Knowledge Commons | Cora Fox | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/corafox/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Cora Fox is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:05:03 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6bf689b8ce758c33f230c63e72b3bed0 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/shakespeare/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-3/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:50:45 -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]

]]> 95d8e9de66817bc686ac5685c72f20d0 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-2/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:49:34 -0500 <p style="text-align: center;">Call for Papers</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> bec805cbd0f060d1e675eaad436c676d Marco Caracciolo started the topic 2027 MLA CfP: Gut Cognition (Cognitive and Affect Studies forum) in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/2027-mla-cfp-gut-cognition-cognitive-and-affect-studies-forum/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:51:02 -0500 Gut Cognition in Literature
This non-guaranteed session explores interoceptive feelings in literature. How do they interact with literary forms? How do they reflect historical and cultural variations in bodily experience?

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

Submission…[Read more]

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

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

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

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

]]> 7ede33aeabe52948ed4d23eac2a70e9c Philip Trotter started the topic MLA 2026 Convention Session in the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities-and-health-studies/forum/topic/mla-2026-convention-session/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:44:07 -0500 Please find attached a link to the abstract and details for the MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing, and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing.”

 

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

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

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

I am…[Read more]

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

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

Eligibility:

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

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

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

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

Please distribute the attached job posting. Thanks!

Warm regards,

Isabel

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

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

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

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

]]> ad99cfd8924307e6d8ed9ebf2a820f80 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901835/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:02:09 -0400 This chapter argues that
by including fan studies as part of appropriation theory scholarship can account for
this conversation, manifest in likes, re-posts and experimental fan work. Because of
the interplay between creator and audience, the focus of appropriative study shifts
from the end product, the new Shakespeare iteration, to the fan…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1ca42eebf710bee42180ac2c9232285 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901834/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:00:10 -0400 This chapter argues that
by including fan studies as part of appropriation theory scholarship can account for
this conversation, manifest in likes, re-posts and experimental fan work. Because of
the interplay between creator and audience, the focus of appropriative study shifts
from the end product, the new Shakespeare iteration, to the fan…[Read more]

]]> 0 b771d381025eefe4fa630d4d6dd65e7d 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 LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900895/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:19:32 -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 3b64664b4c520f5dac09f7d56c458694 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics," Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900892/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:16:06 -0400 Whom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 34b43690873e15ca3daffe2e90b43646 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900889/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:11:44 -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 7d7b2fd99fe4ae4f4b5300d18a5b628a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900887/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:08:19 -0400 How do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]

]]> 0 a264454de75d5bbb322c3400d99676b7 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 LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900884/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:03:46 -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 8e282cc7c10e0f32f596bd7b427c96d0 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China," in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900882/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:00:09 -0400 This chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin's interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]

]]> 0 8919f8290898b89abe48a65c3c75d66f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900082/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:03:39 -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 e3710f36cc43db4e8b25731ea2d647fc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900080/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:00:08 -0400 Focusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[Read more]

]]> 0 55fcc5d725bf985ad7a1a0be49a94ffe Sonia D. Andras deposited Sonia D. Andras - Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue (Conference Presentation, 2023) in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897243/ Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:00:24 -0400 Presentation of the paper "Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue" from 15 June 2023 at the ‪@EDERAPCE‬ Conference Titled "Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă" [See details: https://eder&hellip;[Read more]

]]> 0 0455d9132b8aed370faa30470461274e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891696/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:04:32 -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 42f441651281ba769a6c511e2046ee77 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891693/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:00:07 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7ce58764ff13856e54eef1716e2de09 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886893/ Wed, 22 May 2024 18:49:22 -0400 79239b18b248c82b0255988a174fcb52 Cristina León Alfar edited the doc Call for proposals, Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886889/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:47:07 -0400 98958b3614af4b05cd44abcdaa62df36 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886888/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:37:33 -0400 75966ee742cd37c929e45192faa541f3 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 LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886050/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:17:47 -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 e960db8a16e66fe5f700982f6ac2cb95 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886048/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:13:15 -0400 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

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

]]> 0 8dc8873edec5000109a201ad26f1ca60 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 Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886046/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:10:53 -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 cfd0f85013b89ea8f855f265b41df342 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886043/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:05:15 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 73f2d3f11c5bc059c6284f247d583449 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878066/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:22:56 -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 5fe90e56c80f64ed38b639681a9f8543 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878064/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:19:25 -0500 Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia by Alexa Alice Joubin. Lecture video now available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/R8mbUd_mHjQ Drawing on her forthcoming book, Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2024), Alexa Alice Joubin examines cultural encounters with Shakespeare’s plays as heterotopia, a set of parallel s…[Read more]

]]> 0 2dbaed96cf5cdf780c071e1cc0cbd155 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited CBC Podcast: Liberate Your Mind – Exploring Sex and Gender in Shakespeare, February 20, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878062/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:17:35 -0500 Full podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/dNhxFiaoIGM This is a CBC Radio podcast on gender roles in Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Taming of the Shrew, recorded live at Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada. “Liberate your mind, said English professor Alexa Alice Joubin, urging us to embrace the Bard’s open-endedness to ambiguity in…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 8752ad64bd27207defafac43906e437c Kendra Leonard deposited Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice (2004) in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877419/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:04:52 -0500 The performance history of The Merchant of Venice is one entangled with what producers and directors hear as the sounds of Jewishness, be it traditional prayer, like the Shema or Kaddish, or contrived nonsense, like the “old Hebraic song of sacrifice” sung by Anthony Sher in a 1987 stage production. In this essay, I interrogate composer Joc…[Read more]

]]> 0 1118127cd51730c53dba74bb67587ecd Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876629/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:05:39 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 89d3f836a88ec233866bf1be09182716 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility," The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 195-211. in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876056/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:03:50 -0500 Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, have broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. This…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 5a5fffba9788ea55877933430afe3cd3 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI, Theater, and Interface Theory, keynote at Imaging Across Time: Wenshan International Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2023 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875819/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:03:52 -0500 What happens when AI goes to theatre with human audiences? Generative AI's natural-language conversational interface has frequently been cast as an anthropomorphic interface. In performance, digital screen as interface has evolved from a vehicle for dramatic messages to a meaning-making agent with an anthropomorphic presence. While the tendency to…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 08c9ec84ba78c7b562022bcc401d9b46 Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "From Science Fiction to Futurism in Peruvian Literature" in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875802/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:03:58 -0500 Introduction to the bilingual anthology "Qhipa Pacha. Peruvian Futurism" and preliminary study about the origins and development of the science fiction genre in Peruvian letters since the 19th century. The anthology includes 14 short stories written by contemporary Peruvian and Peruvian-based authors, members of the Qhipa Pacha Collective. These…[Read more]

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

]]> ff55178d7dfdf974028113058a8a87d1 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872232/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:03:59 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bcb426a373e0ce591086d27c6b68dcc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872230/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 52e32a3c19dbd712005700b4465c168d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872217/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:03:51 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

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