Knowledge Commons | Albert J. von Frank | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/amlit/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Albert J. von Frank is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:48:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5227434fde7c687dc1b9926128c005a0 Eric Aronoff started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (April 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/deadline-extended-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-april-1/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:43:27 -0500 EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 1 2026 

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors

Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition

Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and ma…[Read more]

]]> 0163dd257b312c6442067668ed2ac7ec Eric Aronoff started the topic Contribute to New edition of MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (Feb. 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/contribute-to-new-edition-of-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-feb-1/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:33:43 -0500 Call for Survey Participants and Contributors
Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition
Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and materials available to teachers of Moby-Di…[Read more]

]]> 1346221240764e69d7024fdb1d1e0446 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-13/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:14:07 -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]

]]> 796971bce75bc3c605a66641c8db8c6d Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902703/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:01:49 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a417fe13be51018bb741d1ebccb5e27 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902284/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:04:14 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 d34927ce4e55de52f921986d63b92140 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902283/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:01:50 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 583238d4880008c95636f50a3bf552ad Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26425-italian-american-llc-guaranteed-session-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:15:12 -0500 #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers

Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

New Orleans has for centuries been a port of call and interstitial space beckoning people to its banks, whether through choice, coercion, or bondage.

For the Italian diaspora, New Orleans has been one…[Read more]

]]> e903db105c16658b452a2750b9efd075 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26426-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-session-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:10:53 -0500 #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session

Title: Italian Creole: Accents and Intersections

This panel takes the rich history of Italian Americans in New Orleans as a starting point for exploring the politics and power of ethnic visibility in New Orleans. Italians and Italian Americans were foundational to the early infrastructure…[Read more]

]]> 18193fa29726cccfe903fb3be5ab3938 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861768/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:54 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 21f7d508e367a9adafbb932ffc469994 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847389/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:15:26 -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 1303c0fe22af3c669c7e10c4eaba03bd Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847387/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:07:53 -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 f746fdba991b01f88844310ee9302132 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847384/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:54:55 -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 fd08663d6959cf5867ce013ceaabbb38 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847382/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:47:11 -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 8ba3a72bea5207975b2f6dfe93fda9b5 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1827264/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:29:07 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6093b5e031e8f90dcabe14c7bb090e5 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1827262/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:25:57 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fa1e1132e56d744d3ff918b31cb1dc5 John Gruesser deposited Poe's Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in "Hop-Frog" in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826933/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:00:41 -0500 As I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e2f88d8ec93850ce6afbfb8f8c5a427 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) Text in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826931/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:55:30 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in…[Read more]

]]> 0 716e02d575f943eb196d2671b831c665 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) PowerPoint in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826928/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:49:25 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f2287b0af5d9892c2ad99a437fe6412 Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817820/ Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:25:37 -0400 This essay examines ethnic strife and cultural friction in New Orleans during the Mexican-American war. Specifically, it explores how the Crescent City’s anglophone and francophone populations navigated the tension between national and transnational affiliation through performance. By considering both the material and the immaterial aspects of p…[Read more]

]]> 0 460328415a1a1fb34069b16a2c3465ab Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-19th-and-early-20th-century-american/forum/topic/call-for-essays-on-african-american-literature-and-culture-2/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:46:04 -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]

]]> 65f05a90ac4067894260e70de190653c Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2022-forum-delegate-election-13/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:24:29 -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]

]]> e5e781eefb9e10ed46983b9b67d785b6 Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021  in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-american-writers-in-paris-then-and-now-proposals-by-september-30-2021-3/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:52:17 -0400 CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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. 

The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]

]]> f664238784e34018bd30a7a513ef6cdb Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW - PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-19th-and-early-20th-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-american-writers-in-paris-then-and-now-proposals-by-august-31-2021-5/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:48:22 -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]

]]> 58da7d47db076c20c48cf8c6043d36bc Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746403/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:59:29 -0400 Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c639ac2adcba9ccd4a3500ecb4f5854 Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746399/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:53:11 -0400 Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]

]]> 0 a50f9167d644ebedff39d0f04a58eeca Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746397/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:48:43 -0400 Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f6fd9b5fa185ebef9091f80530c1bd4 Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727469/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 03:50:52 -0500 In this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a3182871dcfafbb29dea16b303cf595 Will Fenton started the topic Library Company of Philadelphia 2021-22 Fellowships: Applications due March 1 in the discussion LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/library-company-of-philadelphia-2021-22-fellowships-applications-due-march-1/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:18:51 -0500 The Library Company of Philadelphia welcomes applications for its Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Dissertation Fellowships, Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellowships, and Francis Johnson Fellowships. The deadline for receipt of applications is March 1, 2021.

 

Program in Early American Economy and Society…[Read more]

]]> 961e084fd03e1378af49cd00d90a4c50 Gerard Holmes deposited "‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation" in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1724417/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:33:10 -0500 Birds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]

]]> 0 16303c0d58d24b17b31de91153010e53 Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited The Free Travels of William Grimes from 1814 until 1825 in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1718010/ Wed, 25 Nov 2020 03:48:48 -0500 This GIF chronicles the movements of a a formerly enslaved man in New England until the publication of his first memoir in 1825. William Grimes was forced to resettle and wander through Connecticut and Rhode Island because of poverty and insecurity. He is most associated with Litchfield, CT and New Haven CT where he spent the most time and which…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e1d918ba52532cf10b1f8a28e3693d2 Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited "Wild Nights": Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1717810/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 02:27:40 -0500 Emily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb66ba614638a3c3ebdfd55782ac57db Will Fenton started the topic Announcing the Library Company's Innovation Fellowship Program in the discussion LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/announcing-the-library-companys-innovation-fellowship-program/ Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:55:06 -0400 The Library Company of Philadelphia's newly-launched Innovation Fellowship Program will pair two short-term research fellows-one humanities scholar and one creative practitioner-to critically and creatively engage a collection integral to the Library Company's mission, values, or institutional history.

The Innovation Fellowship Program is an e…[Read more]

]]> 0170650988198a387833ac6de39b8279 Will Fenton started the topic Library Company of Philadelphia Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2021-2022 in the discussion LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/library-company-of-philadelphia-post-doctoral-fellowships-for-2021-2022/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:49:15 -0400 National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships

National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships support research in residence at the Library Company on any subject relevant to its collections, which are capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the…[Read more]

]]> e59c632e6b69b84f231fd12bc9d5c104 Christopher Hill deposited Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1701601/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 03:56:54 -0400 Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill traces the history of naturalist fiction from its emergence in France in the 1860s through its spr…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec6456b793f5faaa86ebfb3fee11fddd Will Fenton started the topic Library Company 2020 First Book Award: Nominations due July 1 in the discussion LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/library-company-2020-first-book-award-nominations-due-july-1/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:31:42 -0400 The Library Company of Philadelphia invites submissions for the 2020 First Book Award. This prize was established in 2018 to recognize an extraordinary contribution to early American studies using Library Company collections. This year, we have opted to recognize a significant first book published by an early-career scholar within the past two yea…[Read more]

]]> f62e454b83bdec9dbc555d5df40f7c77 John Hansen deposited The New American Scholar in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1688096/ Thu, 21 May 2020 16:25:52 -0400 "The New American Scholar" by John Hansen

]]> 0 1e4b9bdcc2be848e5df5833911834c7c Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685485/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:53:02 -0400 From 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]

]]> 0 d51716f26d28d839feb5f98e827758f0 Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685483/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:49:23 -0400 From 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ac338c4157475dd38870673de0ef514 Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1676325/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:34:46 -0500 Introduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).

If your library doesn't already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.

Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

]]> 0 f692abf6d5cbf71b00a957ac0e8f4222 Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1676322/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:25:24 -0500 Introduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).

If your library doesn't already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.

Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

]]> 0 44e8a54b93bd927be49a9ad32739a915 Claudia Stokes started the topic Inviting nominees for MLA delegate assembly in the discussion LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-19th-and-early-20th-century-american/forum/topic/inviting-nominees-for-mla-delegate-assembly/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:39:03 -0500 The Late-19th- and and Early-20th-Century American Literature Forum invites members to stand for election as alternate candidates for the MLA delegate assembly.  Elected delegates are expected to serve a three-year term and must attend the MLA convention for two out of three of those years. If you are interested, please email Claudia Stokes at c…[Read more]

]]> 1365ce92e3c8ea6fbc58c5b28e44eabd James S. Finley started the topic 2020 Thoreau Society Fellowships in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/2020-thoreau-society-fellowships/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:57:51 -0500 2020 Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship

The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the fifth annual Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, generously funded by the Harding family. The fellowship honors the life and legacy of Marjorie Brook Harding, who worked diligently to bring together the Thoreau Society, the Walden Woods Project, and SUNY…[Read more]

]]> 7fabf4133c44c3a482d2964228d1fd21 Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669431/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:25:27 -0500 This article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc49115b9441a6b60edc41c960f5f14d Silvia Guslandi started the topic Silvia Guslandi - candidate for upcoming forum delegate election in the discussion LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-19th-and-early-20th-century-american/forum/topic/silvia-guslandi-candidate-for-upcoming-forum-delegate-election-3/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:27 -0400 My name is Silvia Guslandi. I hold a Ph.D. in Euro-American Comparative Literature and I am currently a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago (working on Emanuel Carnevali, among other things). Thank you for the honor of considering me as a candidate for the Delegate Assembly. As my research interests are situated…[Read more]

]]> f3b3f30c27930b50cc610cb5248b30da Prentiss Clark uploaded the file: Emerson Society call for applications for awards to LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666140/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:57:14 -0400 The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2020) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 2020). Submit…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf939fc623e69c5547533fa0962aa666 Prentiss Clark uploaded the file: Emerson Society call for applications for awards to LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666139/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:55:34 -0400 The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2020) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 2020). Submit…[Read more]

]]> 0 91299fe85efe27bf84d97834eb520647 Christopher Looby started the topic UCLA Early American Literatures and Cultures Assistant Professor in the discussion LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/ucla-early-american-literatures-and-cultures-assistant-professor/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:26:16 -0400 UCLA Early American Literatures and Cultures Assistant Professor

Recruitment Period Open September 1st, 2019 through Sunday, Oct 20, 2019 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

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The Department of English invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in early American literatures and cultures (pre-1800). Areas of particular…[Read more]

]]> 7b15c09560610bacc6dcafcee100f902 Jennifer Buckley started the topic R.F. Dietrich Research Scholarship for Shaw Studies (CFP) 9/30 in the discussion LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-19th-and-early-20th-century-american/forum/topic/r-f-dietrich-research-scholarship-for-shaw-studies-cfp-9-30/ Sun, 15 Sep 2019 14:50:59 -0400 The R. F. Dietrich Research Scholarship for Shaw Studies is an annual award of $1,000 USD to support research into any aspect of the life and work of Bernard Shaw by a graduate student or early-career scholar.   The award, which may be held in conjunction with other awards, is intended to help defray costs associated with visits to libraries and o…[Read more]

]]> d1fa5a4c0e0592478292de2c3a58b3fc James S. Finley deposited Pilgrimages and Working Forests: Envisioning the Commons in "The Maine Woods" in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660928/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:25:26 -0400 This chapter examines the tendency of readers of Thoreau's 1864 book "The Maine Woods" to read the landscape through which Thoreau travels as pristine wilderness. I argue, by contrast, that Thoreau presented a social landscape, a "working-forest" avant-la-lettre.

]]> 0 00ca3d8a1154926822a916870687b25b Marina Guiomar deposited The Self-aggrandizement Disguised As Self-flagellation As Even Higher Art Form Aspect: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659905/ Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:31:46 -0400 I can't seem to forget the anecdotic episode that one of my Literature Professors used to tell the class: a deconstructionist acquaintance of theirs was so absorbed in their literal undertaking that their meals consisted only of letter-noodles soup, so that even the most mundane of tasks could intertwine itself with textuality. Farfetched as this…[Read more]

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