Knowledge Commons | Emily Griesinger | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/egriesinger8/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Emily Griesinger is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:12:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 114ee83fce11a8960ee323c26b63d5cb Jack Dudley started the topic Black Studies and Spirituality (MLA 2027) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/black-studies-and-spirituality-mla-2027/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:29:22 -0500 Black Studies and Spirituality

This guaranteed online session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention invites papers on literary production and culture that occurs at the intersections of Black Studies and spirituality. How have texts by Black writers imagined, challenged, and embraced traditional, new, and…[Read more]

]]> 18eddb608fffee862a75ea355d51f8f0 William Viestenz started the topic City of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith (MLA 2027) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/city-of-angels-migration-encounter-and-new-forms-of-faith-mla-2027/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:22:51 -0500 For this guaranteed session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention, we invite papers focusing on literatures of migration and spirituality. Given the convention’s location in Los Angeles, we especially welcome proposals that consider authors and texts with connections to LA and the city as a site of contact, d…[Read more]

]]> e16ff38350b1015ec0ce696065f49325 Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic MLA TC Religion and Literature Executive Self-Nominations Invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-tc-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:45:37 -0500 The executive committee of TC Religion and Literature invites self-nominations for a five-year term on the executive committee beginning January 2027. Here’s a clarifying paragraph from the MLA:

 Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. Members may suggest new committee members by writing or typing in the na…

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]]> 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:

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]]> 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

]]> 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.”

 

]]> a3959e4e2a62c924d45493a4a0b4b306 Dennis Denisoff started the topic extended deadline for a Vic/Ealy-20th-C Forum panel in the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/victorian-and-early-20th-century-english/forum/topic/extended-deadline-for-a-vic-ealy-20th-c-forum-panel/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:59:44 -0400 Dear all,

The "Victorian and Early-20th-C English" forum has extended the deadline to submit an abstract for Panel 30480 "Solidarity and Institutional (In)action " to March 28! They have also tweaked the description to emphasize their openness to a range of approaches to the topic; here is the new description:

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]]> e1710a5c1c5f873429e0d70337b99b99 Heng Du started the topic MLA2026 Guaranteed panel on premodern temporality in search of respondent/panel in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla2026-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-in-search-of-respondent-panel/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:36:53 -0400 We are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. All three papers so far deal with temporality in the religious context, and we will probably highlight this dimension in the finalized panel description. I included below a draft that can be further tailored according to your…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> 739ba1e37c55cbf87f05956564f8b9ab Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters - Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/life-writing/forum/topic/call-for-chapters/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:04:07 -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]

]]> e4db8fe48eecfe98104fadb1e7936b51 Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic CFP: Religion, Literature, and Palestinian Liberation (MLA 2026) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-religion-literature-and-palestinian-liberation-mla-2026/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:35:48 -0500 <p style="font-weight: 400;">For this guaranteed session of the January 2026 MLA convention, the TC Religion and Literature forum invites proposals that focus on literatures of Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, especially in their engagements with religion, interfaith encounters, justice, and liberation movements. As members of the MLA…[Read more]

]]> 562c560d4a8a1016ea953f8931cdbebd Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic CFP: Brave Sermons: Religious Speech and the Struggle for Justice (MLA 2026) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-brave-sermons-religious-speech-and-the-struggle-for-justice-mla-2026/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:31:55 -0500 <p style="font-weight: 400;">Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde’s January 2025 inauguration sermon sparked both praise and critique, shining light on the contested role of religious speech in public discourse and its relation to justice and good governance. As Elizabeth Ammons writes in Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet (2010), r…[Read more]

]]> f0369cd34af62690abd75124ce43dc91 María Herrera-Sobek replied to the topic MLA Religion and Literature Executive self-nominations invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/#post-1039403 Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:35:19 -0500 Dear Professor Cynthia Wallace,
I am responding to your invitation to self-nominate for the position in the
MLA Executive Committee for the forum TC Religion and Literature.
Much of my research has focused on the Virgin of Guadalupe in the Mexican
ballad and the Mexican Christmas plays or Pastorelas.
Thanking you,
Maria Herrera-Sobek
Professor…[Read more]

]]> 52a949909c4ab7e8bc0768b74531d41b Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic MLA Religion and Literature Executive self-nominations invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/ Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:55:46 -0500 The executive committee of TC Religion and Literature invites self-nominations for a five-year term on the executive committee beginning January 2026. Here's a clarifying paragraph from the MLA:

<i data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Appointments</i>. Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. Members may…[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]

]]> 4e690ac0215a5f7b0830ba601e63d931 Amy Wong started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/victorian-and-early-20th-century-english/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:27:28 -0500 Hello LLC Victorian and Early 20thC English Members,

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

]]> 3ed9a675309a0f5e0353d3db4bdefe10 Meredith Lynn Goldsmith started the topic NEH Virtual Convening: Collaborating beyond the Humanities (Health Humanities) in the forum Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities/forum/topic/neh-virtual-convening-collaborating-beyond-the-humanities-health-humanities/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:26:41 -0500 Dear colleagues, I write to invite you a virtual convening sponsored by the NEH Division of Education Programs. More information below:

“Collaborating Beyond the Humanities”

The Education Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities fosters curricular innovation through its grant programs, including the Humanities Connections pro…[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]

]]> fd4bf7355a21804cfd27bae1569d7fe3 John Mark R. Asio deposited Comparative Analysis of the In-House Review (Revalida) Program and the Student's Performance in the Licensure Examination for Midwives: Inputs for Program Enhancement in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1903330/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:00:02 -0400 This paper aimed to analyze the effectiveness of the in-house review (Revalida) program among midwifery graduates of batch 2022 in the previous licensure board exams for midwives last 2023. This study used a descriptive-comparative research design. One hundred thirty-five graduate midwives participated voluntarily in the study using a purposive…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0db6a7f21779ea98e52ea0a964baeec Albert R Haig deposited The Word in the Soul and its Counterparts: World, Body, Mind, and Soul in Plotinus in the group Christian Mysticism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901222/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:02 -0400 This book chapter represents a comprehensive discussion of the theory of cognition found in the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Plotinus was the founder and most significant exponent of Neoplatonism, which represented the interpretation of Plato that was prevalent in late antiquity. His thought had a considerable impact on all three Abrahamic…[Read more]

]]> 0 42586d4c93f5ca19c5fa5d3cd8c62316 Ian Willis deposited Australia Day 1915 in Camden: Record-breaking Wartime Fundraiser in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897195/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:56 -0400 This blog post examines the story of mid-1915, when the Camden Patriotic Fund took over Australia Day fundraising, directing proceeds to the Red Cross for Australian wounded. Supporting the Camden Red Cross, the fund raised substantial funds through various events. Meanwhile, on a national scale, Australia Day's significance evolved, and in 1915,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e796df87189948066df1f94cff08ac9 Ian Willis deposited Camden and the Great War in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897124/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:00:12 -0400 This presentation provides an overview of the Great War's impact on the town of Camden, including its effects, serving overseas and on the homefront, and the collective memory of Camden and the Great War.

]]> 0 31d60db6300767eaf03cffe6cfaaaf0f Ian Willis deposited Camden Red Cross 110 Years Display: Objects and Ephemera Exhibition 2024 in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894889/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:00:54 -0400 The Camden Red Cross exhibition at Camden Library in August 2024 showcased the historical contributions of local women to the Red Cross during World Wars I and II. Women from the Camden district played a pivotal role in supporting soldiers and shaping the narrative of the Australian Red Cross, creating over 20,300 articles in 40,000 volunteer…[Read more]

]]> 0 b025c109d62ba0f4347ec6ae58810d51 Ian Willis deposited Ministering Angels, Myth and the Red Cross on the Australian Wartime Homefront in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894809/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:00:46 -0400 The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 saw thousands of women across rural Australia set up local Red Cross branches. Country women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, King and Country, while they were encouraged to see themselves as ‘ministering angels’ dutifully serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Their successes meant that by 1918…[Read more]

]]> 0 582c5faa4f1dc21419c9bc6b1ec0a4bd Ian Willis deposited ‘Guardian Angels’, the Red Cross on the wartime homefront in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894764/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:01:05 -0400 Thousands of women rallied to the call of the wife of the Governor-General and formed Red Cross branches across Australia at the outbreak of the First World War. Women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, the King and Country and were encouraged to see themselves as ‘guardian angels’ serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Local Red Cross b…[Read more]

]]> 0 1602d3d8d578295f1e61f7006e402b9e Ian Willis deposited ‘Angels Of Mercy’, The Red Cross On the Homefront During the First World War in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894761/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:00:37 -0400 This blog post examines how the Australian Red Cross mobilized women during World War I as 'Angels of Mercy' and 'ministering angels' to provide aid with a strong moral overtone. The organisation used motherhood imagery to rally support, portraying itself as the 'Greatest Mother in the World'. This approach effectively garnered community backing…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bbe4207d2d02a8f4c38a980eac41410 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Goitres, Worms, and Haemorrhoids: Geographical Localisation of Endemic Diseases in Classical Āyurveda in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890603/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:06:25 -0400 As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

]]> 0 24c31d99011cf9444e0f0684dba48bac Anthony Cerulli deposited “Always Already Theorizing … in the Field, Elsewhere, All at Once” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890336/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:13:00 -0400 Reflecting on his fieldwork experiences between 2003 and 2017 at the same healing center in central Kerala, in this chapter Cerulli addresses continuity and change in medical ethnographers’ awareness of themselves and the people, places, and things they study in the field. He draws on experiences in south India and in the classroom teaching a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 92550cbe78b973ea643203eee9e18695 Sandra Pinasco started the topic New Article: Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs Auster and Giralt Torrente in the discussion GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/life-writing/forum/topic/new-article-ambiguous-loss-in-grief-memoirs-auster-and-giralt-torrente/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 23:52:18 -0400 Dear Colleagues,
I would like to share my new article titled “Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs: Meaning Making in Auster and Giralt Torrente Patriographies” published in the a/b Autobiography Studies Journal. You can find the abstract and the link to the article below:

Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs: Meaning Making in Auster and Giralt Tor…[Read more]

]]> 19321d2a1327b5904de75a16c34f3fbc Ian Willis deposited The Role of British Red Cross in NSW Wartime Front: Home Truths in Australian History in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890019/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:00:24 -0400 This blog post details a talk by Dr Ian Willis OAM that challenges myths of WWI at the 2024 Australian Historical Association conference. He examines the Australian military's response to sick and wounded soldiers and the role of the British Red Cross. The conference aims to uncover home truths and dispel historical myths. Dr Willis's research…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c2b29146f482d8a4920ea6cc0469bb7 Ian Willis deposited The convalescent soldier and the British Red Cross on New South Wales wartime home front in the First World War. in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889916/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:30 -0400 The sick and wounded soldier was the central actor in the performance of Red Cross care during the First World War. This paper uses Jeffrey Reznick’s ‘culture of caregiving’ in his book Healing the Nation to examine the role of the British Red Cross in New South Wales in the convalescent stage in the lines of communications in the early month…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e5aae4c57dbff7a0d88b01d57df95a9 Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889768/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:06:01 -0400 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 085434c45a5e5ad45a5ddc789ec61ba9 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889651/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:53 -0400 In the past decades, historians have emphasized the multidisciplinary nature and conceptual disparateness of the atomist revival in the early modern sciences. However, they have not investigated how medicine, and specifically the authority of Galen, has contributed to the emergence of this revival. Indeed, despite Galen’s rejection of atoms and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6d64ae476bff0afadb04926cb34555a Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Doctors Between Civilisation and Wilderness. Medical Geography in Pre-modern South Asia in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889649/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:42 -0400 Usually theories on disease causation and treatment in early Āyurveda focus on the individual patient, his diet, and his lifestyle. There are however certain contexts, in which the locality or origin of factors jeopardising health is significant. Some climatic regions are understood to constitute more unhealthy surroundings in relation to others.…[Read more]

]]> 0 d83a9ad157caec422913592927951e4f Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889187/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:24:47 -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 7e466df197665225411a86d11c68e436 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889182/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:14:46 -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 70acda6b306b4d4012d51e830c63701b Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889178/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:04:39 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e91f3860ebd86c04cdacdd458483d27 Frank Pfost deposited ENSAYOS SOBRE ALGUNAS COMEDIAS DEL SIGLO DE ORO ESPAÑOL in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1888752/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:04:48 -0400 Se trata de un repaso a siete comedias del Siglo de Oro español, entre las que destacan: LOS PASOS de Lope de Rueda y el Entremés del RETABLO DE LAS MARAVILLAS de Miguel de Cervantes, LA VERDAD SOSPECHOSA de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, FUENTEOVEJUNA de Lope de Vega, EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA de Tirso de Molina, EL ESCLAVO DE DEMONIO de Mira de Amescua, y…[Read more]

]]> 0 64fa4498d4e3e1b595823b9cc5cf6325 Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887844/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:05:44 -0400 Les douze Lais de Marie de France, écrits au XIIe siècle par un auteur dont on connaît peu de choses,
retiennent leur renom pour maintes raisons. Ce sont des contes, des aventures, souvent merveilleuses
et fantastiques, des chevaliers errants et leurs dames au temps médiévaux lorsque la bataille épique et
continuelle entre le bien at le ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 77e9e20a412ac725aad1a7b544c48302 Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887555/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:05:04 -0400 One of the most important factors literary critics often overlook in the work of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-
1910) is the fact that it was subject to the censorship of the tsarist government before it was allowed to be published
in Russia. This harassment lasted the entire period of Tolstoy’s writing life, and although neither he nor his f…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0ba1ae94924cbf389ba86cb02b95746 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887291/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:02:03 -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 8d153998051e66b7841cdf8a484af995 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El «Discurso a Diogneto», a través de una nueva lectura y reinterpretación. in the group Christian Mysticism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887285/ Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:36 -0400 In this text, Eliseo Ferrer carries out a revision of the positions maintained in a previous work on the “Discourse to Diognetus”. A supposedly Christian text in which the figures of Christ or Jesus do not appear (nor anything related to the Gospel story) and that, with all certainty, was manipulated at an undetermined time by the Roman Chu…[Read more]

]]> 0 126c86dc5b996732060e7e87d60ccbe5 Pramod Ranjan deposited बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा : व्यावसायिक अनुदानों की राजनीति [“Bill Gates’ visit to India: The politics of business grants.”] in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884587/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:21:52 -0400 प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा यह लेख बिल 'गेट्स की भारत यात्रा' पर दो भागो में लिखा गया है, पहला भाग 22 नवम्बर को और दूसरा भाग 23 नवम्बर 2002 को शिमला से प्रकाशित साध्य दैनिक अखबार भारतेन्दु शिखर में छपा है।

प्रमोद रंजन ने वर्ष 2002 में बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा के अवसर पर “छोटी चाहतों के संगीन निहितार्थ- बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा: व्यवसायिक अनुदानों…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4baa646ffb7287d7e90d25fb938c6ec Pramod Ranjan deposited संक्रामक बीमारियों के भारतीय महासागर में कोरोना कितनी जगह घेरता है? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878449/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:38 -0500 इस लेख में बताया गया है कि किसी प्रकार कोविड 19 अन्य कई बीमारियों की तुलना में बहुत कम घातक था, इसके बावजूद इसका हौव्वा बनाया गया, जिससे अफरातफरी मची और अधिक मौतें हुई। ऐसा इसलिए हुआ क्योंकि विश्व स्वास्थ संगठन ने बीमारियों से होने वाली मौतों का आंकड़ा जमा करने की विधि में कोविड के मामले में बदलाव कर दिया था।

इस लेख में आंकड़ों के साथ बताया…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ff203d2338da884c2782d612c745181 Pramod Ranjan deposited अनूपातहीन भय के कथासूत्र in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878447/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:26 -0500 इस लेख में विस्तार से बताया गया है कि किसी प्रकार कोविड 19 के बारे में अतिशयोक्तिपूर्ण सूचनाएं फैलाईं गईं, जिससे और अधिक मौतें हुई।

The article details how exaggerated information about COVID-19 was somehow deliberately spread, leading to more deaths.

]]> 0 ae059865261723cf222c8253f2c77ff9 Pramod Ranjan deposited कोविड-19 का टीका: क्या हम सही सवाल पूछ पा रहे हैं? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878445/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:08 -0500 वर्ष 2021 में कोविड 19 के टीके के संबंध में काफी वाद-विवाद हुआ था।

प्रमोद रंजन इस लेख में बताते हैं कि उस समय कोविड-19 के टीके से संबंधित अनेक भ्रामक प्रश्न जनता के सामने रख दिए गए थे, जिससे चर्चा की दिशा की बदली जा सके।.

इस लेख में कहा गया है कि टीका से संबंधित असली सवाल ये तीन थे। पहला सवाल यह कि, टीकों के निर्माण और वितरण में…[Read more]

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