Knowledge Commons | Christy Call | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/christycall/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Christy Call is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:55:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0401525130ef52640a9055aff17a00e5 Jane Robbins Mize started the topic Science and Literature Panel MLA 2027 in the forum TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/science-and-literature-panel-mla-2027-2/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:38:20 -0500 Hi everyone,

The Science and Literature Forum is seeking abstracts for a panel at MLA 2027, "Food, Science, and Literature":

California alone grows half of the fruits and vegetables in the US. This panel brings together scholars examining literature of food, food science, food justice, and agriculture in California and beyond.

Please submit a…[Read more]

]]> 81dd10f4b57b1c37290fde01d37f3773 Stephanie Shirilan started the topic Seeking Nominations for Sci Lit Exec Cttee! in the forum TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-sci-lit-exec-cttee/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:30:04 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

With apologies for my own belated entry into this designated digital discussion space, I am writing on behalf of the Executive Cttee for this TC Science and Literature Forum to say hello and solicit nominations (especially self-nominations) for a new Executive Committee member whose five-year term will begin in Jan 2027. The…[Read more]

]]> 6ad17d03574041682cf2793f5dfa08c6 Shannon Kelley replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/?view=all#post-1040696 Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:56:02 -0500 Hi, Lamees, we have two positions: a 2-year replacement who would be Secretary and then Chair, and a 3-year position. This person would observe for a year and then rotate into the Secretary and Chair positions. We organize two guaranteed panels each year at MLA. Attendance at the conference is required to share the work of supporting our speakers.…[Read more]

]]> 84647b979af966f891706a04e75bf9cd Moumin Quazi replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040694 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:02:55 -0500 I’d be more than happy to serve, Shannon. My paper (presented Thursday in a virtual session, #63) was a pedagogically-based essay. I’m a 28-year member of the MLA. My email is quazi@tarleton.edu. My cv is attached.

Cheers,
Moumin

]]> bcebea8ea62870f4c9fbc10a9d58ce3f Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040693 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:46:43 -0500 I'd be honored and delighted to join the committee; I've emailed you, too, Shannon, with my CV. I'd be glad to provide anything else to support candidacy.

]]> 144e4c8c3fb181d1a29a5971eeee5140 Lamees Fadl replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040692 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:46:16 -0500 Hi Shannon,Would you please share more information? The term, the duties…etc
Thank you, Lamees 

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On Saturday, January 10, 2026, 1:35 PM, Shannon Kelley <noreply@hcommons.org> wrote:

#yiv6192818141 html, #yiv6192818141 body {Margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important;min-height:100% !important;width:100% !im…[Read more]

]]> 8c26b802a3e503a3f685ee274416b788 Shannon Kelley started the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:31:23 -0500 The Teaching of Literature Forum needs one replacement committee member and one new committee member. This is an excellent opportunity for junior or senior faculty to serve at a national level. Please email me with any questions: skelley@fairfield.edu.  -- Shannon Kelley, Chair, The Teaching of Literature Forum

]]> 9a0828f599954a53e60ae5243aa1fa2b Linda Badley uploaded the file: REMINDER: Abstracts due 9/15: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive to TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1926260/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:51:26 -0400 Abstracts (300-400 words) and a short bio are due September 15th, first drafts March 30, 2026, and final drafts October 31, 2026. When needed, deadlines can be extended. Please send abstracts to Linda Badley (lbadley@comcast.net), Jenna Coughlin (coughl3@stolaf.edu), and Gitte Mose (gitte.mose@iln.uio.no). For more information, see below:

]]> 0 b094bfbbe1c1842a331b2fdbe494942d Linda Badley started the topic CFP: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-future-library-critical-approaches-to-an-unseen-archive/ Sun, 11 May 2025 18:35:21 -0400 Jenna Coughlin, Gitte Mose, and I are excited to be co-editing a collection of essays about Future Library. Please consider submitting a proposal and share the attached call with colleagues who may be interested in contributing.

]]> 82a9b03f6b6fddb6f20ca6965a96954c Lee B. Abraham started the topic Call for Papers: MLA 2026 for Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2026-for-forum-on-second-language-teaching-and-learning-2/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:22:29 -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]

]]> d7da316a141a2bc02639058e70f13a92 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:16:01 -0500 Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge of sustained scholarly interest in the area. Biographies, autobiographies, letters, and diaries from…[Read more]

]]> a2ace73a282b47a8f7b294c419a5ec9d Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/session-413-navigating-the-academy-a-mentoring-session-3/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:53:54 -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]

]]> 2212726350acfdb2c4712ed25529e973 Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-5/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:13:39 -0500 The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.

We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[Read more]

]]> 7583e36ca6b4738ea6c1e1f207c81ec5 Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP ACLA Seminar Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-acla-seminar-literature-resource-extraction-and-settler-colonialism-2/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:39:48 -0400 We are seeking papers for our ACLA seminar on Literature, Resource Extraction and Settler Colonialism for the 2025 ACLA conference (held online).

We invite papers that consider literary responses to various forms of resource extraction within settler colonial states. Extraction was and remains central to settler colonial projects around the…[Read more]

]]> 973069b14dbaf2b127bbe76d5c2f1564 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889189/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:31:08 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c4dc6f3e54c4b336c421dcdd6815292 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889185/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:21:11 -0400 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 890c526507d598544127f4a3b7896aa2 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887293/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:08:31 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3c724d6cbfdee489e425901f37f8517 Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887207/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:12:50 -0400 Interim bibliography on the Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), May 2024

]]> 0 cb348e5157f4c3a6115d5a712af2fa75 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887202/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:04:35 -0400 Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f36217dcaa6136d36924bb8c7825f3b Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/26428-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-and-aati-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:07:58 -0500 #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI Nonguaranteed Session

Title:  Helen Barolini’s Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women at Forty

This panel celebrates one of the seminal classics of Italian American literature on the advent of its fortieth anniversary. Helen Barolini’s 1985 anthology marked a fundam…[Read more]

]]> 4e8f08b9eb09ab00a8e0a5eb284bc2e1 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #25997: Guaranteed Allied Organization Session for IASA in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/25997-guaranteed-allied-organization-session-for-iasa-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:04:41 -0500 #25997: Allied Organization Session for IASA Guaranteed

Title: (In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies

MLA Description: Examines Morrison’s assertion that “Invisible ink is what lies under, between, outside the lines, hidden until the right reader discovers it,” then can only Italian Americans be the “right…[Read more]

]]> 510177aa4a2c57ecd382b3bf9e133aff Sarah Benharrech started the topic Enlightening Encounters: confronting the invisibility of the non-humans in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/enlightening-encounters-confronting-the-invisibility-of-the-non-humans/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:19:56 -0500 The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies- 18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed session:

Enlightening Encounters: confronting the invisibility of the non-humans, the less-than-humans and the-more-than humans, in the long 18th century.

This panel invites papers that explore en…[Read more]

]]> 4219f23c1f32b787bc90c80531a4e50a Allison Carruth started the topic MLA25 CFPs for Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities Forum in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/mla25-cfps-for-ecocriticism-environmental-humanities-forum/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:25:37 -0500 The Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum EC has submitted three CFPs, one in collaboration with the Caribbean Studies forum to the MLA 2025 CFP submission site.

The calls are below with instructions for how to submit an abstract.

1. Forms of Water, Forms of Life

This panel invites blue humanities perspectives on literary forms,…[Read more]

]]> b5e1307cd3566f46df7a78557b226a4a Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-2/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:23:54 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS.) We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 91b33a0fa8702ef55c575e4b2f5696b5 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/mla-2025-cfp-entomological-turns-2/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:04:14 -0500 From Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.

This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]

]]> e5bf168a894a24e940adea28d8f76e36 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870901/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:04:04 -0500 Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3d566fe570426151f7cfe79b2014e08 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870892/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:09:41 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 7beeceb1ef2bb3838e45fe388fcb0fd7 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-12/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:53:34 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 94a6d486e5c9197e75846fb9c807dcb5 Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861781/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:22:07 -0400 This article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7b77bd5a7021d26868afbcaf9ffe879 Sophie Christman deposited Foreword in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861773/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:10:09 -0400 A STEAM-informed humanities' essay describing the theoretical concept of "ecophobia"-a notion put forward in Simon Estok's theoretical text The Ecophobia Hypothesis (Routledge 2018) that describes the systemic human fear of nature.

]]> 0 8ea63c5606b24a218bf40f6922de1af4 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861772/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:08:55 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3215ad93fe15ae8e08e28b8475326962 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861771/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:08:20 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c7570b2f26987384dbc3c36994dbefe Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia * in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861767/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:12 -0400 Considering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature? I claim that conceptually linking the Constitutional protections enabled by the American civil rights movement to an emerging civil rights of nature would enable the rapid transition away from ecophobic attitudes toward…[Read more]

]]> 0 8736ba23e2d0061913427cec10657c36 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860580/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:03:06 -0400 'Modernism and Religion' argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 af0678808ee2fbfe71923b3d302bb11d Jessica Winston started the topic 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award Winner Announced in the discussion TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/2023-teaching-literature-book-award-winner-announced/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:59:15 -0400 The Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy has announced “The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study” as the winner of the 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award. The Teaching Literature Book Award (TLBA) is a national prize that recognizes the best book on teaching literature at the college level.

The award is pres…[Read more]

]]> 5b43cb89760f62ba23760f959e515142 Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation - revised in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1859974/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:13:32 -0400 This is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.

]]> 0 b97a31ba9603264fa6821c6b6d5de687 Arthur Wang started the topic CFP: Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes for Emerging and Contingent Scholars in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-inaugural-post45-essay-prizes-for-emerging-and-contingent-scholars/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:31:57 -0400 Post45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholars. The Emerging Scholar prize is named in honor of two-time Post45 Journal editor Mary Esteve to celebrate her commitment to the work of the journ…[Read more]

]]> 3d63245016c9e13af946c7ebccfe51ec Stephanie Rountree started the topic CFP: Record, Document, Archive [edited collection, advance contract LSU Press] in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-record-document-archive-edited-collection-advance-contract-lsu-press/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:09:28 -0400 Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region [edited collection]

Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press

Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison

Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023

Completed Chapters (7,000 words): March 15, 2024

 

As the double meaning of our title suggests,…[Read more]

]]> 93538900b3546bc5791869908eaa5261 Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847392/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:28:00 -0400 Review of Consider David Foster Wallace.

]]> 0 21f7d508e367a9adafbb932ffc469994 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847389/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:15:26 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 fecc9ca554e24fba362032d0cfed7522 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847388/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:10:34 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 f746fdba991b01f88844310ee9302132 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847384/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:54:55 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b9ac4cca9adb060a84b0f7f630cfa9d Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847383/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:50:03 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 65e49f2b44706a042e7e19a069edf897 Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847379/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:38:10 -0400 Excerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9c519e8f299e85d32b5c1c938a08dc8 Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847377/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:28:38 -0400 This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]

]]> 0 32e7effd12d4aac51762338bcf2d6ab8 Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847128/ Thu, 25 May 2023 02:29:42 -0400 In this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]

]]> 0 f80e06d0d97a09b764e4c22fc1e47ae1 Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841276/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:15:38 -0400 The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0bad784b67525a89225838ddcb1ffef Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/mla-proposed-session-political-oratory-and-african-am-lit-abstracts-by-3-13/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:54:11 -0500 I am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on "Political Oratory and African American Literature."  Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse.   Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.

Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]

]]> 860038066c6c56cfe47a64407ce6557b Faye Hammill deposited The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830475/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:50:53 -0500 Transatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships' libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the…[Read more]

]]> 0 505eb0002b213b66ca7cc8f0677642ff Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award (Nominations Due 3.15.2023) in the discussion TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/nominations-invited-teaching-literature-book-award-nominations-due-3-15-2023/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 20:38:18 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

The faculty of English at Idaho State University invites nominations for the fifth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2021 and 2022 are due March 15, 2023. For more information…[Read more]

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