Knowledge Commons | Anthony Cooke | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/accooke/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Anthony Cooke is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:39:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c816b817b008b4edcd8fee8466805037 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:48:02 -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]

]]> c8b2a73e1808fbbc74cee42424de5f98 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due 1/15/26 in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-1-15-26/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:47:57 -0500 <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 895c3dd6571a8af9459c5806c4ee68a8 Nattie Golubov uploaded the file: CFP Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2025-2025 to TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1924521/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:30:00 -0400 The first election of Donald Trump sparked a series of "Rogue" romance anthologies that framed love as resistance, and the romance genre as progressive and inclusive. Looking back after a decade, how has the genre registered and responded to ongoing political contexts--in the United States and elsewhere--of political radicalization, xenophobia,…[Read more]

]]> 0 92184c734d554ee6f0b8d483f80afe38 Nathan Gorelick started the topic Psychoanalysis of the Mother in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychoanalysis-of-the-mother-2/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:20:26 -0400 Starting a thread to facilitate planning for the Forum's 2026 MLA panel on "Psychoanalysis of the Mother."

]]> ece4a82e4641d0e9443a321b32e94720 Nathan Gorelick started the topic Psychoanalysis of the Mother in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychoanalysis-of-the-mother/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:18:11 -0400 Starting a thread to facilitate conversation and planning for the Forum's 2026 MLA panel on "Psychoanalysis of the Mother."

]]> 4def381b0b7bdc8b3ab415f531121376 Seda Arıkan replied to the topic Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/#post-1039662 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:31:46 -0400 Dear Editors,

I have sent an email with my proposal. I will be happy if you inform me whether you received it.

Best wishes,

Seda Arikan

email: sarikan@firat.edu.tr

]]> b877a6cf3316f13060c8bcaf632c4055 Robert Nguyen started the topic MLA 2026 CFPs, TC Adaptation Studies forum in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfps-tc-adaptation-studies-forum/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:39:32 -0400 Good morning,

Good morning,

As I thought they may be of interest to folks working in Screen Arts and Culture, I am posting here info on the panels that the TC Adaptation Studies forum will be sponsoring for the 2026 MLA convention. Also included is further detail on the panel we are co-sponsoring with the GS Comics and Graphic Narratives…[Read more]

]]> e9842911203212376a9c4714702b8a5c Lauren Rocha replied to the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/#post-1039578 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:11:03 -0500 Disability, Belonging, and Family

This session seeks abstracts that address how disability and the concept of family encompass different experiences across relationships, communities, and texts. These proposals can either draw from lived experiences or address portrayals of disability in families in literature, TV shows, film, and other content.…[Read more]

]]> 209b5ed37e685333516a2bf3e34c36a0 Junting Huang replied to the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/#post-1039555 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:39:24 -0500 Impairment Theory

This session invites proposals that explore personal and phenomenological accounts of impairment—not merely as a physical condition of illness or disability but as an embodied experience that generates cultural, social, and political insights.

While disability studies have long critiqued the social structures that create d…[Read more]

]]> 63df32676ae57d67937294cf8081651b Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:37:41 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 6676123f4cef90a92bbfdd8a8c425306 Terry Callaghan started the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:08:13 -0500 MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession: Calls for Papers
Impairment Theory
Papers exploring personal and/or phenomenological accounts of impairment—not as physical conditions of illness or disability but as embodied experiences that generate cultural, social, and political insights for scholarship. Submit a 250-word abstract by the d…[Read more]

]]> e94efe99d5b627aed803ba118342e062 Tanya Shilina-Conte started the topic New Book: Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/new-book-black-screens-white-frames-gilles-deleuze-and-the-filmmaking-machine-4/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:38:23 -0500 Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine by Tanya Shilina-Conte is now available from Oxford University Press<u>: </u><u>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-screens-white-frames-9780197511336?cc=us&lang=en&#</u&gt;
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary…[Read more]

]]> e2ccb37276370a28fa466b27be89e5a7 Sharon Tran replied to the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/#post-1039293 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:46:01 -0500 See attached for the digital access copy to Sophia's paper.

]]> c537103403f467b912ed1323d4567fef Sharon Tran replied to the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/#post-1039272 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:36:11 -0500 Here is a link to my presider remarks, including our panelists' bios.

]]> 97605f8a38d93efe945eedce18e16389 Cynthia R. Port started the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:38:38 -0500 This session (#332), sponsored by the Disability Studies Forum, will take place on Friday, January 10th, 1:45-3:00 pm, Salon 18, Hilton Riverside, New Orleans. We are pleased to share related materials via attachments below:

Presiding: Sharon Tran

  1. Chris Gabbard, "Truth or Trickery in the Name of Care: An Ethics-of-Care Reading of…

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]]> 3c1678c94e6acc1cc250c496534ec37a Cynthia R. Port started the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control (Session 332) in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control-session-332-2/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:36:59 -0500 This session, sponsored by the Disability Studies Forum, will take place on Friday, January 10th, 1:45-3:00 pm, Salon 18, Hilton Riverside, New Orleans. We are pleased to share related materials via attachments below:

Presiding: Sharon Tran

  1. Chris Gabbard, "Truth or Trickery in the Name of Care: An Ethics-of-Care Reading of Shakespeare's King L…

[Read more]

]]> 269b542fe8abff4ad2ca665a961b177c Sharon Tran replied to the topic Age and/as Disability in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/age-and-as-disability-2/#post-1039249 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:07:23 -0500 Here is a link to my presider remarks, including our panelists' bios.

]]> cc5d668748cbf1104d8ae121f4add921 Sharon Tran started the topic Age and/as Disability in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/age-and-as-disability-2/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:01:57 -0500 Please join us for this joint session organized by the Age Studies and Disability Studies forums that aims to bring our fields more fully into critical dialogue. The session will convene in person on Friday, January 10th from 10:15-11:30am in Salon 3 (1st floor) of the Hilton Riverside New Orleans.

Our panelists have also kindly shared digital co…[Read more]

]]> fd2638c01bc5c93119ea5d4b13810bef Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2025 MLA Convention in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2025-mla-convention/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 01:19:29 -0500 UPDATE 1-1-25:

Forum member Steven Swarbrick has notified us of another panel of interest:

Friday, 10 January 2025:

Freud's Ecology

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Hilton New Orleans Riverside - Jackson (3rd Floor)

 

The Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature invites you to attend our panels at the 2025 MLA…[Read more]

]]> c3deb1816f7f1cf4411d3973f5c07ab3 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Join TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature’s Executive Board! in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/join-tc-psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literatures-executive-board/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:42:17 -0500 MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for a seat on the Executive Board. The Executive Board devises and runs programming for the MLA Convention, including at least two panels yearly. The Forum is an excellent way to meet colleagues with similar i…[Read more]

]]> d8a6b7627444eb73c011563f94a4fc4d Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900966/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:13:45 -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 b8dd031dfe5905ecc12ee8893ea78aa3 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900964/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:08:29 -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 6ec34b11565be267a1b47eb36f4a4a09 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 Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900962/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:03:00 -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 cb076292c9c94f2692c88f0f8bd29076 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900896/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:21:10 -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 da5c2e5fcbcc7f2ea5cc8cb86f9b49da Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900890/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:13:22 -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 7182408e0c0cdb3d93778ea6ee074eb6 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900885/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:05:26 -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 d2b6dd91861405bf7327b60fcab37d3f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900083/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:05:17 -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 66c6832003cd8d722395a1818832c367 Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890470/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:01:22 -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 a04eca7d0e61cf1615cabebfd0f77c37 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890326/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:05:42 -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 b8d4102dda5b37ebec9583fa2165172f 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886051/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:19:53 -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 ea47e2a2da1d60baf21b7ce85da03bd3 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Dutch Formosa in 2000: Taiwan as China’s Renegade Province in Wu Ziniu’s The Sino-Dutch War 1661," in Scenes from Dutch Formosa: Staging Taiwan’s Colonial Past, ed. Llyn Scott (Portland ME: MerwinAsia, 2014), pp. 153-179 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886042/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:01:41 -0400 What does Koxinga mean to today’s China and Taiwan? How does Wu Ziniu’s film The Sino-Dutch War 1661, a 2000 mainland Chinese film about seventeenth-century Dutch Formosa–with a mainland Chinese / Hong Kong / Japanese cast–complicate the questions of belonging and betrayal?

Taiwan’s cultural identities have always been political…[Read more]

]]> 0 f93c965c33fdb6cc54d1615a21b40ce0 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-3/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:28:18 -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]

]]> 8ba0877b688b1df686bd077a80b64133 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878852/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:03:03 -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]

]]> 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]

]]> 25c74d38b6ef22c19411a42b8c0e9591 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878067/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:24:33 -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 8bf601f65afa35ec93e1a544b3b3bc72 Kendra Leonard deposited Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice (2004) in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877420/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:06:31 -0500 The performance history of The Merchant of Venice is one entangled with what producers and directors hear as the sounds of Jewishness, be it traditional prayer, like the Shema or Kaddish, or contrived nonsense, like the “old Hebraic song of sacrifice” sung by Anthony Sher in a 1987 stage production. In this essay, I interrogate composer Joc…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d72ce91f2a351d77190843f0d1662bf Kendra Leonard deposited Imagining Women’s Archives of Silent Film Music in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877413/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:01:54 -0500 Although women comprised the majority of American cinema accompanists during the silent film period (c. 1895–1927), few of their music libraries or compositions have survived, whereas collections created by male cinema musicians dominate the silent film music archives. Women musicians suggested, shaped, and helped define the musical tastes of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 e76833cdfb5b163ed27a869c66f659ea Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 335-338 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876066/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:16:30 -0500 Going against the grain, this collection counters the common perception of the Maoist era as a time of ideological conformity. The contributors persuasively demonstrate that theatre activities were varied and lively between the 1950s and 1970s. While there was state control over the arts, performances in urban spaces were more frequently censored…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4f1955780d09e11fc4062ed0c2b194d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Performing the Socialist State by Xiaomei Chen, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 338-340 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876062/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:11:08 -0500 In this review, Alexa Alice Joubin outlines the main argument of Xiaomei Chen's Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture. "The eight chronologically- and thematically-organized chapters in this book provide a much-needed critical survey of spoken drama (huaju) from its inception through the Republican and Maoist eras…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a4a2667e2f24460194fee72a9d8e1bb 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876057/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:05:28 -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 cc2efe0805683b25b551f5c32fe5d8c8 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875820/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:05:29 -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]

]]> 0 29997837b7350e72eb0e97687355fe35 Lennie Amores started the topic Call For Papers MLA 2025 Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2025-critical-disability-in-contemporary-iberian-studies/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:23:11 -0500 MLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section. The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit proposals:
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions, personal or pedagogical practices, and case studies on the relation between d…[Read more]

]]> ff984c9c3179bd3665b2c4a2f6f8e19b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872233/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:05:38 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d4f5b8a2035d5f61348ef0963235cb1 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872218/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:05:57 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2ef1aee2f0d62c02c913d28588a90c0 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Join TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature's Executive Committee! in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/join-tc-psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literatures-executive-committee-6/ Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:38:08 -0500 MLA's Transdisciplinary Connections Forum for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for a seat on the Executive Board. The Executive Board devises and runs programming for the MLA Convention, including at least two panels yearly. The Forum is an excellent way to meet colleagues with similar interests.…[Read more]

]]> a9dfd11ebb211e89928c23b80186a910 Laura G. Gutierrez replied to the topic Nominations for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion MS Screen Arts and Culture via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/nominations-for-forum-executive-committee/#post-1036981 Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:14:03 -0500 I have gotten this email close to 20 times. I am also no longer a member of MLA so I don’t have an active account and don’t know how to unsubscribe. Make it stop please

From: Alenda Chang <noreply@hcommons.org>
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 1:11 PM
To: Gutierrez, Laura G <lauragutierrez@utexas.edu>
Subject: [MLA Commons] MS Screen Arts and…[Read more]

]]> fa18fa14c00cef3497f8a97e1db01a7b Alenda Chang started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture sessions at MLA 2024 in the discussion MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/ms-screen-arts-and-culture-sessions-at-mla-2024/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 03:11:46 -0500 Hi everyone! As this year's forum executive committee chair for MS Screen Arts and Culture, I just wanted to alert everyone to the sessions that our forum has organized/sponsored. Thanks to our committee members for their hard work.

Organized by yours truly, tomorrow (THU) at 3:30PM we kick off with #92 "The Micropolitics of Environmental Media"…[Read more]

]]> fb5c6751e0b32c5272cc26242bdb2984 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-9/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:00:59 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by the…[Read more]

]]> d86035d473581cc789b2ef6342ef0611 Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866456/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:01:17 -0500 This article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla's music and performance production titled "Deora."

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