Knowledge Commons | Ariel Fox | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/arielfox/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Ariel Fox is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:01:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 36a26344cc3920444f5be8a412b2cade Cynthia Chase replied to the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/#post-1040991 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:40:39 -0400 That is: How long is the paper I would deliver supposed to be? How many pages? (It used to be 15-20 minutes, always a strain to condense it to that.)

From: Cynthia Chase <noreply@hcommons.org>
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To: Cynthia Chase <cc97@cornell.edu>
Subject: [MLA Commons] re: DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 (GS Drama and…[Read more]

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

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

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

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

*****

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

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

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

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

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

#1: Annual new app…[Read more]

]]> e4394fcd163c828984327d03a1e601af Heng Du started the topic CFP: Permutations of the “Imagination”; Grappling with Absence in the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/cfp-permutations-of-the-imagination-grappling-with-absence-2/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:11:09 -0500 The MLA Pre-14th c. Chinese Lang Lit & Cul Forum is inviting proposals for the following two panels:

<b>Permutations of the “Imagination” in Early and Medieval Literary and Visual Art</b><b></b>

This panel will explore the idea of the “imagination” as manifest in the literary and visual arts of early and medieval China – and beyond.…[Read more]

]]> 084dfed0c0bc033445ea05542e3e8b3d Heng Du started the topic CFP: Permutations of the “Imagination”; Grappling with Absence in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-permutations-of-the-imagination-grappling-with-absence/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:09:21 -0500 The MLA Pre-14th c. Chinese Lang Lit & Cul Forum is inviting proposals for the following two panels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

<b>Permutations of the “Imagination” in Early and Medieval Literary and Visual Art</b><b></b>

This panel will explore the idea of the “imagination” as manifest in the literary and visual arts of early…[Read more]

]]> 8ea640888bd7c2b1aa8e43d6a820a513 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-6/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:55:05 -0500 <p style="text-align: center;">Call for Papers</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 2daef4e07a7478b88bcf768087773531 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-5/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:53:21 -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]

]]> 9b4259816cfb740985c7bf6d1803697e Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-4/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:52:03 -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]

]]> b0d0caa70655bbd0ee0202651d99f7de Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP - MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:16:37 -0500 Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century

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

Deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 7ff7fca4cbefb3a9a31dfb533aea9b08 Scott Poulson-Bryant started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee-3/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:42:53 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. If you’d like to be considered, please email me directly at scottpb@umich.edu with your int…[Read more]

]]> 6c2c8a824a5d5871288a361299ba23e8 Maria Franca Sibau started the topic Forum Executive Committee Invites Self-Nominations in the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-invites-self-nominations/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:03:27 -0500 The Ming and Qing Chinese forum executive committee invites self-nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term beginning in January 2027. Please send all nominations, and any questions you might have about the position, to Maria Franca Sibau at maria.sibau@emory.edu, by February 10, 2026. Many thanks!

]]> 9fd0130068183c6c1f8a64d90c5cc27c Heng Du started the topic Call for Proposals for MLA 2027 in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-for-mla-2027/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:23:06 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2027 MLA annual convention, which will be held Jan 7-10 in Los Angeles. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 954649814b4229611358d71541b321cf Heng Du started the topic Forum Executive Committee Seeks Nominations for 2027-2032 term in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-seeks-nominations-for-2027-2032-term/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:17:23 -0500 P14 Chinese Forum members,

The forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2027. We are particularly interested in junior scholars focusing on the medieval period, with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in…[Read more]

]]> 9bc9b5189830428c2d8a9f95891f80e5 Heng Du started the topic Panels on Chinese and EA Lit at the MLA (Toronto, Jan 8-11) in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/panels-on-chinese-and-ea-lit-at-the-mla-toronto-jan-8-11-2/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:11:27 -0500 <div>Dear Colleagues, please find in this Google Doc a compilation of panels related to the study of Chinese and East Asian Literatures at the MLA. We hope to see you there!</div>
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<div>Warmly,</div>
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<div>MLA Committees on Ming and Qing China & Pre-14th Century…[Read more]

]]> f59d10c9947ec050bb3de2bc4e7a4ded Heng Du started the topic Panels on Chinese and EA Lit at the MLA (Toronto, Jan 8-11) in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/panels-on-chinese-and-ea-lit-at-the-mla-toronto-jan-8-11/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:09:48 -0500 Dear Colleagues, please find in this Google Doc a compilation of panels related to the study of China and East Asia at the MLA. We hope to see you there!

Warmly,

MLA Committees on Ming and Qing China & Pre-14th Century China

]]> e4a9b2e4b2aebe5a84665701bc938579 Heng Du started the topic Panels on Chinese Lit and EA at the MLA in the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/panels-on-chinese-lit-and-ea-at-the-mla/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:05:42 -0500 Dear Colleagues, please find in this Google Doc a compilation of panels related to the study of China and East Asia at the MLA. We hope to see you there!

Warmly,

MLA Committees on Ming and Qing China & Pre-14th Century China

]]> b7e66adea713777f8932a4c7e89b6d4f Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due by 1/15/26 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-by-1-15-26/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:52:54 -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]

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

 

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

 

But does it real…[Read more]

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

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

 

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

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

]]> 26f9aa9adc6b3a268da92ca93cf090e8 Tian Jing Teh started the topic CFP USC Korean Studies Institute Annual Graduate Conference 2025-2026 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-usc-korean-studies-institute-annual-graduate-conference-2025-2026/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:09:13 -0400 The USC Korean Studies Institute invites applications for its Annual USC Graduate Conference in Korean Studies 2025-2026. This conference aims to foster a multidisciplinary community of local and regional graduate students whose research projects significantly engage Korean society and culture across the periods. It offers a platform for emerging…[Read more]

]]> 5c96bcc39400711eaf75e3b668f81da6 Sarah Balkin started the topic MLA Drama and Performance 2026 CFPs in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/mla-drama-and-performance-2026-cfps/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 04:33:21 -0400 <div class="html-div xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd">
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]]> 66e44e5c2900995ffe9f23d7db788106 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-5/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:32:13 -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]

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

]]> 353395ec89efb2c73702b5eca12021f1 Eric Hayot started the topic Call for Nominations for P14 China Representative to MLA Delegate Assembly in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-p14-china-representative-to-mla-delegate-assembly/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:47:29 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites nominations and self-nominations to serve as the forum's representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. The election for the position will be held in the Fall of 2025, for a three-year term beginning January 2026 (after the convention).

Details about Delegate Assembly membership and…[Read more]

]]> 4f38280587daa86ad2b6c841a543e3ef Eric Hayot started the topic Call for Proposals for 2026 MLA conference in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-for-2026-mla-conference/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:43:41 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2025 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 8-11 in Toronto. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 7892050b15402196fe62b618169a5cbd Eric Hayot started the topic Forum Executive Committee Seeks Nominations for 2026-2031 term in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-seeks-nominations-for-2026-2031-term/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:41:13 -0500 P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2026. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

]]> eb77c98ed2495bf6fe7d52b823c99daa Sarah Balkin started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee-2/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:21:17 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I'm writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. The committee will meet during the 2025 convention to discuss and organize panels for the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 461bd69c3b1d31ccd38a618f0db401b4 Nathaniel Isaacson started the topic Self-Nominations: MLA Modern and Contemporary Forum in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/self-nominations-mla-modern-and-contemporary-forum/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:43:09 -0500 The MLA Forum for Modern and Contemporary Chinese invites self-nominations for executive committee candidates. Executive committee members serve a five-year term, beginning at the MLA Annual Convention in 2026, and must be prepared to retain MLA membership and regularly attend the MLA Convention during this period. The Forum will vote on nominees…[Read more]

]]> bed759e6f99a8179ea616dcf19aafd15 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-17/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:33:42 -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]

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

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

]]> 10697a60384a7ca03d821b6499d898fa Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902702/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:00:06 -0400 Review of

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

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

]]> 0 4cdc505d6974a63bb5a0109cc3c5ab89 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902282/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:00:08 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 c1a72ef9b1b380d234d1b17765120f4d Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-2/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:34:40 -0400 Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

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

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

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

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

]]> 0 957b663ecd634e8c4d560585b26d9d17 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891695/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:03:47 -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 56d50c041cc9233b51c0e018c6f1eca9 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891694/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:02:05 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 51dbb91a449b9d3478027c53ec16c2bb Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889190/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:31:49 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7fdc8af26b6c0ed70fa772f30721b0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889177/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:03:45 -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 5990b522e766e71f5f9f167d98bda74c Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887294/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:09:13 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

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

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

]]> 0 06f816f7a922654b5a975298576da41e 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 LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886045/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:09:56 -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 e1e6489c360bb09bd7e42a82ab2bd1f4 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886044/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:07:48 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 1602961c6669fe6282afa940c429965e 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886041/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:01:13 -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 b7035478ecacbe747575cd69b0be1585 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 LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886040/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:00:15 -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]

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