ed3bf905fb590373ab996b08082a1777 Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations to serve in the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-to-serve-in-the-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:02:29 -0500 The Executive Committee of the LLC Colonial Latin American Literature invites Forum Members to send nominations or self-nominations to the Forum's executive committee.  Send nominations by March 1, 2026 to Karen Stolley (kstolle@emory.edu) or Luis Fernando Restrepo (lrestr@uark.edu) or the MLA directly, as indicated below.  The five year term is a…[Read more]

]]> d7c030560cec9ef12b283da07bfb0f8c Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic Nominations for LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/nominations-for-llc-16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:36:35 -0500 The MLA Forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose (D068) is seeking nominations and self-nominations to serve on the Forum’s Executive Committee.  Nominations can be submitted directly through the MLA here  or by contacting me directly at donalgs@uw.edu.  Additional information about MLA Forums may be found here.

We req…[Read more]

]]> 9a69482e422108e49b614808749176b3 Giovanna Montenegro started the topic Join us for Happy Hour/ Cash Bar in Toronto- Friday January 9 5pm in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/join-us-for-happy-hour-cash-bar-in-toronto-friday-january-9-5pm/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:36:51 -0500 Coming to MLA#26 in person? Please join LLC Colonial Latin American Literature along with CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern and LLC Medieval Iberian for a Happy Hour in Toronto.</div>

Please join us at 3 Brasseurs at  5pm on Friday January 9 275 Yongue St.
This is a cash bar, and the bar can do individual checks.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/<wbr /&…[Read more]

]]> ae0f6db7ddb684ad47e0728031f6a372 Luis Restrepo started the topic MLA 2026 Toronto Colonial Latin American Literature Sessions-- join us! in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/mla-2026-toronto-colonial-latin-american-literature-sessions-join-us/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:32:57 -0500 2026 MLA LLC Colonial Latin American Forum Sessions

 

Thursday, 8 January 2026

 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

#93 - Rethinking Connections between Latin American Colonial and Dutch Atlantic Worlds

Presider, Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton U, State U of New York

 

Living with Water: Aquatic Engagements in Colonized Neerlandophone Deltas

Julée Al-…[Read more]

]]> 31c52485a068aab6d0f157ac200ed295 Anna Kathryn Kendrick started the topic CFP: Whose East, Which West? (Madrid, June 25-27, 2026) in the forum CLCS Global Hispanophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-hispanophone/forum/topic/cfp-whose-east-which-west-madrid-june-25-27-2026/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:44:39 -0500 <b>CFP: Whose East, Which West?</b>

<b>Networks, Archives, and Diasporas in China and the Ibero-American World</b>

June 25-27, 2026  ·  NYU Madrid

In the twenty-first century, cultural relations between China and the Ibero-American world have grown complex and multilayered. A translation boom is bringing Hispanic and Lusophone authors to Si…[Read more]

]]> d72a7707864b8534109cf710a007f423 Paula Park started the topic Mark your calendar! - MLA 2026 sessions (co)sponsored by the forum in the forum CLCS Global Hispanophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-hispanophone/forum/topic/mark-your-calendar-mla-2026-sessions-cosponsored-by-the-forum/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:01:59 -0500 Session 277 – “Food Studies Pedagogies and the Global Hispanophone” (co-organized by Rebecca Ingram and Eugenia Afinoguénova, sponsored by the Global Hispanophone Forum), on Friday, 9 January 2026, 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM, MTCC - 803B

MLA Program link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/meetingapp.cgi/Session/22911 

Description: Approaches to food st…[Read more]

]]> 046c3d1dc057395af9541702c25c40b4 Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim-3/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:57:44 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> ea4812be429fe3cb6ca501e8c73285c9 Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:46:31 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> 5512468dfe66b60c9745c1b9e771aca9 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic CFP MLA 2026: Early Modern Women’s Violence in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2026-early-modern-womens-violence/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:56:59 -0500 <p style="font-weight: 400;">The Renaissance and Early Modern Forum executive committee invites proposals for a guaranteed *virtual* panel at MLA 2026 titled “Early Modern Women’s Violence.” This panel will explore representations of women’s violence across early modern literature and culture. How do early modern texts gender violence? How do they…[Read more]

]]> f380e6bd4e1d426544acb32cbf6150ec Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026 CORRECTION: extended proposal submission deadline of MARCH 15 in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-correction-extended-proposal-submission-deadline-of-march-15/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 02:17:18 -0500 CORRECTION:  The deadline for submission of proposals for the three panels hosted by LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose at the 2026 MLA Convention has been moved back to MARCH 15, 2025.

CFP: Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period
CFP: A (Not So) Holy Office. Censorship, Academic Freedom and Research
CFP : Family…[Read more]

]]> a442c1d651ce1ab1849e48b6fcb881b9 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP A (Not So) Holy Office. Censorship, Academic Freedom and Research in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-a-not-so-holy-office-censorship-academic-freedom-and-research-2/ Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:20:32 -0500 Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to March 10

This panel seeks contributions that discuss the challenges that research and teaching Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries have to face today in our workplaces. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano…[Read more]

]]> f4271312f261d3d6491a70b9c4348004 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-nature-writing-in-the-early-modern-period-3/ Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:15:04 -0500 Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to MARCH 10

This panel seeks proposals that study the relationships between humans and the environment in Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald…[Read more]

]]> a3d228bd3f20e041fb5e6d584bf20782 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP Family Ties and Intimacies in the Early Modern Hispanic World in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-family-ties-and-intimacies-in-the-early-modern-hispanic-world-2/ Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:09:45 -0500 Please note that the deadline has been extended to  MARCH 10

This panel invites submissions that explore the multifaceted concept of family present in Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald Gilbert-Santamaria…[Read more]

]]> e25de4624443bedcc56e3d2b42f5d385 Carmela Mattza replied to the topic MLA 2026: CFP Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-nature-writing-in-the-early-modern-period/#post-1039472 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:15:38 -0500 [like] Carmela V Mattza reacted to your message:

]]> 5c68b1cf0497b42d554f461542581b2e Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-nature-writing-in-the-early-modern-period-2/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:14:22 -0500 This panel seeks proposals that study the relationships between humans and the environment in Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald Gilbert-Santamaria (donalgs@uw.edu).

Narrative. Is it possible to link current…[Read more]

]]> 210d9e056b9b872b55a66782f22ee442 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP Family Ties and Intimacies in the Early Modern Hispanic World in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-family-ties-and-intimacies-in-the-early-modern-hispanic-world/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:09:32 -0500 This panel invites submissions that explore the multifaceted concept of family present in Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald Gilbert-Santamaria (donalgs@uw.edu).

Narrative. This panel invites submissions that…[Read more]

]]> 675364869983e790328442a754c3e353 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP A (Not So) Holy Office. Censorship, Academic Freedom and Research in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-a-not-so-holy-office-censorship-academic-freedom-and-research/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:06:42 -0500 This panel seeks contributions that discuss the challenges that research and teaching Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries have to face today in our workplaces. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald Gilbert-Santamaria (donalgs@uw.edu).

Narrative. It is…[Read more]

]]> 3d8a9862c63415f52e13789018a075cf Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-nature-writing-in-the-early-modern-period/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:28:22 -0500 This panel seeks proposals that study the relationships between humans and the environment in Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald Gilbert-Santamaria (donalgs@uw.edu).
Narrative. Is it possible to link current…[Read more]

]]> 995e7775c026c9279a403d0a6edb24b7 Kyle Pivetti started the topic Self-Nominations for Renaissance and Early Modern Forum Executive Committee in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/self-nominations-for-renaissance-and-early-modern-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:54:49 -0500 We invite self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the CLCS Renaissance/Early Modern forum. We appoint one new member annually for a five-year term. Our primary responsibility is to organize panels and roundtables for the MLA convention; we have two guaranteed panels per year.

Eligibility:

1. Only current MLA members are…[Read more]

]]> d1ca42eebf710bee42180ac2c9232285 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901834/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:00:10 -0400 This chapter argues that
by including fan studies as part of appropriation theory scholarship can account for
this conversation, manifest in likes, re-posts and experimental fan work. Because of
the interplay between creator and audience, the focus of appropriative study shifts
from the end product, the new Shakespeare iteration, to the fan…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b64664b4c520f5dac09f7d56c458694 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 CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900892/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:16:06 -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 7d7b2fd99fe4ae4f4b5300d18a5b628a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900887/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:08:19 -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 8e282cc7c10e0f32f596bd7b427c96d0 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 CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900882/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:00:09 -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 e3710f36cc43db4e8b25731ea2d647fc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900080/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:00:08 -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 42f441651281ba769a6c511e2046ee77 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891693/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:00:07 -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 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 f7ce58764ff13856e54eef1716e2de09 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886893/ Wed, 22 May 2024 18:49:22 -0400 e960db8a16e66fe5f700982f6ac2cb95 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 CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886048/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:13:15 -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 cfd0f85013b89ea8f855f265b41df342 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 CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886043/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:05:15 -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 f03409daa825353003d595cb5a48c250 David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Global Hispanophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884544/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:12:45 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 6427ab1636918f02ddc8f981b594725e Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "Winking at his Readers from the Gaps: Guamán Poma de Ayala's Silent Texts" in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1880716/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 03:00:09 -0400 In this essay, I address the perception of confusion, entanglement, incomprehension, opacity, and enigmatic nature of Guamán Poma’s book that made scholars like Peruvian Historian Porras Barrenechea uncomfortable enough to push it to the margins of historical studies due to its perceived lack of value and merit. To this end, I briefly discuss ex…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b245edb4cc7232a2f6a9e39a80cc58c Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "Winking at his Readers from the Gaps: Guamán Poma de Ayala's Silent Texts" in the group Colonial Latin America https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1880715/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 03:00:03 -0400 In this essay, I address the perception of confusion, entanglement, incomprehension, opacity, and enigmatic nature of Guamán Poma’s book that made scholars like Peruvian Historian Porras Barrenechea uncomfortable enough to push it to the margins of historical studies due to its perceived lack of value and merit. To this end, I briefly discuss ex…[Read more]

]]> 0 5fe90e56c80f64ed38b639681a9f8543 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878064/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:19:25 -0500 Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia by Alexa Alice Joubin. Lecture video now available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/R8mbUd_mHjQ Drawing on her forthcoming book, Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2024), Alexa Alice Joubin examines cultural encounters with Shakespeare’s plays as heterotopia, a set of parallel s…[Read more]

]]> 0 c41d31ebe82ca5e64e0bb6121d97febc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited CBC Podcast: Liberate Your Mind – Exploring Sex and Gender in Shakespeare, February 20, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878060/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:13:59 -0500 Full podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/dNhxFiaoIGM This is a CBC Radio podcast on gender roles in Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Taming of the Shrew, recorded live at Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada. “Liberate your mind, said English professor Alexa Alice Joubin, urging us to embrace the Bard’s open-endedness to ambiguity in…[Read more]

]]> 0 585c5de62048369f2d334d775bbc1680 Magdalena A. Altamirano started the topic MLA 2025: CFP Bridges, Networks and Encounters. Poetry and Intersectionality in the discussion LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2025-cfp-bridges-networks-and-encounters-poetry-and-intersectionality/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:32:07 -0500 Bridges, Networks and Encounters. Poetry and Intersectionality in Early Modern Hispanic World. Research on poetry in the Early Modern Hispanic world is expanding and changing year after year. One of the distinctive elements in this critical development is the concept of intersectionality. The most recent approaches to the study of poetry highlight…[Read more]

]]> 5c4d1dd0079c89d00731b9404fa8fd4e Magdalena A. Altamirano started the topic 2025 MLA Convention: CFP "In Progress. Making Research Communities Visible" in the discussion LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/2025-mla-convention-cfp-in-progress-making-research-communities-visible/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:27:55 -0500 In progress. Making Research Communities Visible. Although Humanities research is commonly presented as the output of individual efforts, it is clear that new insights arise from the collaborative efforts, discussions, and exchanges among scholars from different institutions, the public, librarians, archivists, and students. Which facets of our…[Read more]

]]> 6714a94d066b721c62a29b350d2d39ce Luis Restrepo started the topic CFP MLA 2025 NEW ORLEANS Colonial Latin American Literature Forum in the discussion CLCS Global Hispanophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-hispanophone/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2025-new-orleans-colonial-latin-american-literature-forum-2/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:50:41 -0500 LLC Colonial Latin American: Calls for Papers

Enrique Dussel and the Colonial Foundation of Latin American Thought (In memoriam)
Proposals that examine the ethical, epistemological, and political thought contributions of Latin Am ... See moreLuis Fernando Restrepo, University of ArkansasPosted Monday, 22 January 2024

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]]> 29b87314114436531b3e61f27a5901f0 Luis Restrepo started the topic CFP MLA 2025 NEW ORLEANS Colonial Latin American Literature Forum in the discussion Colonial Latin America https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-america/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2025-new-orleans-colonial-latin-american-literature-forum/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:50:39 -0500 LLC Colonial Latin American: Calls for Papers
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Enrique Dussel and the Colonial Foundation of Latin American Thought (In memoriam)
Proposals that examine the ethical, epistemological, and political thought contributions of Latin Am ... See moreLuis Fernando Restrepo, University of ArkansasPosted Monday, 22 January…[Read more]

]]> 124aa1077ec2394ae5aba39400272200 Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876627/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:00:30 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 785545bc90ecadafd432541a0848eaa7 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility," The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 195-211. in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876054/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:00:12 -0500 Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, have broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 465e66dd32668c6568ff8d71af884aaa Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI, Theater, and Interface Theory, keynote at Imaging Across Time: Wenshan International Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2023 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875816/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:00:12 -0500 What happens when AI goes to theatre with human audiences? Generative AI's natural-language conversational interface has frequently been cast as an anthropomorphic interface. In performance, digital screen as interface has evolved from a vehicle for dramatic messages to a meaning-making agent with an anthropomorphic presence. While the tendency to…[Read more]

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