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Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP: MLA Toronto 2026 in the forum
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 6 days ago
So much drama! The view from abroad: a roundtable
How does the current dramatic state of the American union appear as performance, especially when projected to audiences beyond USA borders? How might the spectacle broadcast from the USA seem to shape socio-political performances elsewhere?
Deadline for submissions (extended): 7 September…[Read more]
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Aparna Dharwadker started the topic Publication of COSMO-MODERNISM AND THEATER IN INDIA (Columbia UP, 2025) in the forum
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 weeks ago
Dear colleagues: I am happy to announce the publication of my monograph, Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms, in the Modernist Latitudes Series at Columbia University Press. Paula Krebs confirmed that we can share such news with the Forum membership, so I look forward to similar posts from other…[Read more]
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Nattie Golubov uploaded the file: CFP Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2025-2025 to
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The first election of Donald Trump sparked a series of “Rogue” romance anthologies that framed love as resistance, and the romance genre as progressive and inclusive. Looking back after a decade, how has the genre registered and responded to ongoing political contexts–in the United States and elsewhere–of political radicalization, xenophobia,…[Read more]
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Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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]
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Sarah Balkin started the topic MLA Drama and Performance 2026 CFPs in the forum
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
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Robert Nguyen started the topic MLA 2026 CFPs, TC Adaptation Studies forum in the forum
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Good morning,
Good morning,
As I thought they may be of interest to folks working in Screen Arts and Culture, I am posting here info on the panels that the TC Adaptation Studies forum will be sponsoring for the 2026 MLA convention. Also included is further detail on the panel we are co-sponsoring with the GS Comics and Graphic Narratives…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers MLA 2026 in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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(Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities (Online)
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases,…[Read more] -
Tanya Shilina-Conte started the topic New Book: Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine in the forum
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 months ago
Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine by Tanya Shilina-Conte is now available from Oxford University Press<u>: </u><u>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-screens-white-frames-9780197511336?cc=us&lang=en&#</u>
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Sarah Balkin started the topic Self-nominations for the Forum’s Delegate Assembly representative in the forum
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has been suggested by the forum’s membership (unless there are too few suggestions). I write to encourage you to submit you…[Read more]
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Sarah Balkin started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,
I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. The committee will meet during the 2025 convention to discuss and organize panels for the 2026…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election in the forum
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 9 months ago
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]
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Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.
We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago
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]
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Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 11 months ago
Review of
Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 11 months ago
This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for “Reading Cultures,” a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
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]
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Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
This chapter argues that
by including fan studies as part of appropriation theory scholarship can account for
this conversation, manifest in likes, re-posts and experimental fan work. Because of
the interplay between creator and audience, the focus of appropriative study shifts
from the end product, the new Shakespeare iteration, to the fan…[Read more] -
Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
This chapter argues that
by including fan studies as part of appropriation theory scholarship can account for
this conversation, manifest in likes, re-posts and experimental fan work. Because of
the interplay between creator and audience, the focus of appropriative study shifts
from the end product, the new Shakespeare iteration, to the fan…[Read more] -
Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago
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]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago
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]
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