Knowledge Commons | Travis Fauteux | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/fauteuxt/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Travis Fauteux is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:40:59 -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]

]]> a8ad4ac0690f479f608f8ec8080425d9 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic call for nominations: MLA Delegate Assembly Representative in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-mla-delegate-assembly-representative/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:37:03 -0500 Please send nominations (including self-nominations) for 20th/21st-c French forum representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly to freedthall@nyu.edu, by March 9, 2026. The elected representative serves a 3-year term and must attend the annual Delegate Assembly meeting, held during the MLA convention. Learn more about the Delegate Assembly here:…[Read more]

]]> faee167f1f88339eeb2ef291f12233f0 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aesthetics and Politics of Resistance in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aesthetics-and-politics-of-resistance/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:15:04 -0500 This panel explores the aesthetics and politics of resistance in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. Possible topics include: conditions of control, surveillance, capture, and repression; fascism/antifascism; refusal, fugitivity, emancipation, or revolution. This is a non-guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March…[Read more]

]]> 360ae55cbfad2134312c716031801caa Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Literature and the News in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-literature-and-the-news/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:55:07 -0500 This panel explores intersections between literature and journalism in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. Topics include, but are not limited to, the fait divers, truth and disinformation, politics and aesthetics, fact and fiction. This is a guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March 15, 2026 to sk130@wellesley.edu

]]> c5422136117d01a9bf1d4678024a3a64 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Reproductive Justice in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-reproductive-justice/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:30:10 -0500 On the centenary of the birth of Simone Veil (namesake of the landmark 1975 French law legalizing abortion), this panel explores sexual autonomy, gender freedom, decolonial feminism, and reproductive dignity in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. This is a guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March 15 to freedthall@nyu.edu.

]]> a2992fd552a27f254525cb28b3ebad34 Julia Elsky started the topic Seeking nominations for Delegate Assembly for European Regions Forum in the forum CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/european-regions/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-delegate-assembly-for-european-regions-forum/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:53:26 -0500 European Regions Forum members are encouraged to send nominations for delegates to the MLA Delegate Assembly (2028-2030 annual conventions). More information can be found here:

https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Delegate-Assembly/Information-about-Delegate-Assembly-Service

Please email Julia Elsky by Jan. 31, 2026, at jelsky@luc.edu.

]]> 22eaebfef1511160dba471458faedfb6 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC 20th-and 21st Century French Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-5/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:54:18 -0500 Dear Colleagues, The LLC 20th 21st Century Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2027 through the close of the January 2031 convention). Responsibilities of the committee members also include serving as…[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]

]]> c6043be137ab7099f1b9410b93f1647f Julia Elsky started the topic MLA Toronto 2026: European Region's 2 annual panels in the forum CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/european-regions/forum/topic/mla-toronto-2026-european-regions-2-annual-panels/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:52:37 -0500 I'm happy to share our forum's two panels at the MLA convention in Toronto year: "Literature and the Archive" on Thursday & "The Creative Self: Living and Writing the Extreme" on Saturday. We hope to see you there!

]]> 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!

]]> 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]

]]> d9570a8bbaeff1f643caa8fa114ed74a Linda Badley started the topic REMINDER: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive CFP in the forum CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/european-regions/forum/topic/reminder-future-library-critical-approaches-to-an-unseen-archive-cfp/ Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:44:18 -0400 The deadline for abstracts is September 15!  Please contact Linda Badley (lbadley@comcast.net), Jenna Coughlin (coughl3@stolaf.edu), and/or Gitte Mose (gitte.mose@iln.uio.no) with questions or comments.

]]> 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]

]]> 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]

]]> bcac4e5ff61652568261e18c73afc8af Julia Elsky started the topic CFP MLA 2026: Literature and the Archive (CLCS European Regions) in the forum CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/european-regions/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2026-literature-and-the-archive-clcs-european-regions/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:44:28 -0500 I wanted to announce one of the two guaranteed sessions of the CLCS European Regions at the MLA Convention in 2026:

Literature and the Archive
<div class="abstract">This panel explores literature and the archive in European contexts in any period, including literature about archives, literature that incorporates archives, the impact of archival…[Read more]

]]> af41bf8d32aead3e34f1d795025a8884 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: "Queer Creoles in French and Francophone Contexts" in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-queer-creoles-in-french-and-francophone-contexts/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:56:50 -0500 Title: “Queer Creoles in French and Francophone Contexts.”

This panel explores queer language use across borders and cultural contexts, which includes, but is not limited to creolization, language accumulation, and translanguaging.  This is a guaranteed session. Send 250-word abstract and bio by March 13, 2025 to Denis Provencher: dmproven@ncsu.edu

]]> 6f1a71a6eabbc93965ef581da4b4b1c6 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: "Metropolitan Relations" A Guaranteed Session in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-metropolitan-relations-a-guaranteed-session/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:52:32 -0500 Title: “Metropolitan Relations: Diasporic & Indigenous Perspectives in Contemporary Cities.”

This panel explores French and Francophone representations of place-making, cultural memory, and spatial justice in urban environments. This is a guaranteed session. Send 250-word abstract and bio by March 13, 2025 to jmontlo@emory.edu

]]> 3b529c661bb68a1acbc1f068cf288bb4 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC 20th-and 21st Century French Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-4/ Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:00:26 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

The LLC 20th 21st Century Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2026 through the close of the January 2030 convention). Responsibilities of the committee members also include serving 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]

]]> 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]

]]> 89f0cf87394f60e5dc22df5f48823346 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/translation-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-6/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:12:45 -0500 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]

]]> 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]

]]> 7dcc36a6d19353c8ad8c235bfd4a2b9d Corine Tachtiris deposited Translation Matters undergraduate syllabus in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896113/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:02:31 -0400 Syllabus for a 100-level undergraduate, general-education course in translation studies. Aimed at giving students translation literacy and introducing major practical and ethical problems of translation. Also includes practical approaches for hands-on learning. Syllabus includes list of readings, intralingual translation exercises, assignment…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d5cfaca5510df82b7af4f424eaadf8b Corine Tachtiris deposited Literary Translation Workshop - Multilingual, Grad-level in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896112/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Syllabus for a multilingual literary translation workshop at the graduate-student level. Includes translation exercises, assignment guidelines, and links to online readings. First taught in Spring 2021.

]]> 0 2642b5e9fe6968d035fea6bbaf54444e Brian Vetruba deposited Handbook for European Studies Librarians in the group CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1894590/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:00:31 -0400 Open-access monograph of 30 chapters by 36 authors in three parts: "Resources and Tools for Regions of Europe," "Resources on Underrepresented Groups in Europe," and "Current Issues in European Studies Librarianship." This handbook helps librarians new to collection development for regions of Europe get up to speed on key resources and offers…[Read more]

]]> 0 10b992f8c32833c89f3b95d0e4614f6a Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Review of Joseph O'Neill, in the group CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890599/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:04:55 -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 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 3b8c4f2ae39d3fef3f830f6a2866cc7b Brian Gregory Caraher deposited "Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!": Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890208/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:04:30 -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 f562bbe393c3a465eda69d68fc3fd8aa Brian Gregory Caraher deposited "Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!": Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890207/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 This paper describes the social and cultural climate of teaching the works of James Joyce -- including his journalism and major works of fiction from "Dubliners" through "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake" -- over the years 1993 to 2016 when the author was the Chair of English Literature at Queen's University Belfast. The author draws upon his…[Read more]

]]> 0 065b87c807f4b04bc751ae327171939a Katina Rogers deposited The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889658/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:53 -0400 The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing the ineffable qualities of…[Read more]

]]> 0 c5129c6c75345ec33bc2a61254bc2bcc Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889375/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:01:08 -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 b4ca20dd69d64e02ded476a7a54b2afd Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887556/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:07:02 -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 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 59d2150231eba54f41e24d43bcdc72cc Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025-2/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:57 -0500 How have enslavement, incarceration, and other colonial confinements shaped more-than-human circum-Caribbean ecologies? How have Black culture-makers confronted these ecologies with abolitionist aesthetics? Send 150-word abstracts to this co-sponsored panel (Caribbean & Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities).Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]

]]> e40139cd6ca10730f05fd9fcd7f14487 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: Édouard Glissant: Still A Caribbean Theorist? (MLA 2025, in-person panel) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/cfp-edouard-glissant-still-a-caribbean-theorist-mla-2025-in-person-panel-2/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:34:07 -0500 Michael Dash’s translation and abridgment of Le discours antillais into Caribbean Discourse raises the question of how we situate Glissant within Caribbean Studies. Send 150-word abstracts that consider how we deploy Glissant’s literary-creative-artistic thought today.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024 Nathan H. Dize, Washington Univ…[Read more]

]]> 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

]]> cb6da5d91ad556223f494ed2dd9aa1c3 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Unscripted Performances in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2025-cfp-unscripted-performances/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:11:43 -0500 Exploring the intersections of jazz, performance, and literary studies from diverse perspectives, this panel delves into the art of spontaneous storytelling, poetic play, and improvised narrative. A non-guaranteed session. 250-word abstract and bio due by March 8 2024 at montlouis-gabriel.1@osu.edu

]]> 360d25d6f7361acd5fe7fd0dc54b76da Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2025-cfp-entomological-turns/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:04:06 -0500 From Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.

This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]

]]> 927358c3d4850393f429d8ec592466a6 Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-3/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:01:51 -0500 Dear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

]]> 4bb77f84ab8650ac77822452bb48eda4 Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869278/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:05:23 -0500 This chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]

]]> 0 341c5309f871fb60d21cca0de5926c24 Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865838/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:07:53 -0500 Calling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]

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

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

]]> 0 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 92e8441ace3332ac6183b0487124aad4 Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation - revised in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1859972/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:06:09 -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 6822d1cea93b8e57a0e3d66f63fb6a22 Marisa Verna deposited « Proust et l’odeur de son temps » in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856310/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:30:52 -0400 Until now, critics have shown little interest in the bouquet of aromas and scents that permeate the linguistic fabric of À la recherche du temps perdu , to the point of forming an olfactory (and cognitive) underlay. The aesthetic impact of these odors warrants further investigation, starting with a reconstruction of the “problem of smell” in Prou…[Read more]

]]> 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.

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