Knowledge Commons | Brent Harlow | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/bharlow/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Brent Harlow is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:50:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a6c1b287328e2d262fae990514e094d8 Pedro Craveiro started the topic [MLA 2027] Call for Papers in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/mla-2027-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:11:30 -0500 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles:
1. Global Pretuguês: Language and Literature beyond Translational and Transnational Borders
We invite papers examining the creative expressions of Pretuguês in literatures across Africa, Brazil, a…[Read more]

]]> eed160b9adf7eb4744a28cbd016c0b6c Cole Rizki started the topic Nominations for Candidates to Delegate Election in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-for-candidates-to-delegate-election/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:19:15 -0500 Hi everyone, I write to solicit nominations for candidates to the MLA delegate election. For eligibility: any candidates for election must have been included in the membership list of the association for the preceding year. No one can occupy more than one delegate seat at a time and delegates may only serve two consecutive terms on the Delegate…[Read more]

]]> 21613f4d7281e7e57f243100ab1f58c4 Cole Rizki started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:07:48 -0500 Hi everyone, I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Friday January 23rd with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> f138030239ed8176067934af4463cdd5 Krista Brune created the doc Found Families: Migrant and Diasporic Voices in Portuguese in the group LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936699/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:22:21 -0500 e9842911203212376a9c4714702b8a5c Lauren Rocha replied to the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/#post-1039578 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:11:03 -0500 Disability, Belonging, and Family

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

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

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

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

]]> 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]

]]> 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]

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

]]> 266d0d1713e443cc981345600cdbbe26 Krista Brune started the topic Call for Papers for 2026 MLA in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-2026-mla-2/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:38:00 -0500 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto:

Afro-Brazil as Method and Theory. Papers exploring Black theorists’ epistemological contributions to (re)thinking Brazil and its racial contradictions. Trends in Afro-Brazilian literary theory and i…[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 fc9583b1ca27376010641589da70461f Krista Brune started the topic CFP: Modernisms in Portuguese for Portuguese Cultural Studies (deadline 3/20/25) in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-modernisms-in-portuguese-for-portuguese-cultural-studies-deadline-3-20-25/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:24:59 -0500 Fernando Guimarães (2007) elucidates the intrinsic connection between avant-gardes and the overarching paradigm of Modernism. Within the rich tapestry of the Portuguese language, seminal movements such as Orpheu, Futurism, Brazilian Modernism, Surrealism, and Concretism emerge as pivotal in shaping the artistic and literary landscape during the…[Read more]

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

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

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

Presiding: Sharon Tran

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

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

Presiding: Sharon Tran

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

[Read more]

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

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

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

]]> 8764972e24cc7d05ecb3268cd2f3576d Krista Brune started the topic Nominations for LLC Luso-Brazilian Executive Committee in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/nominations-for-llc-luso-brazilian-executive-committee/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:53:55 -0500 Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to be a part of the executive committee of the LLC Luso-Brazilian Forum. The new EC member will serve from after the 2026 MLA through the 2031 conference. We are accepting nominations until Thursday, January 16. Thanks! Obrigada!

]]> 9d5e2d3e60d71708ad9ac3c103810696 Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the call for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907864/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:37:56 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce the call for Guaranteed Session Proposals for the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto. If accepted by our Forum, your panel is guaranteed a place at next year’s convention. We invite proposals that engage with a wide range of topics related to 20th- a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d62191f783a3cb76c17bd6d381ac13b Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907863/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:34:06 -0500 Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 15th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 10e0822b8fa7b2282eed7eb1e6e586a6 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-4/ Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:55:06 -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]

]]> 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]

]]> 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 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 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 40a1c6164b167daf4c4542319d7b1127 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 and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878058/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:05:36 -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 31dd13cc24fcf20ac9ab6d00f3eb6a86 Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues started the topic Call for Papers for MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-mla-2025/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:51:28 -0500 From Hip-Hop to Slam poetry hoje and beyond
Papers examining the scope of artistic performances and perspectives for theoretical approaches to slam poetry, rap, and similar forms of poetic expressions. Comparative studies are welcome. 200 words abstract + short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
Paulo Dutra, The University of N…[Read more]

]]> 74755405707853a0d82fe9bfe7a82e5c Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025-3/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:58 -0500 How have enslavement, incarceration, and other colonial confinements shaped more-than-human circum-Caribbean ecologies? How have Black culture-makers confronted these ecologies with abolitionist aesthetics? Send 150-word abstracts to this co-sponsored panel (Caribbean & Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities).Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]

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

CALL FOR PAPERS 

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

]]> ddcb01f8bb9fd11993471e51583fa96f Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870902/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:04:41 -0500 Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4e96485ab9e0971cdccbd1aaa86787e Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870893/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:10:19 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 292811c4e08d23bff02f77cb2bd58766 Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870641/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:04:05 -0500 This contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for "Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge."

]]> 0 f51e48204bd4c01f1697cb6850f2e37b Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-2/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:45:22 -0500 Hi everyone,I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 16th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> fb89e0ea4a3876e5b139f426fe1afe4a Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media in the discussion TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/call-for-book-chapters-beyond-networks-of-domination-rethinking-machinic-media/ Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:47:52 -0500 Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of our Times

Editors: Ananya Roy Pratihar(IMIS,Bhubaneswar), Saswat Samay Das (IIT, Kharagpur) & Shashibhushan Nayak(GP Nayagarh)

The biopolitical schemas for restructuring machinic networks of Media, Digital, and cinema do not stand as…[Read more]

]]> a74fe0ec01fd3798cad56068d62b232b Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:28:19 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

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

]]> d733ace9e5d41108123edc42d07f0e7e Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865793/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:06:46 -0500 Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd4a5a8f5fe6f89c6310b0108b039a68 Mike Phillips deposited West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil in the group LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863753/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 03:08:27 -0500 This chapter examines the relationship between American Westerns and Brazilian Nordesterns, films set in the arid northeastern region known as the sertão. US cultural and economic imperialism, in Brazil and throughout Latin America, is both cause and effect of persistent underdevelopment. The northward flow of natural resources has long been…[Read more]

]]> 0 df074ce123cbf73b846df7790a1a461d Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858170/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:21:45 -0400 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

]]> 0 921dcead34c17839001a52fd69341bbc Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858169/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:18:14 -0400 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

]]> 0 51a83109dec8e38bfa5f9c18b3e3e073 Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857511/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:29:49 -0400 This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f69fd7d92cfe8b1a0a99237d6e17384 Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real" in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856309/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:27:12 -0400 Zunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc7be8e63e42ed7f8f503b5f62d74fe2 Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic CfP ACLA seminar "Promises and Perils of the Psychedelic Renaissance" in the discussion TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/cfp-acla-seminar-promises-and-perils-of-the-psychedelic-renaissance/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:35:50 -0400 For distribution among scholars in: Comparative Literature, English, Cultural Studies, Communications, Spanish/Portuguese, Latin American Studies, Medical Humanities.

Ana Luengo (San Francisco State U) and Alberto Ribas (Santa Clara University) are organizing a seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montréal,…[Read more]

]]> b88ffadd967543c05830e3900e6ad80d Tekla Babyak started the topic My virtual talk on bringing in disabled guest speakers in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/my-virtual-talk-on-bringing-in-disabled-guest-speakers/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 22:39:10 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

My name is Tekla Babyak (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014)—I'm an independent scholar and disability activist with multiple sclerosis. As an MLA Delegate Assembly Member representing Disability in the Profession, I'm committed to fighting against ableism in academia.

To that end, I'm writing to let you know about my upcoming v…[Read more]

]]> e50073a729e182336a88ef3e62e32a10 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847390/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:18:26 -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 9f2237866c263e769b3e808b285d54a8 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847385/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:57:59 -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 bbf220313a5e0e59e17a45d3677abfd3 Amel Abbady deposited Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841282/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:28:33 -0400 McDonagh is arguably one of the most celebrated yet most controversial of contemporary Anglo-Irish playwrights. His plays have received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mostly for featuring graphic violence and obscene dialogues. Even though comedy is mostly seen as an inferior genre compared to tragedy, McDonagh, among many…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bdf73fe6be52a9aaf64e4df595b45c1 Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1838063/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 03:54:38 -0400 This essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick's…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b6e0c0bfcef2cb88d6ec058bc794e4a Raquel Patricia Chiquillo started the topic CFP: for Journal Humanities - on Twenty-First Century Central American Novel in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-for-journal-humanities-on-twenty-first-century-central-american-novel/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:43:57 -0500 Buenas tardes, colegas: quisiera invitarlos a subir sus artículos sobre la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI para consideración de ser publicadas en la revista académica "Humanities." La fecha de entrega es el 31 de marzo pero se puede extender. Me han dicho que el APC no se va a cobrar. Se aceptan manuscritos en español y en inglés. Por favo…[Read more]

]]> 7bb8f7f660b48b97e2a2d04305c7388c Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835406/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:48:43 -0500 This book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba's archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]

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