Knowledge Commons | Erin D. Graff Zivin | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/eringz/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Erin D. Graff Zivin is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:23:41 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 305f72f88ef6b462e0f83f960a869d1c Juan Meneses started the topic "World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons" MLA 27 in the forum CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/world-literature-and-the-global-south-frictions-and-new-horizons-mla-27-2/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:16:57 -0500 Dear colleagues (apologies for the earlier garbles message),

 

Please consider sending an abstract to the following CFP for the session: "World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons" for the MLA 2027 conference.

 

I would appreciate it if you could also share it with interested colleagues and/or through your…[Read more]

]]> 506c4f721ec39fc7609f81157d8895bf Juan Meneses started the topic "World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons" MLA 27 in the forum CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/world-literature-and-the-global-south-frictions-and-new-horizons-mla-27/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:11:21 -0500 <div>Dear colleagues,</div>
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<div>Please consider sending an abstract to the following CFP for the session: "World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons" for the MLA 2027 conference.</div>
<div></div>
<div>I would appreciate it if you could also share it with interested colleagues and/or through your…[Read more]

]]> 209e48696653b95d79fdc6f3795ee3cc Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aural-reorientations-or-sound-studies-as-listening-otherwise/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:35:39 -0500 Dear Sound Studies Communities,

The MS Sound Forum executive committee has just published the CFP for our guaranteed session at MLA 2027. We look forward to receiving many of your proposals! :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

]]> a6c1b287328e2d262fae990514e094d8 Pedro Craveiro started the topic [MLA 2027] Call for Papers in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/mla-2027-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:11:30 -0500 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles:
1. Global Pretuguês: Language and Literature beyond Translational and Transnational Borders
We invite papers examining the creative expressions of Pretuguês in literatures across Africa, Brazil, a…[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]

]]> eed160b9adf7eb4744a28cbd016c0b6c Cole Rizki started the topic Nominations for Candidates to Delegate Election in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-for-candidates-to-delegate-election/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:19:15 -0500 Hi everyone, I write to solicit nominations for candidates to the MLA delegate election. For eligibility: any candidates for election must have been included in the membership list of the association for the preceding year. No one can occupy more than one delegate seat at a time and delegates may only serve two consecutive terms on the Delegate…[Read more]

]]> a7618d7673b64bb343616bf526a8ad72 Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941340/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:47:48 -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 21613f4d7281e7e57f243100ab1f58c4 Cole Rizki started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:07:48 -0500 Hi everyone, I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Friday January 23rd with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> f138030239ed8176067934af4463cdd5 Krista Brune created the doc Found Families: Migrant and Diasporic Voices in Portuguese in the group LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936699/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:22:21 -0500 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!

]]> 2665d8e5e73749cd70eeb39700b50387 Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel-4/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:35:59 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of <b>ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature</b>

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 extr…[Read more]

]]> 331fdbb76ec0d66fd7caa3e7ff63e943 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cf-applications-for-the-position-of-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:10:00 -0500 The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies.

 

Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: global animation; cinemas of East, Southeast, South, or Western Asia and…[Read more]

]]> bc23953ca41a5b0470b18ce556a91ae7 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-3/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:03:43 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 619d74ca55798701cebc4e1a0e9e084d Jennifer Stoever started the topic Recommendation for real-world assignment with Wiki Education! (not spam!) in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/recommendation-for-real-world-assignment-with-wiki-education-not-spam/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:45:32 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear all,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">I wanted to share with everyone a high-impact teaching opportunity that has added a lot to my own classroom – the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikipedia assignment</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span>

I have had great success and enjoyment fr…[Read more]

]]> ee658bc86a722c27351a576af5880a22 Jennifer Stoever started the topic CFP: Hate and NonHuman Listening, Due 14 July 2025 in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-hate-and-nonhuman-listening-due-14-july-2025/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:15:47 -0400 Call for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
A Guest Series for Sounding Out! guest edited by Kathryn Huether
Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT

Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: kathryn.huether@gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.

We invite subm…[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]

]]> 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]

]]> ad3a4f55f7fe48a0b41921495368c2b4 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2026 CFP – Clapping Back in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-clapping-back-2/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:34:05 -0500 Dear MS Sound Forum,

I write on behalf of the MS Sound Forum Executive Committee members to share the MLA2026 CFP “Clapping Back: Responses from Sound Studies to Censorship & Silencing.” Please consider applying & help spread the word :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

p.s. We will soon launch a Discord channel for the Sound Studies scholars, in hopes of…[Read more]

]]> 266d0d1713e443cc981345600cdbbe26 Krista Brune started the topic Call for Papers for 2026 MLA in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-2026-mla-2/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:38:00 -0500 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto:

Afro-Brazil as Method and Theory. Papers exploring Black theorists’ epistemological contributions to (re)thinking Brazil and its racial contradictions. Trends in Afro-Brazilian literary theory and i…[Read more]

]]> 9b86b0335629a13c5d77407cda471e6b Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-3/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:48:46 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

Date: September 29 - October 2, 2025

Deadline for submissions: March 10, 2025

Location: Wuppertal, Germany

Subject Field: Narratology

Since Roland Barthes' formula “international, transhistorical, transcultural, narration is there, like life i…[Read more]

]]> acb76370ab72d18339c580c8e87aa82a Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-2/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:45:48 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

September 29 - October 2, 2025, Wuppertal, Germany

 

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…[Read more]

]]> 3caf98fe3af4b0f34ce3d7bb50dc294e Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:41:11 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025

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 ded…[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]

]]> fc9583b1ca27376010641589da70461f Krista Brune started the topic CFP: Modernisms in Portuguese for Portuguese Cultural Studies (deadline 3/20/25) in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-modernisms-in-portuguese-for-portuguese-cultural-studies-deadline-3-20-25/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:24:59 -0500 Fernando Guimarães (2007) elucidates the intrinsic connection between avant-gardes and the overarching paradigm of Modernism. Within the rich tapestry of the Portuguese language, seminal movements such as Orpheu, Futurism, Brazilian Modernism, Surrealism, and Concretism emerge as pivotal in shaping the artistic and literary landscape during the…[Read more]

]]> 26d12671e6dbd2e3ec96da6e4e03152e Ian Balfour started the topic Self-nomination for this committee in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/self-nomination-for-this-committee/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:43:01 -0500 <div>

The Philosophy and Literature Forum Executive Committee solicits self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, starting in 2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate delegates to the MLA Delegate Assembly e…[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]

]]> 8764972e24cc7d05ecb3268cd2f3576d Krista Brune started the topic Nominations for LLC Luso-Brazilian Executive Committee in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/nominations-for-llc-luso-brazilian-executive-committee/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:53:55 -0500 Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to be a part of the executive committee of the LLC Luso-Brazilian Forum. The new EC member will serve from after the 2026 MLA through the 2031 conference. We are accepting nominations until Thursday, January 16. Thanks! Obrigada!

]]> 9d5e2d3e60d71708ad9ac3c103810696 Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the call for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907864/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:37:56 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce the call for Guaranteed Session Proposals for the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto. If accepted by our Forum, your panel is guaranteed a place at next year’s convention. We invite proposals that engage with a wide range of topics related to 20th- a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d62191f783a3cb76c17bd6d381ac13b Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907863/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:34:06 -0500 Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 15th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 0565a01f746dc2e6020adf5e71d8b024 John Melillo started the topic MS Sound Rountable at MLA 2025: Sound and Literature Now in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/ms-sound-rountable-at-mla-2025-sound-and-literature-now/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:20:39 -0500 Please join the MS Sound forum for a wide-ranging roundtable on "Sound and Literature Now." Our roundtable will take place on Friday morning, January 10th, at 8:30 AM in Salon 16 of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside (first floor):

Description:

Panelists describe and discuss new academic and creative interventions that connect sound and literary…[Read more]

]]> 10e0822b8fa7b2282eed7eb1e6e586a6 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-4/ Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:55:06 -0400 Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[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]

]]> 667457e090bde0870c5254716390033e Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-5/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:14:20 -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]

]]> 2fefff99434499ac9c1c4efad33eb939 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900965/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:11:04 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 98412a2e171d72d17c3d1a23ff1aa1ce Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900963/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:05:42 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 40ed6fb6be09ce3dbf6426f1aa9b1a96 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-4/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:40:43 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title "A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspec…[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 4f9442367a2527580c0220213c974ab3 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890327/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:08:57 -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 49a34afa92822a05df006168e57ae42c Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889767/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:02:18 -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 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 1027fdb9a09a284718242aa9978c8c26 Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889378/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:02:47 -0400 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 489a162a816d58c7ea25774145c951e8 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889180/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:39 -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 71e06ab33ff4fcaae20d2d377bac2c52 Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889175/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:07 -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 8207cd29ddd7fbcf5f8a30183de6c575 Frank Pfost deposited ENSAYOS SOBRE ALGUNAS COMEDIAS DEL SIGLO DE ORO ESPAÑOL in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1888751/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:01:07 -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 122c371ef70ff9126ebe49b97e65f8dc Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887843/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:02:13 -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 5b536600b6f17de30dfd92188cf3539e Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887554/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:01:31 -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 6ff35d4aa7ed01e6518acbabdee3c67a Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887204/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:09:44 -0400 Interim bibliography on the Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), May 2024

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