Knowledge Commons | Ella Zohar Ophir | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/eo306/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Ella Zohar Ophir is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 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]

]]> 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]

]]> 2a134d04b52bbae087bb76be6fc88d27 Andrea Zemgulys started the topic Joint Conference in Twentieth Century Lit (FeministinterModernist Space Between) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/joint-conference-in-twentieth-century-lit-feminist-modernist-and-space-between/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:07:30 -0500 FORWARDING ON BEHALF OF OTHERS (see email for contact information!)

A joint conference of the Space Between Society and the Feministinter/Modernist Association (FiMA)
University of North Carolina, GreensboroMay 26 - 29, 2026Proposals Due: January 15, 2026

CFP: SOLIDARITY!
Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for this year’s joint c…[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.

]]> bc5164b16277686d63d3ef2b1d08fefd Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:28:27 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extrajudicial kill…[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]

]]> 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]

]]> 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]

]]> c793b5b6e251dee1bff2d9cc68b93048 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:57:02 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

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 we…[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 c5cc64396d5b9776ae727e5016cb122d Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-8/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:31:47 -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]

]]> 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]

]]> 663c563867ffa0eedf8c7aa748df7953 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-2/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:55:38 -0400 Society of 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: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2…[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 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 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]

]]> 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 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]

]]> e990d2a3986e2d8739558b55bb5bb68f Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877011/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:03:58 -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 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

]]> 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 9c6d6a525de8cd5c127db89652936dd5 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860581/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:07:28 -0400 'Modernism and Religion' argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 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.

]]> 0 8737d1974f5529b6639bc80f00c8e97b Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847391/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:23:51 -0400 Review of Consider David Foster Wallace.

]]> 0 258a103c7244eb906ca758327affee71 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847386/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:03:45 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3a0fdda2b6313c1dbd9e2397051240f Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847380/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:43:03 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 44af3e7cec7c9abdbf9bee7525fc2440 Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847378/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:33:55 -0400 Excerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]

]]> 0 fdb7b8518517db8d548b49ba941ebc63 Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847376/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:23:55 -0400 This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]

]]> 0 95a90345546abcb79e2cfc046587394d Hania A.M. Nashef deposited J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy: A Search for Answers in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1842191/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 03:54:34 -0400 The 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The…[Read more]

]]> 0 08e13cd99a40c6d60c6336eff0b08f62 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy: A Search for Answers in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1842188/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 03:48:45 -0400 The 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The…[Read more]

]]> 0 1888a5b431dc940d9e6db41bbb7e35dd Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841283/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:32:01 -0400 This article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]

]]> 0 d31195dd5ac10191f89b0b10bdb8ae7b Amel Abbady deposited Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841279/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:21:22 -0400 McDonagh is arguably one of the most celebrated yet most controversial of contemporary Anglo-Irish playwrights. His plays have received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mostly for featuring graphic violence and obscene dialogues. Even though comedy is mostly seen as an inferior genre compared to tragedy, McDonagh, among many…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec9d796bd296c02ec25fceb9d7cd9539 Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841274/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:10:35 -0400 The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac2b9bc5b2956e8358527218a00b901c Amel Abbady deposited Mobility, Survival, and the Female Body in Laila Lalami᾿s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841270/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:04:08 -0400 Abstract of my book chapter, published in Memory, Voice, and Identity
Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East
Edited By Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran

]]> 0 f595339e8173438edc8a71c1c2c0c6ef Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Journeys across fragmented lands: Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K and Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840263/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:36:40 -0400 Solidarity between South Africa and Palestine has a long history, and often times, a comparison is drawn between the apartheid system in South Africa and the Israeli occupation and settler-colonial project in Palestine. In 1997, the late South African President, Nelson Mandela, said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete without t…[Read more]

]]> 0 f588658f3b136e3743b519e41cda255e Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Narrator, Silenced Victim in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835410/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:56:35 -0500 Although the systematic eviction of Palestinians from their homeland has been recorded at length since the establishment of the state of Israel in 948, the documentation has namely concerned itself with urban centers or villages. Expulsion and removal of marginalized communities, namely the Bedouins’, from their ancestral encampments or homes h…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0ea8294bb163dab853b92880daafe4c Atia Sattar started the topic MLA 2024 CFP: Teaching Beyond University in the discussion HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/mla-2024-cfp-teaching-beyond-university/ Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:54:22 -0500 [This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]

Teaching Beyond University

In its effort to recognize other spaces for postgraduate careers beyond 4-year institutions, the Teaching as a Profession Forum is inviting submissions for a virtual roundtable focused on teaching beyond a traditional university department. We are…[Read more]

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