Knowledge Commons | Ben Davies | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/bendavies1/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Ben Davies is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:57:13 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2a134d04b52bbae087bb76be6fc88d27 Andrea Zemgulys started the topic Joint Conference in Twentieth Century Lit (FeministinterModernist Space Between) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/joint-conference-in-twentieth-century-lit-feminist-modernist-and-space-between/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:07:30 -0500 FORWARDING ON BEHALF OF OTHERS (see email for contact information!)

A joint conference of the Space Between Society and the Feministinter/Modernist Association (FiMA)
University of North Carolina, GreensboroMay 26 - 29, 2026Proposals Due: January 15, 2026

CFP: SOLIDARITY!
Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for this year’s joint c…[Read more]

]]> 5db699579b9a1163567e55cf51c326f9 Philip Trotter started the topic MLA 2026 Convention Session in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/mla-2026-convention-session-2/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:45:32 -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.”

]]> a08bc0563ba2c56c3663cdc183a8043e William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936465/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:35:30 -0500 1892c7f56b398edf0c5c5e82806be2a9 William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936464/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:32:29 -0500 bc5164b16277686d63d3ef2b1d08fefd Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:28:27 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extrajudicial kill…[Read more]

]]> 331fdbb76ec0d66fd7caa3e7ff63e943 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cf-applications-for-the-position-of-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:10:00 -0500 The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies.

 

Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: global animation; cinemas of East, Southeast, South, or Western Asia and…[Read more]

]]> bc23953ca41a5b0470b18ce556a91ae7 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-3/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:03:43 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 705489ea008668cfaa17a8195b2fb19b Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-2/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:01:55 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> f2abc3a6ad564a418ef1822a9abe18df Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-amplifying-womens-voices-of-resistance-2/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:06:21 -0400 CFP for “Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance: Challenging Power, Shaping Change”, for a special issue of the South Atlantic Review: The Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

This special issue seeks to honor and amplify the voices of women who have resisted, challenged, and redefined societal norms—both histori…[Read more]

]]> a3166754357999561411cebfb54f2992 Autumn Womack started the topic Seeking Nominations For Prose Fiction Executive Committee in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:47:10 -0400 We’d very much like nominations (self nominations count!) for new committee members for the Prose Fiction Forum.  The term would begin Jan 2026 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas: amwomack@princeton.edu

]]> daa2de088a7ab1be014cd337cae1f691 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-8/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:26:29 -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]

]]> e0f5b92dc79b61535ec1f51a1ecfec05 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-6/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:40:01 -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]

]]> 9b86b0335629a13c5d77407cda471e6b Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-3/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:48:46 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

Date: September 29 - October 2, 2025

Deadline for submissions: March 10, 2025

Location: Wuppertal, Germany

Subject Field: Narratology

Since Roland Barthes' formula “international, transhistorical, transcultural, narration is there, like life i…[Read more]

]]> acb76370ab72d18339c580c8e87aa82a Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-2/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:45:48 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

September 29 - October 2, 2025, Wuppertal, Germany

 

In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is…[Read more]

]]> 3caf98fe3af4b0f34ce3d7bb50dc294e Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:41:11 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025

In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is ded…[Read more]

]]> 8e31108f736f4fd5332721c27565549b Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025 to TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912534/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:18:06 -0500 In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is dedicated to this reflection on the concept of narrative in order to sharpen it by defining its boundaries: Which phenomena cannot be appropriately lab…[Read more]

]]> 0 26d12671e6dbd2e3ec96da6e4e03152e Ian Balfour started the topic Self-nomination for this committee in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/self-nomination-for-this-committee/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:43:01 -0500 <div>

The Philosophy and Literature Forum Executive Committee solicits self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, starting in 2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate delegates to the MLA Delegate Assembly e…[Read more]

]]> 13ba7be5f3cd204b8809c48eb3104b06 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:58:34 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> c793b5b6e251dee1bff2d9cc68b93048 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:57:02 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> c5cc64396d5b9776ae727e5016cb122d Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-8/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:31:47 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature -- “Australia And...”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 2fefff99434499ac9c1c4efad33eb939 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900965/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:11:04 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 98412a2e171d72d17c3d1a23ff1aa1ce Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900963/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:05:42 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 663c563867ffa0eedf8c7aa748df7953 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-2/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:55:38 -0400 Society of Novel Studies 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2…[Read more]

]]> 1c7eee83e6c1050917a831971f326076 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:48:12 -0400 SNS 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2025 conference t…[Read more]

]]> 35509d6899737496d6df1fffec6cee0d Aarthi Vadde started the topic Society of Novel Studies 2025 CFP: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/society-of-novel-studies-2025-cfp-novel-languages/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:31 -0400 “NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies
Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website

The 2025 conference theme—…[Read more]

]]> 15b34bb549682037fd6cf2ff025a9519 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:28:57 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title "A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspect…[Read more]

]]> 7713e2e4cab1acc57a5b2dccec2ec358 Ramzi Salti deposited Women’s Voices in Arabic Music by Ramzi Salti (Stanford University) in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890606/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:01:15 -0400 This is the corrected and edited transcript of Dr. Ramzi Salti’s talk about “Women’s Voices in Arabic Music” which was presented for Women’s History Month at Santa Rosa Junior College on March 7, 2024. You can also watch the video on YouTube (with CC on).

]]> 0 e8bca9b0d17ea827485eb9f34050f6bb Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890472/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:08:37 -0400 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody's muse.

Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f9442367a2527580c0220213c974ab3 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890327/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:08:57 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 49a34afa92822a05df006168e57ae42c Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889767/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:02:18 -0400 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 1027fdb9a09a284718242aa9978c8c26 Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889378/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:02:47 -0400 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d7c6486c99ba64dab093d69d0b2bfb1 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889186/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:21:53 -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 e3cfa136dddbc55ff6bc164146493c0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889181/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:53 -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 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 c66d5f0bbd7bdb647ff290fb6a4bf5af Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889176/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:35 -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 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 8207cd29ddd7fbcf5f8a30183de6c575 Frank Pfost deposited ENSAYOS SOBRE ALGUNAS COMEDIAS DEL SIGLO DE ORO ESPAÑOL in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1888751/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:01:07 -0400 Se trata de un repaso a siete comedias del Siglo de Oro español, entre las que destacan: LOS PASOS de Lope de Rueda y el Entremés del RETABLO DE LAS MARAVILLAS de Miguel de Cervantes, LA VERDAD SOSPECHOSA de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, FUENTEOVEJUNA de Lope de Vega, EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA de Tirso de Molina, EL ESCLAVO DE DEMONIO de Mira de Amescua, y…[Read more]

]]> 0 122c371ef70ff9126ebe49b97e65f8dc Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887843/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:02:13 -0400 Les douze Lais de Marie de France, écrits au XIIe siècle par un auteur dont on connaît peu de choses,
retiennent leur renom pour maintes raisons. Ce sont des contes, des aventures, souvent merveilleuses
et fantastiques, des chevaliers errants et leurs dames au temps médiévaux lorsque la bataille épique et
continuelle entre le bien at le ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b536600b6f17de30dfd92188cf3539e Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887554/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:01:31 -0400 One of the most important factors literary critics often overlook in the work of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-
1910) is the fact that it was subject to the censorship of the tsarist government before it was allowed to be published
in Russia. This harassment lasted the entire period of Tolstoy’s writing life, and although neither he nor his f…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b6f994ac008bdf06a3edab3bb11295b Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/MARX/PEIRCE in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886476/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:03:56 -0400 Exploration on the linkages among the modes of discourse and presentation in Hgel, Marx and Peirce
with a view to inferring a common dialectical tendency in their inquiries.

]]> 0 94cd4edd2fc699e0ce59ff16b9868e8d Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:24:30 -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]

]]> 6fb2118fa6fa234001c47c185652e93a Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-at-the-beginning-of-the-multi-par-2/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:14:48 -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]

]]> b87fb2dddc72f3e37248c1d83a4ff995 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878059/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:09:12 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a8b5f0e60f64c44dbf32dd3d5ba371c Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878057/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:03:38 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff084706159c2ecf7f3e8fc3524deb38 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877012/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:05:35 -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 a5d6ca3e69e217f9585a9441415aa667 Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/PEIRCE in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876760/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:02:28 -0500 Speculative notes on the relation between Peirce's pragmatist method and Hegel's dialectics

]]> 0 f16633d3d893f4c79bc09d7d40fbf75b Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-5/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:35:48 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS.)

We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> ed00f5554fd02608613332491b43ee0c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New short story: Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-short-story-professor-mali-romantic-longhair-and-the-girl/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:24:23 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS.) We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

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