Knowledge Commons | Bradley Gorski | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/bradleygorski/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Bradley Gorski is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:58:48 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bec805cbd0f060d1e675eaad436c676d Marco Caracciolo started the topic 2027 MLA CfP: Gut Cognition (Cognitive and Affect Studies forum) in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/2027-mla-cfp-gut-cognition-cognitive-and-affect-studies-forum/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:51:02 -0500 Gut Cognition in Literature
This non-guaranteed session explores interoceptive feelings in literature. How do they interact with literary forms? How do they reflect historical and cultural variations in bodily experience?

Please submit a 200-word abstract and a brief bio to Marco Caracciolo, Ghent U (marco.caracciolo@ugent.be)

Submission…[Read more]

]]> 0e0603b41731d0a83737c5a05a3d66cb Haiyan Lee started the topic 2027 MLA Panel CFP: Elements of Surprise in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/2027-mla-panel-cfp-elements-of-surprise/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:57:07 -0500 <div><b data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Elements of Surprise</b></div>
<div>2027 MLA Convention, January 7-10, Los Angeles</div>
<div>Co-sponsored by TC Cognitive and Affect Studies and LSL Linguistics and Literature</div>
<div>Co-organizers: Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and Vera Tobin; presider: Haiyan Lee</div>
<div></div>
<div>We invite contributions…[Read more]

]]> 5d86f57405a6bb40518a3e79babc78f4 Aili Pettersson Peeker started the topic Seeking Support for MLA Forum Proposal on Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/seeking-support-for-mla-forum-proposal-on-trauma-informed-pedagogy/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:32:01 -0500 Dear all,

I am writing to ask whether you would be willing to add your name in support of a new MLA forum proposal, “Trauma-Informed Pedagogy.” This proposed forum offers a space for scholarship and dialogue on how trauma (personal, historical, and structural) shapes teaching, learning, and literary study. It complements existing MLA forums but…[Read more]

]]> 8cdd25a78e579a1361394e8141dc22c3 Rob Wilkie started the topic Radical Caucus Resolution Signatures Needed by October 1, 2025 in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/radical-caucus-resolution-signatures-needed-by-october-1-2025/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:13:41 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

Do you feel the need for the MLA to take a stand against the fascistic attacks on higher education, the genocide in Gaza, and the spurious distortion of antisemitism as justification for these assaults?

The MLA Radical Caucus is sponsoring a resolution for the 2026 MLA Convention that will address these concerns. It is titled…[Read more]

]]> 2105b6767d80ba284f2c435ed1592703 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 TC Anthropology and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912533/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:13:38 -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 929d484a9f320217cc99bd0d7f1c7515 Jim Kavanagh replied to the topic Resignation Executive Committee TC Marxism, Literature, and Society Forum in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/resignation-executive-committee-tc-marxism-literature-and-society-forum/#post-1039474 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:35:30 -0500 Thanks for standing up for humanity.

]]> 5c8d7113a2159116a63f1aa889f268e4 Nattie Golubov started the topic Resignation Executive Committee TC Marxism, Literature, and Society Forum in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/resignation-executive-committee-tc-marxism-literature-and-society-forum/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:15:37 -0500 Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee officers of our forum to let you know that we have resigned our appointments to protest the Council's refusal to allow for an open debate of MLA Resolution 2025-1, which concerns an endorsement of the 2005 BDS call to action:…[Read more]

]]> 8c9de188b4efcda2fd4856bf2d125d62 Nattie Golubov started the topic Call for Chapters Atmospheres of Extinction in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-atmospheres-of-extinction/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:07:38 -0500 Atmospheres of Extinction: Architecture & Post-Cold War Structures of Feeling

This collection seeks to understand post-Cold War built atmospheres that reference or update far-ranging Cold War affective geographies, geopolitical atmospheres and subjective forms in architecture, literature, popular culture and the arts by exploring the relationship…[Read more]

]]> 582e8fa64344f6db0af4d8591fd64d15 Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job posting, please distribute in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-distribute/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:57:13 -0400 Dear colleagues, Please distribute the following job posting. Thanks!

The Department of English at the University of California Santa Barbara
invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in
Literature and Mind studies. We welcome applications from scholars of
literatures in English working in Cognitive Humanities and/or…[Read more]

]]> 5a09aaf3e76e8fa52f9363b77dab854a Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job Posting, please share in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-share-3/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:52:16 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Please distribute the attached job posting. Thanks!

Warm regards,

Isabel

]]> 9f7e96dce1cbbd2d3eb96ebdace552c6 Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job Posting, please share in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-share-2/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:48:52 -0400 Dear colleagues, Please distribute the following job posting. Thanks! Warm regards, Isabel

The Department of English at the University of California Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Literature and Mind studies. We welcome applications from scholars of literatures in English working in Cognitive…[Read more]

]]> fc43f6a775bdb6c59e469ad0342db183 Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job Posting, please share in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-share/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:45:57 -0400 Dear colleagues, Please distribute the following job posting. Thank you! Warm regards, Isabel

The Department of English at the University of California Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Literature and Mind studies. We welcome applications from scholars of literatures in English working in…[Read more]

]]> 3ce100436d219d91dd4619a9083e8dbf Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group LLC Russian and Eurasian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889376/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:01:27 -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 42e1cad2b8bf1cdfe227d6f55f3bc9ce Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group LLC Russian and Eurasian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887552/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:00:12 -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 5d4f65344b789e2605a2ff2823f2b30f Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/MARX/PEIRCE in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886475/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:01:39 -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 329e7406af3271ede582237826fb74d9 Purnima Bose started the topic Convention 2025: "Postcolonial Capitalism: Southeast Asia & Its Diaspora" in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/convention-2025-postcolonial-capitalism-southeast-asia-its-diaspora/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:41:50 -0500 Postcolonial Capitalism:  Southeast Asia and its Diaspora
(a co-sponsored proposal on behalf of the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Forum and the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum)
Short CFP:
How do representational narratives, forms, and genres register the articulation of emergent
capitalist imperatives as recompense…[Read more]

]]> c313b8ed76dd74a8dfbac49b0a61b76f Purnima Bose started the topic CFP: MLA Convention 2025 in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-mla-convention-2025/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 15:01:03 -0500 The Executive Committee invites abstracts for two 2025 MLA sessions organized by the TC Marxism, Society and Literature Forum. More information is below.

Exhaustion, Involution, Bullshit Jobs: Virtual roundtable on the conditions and afflictions of over/underwork in response to a reading by David Graeber (the preface and first chapter “What is a…[Read more]

]]> 2ad7a9187ad4bb0a7f389a378f5c27a8 Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/PEIRCE in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876759/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:00:32 -0500 Speculative notes on the relation between Peirce's pragmatist method and Hegel's dialectics

]]> 0 9e0320d74e2ce5de79d92fc9f5572421 Mimi Winick deposited Abstracts for panel, "Anthropology and Speculative Fiction," MLA 2024 in the group TC Anthropology and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869862/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 "Anthropologists, Aliens, and Indigenous Futurism: Writing against Culture in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning" Eric Aronoff, Michigan State U
"Alberto Vanasco: An Alien Ethnography of Argentina," Caleb Delorme, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
"H. G. Wells’s Fetishism " Jayne Hildebrand, Barnard C
Respondent: Frank A. Palmeri, U of Miami

]]> 0 95f658cf022208640d2cbe0819693b4f Eva Cherniavsky started the topic Updates from the Forum Executive Committee 12/28/23 in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/updates-from-the-forum-executive-committee-12-28-23/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:56:17 -0500 Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]

]]> 29f9630c46d3b85ce8e2361b8dc165b9 Epifanio San Juan deposited CHALLENGING AMERICAN STUDIES in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864252/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:11:49 -0500 Critique of orthodox American Studies in the last quarter of the twentieth=century.

]]> 0 6c80c11cd45005c6cf5225ca6a4a523f Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864248/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:00:15 -0500 Survey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.

]]> 0 808e25e5cd20d3b0cbdbcb0a8866f80c Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858168/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:16:50 -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 f18e54bb10e5233eeb760a51a3df54e2 Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857509/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:25:37 -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 01a2d4d628ceae7efd3f1dd90f2ad5fc Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real" in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856308/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:25:44 -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 feb8fe45e176b8099bb9c0cb2bb13e09 Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion TC Anthropology and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/anthropology-and-literature/forum/topic/rhythm-speed-path-spatiotemporal-experiences-in-narrative-poetry-and-drama-3/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:11:21 -0500 Dear colleagues,

we've extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.

The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).

This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]

]]> 52c152776471a0117766520229ca7903 johnpendergast started the topic Request for Titles in the discussion LLC Russian and Eurasian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/russian-and-eurasian/forum/topic/request-for-titles-2/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:19:47 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]

]]> 16671e71bdcab8247e4c8be437729fb1 Sebastian Lecourt started the topic Self-Nominations for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion TC Anthropology and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/anthropology-and-literature/forum/topic/self-nominations-for-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:52:53 -0500 As the outgoing chair of TC Anthropology and Literature, I would like to invite the membership to offer self-nominations for the Forum's Executive Committee. Following recent reforms, new EC members are now nominated instead of elected, but suggestions may still be solicited from the membership. Please submit self-nominations to me at…[Read more]

]]> 54853bc2059971bb2946f42dec67420b Michaela Hulstyn started the topic CFP MLA 2024: Vital Signs: Thinking and Feeling Sustenance and Survival in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2024-vital-signs-thinking-and-feeling-sustenance-and-survival/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:50:46 -0500 The Cognitive and Affect Studies forum invites papers that discuss vital signs in literature for a guaranteed session at the 2024 MLA. Please submit a 250-word abstract and short bio to mhulstyn@stanford.edu by 15 March.

]]> 51705f669f68056b0637342b22b2fa4b Ellen Spolsky replied to the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-and-affect-studies-sponsored-sessions-at-mla2023-2/#post-1032293 Tue, 03 Jan 2023 08:27:17 -0500 Some of you may also be interested in the *on line* Special Session
629 *Cognition,
Law, and Literature *Sunday 8 January 10:15 AM-11:30 AM

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Session/14222

Presider
- SSimon Stern
<https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Person/5709&gt;
- U of Toronto

Presentations…[Read more]

]]> 8463c76ee9ef9c6cf821c84ed64928ba Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-and-affect-studies-sponsored-sessions-at-mla2023-2/ Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:44:16 -0500 All: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).

]]> 8463c76ee9ef9c6cf821c84ed64928ba Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-and-affect-studies-sponsored-sessions-at-mla2023-2/ Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:44:16 -0500 All: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).

]]> ba24495e929b8afceb32728660182a1d Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Cognitive and Affect Studies-sponsored Sessions at MLA2023 in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-and-affect-studies-sponsored-sessions-at-mla2023-2/ Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:44:16 -0500 I hope everyone will attend our forum's sponsored sessions this year at MLA2023! Here is a convenient link to all three in the convention program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Symposium/2149

We have three very different sessions this year. First up, on Thursday, is a face-to-face session exploring neurodiverse modes of literary…[Read more]

]]> 2ba08479451ec734d513aad654ba108b Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Cognitive and Affect Studies-sponsored Sessions at MLA2023 in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-and-affect-studies-sponsored-sessions-at-mla2023/ Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:34:31 -0500 I hope our forum members will consider attending our sponsored sessions at this year's MLA convention, and help out our work by letting others who will be in attendance know about them!

* Attention, Please! Thu 5:15-6:30, Moscone West - this face to face session examines attention from neurodiverse perspectives, including neuroqueer, ADHD, and…[Read more]

]]> 20f72c2c964dfb37ecc517b22b55f9be Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-51/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:27:46 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 252e21996a238f806cef3d9571f35353 Elisa Kriza deposited Wer ist hier der Feind? Verbündete und Gegner in Alexander Solschenizyns Darstellung von Deutschland in the group LLC Russian and Eurasian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821417/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:25:01 -0500 The prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was known mainly for his work on the Soviet prison camps. In many of his fictional and non-fiction works, however, Solzhenitsyn dealt with the subject of Germany. This article analyses Solzhenitsyn's depiction of Germany in the works August 1914, The Gulag A…[Read more]

]]> 0 79179ed4bb59f3168378f067ce40e426 Loren Kruger deposited Brechtian Theatre and the Glocal South The Case from South Africa in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817354/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 02:26:20 -0400 The glocal scale offers a more productive frame for analyzing the transculturation of theatre, particular Brechtian theory and practice, than either the singularly local or the generalized global. Glocalization brings into focus networks of imaginative representation that may be missed in overbroad applications of global frameworks, particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 f79a12572b2a0249290e33c774a8567a Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1777281/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:26:27 -0400 An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.

]]> 0 b3bd565fc5ba50034e436724585543d9 Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group LLC Russian and Eurasian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1777280/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:25:49 -0400 An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.

]]> 0 d77f3c8355c2c3ff0e57246f83ad2a6a Lisa Zunshine started the topic "Cognitive" sessions at the MLA! (527, 645) in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-sessions-at-the-mla-527-645/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 10:53:54 -0500 Don't miss these two online sessions on cognitive literary theory! Session "Sadness" (527, Saturday, January 8) features papers by Haiyan Lee and Lisa Zunshine, while "Life-Writing and Cognition" (645, Sunday, January 9) features papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.

]]> 984845522d82448f542cb036fded3127 Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Exec Committee Member? in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/new-forum-exec-committee-member/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 21:18:08 -0500 MLA has a new process for selecting new members to forum executive committees. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you'd like to make a nomination (or self-nominate) please email me. Thank you, Sophia

]]> 87dfe9babf7e8888898099ef7d8b0c84 Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Member? in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/new-forum-member-2/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 21:16:52 -0500 MLA has a new process for selecting new members to forum executive committees. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you'd like to make a nomination (or self-nominate) please email me at sam50@psu.edu. Thank you, Sophia

]]> 2ecb0ffdcd88cb731e0ea35ded8cdc74 Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Member? in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/new-forum-member/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 21:14:23 -0500 MLA has adopted a new process for populating the forum roster. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees.  If you would like to to recommend a member to serve (or self-nominate) please email me at sam50@psu.edu.  Thank you, Sophia

]]> d813a59dbb5881809e09661bdae18f50 Melanie Jones replied to the topic “Global Dostoevskys,” North American Dostoevsky Society in the discussion LLC Russian and Eurasian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/russian-and-eurasian/forum/topic/global-dostoevskys-north-american-dostoevsky-society/#post-1028283 Mon, 25 Oct 2021 21:19:21 -0400 UPDATE: The deadline for abstracts and submissions is now rolling.

]]> 683b2b3e4b9bad30d8c3b3f55b3ff02a Melanie Jones started the topic “Global Dostoevskys,” North American Dostoevsky Society in the discussion LLC Russian and Eurasian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/russian-and-eurasian/forum/topic/global-dostoevskys-north-american-dostoevsky-society/ Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:33:06 -0400 The North American Dostoevsky Society invites proposals for blog posts on the topic of “Global Dostoevskys: Influences and Receptions” for our official blog The Bloggers Karamazov. Posts for this limited series should focus on an aspect of Dostoevsky’s influence and reception outside of Russia. Less researched sites of influence and unexp…[Read more]

]]> aa640e807013696f8321603d8c1901ce Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750927/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:32:10 -0400 This essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]

]]> 0 e55fe127ce2c5aa03a9637a82b248c60 Ann Komaromi started the topic Delegate Assembly Representative - Call for nominations in the discussion LLC Russian and Eurasian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/russian-and-eurasian/forum/topic/delegate-assembly-representative-call-for-nominations/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:37:47 -0400 We are seeking a candidate suggested by the membership of the Russian and Eurasian Forum to be our Delegate Assembly representative (info on the position can be found here: https://governance.mla.hcommons.org). Members may nominate themselves for this position. Please send your name or the name of the member suggested, affiliation, department,…[Read more]

]]> 5a72c70cc5146296b4424ce562f32003 Ricardo Jose Castro started the topic CFP: Cognitive Approaches to Latin American / Iberian Cultural Productions in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cfp-cognitive-approaches-to-latin-american-iberian-cultural-productions/ Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:09:40 -0500 The Graduate Student Caucus, Allied MLA Organization, is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on Cognitive Approaches to Comtemporary Latin American & Iberian Cultural Productions, at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC.

Panel focuses on cognitive approaches to literatures/cultures of Iberia/Latin America. Topics may include, but not…[Read more]

]]> 3ce2a5bad0c1d0ec0da30f5072553515 Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic CPF: Imagining Time (MLA 2022) in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cpf-imagining-time-mla-2022/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 22:01:11 -0500 Imagining Time
Seeking work on the psychology of time in reading: how writers and readers make & modulate virtual experiences of time; tempo, cadence, duration, synchronicity; cognitive approaches particularly welcome. 300-word abstract and CV. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021 Elizabeth Oldfather, U of Louisiana, Monroe…[Read more]

]]> 80db23dbc4dafbfa298fe73a23924e8d Michaela Hulstyn started the topic CFP: The Art of Unselfing (MLA 2022) in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cfp-the-art-of-unselfing-mla-2022/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 19:32:50 -0500 The Cognitive and Affect Studies and Philosophy and Literature forums invite papers that engage the philosophy, cognition, or emotions of unselfing in literature and/or art for the 2022 MLA meeting. Collaborative, non-guaranteed session. Please submit a 250-word abstract by 15 March to mhulstyn@fsu.edu.

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