Knowledge Commons | Robert J. Hudson | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/bobhudson74/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Robert J. Hudson is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:10:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 95d8e9de66817bc686ac5685c72f20d0 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-2/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:49:34 -0500 <p style="text-align: center;">Call for Papers</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 6e62d447801dc538b9b9ac4f4eae8397 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic Invitation for self-nominations to the Forum Executive Committee in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/invitation-for-self-nominations-to-the-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:34:16 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee of CLCS Renaissance / Early modern invites self-nominations for TWO positions on the committee: one replacement position for a 3-year term, and one new member for a five-year term. Our primary responsibility is to organize panels and roundtables for the MLA convention; we have two guaranteed panels per…[Read more]

]]> 3e1f3d005e7a774b00ddefd39772a1c9 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-and-renaissance-italian/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-4/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:52:56 -0500 Please consider applying and share widely.

]]> ea4812be429fe3cb6ca501e8c73285c9 Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:46:31 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> 5512468dfe66b60c9745c1b9e771aca9 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic CFP MLA 2026: Early Modern Women’s Violence in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2026-early-modern-womens-violence/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:56:59 -0500 <p style="font-weight: 400;">The Renaissance and Early Modern Forum executive committee invites proposals for a guaranteed *virtual* panel at MLA 2026 titled “Early Modern Women’s Violence.” This panel will explore representations of women’s violence across early modern literature and culture. How do early modern texts gender violence? How do they…[Read more]

]]> 995e7775c026c9279a403d0a6edb24b7 Kyle Pivetti started the topic Self-Nominations for Renaissance and Early Modern Forum Executive Committee in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/self-nominations-for-renaissance-and-early-modern-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:54:49 -0500 We invite self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the CLCS Renaissance/Early Modern forum. We appoint one new member annually for a five-year term. Our primary responsibility is to organize panels and roundtables for the MLA convention; we have two guaranteed panels per year.

Eligibility:

1. Only current MLA members are…[Read more]

]]> d1ca42eebf710bee42180ac2c9232285 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901834/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:00:10 -0400 This chapter argues that
by including fan studies as part of appropriation theory scholarship can account for
this conversation, manifest in likes, re-posts and experimental fan work. Because of
the interplay between creator and audience, the focus of appropriative study shifts
from the end product, the new Shakespeare iteration, to the fan…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b64664b4c520f5dac09f7d56c458694 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics," Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900892/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:16:06 -0400 Whom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d7b2fd99fe4ae4f4b5300d18a5b628a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900887/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:08:19 -0400 How do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e282cc7c10e0f32f596bd7b427c96d0 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China," in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900882/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:00:09 -0400 This chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin's interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3710f36cc43db4e8b25731ea2d647fc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900080/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:00:08 -0400 Focusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9d4b373e4ae2a49e86699123183c993 Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum LLC Medieval French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-french/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-global-premodernity-in-five-objects/ Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:29:14 -0400 Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library

Divergence and I…[Read more]

]]> a56c08e1f6b37b450d1790e2fb49ab5c Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-and-renaissance-italian/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects-3/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:25:09 -0400 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

]]> deb61ee9a908cac4e7df40e7037d8021 Leslie Zarker Morgan deposited Translation of two "Facezie" for study of the romance epic in the group LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1894825/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:03:23 -0400 Poggio Fiorentino (Bracciolini), 1380 – 1459, wrote a series of "Facetiae" in Latin, "Facezie" in Italian, clever responses and short tales, first published in 1470. Placed on the Index, of the Council of Trent, these nonetheless were well known and have been translated into Italian in multiple editions... without the name(s) of the t…[Read more]

]]> 0 42f441651281ba769a6c511e2046ee77 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891693/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:00:07 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e976d20b58e214334357382b5b14ef1 Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group LLC Medieval French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889766/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:01:36 -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 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 6cd85632feb33a038fc349aa2f23435f Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group LLC Medieval French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887842/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:01:32 -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 f7ce58764ff13856e54eef1716e2de09 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886893/ Wed, 22 May 2024 18:49:22 -0400 e960db8a16e66fe5f700982f6ac2cb95 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886048/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:13:15 -0400 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

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

]]> 0 cfd0f85013b89ea8f855f265b41df342 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886043/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:05:15 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 5fe90e56c80f64ed38b639681a9f8543 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878064/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:19:25 -0500 Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia by Alexa Alice Joubin. Lecture video now available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/R8mbUd_mHjQ Drawing on her forthcoming book, Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2024), Alexa Alice Joubin examines cultural encounters with Shakespeare’s plays as heterotopia, a set of parallel s…[Read more]

]]> 0 c41d31ebe82ca5e64e0bb6121d97febc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited CBC Podcast: Liberate Your Mind – Exploring Sex and Gender in Shakespeare, February 20, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878060/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:13:59 -0500 Full podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/dNhxFiaoIGM This is a CBC Radio podcast on gender roles in Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Taming of the Shrew, recorded live at Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada. “Liberate your mind, said English professor Alexa Alice Joubin, urging us to embrace the Bard’s open-endedness to ambiguity in…[Read more]

]]> 0 124aa1077ec2394ae5aba39400272200 Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876627/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:00:30 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 785545bc90ecadafd432541a0848eaa7 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility," The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 195-211. in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876054/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:00:12 -0500 Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, have broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 465e66dd32668c6568ff8d71af884aaa Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI, Theater, and Interface Theory, keynote at Imaging Across Time: Wenshan International Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2023 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875816/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:00:12 -0500 What happens when AI goes to theatre with human audiences? Generative AI's natural-language conversational interface has frequently been cast as an anthropomorphic interface. In performance, digital screen as interface has evolved from a vehicle for dramatic messages to a meaning-making agent with an anthropomorphic presence. While the tendency to…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d5f0281039e97e70ca33ae9d4cde113 Corinne NOIROT started the topic MLA 2025 New Orleans - Calls for papers in the discussion CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/mla-2025-new-orleans-calls-for-papers-2/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:24:21 -0500 Seeing, Watching, Looking in Sixteenth Century France (1480-1630) Beyond eyewitness testimony, how do writers and characters see, watch, look at things and beings in the 16th century? With what implications regarding representation, cognition, relationality, or agency? Genre differences? 250-word abstract and short CV by 15 March 2020.  (Contact:…[Read more]

]]> 90615aecf19a5e50e20bea386455382f Corinne NOIROT started the topic MLA 2025 New Orleans - Calls for papers in the discussion LLC 16th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2025-new-orleans-calls-for-papers/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:24:19 -0500 Seeing, Watching, Looking in Sixteenth Century France (1480-1630) Beyond eyewitness testimony, how do writers and characters see, watch, look at things and beings in the 16th century? With what implications regarding representation, cognition, relationality, or agency? Genre differences? 250-word abstract and short CV by 15 March 2020.  (Contact:…[Read more]

]]> 496e51d2803486819954edc39ff636b5 Corinne NOIROT replied to the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion LLC 16th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-book-proposals-translatio-see-flyer-attached-5/?view=all#post-1037128 Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:23:13 -0500 Thank you, Anne !

]]> 7bcb426a373e0ce591086d27c6b68dcc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872230/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 60eab17b3f965cf793f67beebfcce79d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872215/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:00:03 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 0f19517dd36ec6f5c5fb919584cd0eee Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of #SuchStuff Podcast by the London Globe, Early Modern Digital Review 6.2 (2023): 149-153 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1871758/ Sat, 20 Jan 2024 04:00:11 -0500 Educational podcasts have gained momentum in recent years. Closure of live performance venues and widespread lockdowns as part of public hygiene measures during the global COVID-19 pandemic further increased interest in at-home consumption of digitally delivered content for entertainment and education. Supported by the Globe Theatre’s education d…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d337f791cd55095358f9b74a1fa9180 Corinne NOIROT started the topic NOMINATE YOURSELF OR OTHERS by 01/25 (2026-2030 Forum Executive Committee term) in the discussion CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/nominate-yourself-or-others-by-01-25-2026-2030-forum-executive-committee-term-2/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:27:58 -0500 The LLC 16TH CENTURY FRENCH Forum is seeking self-nominations to fill the next open seat on the Executive Committee, for convention years 2026-2030.

This appointment implies a 5-year commitment. The Executive Committee mostly works remotely. MLA Convention attendance in at least 3 of the 5 years served is expected. You would effectively start…[Read more]

]]> f09796f6e2b7758217c4acab94460986 Corinne NOIROT started the topic NOMINATE YOURSELF OR OTHERS by 01/25 (2026-2030 Forum Executive Committee term) in the discussion LLC 16th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-french/forum/topic/nominate-yourself-or-others-by-01-25-2026-2030-forum-executive-committee-term/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:27:31 -0500 The LLC 16TH CENTURY FRENCH Forum is seeking self-nominations to fill the next open seat on the Executive Committee, for convention years 2026-2030.

This appointment implies a 5-year commitment. The Executive Committee mostly works remotely. MLA Convention attendance in at least 3 of the 5 years served is expected. You would effectively start in…[Read more]

]]> 64183fea2ae38ed4a19677a4f9024914 Corinne NOIROT replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 16th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-french/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-19/?view=all#post-1036921 Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:08:56 -0500 Please nominate and self-nominate by January 25, 2024!

]]> f57cce9cdc3d22c0ff4320607a5df60e Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870639/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:01:18 -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 710a87b6a0f8828b503e1f99fdd80b92 Crystal Anne Chemris started the topic MLA Discount on The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity in the discussion CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/mla-discount-on-the-spanish-baroque-and-latin-american-literary-modernity/ Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:47:58 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Attached is a flyer for an MLA discount on my book, The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: Writing on Constellation.

Crystal Chemris

]]> 00c071270e7344ac352f7eeb9e00d179 Sarah Kay replied to the topic Seeking nominations for the Medieval French executive committee! in the discussion LLC Medieval French via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-french/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-medieval-french-executive-committee/#post-1036583 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:56:33 -0500 Hi Julie

I’m no longer an MLA member but I recommend you consider two of my former NYU students now on the tenure track, Joe Johnson (Georgetown) and Tina Montenegro (Boston College).

Best wishes

Sarah

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> On Jan 2, 2024 at 8:30 PM, <Julie E. Singer (mailto:noreply@hcommons.org)> wrote:
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]]> ce35194a2c28257cee4a45ccc0152312 Julie E. Singer started the topic Seeking nominations for the Medieval French executive committee! in the discussion LLC Medieval French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-french/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-medieval-french-executive-committee/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:30:25 -0500 Hello, Medieval French forum members! The current members of the Executive Committee (Charlie Samuelson, Andreea Marculescu, Christine Bourgeois, Alani Hicks-Bartlett, and I) are seeking nominations for the next committee member. This is a five-year commitment, with each member serving as Secretary in their fourth year and Chair in their fifth…[Read more]

]]> f75a8e11fe7b099e8d32e4e37dc515d5 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness," Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866121/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:00:13 -0500 Inclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 fad9a7216f13575d528c9f04a29bad83 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Plenary: "Are There Transgender Characters in Shakespeare?" Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia, November 4, 2023. in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864505/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:00:12 -0500 Video recording of Alexa Alice Joubin's plenary is available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/8P5nNv86goQ There are certainly non-binary actors on stage, but are there Shakespearean characters who can be read as trans? The answer is yes. To ask whether there are transgender characters is to ask questions about the performance of gender roles. We are…[Read more]

]]> 0 efb176fc64bee7648baf18408dceb58f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook 20: Pericles, ed. Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Deanne Williams in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864063/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:00:13 -0500 This volume focuses on Pericles, Prince of Tyre, whose narrative of refugee suffering, familial loss, emotional distancing, people-trafficking, and eventual, joyous recovery speaks strikingly to our historical moment. The play’s internationalist reach, its images of cross-cultural relations, and its Eastern Mediterranean setting also promote a r…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3171f222223adbd01e03909fbb1a608 Cristina León Alfar deposited Abandoning Tragedy in James Ijames Fat Ham in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1862106/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:00:13 -0400 The story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is adapted and revised by James Ijames in his play Fat Ham, which ran from 12 May to 31 July 2022 at The Public Theater, coproduced by the National Black Theatre. Ijames’s play, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, plays with and departs from the plot of Hamlet to explore Black manhood, the fam…[Read more]

]]> 0 67f307258923d81a63c0d0fd3dabced7 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 16th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-french/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-19/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:00:35 -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]

]]> 8b4a2f66bfe0506897609e17d63371ac Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855395/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:11:49 -0400 A book's a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on "Counting (in) Early Modern Drama," I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]

]]> 0 02541637e8561413ee8d07a68aae50c9 Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854429/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:08:17 -0400 According to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section "until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types." 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4's printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc833ec169f545db81445fd702140b40 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Lin Shu." The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852242/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 03:48:44 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8a86a53761b3258c30a65dac1df059a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin Receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846403/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:41:19 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, which recognizes Professor Joubin’s “contributions to social justice and inclusive excellence ” that exemplify “the ideals that Dr. King espoused,” particularly “community-based social justice organizing rooted in non-violence.” The MLK Award comes on the heel of her bell hook…[Read more]

]]> 0 eed284d38f7a66b7d91c851f00fd9db6 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Afterword: Adaptation studies and interactive pedagogies." Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences, ed. Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 187-200. in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846395/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:33:28 -0400 Criticism of the Shakespearean canon through adaptation as a genre has the capacity for liberation and social reparation. As a cluster of complex texts that sustains both past practices and contemporary interpretive conventions, Shakespeare provides fertile ground for training students to listen intently and compassionately to other individuals’ v…[Read more]

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