Knowledge Commons | Boris Wolfson | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/bywolfson/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Boris Wolfson is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 36a26344cc3920444f5be8a412b2cade Cynthia Chase replied to the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/#post-1040991 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:40:39 -0400 That is: How long is the paper I would deliver supposed to be? How many pages? (It used to be 15-20 minutes, always a strain to condense it to that.)

From: Cynthia Chase <noreply@hcommons.org>
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2026 6:30 AM
To: Cynthia Chase <cc97@cornell.edu>
Subject: [MLA Commons] re: DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 (GS Drama and…[Read more]

]]> cd1688f61d0a43626779f8fd963d4f78 Cynthia Chase replied to the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/#post-1040990 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:28:41 -0400 I’m thinking about it. I just arrived in Paris and am jet-lagged and have only 3 days to meet the Friday Mar. 20 deadline. I need to know exactly how long the paper should be, in terms of minutes and in terms of pages.

My paper would be about the power of resistance in differentiated productions (in the process of re-canonization) of, in p…[Read more]

]]> 04ee16898b00419ad5fd7a642dc2b1b7 Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:59:11 -0400 Dear Colleagues

Please do consider proposing a paper for the panel below. Reach out if you have ideas or questions you'd like to discuss. Thanks!

*****

Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century

How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for,…[Read more]

]]> 20d457672d9297e9a3e980500064c9e4 Jennifer Buckley started the topic 2026 Summer Shaw Symposium (July 24-26) CFP in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/2026-summer-shaw-symposium-july-24-26-cfp/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:30:36 -0500 <p class="p1">The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival warmly invite scholars and theatre artists to the annual summer Shaw Symposium, which will take place July 24-26 in Niagara- on-the-Lake, Ontario,Canada. Registration is free for ISS members.</p>
<p class="p1">Focused on Bernard Shaw’s writings, his legacies, and his c…[Read more]

]]> a8a62bb169ed59bc2daedd99a6aa2979 Ju Yon Kim started the topic New committee member and delegate assembly representative nominations welcome! in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/new-committee-member-and-delegate-assembly-representative-nominations-welcome/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:57:54 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing 1) an additional member to the committee, starting January 2027, and 2) the forum’s delegate assembly representative. Please see below for more information.

#1: Annual new app…[Read more]

]]> 034611601fb5c4ba4267565f42616c4a Janice McGregor started the topic Call for Papers: MLA 2027 for Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2027-for-forum-on-second-language-teaching-and-learning/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:22:19 -0500 Sessions Organized by the MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching & Learning (SLTL)
2027 Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
January 7-10, 2027 in Los Angeles, CA

The MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching & Learning (SLTL) invites submissions for two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions at the 2027 MLA annual convention.…[Read more]

]]> 8ea640888bd7c2b1aa8e43d6a820a513 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-6/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:55:05 -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]

]]> b0d0caa70655bbd0ee0202651d99f7de Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP - MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:16:37 -0500 Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century

How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for, and potentially provoking a reconceptualization of, emancipatory ways of being in the world? 250-word abstracts, brief bios.

Deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 2b3d0dcffea9e20c766f2f1a1e69dae1 MelissaBarchi Panek replied to the topic CFP: MLA 2027 (Los Angeles) — Mediated Futures: Technology and Transformation in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-los-angeles-mediated-futures-technology-and-transformation/#post-1040868 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:15:00 -0500 Call for Papers

Comparative Literature and Culture Studies (20th–21st Century)
Modern Language Association Conference, January 7-10 Los Angeles
Electronic Roundtable (8 participants)

Mediated Futures: Technology, Transformation, and the Literary-Cultural Field

This electronic roundtable invites short, exploratory interventions on the t…[Read more]

]]> 7ff7fca4cbefb3a9a31dfb533aea9b08 Scott Poulson-Bryant started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee-3/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:42:53 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. If you’d like to be considered, please email me directly at scottpb@umich.edu with your int…[Read more]

]]> cf74cccf006facb88bedf383107ea832 Randall Gess started the topic MLA 2026 Session: Romance Linguistics in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/mla-2026-session-romance-linguistics-3/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:00:41 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics welcomes you to our session at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We hope to see you on Friday, January 9th at 5:15 @ MTCC – 205A
Presentations
 The Curious Case of Interconsonantal S in Old French , Francisco Antonio…[Read more]

]]> 4dfa1b4f28f04e52917d77088d2d5c38 Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:01:27 -0500 The Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning cordially invites you to our three (3) sessions at the Modern Language Association's (MLA) 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We look forward to seeing you and to your participation!

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314 - Reimagining Learning and Teaching with Student…[Read more]

]]> 0e8778175fa4e3943197d13818255d7c Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-3/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:50:52 -0500 Please consider applying and share widely!

]]> a9dc5d30abd20173f796e3ca138791ff Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP - Openness in Language Education in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/cfp-openness-in-language-education-3/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:37:47 -0500 📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review

I’m happy to share that The EUROCALL Review is launching a new thematic issue on:
👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”.

This issue focuses on the role and impact of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in language education worldwi…[Read more]

]]> b5412b4a8231677c9500557177f42efb Sarah Balkin started the topic CFP: IFTR 2026 at the University of Melbourne in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-iftr-2026-at-the-university-of-melbourne/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:30:19 -0400 Submissions to the 2026 IFTR Conference “What Theatre Does” will open Saturday, November 1, 2025.

 

Over time and across cultures, performance has variously been said to beguile, celebrate, empower, entertain, exalt, instruct, oppress, provoke, purify, moralise, remember, subvert, transfigure, and welcome. 

 

But does it real…[Read more]

]]> 348afd253ba702abdce5b0cd9cb9a772 Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP: MLA Toronto 2026 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-mla-toronto-2026/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:53:00 -0400 So much drama! The view from abroad: a roundtable

How does the current dramatic state of the American union appear as performance, especially when projected to audiences beyond USA borders? How might the spectacle broadcast from the USA seem to shape socio-political performances elsewhere?

 

Deadline for submissions (extended): 7 September…[Read more]

]]> 6f857c771cd76cdfcf61330a36028b65 Aparna Dharwadker started the topic Publication of COSMO-MODERNISM AND THEATER IN INDIA (Columbia UP, 2025) in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/publication-of-cosmo-modernism-and-theater-in-india-columbia-up-2025/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:27:59 -0400 Dear colleagues: I am happy to announce the publication of my monograph, Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms, in the Modernist Latitudes Series at Columbia University Press. Paula Krebs confirmed that we can share such news with the Forum membership, so I look forward to similar posts from other…[Read more]

]]> de6584d7523b9ec9f4b235077aed8f4d Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-amplifying-womens-voices-of-resistance/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:53:35 -0400 CFP for “Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance: Challenging Power, Shaping Change”, for a special issue of the South Atlantic Review: The Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

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

]]> 5aa77399e5c07eb50329f24ddad6d61e Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-2/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:04:37 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11. Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

How do linguistic features passed…[Read more]

]]> 5c96bcc39400711eaf75e3b668f81da6 Sarah Balkin started the topic MLA Drama and Performance 2026 CFPs in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/mla-drama-and-performance-2026-cfps/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 04:33:21 -0400 <div class="html-div xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd">
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]]> 2660c2c2242df3d80ac42860ffbe65c3 Lee B. Abraham started the topic Call for Papers: MLA 2026 - Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2026-forum-on-second-language-teaching-and-learning-2/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:16:06 -0400 Call for Papers
Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 8-11, 2026, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 6411651436af88122e2a7fb303b20f5e Oana Popescu-Sandu started the topic Romanian forum/Romanian Studies Association guaranteed panel proposals for 2026 in the forum LLC Slavic and East European https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/slavic-and-east-european/forum/topic/romanian-forum-romanian-studies-association-guaranteed-panel-proposals-for-2026/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:28:04 -0500 Dear colleagues,

The guaranteed roundtable proposal from the Romanian Forum might interest the members of this group. Please send any questions and proposals to Oana Popescu-Sandu at opopescusa@usi.edu. Thank you.

MLA Romanian Forum and RSAA (Romanian Studies Society of American) Proposal for Guaranteed Roundtables at MLA 2026 Toronto

Panel 1:…[Read more]

]]> f2baccb0f0531fdcbe119a1ff9a5b4a8 Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers in the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/second-language-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-15/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:43:51 -0500 (Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities (Online)
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases, and ethical implications. Send 30…[Read more]

]]> c21107a92990bb519167da689a9f06c7 Michael Subialka started the topic CFP "Who Do We Resemble? Selfhood, Perception, and Modernist Multiplicity" MLA in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-who-do-we-resemble-selfhood-perception-and-modernist-multiplicity-mla/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:17:20 -0500 Luigi Pirandello’s One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (1926) presents a radical meditation on the fragmentation of identity, the impossibility of “true” self-perception, and the crisis of being seen differently by others. Published exactly a century ago, the novel interrogates the ways in which individuals exist not as unified selves but as…[Read more]

]]> c3704e0d64890279b554fff3dd635de9 Sarah Balkin started the topic Self-nominations for the Forum's Delegate Assembly representative in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/self-nominations-for-the-forums-delegate-assembly-representative/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:10:18 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has been suggested by the forum’s membership (unless there are too few suggestions). I write to encourage you to submit you…[Read more]

]]> a8da52a82eba4d12541d7a4ee2f831fd Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/session-413-navigating-the-academy-a-mentoring-session-4/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:10:30 -0500 MLA 2025 Convention

MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession

Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session

 

NB: Session Information Follows. The mentoring session will continue informally following the roundtable via happy hour. Location: Ernst Café (600 S. Peters St.; across the street from the Hilton R…[Read more]

]]> eb77c98ed2495bf6fe7d52b823c99daa Sarah Balkin started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee-2/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:21:17 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I'm writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. The committee will meet during the 2025 convention to discuss and organize panels for the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 0294a5cc2013cfb5fed00f220e15be1a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-7/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:55:05 -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]

]]> 10697a60384a7ca03d821b6499d898fa Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902702/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:00:06 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cdc505d6974a63bb5a0109cc3c5ab89 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902282/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:00:08 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 34d16a28df8835ef00c26a4bda7f8aa2 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-7/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:26:40 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature -- “Australia And...”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

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

]]> ef54abba0ac1222513086091b1913190 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 GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900894/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:17:57 -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 b155b6073243a0b1eec92a5a004a0671 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900888/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:10:09 -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 7a23080c6edfb9a974825760533648f9 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 GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900883/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:02:06 -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 cdac2f491cffb3deba520c196f504906 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900081/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:02:02 -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 04177f7098d2441c828fe972bfbd4fac Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-3/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:03:14 -0400 Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

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

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

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

]]> 56d50c041cc9233b51c0e018c6f1eca9 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891694/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:02:05 -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 457b5c4448c53e0e142413fccd6432da Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Review of Joseph O'Neill, in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890598/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:00:27 -0400 Early, refereed review of Joseph O'Neill's third, groundbreaking novel set in post-9/11 New York City: the review charts key plot developments, a transatlantic mapping of the characters (Netherlands, Trinidad, UK and US) and its structural similarities to F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". Originally published in the third issue of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f562bbe393c3a465eda69d68fc3fd8aa Brian Gregory Caraher deposited "Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!": Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890207/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 This paper describes the social and cultural climate of teaching the works of James Joyce -- including his journalism and major works of fiction from "Dubliners" through "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake" -- over the years 1993 to 2016 when the author was the Chair of English Literature at Queen's University Belfast. The author draws upon his…[Read more]

]]> 0 065b87c807f4b04bc751ae327171939a Katina Rogers deposited The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889658/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:53 -0400 The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing the ineffable qualities of…[Read more]

]]> 0 2aa30b4c49328a0016c5a50a788c70b9 Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group LLC Slavic and East European https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889377/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:02:07 -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 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 20ae87acced4ef99097ec6798582b351 Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group LLC Slavic and East European https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887553/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:00:52 -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 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 14335be4a82325dcddb92c9d04e6c2f7 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 GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886049/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:15:42 -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 e1e6489c360bb09bd7e42a82ab2bd1f4 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 GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886044/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:07:48 -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 f5c1a6246aefaa5928c096d339b5a69b 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 GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878848/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:00:13 -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 9efecd54ad70ca81685f0d85f4460f23 Oana Popescu-Sandu started the topic LLC ROmanian MLA 2025 CFP in the discussion LLC Slavic and East European https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/slavic-and-east-european/forum/topic/llc-romanian-mla-2025-cfp-2/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 15:43:11 -0500 Colleagues,

Please see below our CFP for next year's MLA from LLC Romanian! Email your 250-word proposals by March 15 to Ileana Marin at marini@uw.edu.

(In)visibility of Romanian Writers in English as a Second Language

The list of successful exophonic writers is impressive: Vladimir Nabokov (native speaker of Russian), Elie Wiesel…[Read more]

]]> f0ccf77c12c351468ae25e72aeeff1aa Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878065/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:21:18 -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 1ff4d9259926a4692573a9ef20aa92e7 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited CBC Podcast: Liberate Your Mind – Exploring Sex and Gender in Shakespeare, February 20, 2024 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878061/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:15:56 -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]

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