Knowledge Commons | Brian Steininger | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/bsteininger/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Brian Steininger is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:34:50 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 084dfed0c0bc033445ea05542e3e8b3d Heng Du started the topic CFP: Permutations of the “Imagination”; Grappling with Absence in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-permutations-of-the-imagination-grappling-with-absence/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:09:21 -0500 The MLA Pre-14th c. Chinese Lang Lit & Cul Forum is inviting proposals for the following two panels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

<b>Permutations of the “Imagination” in Early and Medieval Literary and Visual Art</b><b></b>

This panel will explore the idea of the “imagination” as manifest in the literary and visual arts of early…[Read more]

]]> 9b4259816cfb740985c7bf6d1803697e Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-4/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:52:03 -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]

]]> b22ea75eb6865e0a9e38fd78827f79d8 Edward B. Kamens started the topic MLA Session 72: Family Resemblances in East Asian Anthologies in the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-session-72-family-resemblances-in-east-asian-anthologies/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:56:55 -0500 There are several panels on the program of the 2026 conference that will be of interest to members of this Forum (and others).  Please consider attending panel 72, "Family Resemblances in East Asian Anthologies," a roundtable designated as a Presidential Theme Panel.  Mary Gilstad (UCLA), Mengling Wang (Colgate), Niels van der Salm (Leiden) and I…[Read more]

]]> 9ea82408ce02e602316c3ab755f83e3f Erin Brightwell started the topic MLA Roundtable Session 515 in the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-roundtable-session-515/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:07:37 -0500 Dear Colleagues, if you're looking for a roundtable with a heavy premodern Japan presence at the upcoming MLA, please consider joining us at MLA 2026 Session 515 (Remote): "Fact, Fiction, and the In-Between: How Japanese Studies Can Foster Student Literacy in an Age of Dis- and Misinformation."

Although it's a roundtable, we will have five short…[Read more]

]]> b7e66adea713777f8932a4c7e89b6d4f Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due by 1/15/26 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-by-1-15-26/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:52:54 -0500 <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 28c07cccec2cf371b0df678a6435f022 Charo D'Etcheverry started the topic Membership suggestions for Japan to 1900 Executive Forum in the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-japan-to-1900-executive-forum/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:34:28 -0500 The Japan to 1900 Executive Forum needs to appoint one new member for a 5-year term starting in January 2026. Please email the current chair, Charo D'Etcheverry (cdetcheverry@wisc.edu), to nominate yourself or someone else! All candidates must be members of MLA. Deadline for nominations: November 30, 2025.

]]> 26f9aa9adc6b3a268da92ca93cf090e8 Tian Jing Teh started the topic CFP USC Korean Studies Institute Annual Graduate Conference 2025-2026 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-usc-korean-studies-institute-annual-graduate-conference-2025-2026/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:09:13 -0400 The USC Korean Studies Institute invites applications for its Annual USC Graduate Conference in Korean Studies 2025-2026. This conference aims to foster a multidisciplinary community of local and regional graduate students whose research projects significantly engage Korean society and culture across the periods. It offers a platform for emerging…[Read more]

]]> 67d51d9face4d40029856fc7fe1fcbe8 Heng Du started the topic Respondent/panelist for guaranteed panel on premodern temporality (MLA26) in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/respondent-panelist-for-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-mla26/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:10:54 -0400 We are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. I included below a draft of its description, which can be further tailored according to your interests/suggestions:

<b>Natural Time and Human Narratives: Competing Temporal Orders in the Premodern World</b><b></b>

As a comparative study of…[Read more]

]]> bed759e6f99a8179ea616dcf19aafd15 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-17/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:33:42 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> f311db3e78c2cfcf8df25aa294057faa Nahir Otano Gracia started the topic On Palestine and the Medieval Academy of America in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/on-palestine-and-the-medieval-academy-of-america/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:23:35 -0400 Medievalists of Color have issued a statement on Palestine and the Medieval Academy of America (MAA). They call for a boycott of the MAA

You can read the full statement here.

]]> 998163ae8aa4c83b79591056d8de2342 Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1899999/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:04:35 -0400 SHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- o…[Read more]

]]> 0 77154ac068a920a21bfd9d81f27a369e Donald W. Wood started the topic Iberia and Mediterranean-themed sessions: ICMS, Kalamazoo, 2025 in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/iberia-and-mediterranean-themed-sessions-icms-kalamazoo-2025/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:34:12 -0400 A comprehensive list of Iberia and Mediterranean-themed sessions at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2025

See complete Call for Papers page here: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/cfp.cgi

1. Body and Mind in Medieval Iberia (hybrid) Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)…[Read more]

]]> 69968ff374b81e9c6b5a9c10ef10aecf Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:30:06 -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]

]]> f96d7a41d2a5ebc303035818a351075a Leslie Zarker Morgan deposited Translation of two "Facezie" for study of the romance epic in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1894824/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:01:45 -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 957b663ecd634e8c4d560585b26d9d17 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891695/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:03:47 -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 e7fdc8af26b6c0ed70fa772f30721b0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889177/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:03:45 -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 50c0378fabd519def6343312e1c13019 David A. Wacks deposited Medieval Iberian Romance in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886747/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:07:30 -0400 The story of the medieval Romance on the Iberian Peninsula is a bit more complicated than that we read in traditional histories of Spanish or Catalan literature. Hebrew and Arabic authors also wrote texts that could be classified as romances some years before the Castilian Grail and Amadís. These authors adapted the motifs of Arthurian or…[Read more]

]]> 0 41bf393c133a5ae0c199f9e8d92cdd4b David A. Wacks deposited Foreword: 50 years of Spanish Arabism in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886744/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:03:34 -0400 Spanish Arabism was a touchstone of the major intellectual and political issues facing Spain as it emerged from its imperial past into its current form as a modern nation-state. James T. Monroe’s survey of four centuries of Spanish scholarship on the cultural history of al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) establishes Spanish scholars on the forefront of E…[Read more]

]]> 0 5044134d2f14c8d7d87a42023a5edd7b David A. Wacks deposited Preface to The Study of al-Andalus The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886742/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:00:14 -0400 The Study of al-Andalus is a collection of essays by students and colleagues of James T. Monroe, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Arabic at the University of California, Berkeley, and the premier scholar of Andalusi (Hispano-Arabic) literature in the United States. The introduction by the editors explains the impact Monroe’s s…[Read more]

]]> 0 06f816f7a922654b5a975298576da41e 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 LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886045/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:09:56 -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 b7035478ecacbe747575cd69b0be1585 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Dutch Formosa in 2000: Taiwan as China’s Renegade Province in Wu Ziniu’s The Sino-Dutch War 1661," in Scenes from Dutch Formosa: Staging Taiwan’s Colonial Past, ed. Llyn Scott (Portland ME: MerwinAsia, 2014), pp. 153-179 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886040/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:00:15 -0400 What does Koxinga mean to today’s China and Taiwan? How does Wu Ziniu’s film The Sino-Dutch War 1661, a 2000 mainland Chinese film about seventeenth-century Dutch Formosa–with a mainland Chinese / Hong Kong / Japanese cast–complicate the questions of belonging and betrayal?

Taiwan’s cultural identities have always been political…[Read more]

]]> 0 84ec38fd98e2dbe69534cbf51fcbdbaf David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884545/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:13:29 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3790e2294fc5ee2f670242553c99506d David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884540/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:07:44 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5610dff3d48df262e4004ce68c4362e2 David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879890/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:07:26 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 281127f875516c4185a5941231ee60c5 David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879885/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:02:23 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 13bdfd6523fb954a4545031350fa4e81 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Keynote: Cinematic Representations of East Asian American Women, Tucker-Boatwright Festival and Symposium: Hollywood & the Asian American Imagination, Richmond, February 23, 2024 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878849/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:01:57 -0500 My keynote explores such questions as: What are the patterns in Hollywood representations of East Asian American women from romantic comedy to science fiction films? How do racism and sexism intersect in these patterns? Watch the video recording on YouTube (https://youtu.be/iHjKOYf-IXQ) to gain a better understanding how gender biases are…[Read more]

]]> 0 8344490172d70a9035dfa7a8cded582f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 335-338 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876064/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:15:27 -0500 Going against the grain, this collection counters the common perception of the Maoist era as a time of ideological conformity. The contributors persuasively demonstrate that theatre activities were varied and lively between the 1950s and 1970s. While there was state control over the arts, performances in urban spaces were more frequently censored…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b43440e5e6ec54332bfd3892c75887d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Performing the Socialist State by Xiaomei Chen, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 338-340 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876060/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:10:03 -0500 In this review, Alexa Alice Joubin outlines the main argument of Xiaomei Chen's Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture. "The eight chronologically- and thematically-organized chapters in this book provide a much-needed critical survey of spoken drama (huaju) from its inception through the Republican and Maoist eras…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0145bfbba1ffdd449d1df08d629828e Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874114/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:03:08 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 085d313e046aa420168c40f47f867b03 Edward B. Kamens started the topic Planning for the 2025 MLA Conference in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/planning-for-the-2025-mla-conference-2/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:02:14 -0500 The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]

]]> a4bf7214ea655b6f8f20b445a0575a6b Edward B. Kamens started the topic Planning for the 2025 MLA Conference in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/planning-for-the-2025-mla-conference/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:02:11 -0500 The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]

]]> e25853339c14d7155fd2be5a683fe444 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Revisar los inicios del español desde el magisterio de Alarcos y Lapesa in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870990/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:04:09 -0500 During the long time of its documentation, Latin could not remain unchanged, so there had to be a cultured, writ-ten variant of the language and popular variants, which evolved into dialectal forms, Afro-Latin-Romance variants. As far as the African part is concerned, the novelty of this study, especially for Romanists and Arabists, is to convey…[Read more]

]]> 0 8fd438a9fc35c361b85c79086478a5e5 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Dominio y lenguas en el Mediterráneo Occidental hasta los inicios del español in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870985/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 El objetivo principal de este libro es recoger y transmitir reflexiones y resultados de una investigación que ha evolucionado en paralelo a la vida profesional de su autor. Arranca de la pregunta sobre cómo era la situación lingüística de la Península Ibérica tras la llegada de los sarracenos, en qué ambientes se iniciaron las lenguas romance…[Read more]

]]> 0 e41efa5201965a356302884cdda44b53 Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/scaglione-prize-for-east-asian-studies-2/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:41:10 -0500 Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

]]> 6040bfd2e01b91ac26fb71bd922a90a0 Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/scaglione-prize-for-east-asian-studies/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:40:53 -0500 Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

]]> 45336e7f966f11ae663c5b33dc363eea Sarah Allen started the topic Call for nominations: LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese forum executive committee in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-pre-14th-century-chinese-forum-executive-committee-2/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:18:45 -0500 P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2025. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

]]> 8e6d3236ea044cf89ade8f1fe8a7f1c4 David A. Wacks deposited Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “Cómo Santa María ayudó a la emperatriz de Roma” in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864689/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:10:48 -0500 Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdec860d53aebbf4089f94f48d564498 David A. Wacks deposited Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “How the Virgen Mary Helped the Empress of Rome” in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864685/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:07:28 -0500 Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2d7f8e30fa73fd18a937d60e2444516 David A. Wacks deposited Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial (Granada, 1566) in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864670/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:00:02 -0500 Núñez-Muley abstract

The Edict of 1567, or Anti-Morisco Edict, was promulgated by Spanish King Philip II on January 1, after being approved in Madrid on November 17, 1566. Its purpose was to eliminate specific Morisco customs, such as their language, dress, and dances. Núñez Muley’s Petition is an attempt to persuade Christian authorities to de…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc53d9e31580aca42b636d397c90ec69 David A. Wacks started the topic Open access teaching unit: Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria (Cantiga 5) in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/open-access-teaching-unit-alfonso-x-cantigas-de-santa-maria-cantiga-5/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:45:33 -0500 Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

]]> 51eb252f1ce5bb0db603c5a5528cacdb Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Generative AI as Shadow Publics in an Inquiry-Driven Society, Symposium on Digital Scholarship. Hong Kong Baptist University, October 27, 2023 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864511/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:10:22 -0500 Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, simulate human writing and complicate the inquiry-driven culture we live in. These tools use singular first-person pronouns in their textual outputs and are often associated with anthropomorphic qualities. Within the humanities, conversations tend to focus on detecting new forms of plagiarism. What is missing…[Read more]

]]> 0 c120e24fc58ff08ad4f360bfde82c103 Brian Bernards started the topic Job Opening: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Premodern Korean Studies, USC in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/job-opening-tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-premodern-korean-studies-usc/ Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:29:15 -0400 Assistant Professor in Premodern Korean Studies

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Premodern Korean Studies. The position is…[Read more]

]]> 20c11c8ce1daac57869ce0a800a0a985 Jonathan Senchyne deposited Introduction: Infrastructures of African American Print in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855437/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:24:42 -0400 "The essays in this volume attend to both of these possible relations to the infrastructures of inscription. They explore not only how white supremacist histories and infrastructures have limited and foreclosed black expression but also how black expression has extended, recoded, and transformed some of these very structures, affording new possibilities."

]]> 0 ce4586753cb362736337888d3e358b70 Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855398/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:16:06 -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 416ad088540f97a93c91e978686167ee Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854432/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:13:23 -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 643abf0568769fc35c5d9f1c1a36a900 Brian Bernards started the topic AAS 2024 Seattle CFP: Verge-sponsored panel on Inter-Asia Intermediality in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/aas-2024-seattle-cfp-verge-sponsored-panel-on-inter-asia-intermediality-3/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:03:06 -0400

AAS 2024: Call for Papers for Verge-sponsored Panels


Inter-Asia Intermediality: The Transboundary Production of Global Asian Mediascapes
Organizers: Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) and Elmo Gonzaga…[Read more]

]]> f2fcb50aa07950adfbadfbd899a15fce Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Lin Shu." The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852243/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 03:50:51 -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 d153553dd0f25c4e21176eb0a3464fea Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin Receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846406/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:44:48 -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 c9214cc2733fa2de07951b5547e17437 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Do English Audiences Have the Toughest Time with Shakespeare?," Quarto: The Magazine of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, Spring/Summer, 2023 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841708/ Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:28:28 -0400 All the world’s a stage, but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. “English audiences are at a disadvantage because the language has evolved and is more and more distant. They need footnotes, props and staging to understand,” said Alexa Alice Joubin, a Shakespeare schol…[Read more]

]]> 0 aebd7d95f2785d794287eee8466bab0d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "English Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory." GW Today, April 12, 2023 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841267/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:01:36 -0400 When ChatGPT was launched, Alexa Alice Joubin realized it was here to stay. She views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use it responsibly, not as a shortcut. “This technology is going to be with us, and students need employable skills in terms of curation, editorial repackaging and prompt engineering,” Joubin said. “They need…[Read more]

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