Knowledge Commons | Daniel R. Walker | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/danwalk/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Daniel R. Walker is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:39:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6c40929115590ed39ff22f250c94092e Lennie Amores uploaded the file: CFP: MLA Convention 2027 Los Angeles ( to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1945300/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:47:11 -0500 MLA Annual Convention
Los Angeles, January 7-10, 2027
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
LLC 20th- and 21st- Century Spanish and Iberian Forum
Emancipatory Narratives of Aging
This guaranteed session will examine cultural and literary representations of aging, old age, and memory in Spain, its emancipatory potential, challenges to aging, ageism, discrimination,…[Read more]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 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]

]]> 4d2331b86208f730b5a350865fdd59db Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941342/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:52:17 -0500 CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. Special Issue of Hispanófila.
Edited by: Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College) and Adam Cohn (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Proposals due March 6, 2026

]]> 0 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]

]]> 872f9781aeed68328acafa4d0fb2b887 Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum-7/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:12:57 -0500 The Modern Language Association's (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning cordially invites you to our three (3) sessions at the MLA's 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 Studen…[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]

]]> 0185a279590f9ea1062a28f28e6f6d61 Luisa Canuto replied to the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum HEP Teaching as a Profession via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies/#post-1040406 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:52:50 -0500 Inserisco anche dei quizzetti di pratica pre-esame che possono esser utili

]]> 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!

]]> d1db803031ee32ae9d90adff100698c0 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:43:33 -0500 Please see the attached job ad 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]

]]> 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]

]]> 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]

]]> e0f5b92dc79b61535ec1f51a1ecfec05 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-6/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:40:01 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

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…[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]

]]> 8e31108f736f4fd5332721c27565549b Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025 to TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912534/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:18:06 -0500 In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is dedicated to this reflection on the concept of narrative in order to sharpen it by defining its boundaries: Which phenomena cannot be appropriately lab…[Read more]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 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]

]]> 284a8e619da6a501da681a87ccbcd09d Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-11/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:01:33 -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]

]]> 1d61717cb2645b087df62bdb0f4924c2 Katherine D. Harris deposited Adoption of open educational resources in California colleges and universities in the group HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901173/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:00:34 -0400 The California Open Educational Resources Council (CAOERC)
was formed in 2014 to find solutions to reduce the cost of college textbooks
without impacting quality. Comprised of faculty from California’s three public
higher education systems, the CAOERC conducted a field study of 16 faculty
using OER materials to discover practical knowledge a…[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]

]]> 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]

]]> 6384c85ccf4d390999d0f62f3d956d0a Inés Vañó García started the topic Newly extended CFP (through 07/21) – JITP Special Issue in the forum HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/newly-extended-cfp-through-07-21-jitp-special-issue-4/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:15:26 -0400 <div class="entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-constrained">
<h4><strong>The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy</strong></h4>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Themed Issue 24:</strong></h4>
<strong>Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation</strong>

<strong>Issue…[Read more]

]]> 800f6db741fa66bcb72203ad970fa9d7 Elizabeth Franklin Lewis started the topic Roundtable at New Orleans on undergraduate research in the forum HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/roundtable-at-new-orleans-on-undergraduate-research/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:01:31 -0400 I am gathering a panel for New Orleans on incorporating collaborative undergraduate research projects in the classroom. We are especially interested in hearing from faculty teaching languages and literatures other than English. Please let me know ASAP if you are interested.

Here is the tentative title and description:
<div…[Read more]

]]> 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 0b548460633c2324e68208139933c5fc Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890325/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:03:58 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[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 2cb4d0a697afc921ee33c648a9d21c34 Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037800 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:05:17 -0500 Adding a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture TeachingThis panel explores repositioning Iberian Studies by connecting students with communities, decolonizing the syllabus, and diversifying curricular perspectives and…[Read more]

]]> ace3f098733860d7a0095c40978f961f Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037799 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:04:36 -0500 A revised CFP, including a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

 

Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture TeachingThis panel explores repositioning Iberian Studies by connecting students with communities, decolonizing the syllabus, and diversifying curricular…[Read more]

]]> cdf3168b9cf15bc2923b7d2ee01830ff Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037797 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:01:43 -0500 Revised CFP, including a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

 

 

]]> b87fb2dddc72f3e37248c1d83a4ff995 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878059/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:09:12 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca9b171ed8661b28c242e15163432404 Lissette Lopez Szwydky started the topic MLA 2025 - HEP CFP (2 of 2) How to Decolonize the Classroom in the discussion HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/mla-2025-hep-cfp-2-of-2-how-to-decolonize-the-classroom/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:01:57 -0500 CFP: How to Decolonize the Classroom
This roundtable invites BIPOC teacher-scholars to discuss experiences and efforts to decolonize language and literature classrooms. Participants will share stories, strategies, and teaching materials. Submit 250-word abstract and brief bio to asattar@usc.edu by March 15. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15…[Read more]

]]> 6daa27adc30d8548894acfc09e795804 Lissette Lopez Szwydky started the topic MLA 2025 - HEP CFP (1 of 2) Teaching and the Gig Economy in the discussion HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/mla-2025-hep-cfp-1-of-2-teaching-and-the-gig-economy-2/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 22:59:00 -0500 Teaching and the Gig Economy
This roundtable explores the intersection of teaching and the gig economy. Participants will share insights on evolving educational models, workforce dynamics, and impact on educators. Submit 250-word abstract and brief bio to styutina@csun.edu by 03/15/24. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024Svetlana…[Read more]

]]> f23c41798a4650b5a2fe7c41ed8803c6 Lissette Lopez Szwydky started the topic MLA 2025 - HEP CFP (1 of 2) Teaching and the Gig Economy in the discussion HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/mla-2025-hep-cfp-1-of-2-teaching-and-the-gig-economy/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 22:57:49 -0500 Teaching and the Gig Economy
This roundtable explores the intersection of teaching and the gig economy. Participants will share insights on evolving educational models, workforce dynamics, and impact on educators. Submit 250-word abstract and brief bio to styutina@csun.edu by 03/15/24.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024Svetlana…[Read more]

]]> d1dec69d8ef566aa62c15f1497b34d1a Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877009/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:00:11 -0500 Abstract
In his email conversations with Arabella Kurtz in The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, J.M. Coetzee entertains the notion of settling on fictions of ourselves, which we are able to inhabit more comfortably than what is perceived as our real life. In addition, he implies that in order to form fictions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d7e2a4a4164274466ec08c907e7e7ee Maybel Mesa Morales replied to the topic CFP: Temporalities of the Cuban Revolution in the discussion CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-temporalities-of-the-cuban-revolution-3/#post-1037305 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:20:27 -0500 Deadline: Friday, 15 March 2024

]]> 252823137734ad2cbec39196fbae7167 Lennie Amores started the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:15:37 -0500 MLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section 

The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit their proposals for the following panels:  
Iberian Exteriorities
What are the dynamics at play in the historical, political, and theoretical configurations of Spai…[Read more]

]]> 640b48b3300cf32aca673427d4093274 Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic MLA 2024 Convention session on modern Spanish memoir and autofiction in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2024-convention-session-on-modern-spanish-memoir-and-autofiction/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:54:14 -0500 You are cordially invited to a session sponsored by the Religion and Literature forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:

#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)

Presider:  Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York…[Read more]

]]> d733ace9e5d41108123edc42d07f0e7e Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865793/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:06:46 -0500 Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd2ba74b4f20ec1cabc6232879bc9515 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865788/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:00:13 -0500 Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb901929d875b743fde813dabc750b83 Mike Phillips deposited Through a Tube, Darkly: Critical Remediation in High and Low (1963) in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863744/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 03:00:24 -0500 Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 police procedural is, as its title suggests, intensely interested in the socioeconomic valences of spatial relationships, literalized in Yokohama’s affluent hills and its low-lying slums. The central conflict between inhabitants of these two spaces articulates this local topography into a global framework, in which con…[Read more]

]]> 0 081e190f63265a7f2be65abc8f220002 Angela Acosta started the topic CFP Spanish Sapphic Modernity - Feminist Modernist Studies in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-spanish-sapphic-modernity-feminist-modernist-studies/ Sat, 30 Sep 2023 02:51:57 -0400 CFP: Spanish Sapphic Modernity, Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies

Article proposals (250-300 words) and short bios (50-75 words) due by November 15.

Co-editors: Angela Acosta (Davidson College) and Rebecca Haidt (The Ohio State University)

Given the relative dearth of scholarship exploring sapphic modernism in Spain, Europe, and…[Read more]

]]> fa3d53c7f6b248c923a1d27d1c10e8f6 Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation - revised in the group HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1859970/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:00:03 -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 df074ce123cbf73b846df7790a1a461d Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858170/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:21:45 -0400 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

]]> 0 51a83109dec8e38bfa5f9c18b3e3e073 Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857511/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:29:49 -0400 This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]

]]> 0 d20c67e1cf376751ed1bd3fd4a839696 Danny Barreto started the topic CFP: COUNTERDISCOURSES OF FAMILY: UNDOING (THE) TIES in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-counterdiscourses-of-family-undoing-the-ties/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 02:16:33 -0400 In this thematic issue of Journal 2i we explore the images and the discourses of the family that circulate in literature and cultural production. The articles in this volume, therefore, will offer a broad vision of non-normative families, past or present. Some of the topics to be explored in this issue include:

  • Representations of chosen…

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]]> 52cd188054289c8cc158440c2ac5666b Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854167/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:20:28 -0400 Makes use of the opportunity of the release of "Oppenheimer" to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.

]]> 0 e3efd7a4e28ce156eb082dc515dcd342 Monique Rodrigues Balbuena deposited The Shoah in the Sephardic World in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852820/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 03:48:46 -0400 Abstract of panel organized by the Sephardic Studies Discussion Group for the 2024 MLA Annual Convention.

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