Knowledge Commons | Amy Rubens | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/arubens/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Amy Rubens is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:40:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 7ede33aeabe52948ed4d23eac2a70e9c Philip Trotter started the topic MLA 2026 Convention Session in the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities-and-health-studies/forum/topic/mla-2026-convention-session/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:44:07 -0500 Please find attached a link to the abstract and details for the MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing, and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing.”

 

]]> 739ba1e37c55cbf87f05956564f8b9ab Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters - Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/life-writing/forum/topic/call-for-chapters/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:04:07 -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]

]]> 92550cbe78b973ea643203eee9e18695 Sandra Pinasco started the topic New Article: Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs Auster and Giralt Torrente in the discussion GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/life-writing/forum/topic/new-article-ambiguous-loss-in-grief-memoirs-auster-and-giralt-torrente/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 23:52:18 -0400 Dear Colleagues,
I would like to share my new article titled “Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs: Meaning Making in Auster and Giralt Torrente Patriographies” published in the a/b Autobiography Studies Journal. You can find the abstract and the link to the article below:

Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs: Meaning Making in Auster and Giralt Tor…[Read more]

]]> 489a162a816d58c7ea25774145c951e8 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889180/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:39 -0400 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 71e06ab33ff4fcaae20d2d377bac2c52 Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889175/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:07 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f6b05fec25e22dd7c1afdb9595e2eba Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-4/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:32:06 -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]

]]> 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]

]]> e990d2a3986e2d8739558b55bb5bb68f Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877011/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:03:58 -0500 Abstract
In his email conversations with Arabella Kurtz in The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, J.M. Coetzee entertains the notion of settling on fictions of ourselves, which we are able to inhabit more comfortably than what is perceived as our real life. In addition, he implies that in order to form fictions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f58f80810a98ecb4e31ba46e8bff447c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-18/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:14:15 -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…[Read more]

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

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

]]> 0 fda5592c333f610ce6fd9e637ba2c9d5 Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/mla-sit-and-writes-announced-for-fall-2023-2/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:44:56 -0400 Please join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023!  Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on "How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps," Thursday, 21 September.

Learn more about this fall's Sit and Write sessions, and last year's recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions

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

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

Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press

Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison

Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023

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

 

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

]]> da851da4cbd29344ff94fe9c3f867439 Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures (Introduction) in the group TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855421/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:22:35 -0400 Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural
disasters: images of the “gray flood” and “silver tsunami” imbue
senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This
Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative
shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children,
but of one…[Read more]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

]]> db67182db3d449fe3e244819a468c97e Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/cfp-surrealism-dans-tous-ses-etats-2/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:12:52 -0500 2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]

]]> fed01636f5095d46b4b80dddeae77656 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic "What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy" in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-the-american-dirt-controversy-2/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:19:55 -0500 An op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!

"What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it's a…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 237402b24f7b44f6d61c986cb4182d32 Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1828214/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 03:51:32 -0500 The Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
Bridge was born. The American Translators Association is a member of this initiative.

]]> 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 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 7c6f0ae10a299cf57c19c7949b50a5df Evan Chaloupka deposited Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826176/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 03:48:45 -0500 This talk introduces the concept of “prosthetic narration,” a narrative technique that mediates the engagement of disabled cognition such that the reader is invited to reimagine how one thinks and perceives. In his essay, “The Novel,” Émile Zola establishes the “intimate union” between the author and “the reality of the scene” as a premise of fic…[Read more]

]]> 0 1afaf446f3b1184b071885ab5ae8f2ad Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities-and-health-studies/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-54/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:32:58 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

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

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

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

]]> 0 d0b1dd1b400f14fe0a9d84383df37b07 Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788300/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 03:48:44 -0400 Examines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.

]]> 0 2decb59e854c4184cfa0dc603d0bc08c Seo-Young Chu deposited "Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence" by Seo-Young Chu in the group GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1787425/ Sun, 17 Jul 2022 02:25:23 -0400 In 2000 a Stanford professor raped me. My rape is now older than I was. (I’m still not as old as he was.) The more time passes the more I’m struck by Stanford’s apathy and fecklessness about sexual violence. I wrote a letter asking Stanford to stop compounding the abuse and to reckon with its rape culture. This letter—including the “Incomp…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d213a87681eba568611ab8cf35ce8fe Seo-Young Chu deposited Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism in the group GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1782733/ Fri, 27 May 2022 02:24:05 -0400 Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism

(Entries organized in chronological order by date of obsolescence)

]]> 0 d188d220a34f328cb460611dd7124856 Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Paranoid Publics in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1780938/ Sat, 07 May 2022 02:24:10 -0400 This article takes up the insurrection in Washington DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics, tracking such gamification as a political-economic demand generated by neoliberalism. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud's insight that delusional formations are attempts at…[Read more]

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

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

]]> 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]

]]> 026e841681973df2f6bef9a3e1d78c6c Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival in the group GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771543/ Sat, 12 Feb 2022 03:48:44 -0500 In this chapter, I connect my experience with abuse and intimate partner violence with my research projects and then radically changing my pedagogy away from coercion towards empathy.

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

]]> 0 5e3c30f1ca19d938e994188a86a1734f Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768475/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 03:48:43 -0500 What started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]

]]> 0 99079ca54cfb24eda76325cf6f72d8aa Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/thank-you-for-terrific-attendance/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:14:19 -0500 Thank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.

]]> 9575fe2266194edee1ea88417e9c0137 Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, "Life Writing and Cognition" (Sunday) in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/session-645-life-writing-and-cognition-sunday/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 08:39:06 -0500 Please join us for "Life-Writing and Cognition" (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.

]]> 87f09402ac3739dbdf38907e3416dbb8 Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group 2022 MLA Convention: Join us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1765465/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:25:31 -0500 Join us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655

]]> 0 aba786f0b97a5c960baea7da15972227 Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/ms-screen-arts-and-culture-virtual-panels-and-postponement/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:49:05 -0500 As the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.

 

The following sessions will now be held virtually:

Viral Media - Thursday, January 6, 3:30 - 4:45 pm

Presider: Rielle Navitski

A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]

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