Knowledge Commons | Jack W. Chen | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/jackwchen/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Jack W. Chen is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:25:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e4394fcd163c828984327d03a1e601af Heng Du started the topic CFP: Permutations of the “Imagination”; Grappling with Absence in the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/cfp-permutations-of-the-imagination-grappling-with-absence-2/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:11:09 -0500 The MLA Pre-14th c. Chinese Lang Lit & Cul Forum is inviting proposals for the following two panels:

<b>Permutations of the “Imagination” in Early and Medieval Literary and Visual Art</b><b></b>

This panel will explore the idea of the “imagination” as manifest in the literary and visual arts of early and medieval China – and beyond.…[Read more]

]]> 084dfed0c0bc033445ea05542e3e8b3d Heng Du started the topic CFP: Permutations of the “Imagination”; Grappling with Absence in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-permutations-of-the-imagination-grappling-with-absence/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:09:21 -0500 The MLA Pre-14th c. Chinese Lang Lit & Cul Forum is inviting proposals for the following two panels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

<b>Permutations of the “Imagination” in Early and Medieval Literary and Visual Art</b><b></b>

This panel will explore the idea of the “imagination” as manifest in the literary and visual arts of early…[Read more]

]]> 2daef4e07a7478b88bcf768087773531 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-5/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:53:21 -0500 <p style="text-align: center;">Call for Papers</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 9b4259816cfb740985c7bf6d1803697e Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-4/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:52:03 -0500 <p style="text-align: center;">Call for Papers</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 6c2c8a824a5d5871288a361299ba23e8 Maria Franca Sibau started the topic Forum Executive Committee Invites Self-Nominations in the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-invites-self-nominations/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:03:27 -0500 The Ming and Qing Chinese forum executive committee invites self-nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term beginning in January 2027. Please send all nominations, and any questions you might have about the position, to Maria Franca Sibau at maria.sibau@emory.edu, by February 10, 2026. Many thanks!

]]> 9fd0130068183c6c1f8a64d90c5cc27c Heng Du started the topic Call for Proposals for MLA 2027 in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-for-mla-2027/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:23:06 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2027 MLA annual convention, which will be held Jan 7-10 in Los Angeles. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 954649814b4229611358d71541b321cf Heng Du started the topic Forum Executive Committee Seeks Nominations for 2027-2032 term in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-seeks-nominations-for-2027-2032-term/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:17:23 -0500 P14 Chinese Forum members,

The forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2027. We are particularly interested in junior scholars focusing on the medieval period, with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in…[Read more]

]]> 9bc9b5189830428c2d8a9f95891f80e5 Heng Du started the topic Panels on Chinese and EA Lit at the MLA (Toronto, Jan 8-11) in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/panels-on-chinese-and-ea-lit-at-the-mla-toronto-jan-8-11-2/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:11:27 -0500 <div>Dear Colleagues, please find in this Google Doc a compilation of panels related to the study of Chinese and East Asian Literatures at the MLA. We hope to see you there!</div>
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<div>Warmly,</div>
<div></div>
<div>MLA Committees on Ming and Qing China & Pre-14th Century…[Read more]

]]> f59d10c9947ec050bb3de2bc4e7a4ded Heng Du started the topic Panels on Chinese and EA Lit at the MLA (Toronto, Jan 8-11) in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/panels-on-chinese-and-ea-lit-at-the-mla-toronto-jan-8-11/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:09:48 -0500 Dear Colleagues, please find in this Google Doc a compilation of panels related to the study of China and East Asia at the MLA. We hope to see you there!

Warmly,

MLA Committees on Ming and Qing China & Pre-14th Century China

]]> e4a9b2e4b2aebe5a84665701bc938579 Heng Du started the topic Panels on Chinese Lit and EA at the MLA in the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/panels-on-chinese-lit-and-ea-at-the-mla/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:05:42 -0500 Dear Colleagues, please find in this Google Doc a compilation of panels related to the study of China and East Asia at the MLA. We hope to see you there!

Warmly,

MLA Committees on Ming and Qing China & Pre-14th Century China

]]> b7e66adea713777f8932a4c7e89b6d4f Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due by 1/15/26 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-by-1-15-26/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:52:54 -0500 <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 26f9aa9adc6b3a268da92ca93cf090e8 Tian Jing Teh started the topic CFP USC Korean Studies Institute Annual Graduate Conference 2025-2026 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-usc-korean-studies-institute-annual-graduate-conference-2025-2026/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:09:13 -0400 The USC Korean Studies Institute invites applications for its Annual USC Graduate Conference in Korean Studies 2025-2026. This conference aims to foster a multidisciplinary community of local and regional graduate students whose research projects significantly engage Korean society and culture across the periods. It offers a platform for emerging…[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]

]]> 66e44e5c2900995ffe9f23d7db788106 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-5/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:32:13 -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]

]]> 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 353395ec89efb2c73702b5eca12021f1 Eric Hayot started the topic Call for Nominations for P14 China Representative to MLA Delegate Assembly in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-p14-china-representative-to-mla-delegate-assembly/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:47:29 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites nominations and self-nominations to serve as the forum's representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. The election for the position will be held in the Fall of 2025, for a three-year term beginning January 2026 (after the convention).

Details about Delegate Assembly membership and…[Read more]

]]> 4f38280587daa86ad2b6c841a543e3ef Eric Hayot started the topic Call for Proposals for 2026 MLA conference in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-for-2026-mla-conference/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:43:41 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2025 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 8-11 in Toronto. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 7892050b15402196fe62b618169a5cbd Eric Hayot started the topic Forum Executive Committee Seeks Nominations for 2026-2031 term in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-seeks-nominations-for-2026-2031-term/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:41:13 -0500 P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2026. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

]]> 461bd69c3b1d31ccd38a618f0db401b4 Nathaniel Isaacson started the topic Self-Nominations: MLA Modern and Contemporary Forum in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/self-nominations-mla-modern-and-contemporary-forum/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:43:09 -0500 The MLA Forum for Modern and Contemporary Chinese invites self-nominations for executive committee candidates. Executive committee members serve a five-year term, beginning at the MLA Annual Convention in 2026, and must be prepared to retain MLA membership and regularly attend the MLA Convention during this period. The Forum will vote on nominees…[Read more]

]]> bed759e6f99a8179ea616dcf19aafd15 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-17/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:33:42 -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]

]]> c1a72ef9b1b380d234d1b17765120f4d Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-2/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:34:40 -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]

]]> 3074a7b3c87a12c56239d4529302b9ba 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 GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900961/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:00:08 -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 957b663ecd634e8c4d560585b26d9d17 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891695/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:03:47 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 aeca886e970f1b390aba778c188c0119 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-2/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:32:30 -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]

]]> 51dbb91a449b9d3478027c53ec16c2bb Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889190/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:31:49 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 e7fdc8af26b6c0ed70fa772f30721b0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889177/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:03:45 -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 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 5990b522e766e71f5f9f167d98bda74c Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887294/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:09:13 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 06f816f7a922654b5a975298576da41e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886045/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:09:56 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 1602961c6669fe6282afa940c429965e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Dutch Formosa in 2000: Taiwan as China’s Renegade Province in Wu Ziniu’s The Sino-Dutch War 1661," in Scenes from Dutch Formosa: Staging Taiwan’s Colonial Past, ed. Llyn Scott (Portland ME: MerwinAsia, 2014), pp. 153-179 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886041/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:01:13 -0400 What does Koxinga mean to today’s China and Taiwan? How does Wu Ziniu’s film The Sino-Dutch War 1661, a 2000 mainland Chinese film about seventeenth-century Dutch Formosa–with a mainland Chinese / Hong Kong / Japanese cast–complicate the questions of belonging and betrayal?

Taiwan’s cultural identities have always been political…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7035478ecacbe747575cd69b0be1585 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Dutch Formosa in 2000: Taiwan as China’s Renegade Province in Wu Ziniu’s The Sino-Dutch War 1661," in Scenes from Dutch Formosa: Staging Taiwan’s Colonial Past, ed. Llyn Scott (Portland ME: MerwinAsia, 2014), pp. 153-179 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886040/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:00:15 -0400 What does Koxinga mean to today’s China and Taiwan? How does Wu Ziniu’s film The Sino-Dutch War 1661, a 2000 mainland Chinese film about seventeenth-century Dutch Formosa–with a mainland Chinese / Hong Kong / Japanese cast–complicate the questions of belonging and betrayal?

Taiwan’s cultural identities have always been political…[Read more]

]]> 0 8aa490bbe35b7c4c66dea57a6413aed3 Nicolai Volland started the topic MLA 2025: Collaborative session proposals in the discussion LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/mla-2025-collaborative-session-proposals/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:03:09 -0400 Dear members of the LLC Modern & Contemporary Chinese:

our Forum can sponsor one more "non-guaranteed, collaborative" session for the 2025 Convention. If you know of another forum with an open collaborative slot, or if you are organizing a proposal with another forum that you'd like the LLC Modern & Contemporary Chinese to co-sponsor, please…[Read more]

]]> 021ec4824576208999326ed8b6bb9ed2 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Keynote: Cinematic Representations of East Asian American Women, Tucker-Boatwright Festival and Symposium: Hollywood & the Asian American Imagination, Richmond, February 23, 2024 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878851/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:02:41 -0500 My keynote explores such questions as: What are the patterns in Hollywood representations of East Asian American women from romantic comedy to science fiction films? How do racism and sexism intersect in these patterns? Watch the video recording on YouTube (https://youtu.be/iHjKOYf-IXQ) to gain a better understanding how gender biases are…[Read more]

]]> 0 13bdfd6523fb954a4545031350fa4e81 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Keynote: Cinematic Representations of East Asian American Women, Tucker-Boatwright Festival and Symposium: Hollywood & the Asian American Imagination, Richmond, February 23, 2024 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878849/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:01:57 -0500 My keynote explores such questions as: What are the patterns in Hollywood representations of East Asian American women from romantic comedy to science fiction films? How do racism and sexism intersect in these patterns? Watch the video recording on YouTube (https://youtu.be/iHjKOYf-IXQ) to gain a better understanding how gender biases are…[Read more]

]]> 0 b87fb2dddc72f3e37248c1d83a4ff995 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878059/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:09:12 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 40a1c6164b167daf4c4542319d7b1127 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878058/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:05:36 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9defb0ddb563af9ac8978cd6d90e4f9 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 335-338 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876065/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:16:09 -0500 Going against the grain, this collection counters the common perception of the Maoist era as a time of ideological conformity. The contributors persuasively demonstrate that theatre activities were varied and lively between the 1950s and 1970s. While there was state control over the arts, performances in urban spaces were more frequently censored…[Read more]

]]> 0 8344490172d70a9035dfa7a8cded582f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 335-338 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876064/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:15:27 -0500 Going against the grain, this collection counters the common perception of the Maoist era as a time of ideological conformity. The contributors persuasively demonstrate that theatre activities were varied and lively between the 1950s and 1970s. While there was state control over the arts, performances in urban spaces were more frequently censored…[Read more]

]]> 0 e73db22182bcf799755fc9f7abbd0aac Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Performing the Socialist State by Xiaomei Chen, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 338-340 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876061/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:10:47 -0500 In this review, Alexa Alice Joubin outlines the main argument of Xiaomei Chen's Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture. "The eight chronologically- and thematically-organized chapters in this book provide a much-needed critical survey of spoken drama (huaju) from its inception through the Republican and Maoist eras…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b43440e5e6ec54332bfd3892c75887d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Performing the Socialist State by Xiaomei Chen, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 338-340 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876060/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:10:03 -0500 In this review, Alexa Alice Joubin outlines the main argument of Xiaomei Chen's Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture. "The eight chronologically- and thematically-organized chapters in this book provide a much-needed critical survey of spoken drama (huaju) from its inception through the Republican and Maoist eras…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0145bfbba1ffdd449d1df08d629828e Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874114/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:03:08 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1651080c71469d401f52fed810de2a1d Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874112/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 085d313e046aa420168c40f47f867b03 Edward B. Kamens started the topic Planning for the 2025 MLA Conference in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/planning-for-the-2025-mla-conference-2/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:02:14 -0500 The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]

]]> ddcb01f8bb9fd11993471e51583fa96f Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870902/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:04:41 -0500 Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4e96485ab9e0971cdccbd1aaa86787e Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870893/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:10:19 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 3308d1038e42855c4f715bfab63b8ffb Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/scaglione-prize-for-east-asian-studies-6/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:50:14 -0500 Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

]]> e41efa5201965a356302884cdda44b53 Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/scaglione-prize-for-east-asian-studies-2/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:41:10 -0500 Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

]]> 45336e7f966f11ae663c5b33dc363eea Sarah Allen started the topic Call for nominations: LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese forum executive committee in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-pre-14th-century-chinese-forum-executive-committee-2/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:18:45 -0500 P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2025. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

]]> 19dabbaef64076eba761b88f53c5a13d Sarah Allen started the topic Call for nominations: LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese forum executive committee in the discussion LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-pre-14th-century-chinese-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:18:40 -0500 P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2025. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

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