Knowledge Commons | Jesse Miller | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/jesse_miller/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Jesse Miller is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:18:29 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0401525130ef52640a9055aff17a00e5 Jane Robbins Mize started the topic Science and Literature Panel MLA 2027 in the forum TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/science-and-literature-panel-mla-2027-2/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:38:20 -0500 Hi everyone,

The Science and Literature Forum is seeking abstracts for a panel at MLA 2027, "Food, Science, and Literature":

California alone grows half of the fruits and vegetables in the US. This panel brings together scholars examining literature of food, food science, food justice, and agriculture in California and beyond.

Please submit a…[Read more]

]]> 81dd10f4b57b1c37290fde01d37f3773 Stephanie Shirilan started the topic Seeking Nominations for Sci Lit Exec Cttee! in the forum TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-sci-lit-exec-cttee/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:30:04 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

With apologies for my own belated entry into this designated digital discussion space, I am writing on behalf of the Executive Cttee for this TC Science and Literature Forum to say hello and solicit nominations (especially self-nominations) for a new Executive Committee member whose five-year term will begin in Jan 2027. The…[Read more]

]]> 7ede33aeabe52948ed4d23eac2a70e9c Philip Trotter started the topic MLA 2026 Convention Session in the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities-and-health-studies/forum/topic/mla-2026-convention-session/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:44:07 -0500 Please find attached a link to the abstract and details for the MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing, and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing.”

 

]]> 92184c734d554ee6f0b8d483f80afe38 Nathan Gorelick started the topic Psychoanalysis of the Mother in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychoanalysis-of-the-mother-2/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:20:26 -0400 Starting a thread to facilitate planning for the Forum's 2026 MLA panel on "Psychoanalysis of the Mother."

]]> ece4a82e4641d0e9443a321b32e94720 Nathan Gorelick started the topic Psychoanalysis of the Mother in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychoanalysis-of-the-mother/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:18:11 -0400 Starting a thread to facilitate conversation and planning for the Forum's 2026 MLA panel on "Psychoanalysis of the Mother."

]]> 4def381b0b7bdc8b3ab415f531121376 Seda Arıkan replied to the topic Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/#post-1039662 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:31:46 -0400 Dear Editors,

I have sent an email with my proposal. I will be happy if you inform me whether you received it.

Best wishes,

Seda Arikan

email: sarikan@firat.edu.tr

]]> e9842911203212376a9c4714702b8a5c Lauren Rocha replied to the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/#post-1039578 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:11:03 -0500 Disability, Belonging, and Family

This session seeks abstracts that address how disability and the concept of family encompass different experiences across relationships, communities, and texts. These proposals can either draw from lived experiences or address portrayals of disability in families in literature, TV shows, film, and other content.…[Read more]

]]> 209b5ed37e685333516a2bf3e34c36a0 Junting Huang replied to the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/#post-1039555 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:39:24 -0500 Impairment Theory

This session invites proposals that explore personal and phenomenological accounts of impairment—not merely as a physical condition of illness or disability but as an embodied experience that generates cultural, social, and political insights.

While disability studies have long critiqued the social structures that create d…[Read more]

]]> 63df32676ae57d67937294cf8081651b Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:37:41 -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]

]]> 6676123f4cef90a92bbfdd8a8c425306 Terry Callaghan started the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:08:13 -0500 MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession: Calls for Papers
Impairment Theory
Papers exploring personal and/or phenomenological accounts of impairment—not as physical conditions of illness or disability but as embodied experiences that generate cultural, social, and political insights for scholarship. Submit a 250-word abstract by the d…[Read more]

]]> e2ccb37276370a28fa466b27be89e5a7 Sharon Tran replied to the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/#post-1039293 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:46:01 -0500 See attached for the digital access copy to Sophia's paper.

]]> c537103403f467b912ed1323d4567fef Sharon Tran replied to the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/#post-1039272 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:36:11 -0500 Here is a link to my presider remarks, including our panelists' bios.

]]> 97605f8a38d93efe945eedce18e16389 Cynthia R. Port started the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:38:38 -0500 This session (#332), sponsored by the Disability Studies Forum, will take place on Friday, January 10th, 1:45-3:00 pm, Salon 18, Hilton Riverside, New Orleans. We are pleased to share related materials via attachments below:

Presiding: Sharon Tran

  1. Chris Gabbard, "Truth or Trickery in the Name of Care: An Ethics-of-Care Reading of…

[Read more]

]]> 3c1678c94e6acc1cc250c496534ec37a Cynthia R. Port started the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control (Session 332) in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control-session-332-2/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:36:59 -0500 This session, sponsored by the Disability Studies Forum, will take place on Friday, January 10th, 1:45-3:00 pm, Salon 18, Hilton Riverside, New Orleans. We are pleased to share related materials via attachments below:

Presiding: Sharon Tran

  1. Chris Gabbard, "Truth or Trickery in the Name of Care: An Ethics-of-Care Reading of Shakespeare's King L…

[Read more]

]]> 269b542fe8abff4ad2ca665a961b177c Sharon Tran replied to the topic Age and/as Disability in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/age-and-as-disability-2/#post-1039249 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:07:23 -0500 Here is a link to my presider remarks, including our panelists' bios.

]]> cc5d668748cbf1104d8ae121f4add921 Sharon Tran started the topic Age and/as Disability in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/age-and-as-disability-2/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:01:57 -0500 Please join us for this joint session organized by the Age Studies and Disability Studies forums that aims to bring our fields more fully into critical dialogue. The session will convene in person on Friday, January 10th from 10:15-11:30am in Salon 3 (1st floor) of the Hilton Riverside New Orleans.

Our panelists have also kindly shared digital co…[Read more]

]]> fd2638c01bc5c93119ea5d4b13810bef Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2025 MLA Convention in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2025-mla-convention/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 01:19:29 -0500 UPDATE 1-1-25:

Forum member Steven Swarbrick has notified us of another panel of interest:

Friday, 10 January 2025:

Freud's Ecology

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Hilton New Orleans Riverside - Jackson (3rd Floor)

 

The Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature invites you to attend our panels at the 2025 MLA…[Read more]

]]> c3deb1816f7f1cf4411d3973f5c07ab3 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Join TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature’s Executive Board! in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/join-tc-psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literatures-executive-board/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:42:17 -0500 MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for a seat on the Executive Board. The Executive Board devises and runs programming for the MLA Convention, including at least two panels yearly. The Forum is an excellent way to meet colleagues with similar i…[Read more]

]]> b5e1307cd3566f46df7a78557b226a4a Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-2/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:23:54 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS.) We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 29997837b7350e72eb0e97687355fe35 Lennie Amores started the topic Call For Papers MLA 2025 Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2025-critical-disability-in-contemporary-iberian-studies/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:23:11 -0500 MLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section. The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit proposals:
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions, personal or pedagogical practices, and case studies on the relation between d…[Read more]

]]> f2ef1aee2f0d62c02c913d28588a90c0 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Join TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature's Executive Committee! in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/join-tc-psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literatures-executive-committee-6/ Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:38:08 -0500 MLA's Transdisciplinary Connections Forum for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for a seat on the Executive Board. The Executive Board devises and runs programming for the MLA Convention, including at least two panels yearly. The Forum is an excellent way to meet colleagues with similar interests.…[Read more]

]]> 8bf24815d5df5fe14cda1a97be78b78f Darren J. Borg replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2024-mla-convention/#post-1036037 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 21:40:29 -0500 Our panel, #733--"What is a life worth living?: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life-- does not have a specific focus on psychoanalysis, but my paper, "Towards a Psychoanalysis of the Time-Traveller," does. Please share!

]]> b74bb9759dbb16a818db67ecb7019945 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2024-mla-convention/ Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:10:57 -0500 The Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature invites you to attend our panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia!

We have two interesting and timely sessions this year:

194 - Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti

Friday, 5 January 2024, 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Marriott - Franklin 7 (Level…[Read more]

]]> 8ea63c5606b24a218bf40f6922de1af4 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861772/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:08:55 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 da851da4cbd29344ff94fe9c3f867439 Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures (Introduction) in the group TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855421/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:22:35 -0400 Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural
disasters: images of the “gray flood” and “silver tsunami” imbue
senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This
Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative
shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children,
but of one…[Read more]

]]> 0 b88ffadd967543c05830e3900e6ad80d Tekla Babyak started the topic My virtual talk on bringing in disabled guest speakers in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/my-virtual-talk-on-bringing-in-disabled-guest-speakers/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 22:39:10 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

My name is Tekla Babyak (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014)—I'm an independent scholar and disability activist with multiple sclerosis. As an MLA Delegate Assembly Member representing Disability in the Profession, I'm committed to fighting against ableism in academia.

To that end, I'm writing to let you know about my upcoming v…[Read more]

]]> 21f7d508e367a9adafbb932ffc469994 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847389/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:15:26 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 f746fdba991b01f88844310ee9302132 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847384/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:54:55 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9468d6875ba6be372976c7df7f9d4ba Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841287/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:39:21 -0400 This article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]

]]> 0 27f5642c3759254091c715cd04284643 Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841278/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:20:06 -0400 The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

]]> 0 d16dad3030dade02342226cce242cd44 Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024--Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2024-psychoanalysis-and-decolonization-non-guaranteed-panel/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:21:14 -0500 The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

]]> d16dad3030dade02342226cce242cd44 Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024--Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2024-psychoanalysis-and-decolonization-non-guaranteed-panel/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:21:14 -0500 The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

]]> d16dad3030dade02342226cce242cd44 Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024--Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2024-psychoanalysis-and-decolonization-non-guaranteed-panel/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:21:14 -0500 The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

]]> d16dad3030dade02342226cce242cd44 Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024--Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2024-psychoanalysis-and-decolonization-non-guaranteed-panel/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:21:14 -0500 The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

]]> ac784f4feb3778b482ad4a08511268c8 Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: MLA 2024--Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2024-queer-theory-and-psychoanalysis-guaranteed-panel/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:19:38 -0500 The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers. Queer theory embraces p…[Read more]

]]> 9fdb07c2b2a938bdfc4ac043f19698c3 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations For Assembly Delegate in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-for-assembly-delegate/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 21:30:21 -0500 The TC Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Running for Delegate is a good way to become more involved in Forum activities and to make connections with colleagues who share your scholarly interests. To forward your own or a colleague's name, or to…[Read more]

]]> 821982a85d4b4ad4456bab6658819edd Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-for-lsl-sponsored-session-for-mla-2024-feelings-for-our-languages-8/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 22:14:54 -0500 Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

]]> af37198c4125991843e8fe16a9ba7df6 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2023 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2023-mla-convention/ Tue, 03 Jan 2023 15:57:17 -0500 The Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature is pleased to announce five panels at MLA 2023 (including some postponed from 2022). The full list can be accessed at this link. We hope to see you there!

]]> 183a265dff50fe8e383f4071c3213a70 Maren T. Linett started the topic Members' suggestions for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/members-suggestions-for-forum-executive-committee/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:29:17 -0500 At (and after) the January convention, the TC Disability Studies executive committee will need to  appoint a new member to the executive committee.  Please let us know if you want to self-nominate or nominate someone else and we will consider all nominations at our meeting. Thank you!

]]> 8ba3a72bea5207975b2f6dfe93fda9b5 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1827264/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:29:07 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e2f88d8ec93850ce6afbfb8f8c5a427 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) Text in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826931/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:55:30 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in…[Read more]

]]> 0 716e02d575f943eb196d2671b831c665 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) PowerPoint in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826928/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:49:25 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 7fdb1825208b4072e5be06cb199536c5 Maren T. Linett replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-52/?view=all#post-1031706 Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:00:38 -0500 Thank you Leigh! Who has a nomination or self-nomination for someone to run for a term of service on the delegate assembly for TC Disability Studies? The Executive Committee, as Leigh notes, will be considering nominees at our meeting at the January MLA.

]]> 8da9ae5c4701802bd99a95a55475d30a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-55/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:33:09 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 1afaf446f3b1184b071885ab5ae8f2ad Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities-and-health-studies/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-54/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:32:58 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> a37db09b892ec2e8ef17eb0e46cb2f3d Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823097/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:24:28 -0500 Considering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature?

]]> 0 f7ccb44e5f350dcbcdec44db7cf260ad Tekla Babyak deposited Teaching Music and Disability Through Disclosure-Oriented Pedagogy in the group TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1793079/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 02:24:46 -0400 In this paper, presented at the 2022 H-Net Teaching Conference, I describe how I teach undergraduate students about disability in music through what I call disclosure-oriented pedagogy. This practice involves demonstrating cross-historical comparisons between my lived experiences of disability and the representations of disability in 19th-century…[Read more]

]]> 0 d85fbdb15ccf7878c67b2cef5f975e2e Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1789200/ Sun, 31 Jul 2022 03:51:33 -0400 Abstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.

]]> 0 460328415a1a1fb34069b16a2c3465ab Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-19th-and-early-20th-century-american/forum/topic/call-for-essays-on-african-american-literature-and-culture-2/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:46:04 -0400 The non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.  

We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]

]]> 31df4771a070869b0a9d5a8e097a7fd0 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771065/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:33:44 -0500 The Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]

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