Knowledge Commons | Leah S. Marcus | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/marcusls/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Leah S. Marcus is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:25:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6bf689b8ce758c33f230c63e72b3bed0 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/shakespeare/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-3/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:50:45 -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]

]]> 721593b1601eb008592ed7b92d2605ef Sarah Wall-Randell started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-ecocriticism-in-an-age-of-emergency/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:24:39 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">CFP for MLA 2026: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature hav…[Read more]

]]> 878be761cb9ed1473efb89de08891f30 Carmen Nocentelli posted an update in the group LLC 17th-Century English: The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912942/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:10:46 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature have flourished since the turn of the twenty-first century. As the climate crisis continually becomes more urgent, however, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 94eb6279aec1e3a9c638d2b8a1339ddd Carmen Nocentelli started the topic MLA2026 - GOING GLOBAL: QUESTIONS, CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/mla2026-going-global-questions-challenges-opportunities/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:37:17 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on "Going Global: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities." We seek papers that critically examine the methodological and theoretical implications of global frameworks in seventeenth-century studies. Of particular interest are…[Read more]

]]> fe06ac3e48ac4b994a09abb0edd2827e Jane Hwang Degenhardt started the topic Call for self-nominations for appointment to the 17th-Century English LLC in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-appointment-to-the-17th-century-english-llc/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:00:04 -0500 Dear all:We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC 17th-Century English. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements…[Read more]

]]> 97c54fac0c4abafccc8c3666a3db0025 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-4/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:50:32 -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]

]]> f7a21a2ea3119bcee61780937a76a474 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:02:35 -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]

]]> ad99cfd8924307e6d8ed9ebf2a820f80 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901835/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:02:09 -0400 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]

]]> 0 ffe44bb1e1225719504ae24b32cf6103 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-6/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:24:10 -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]

]]> b771d381025eefe4fa630d4d6dd65e7d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics," Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900895/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:19:32 -0400 Whom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 34b43690873e15ca3daffe2e90b43646 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900889/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:11:44 -0400 How do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]

]]> 0 a264454de75d5bbb322c3400d99676b7 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China," in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900884/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:03:46 -0400 This chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin's interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]

]]> 0 8919f8290898b89abe48a65c3c75d66f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900082/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:03:39 -0400 Focusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[Read more]

]]> 0 0455d9132b8aed370faa30470461274e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891696/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:04:32 -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 4e20c10c6fbbea42ecb647f0cf113986 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887290/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:00:12 -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 121b0b2ee61902971bbcf59ea62c0357 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887199/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:00:11 -0400 Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf769066663bd61bf9f8d3ea283b1d2e Louise Bethlehem deposited African Futurism Interim Bibliography in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887041/ Fri, 24 May 2024 04:00:13 -0400 A compilation of articles on African Futurism generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism research project supported by THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), updated May 2024.

]]> 0 79239b18b248c82b0255988a174fcb52 Cristina León Alfar edited the doc Call for proposals, Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886889/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:47:07 -0400 75966ee742cd37c929e45192faa541f3 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886050/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:17:47 -0400 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

This year’s Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on the theme of global disability performances of Shakespeare. Curated by K…[Read more]

]]> 0 8dc8873edec5000109a201ad26f1ca60 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 Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886046/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:10:53 -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 73f2d3f11c5bc059c6284f247d583449 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878066/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:22:56 -0500 Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia by Alexa Alice Joubin. Lecture video now available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/R8mbUd_mHjQ Drawing on her forthcoming book, Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2024), Alexa Alice Joubin examines cultural encounters with Shakespeare’s plays as heterotopia, a set of parallel s…[Read more]

]]> 0 2dbaed96cf5cdf780c071e1cc0cbd155 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited CBC Podcast: Liberate Your Mind – Exploring Sex and Gender in Shakespeare, February 20, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878062/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:17:35 -0500 Full podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/dNhxFiaoIGM This is a CBC Radio podcast on gender roles in Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Taming of the Shrew, recorded live at Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada. “Liberate your mind, said English professor Alexa Alice Joubin, urging us to embrace the Bard’s open-endedness to ambiguity in…[Read more]

]]> 0 8752ad64bd27207defafac43906e437c Kendra Leonard deposited Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice (2004) in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877419/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:04:52 -0500 The performance history of The Merchant of Venice is one entangled with what producers and directors hear as the sounds of Jewishness, be it traditional prayer, like the Shema or Kaddish, or contrived nonsense, like the “old Hebraic song of sacrifice” sung by Anthony Sher in a 1987 stage production. In this essay, I interrogate composer Joc…[Read more]

]]> 0 c75cde83fef814e28911acbbdfa07505 Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876630/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:06:52 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 89d3f836a88ec233866bf1be09182716 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility," The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 195-211. in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876056/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:03:50 -0500 Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, have broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a5fffba9788ea55877933430afe3cd3 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI, Theater, and Interface Theory, keynote at Imaging Across Time: Wenshan International Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2023 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875819/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:03:52 -0500 What happens when AI goes to theatre with human audiences? Generative AI's natural-language conversational interface has frequently been cast as an anthropomorphic interface. In performance, digital screen as interface has evolved from a vehicle for dramatic messages to a meaning-making agent with an anthropomorphic presence. While the tendency to…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff55178d7dfdf974028113058a8a87d1 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872232/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:03:59 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 52e32a3c19dbd712005700b4465c168d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872217/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:03:51 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 87bfd52dbbb528ba859da2085c95d8c8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of #SuchStuff Podcast by the London Globe, Early Modern Digital Review 6.2 (2023): 149-153 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1871760/ Sat, 20 Jan 2024 04:03:50 -0500 Educational podcasts have gained momentum in recent years. Closure of live performance venues and widespread lockdowns as part of public hygiene measures during the global COVID-19 pandemic further increased interest in at-home consumption of digitally delivered content for entertainment and education. Supported by the Globe Theatre’s education d…[Read more]

]]> 0 5fa5c79aae42a8efdfbfabfcd3a9da34 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870899/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:00:14 -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 b15d1b491bfffa0db9d0c730f714036b Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870888/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:02:28 -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 7258b3b17289817e08e63687382ada67 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870104/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:00:14 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled "The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World". It has been turned into a short film titled "The 40th Day'--available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

]]> 0 df43c92f07f1ba283b7d3fd601a9bb1f Richard A. Strier replied to the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 17th-Century English via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-appointment-to-executive-committee/#post-1036534 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:28:10 -0500 Dear Professor Su Fan Ng,

I might be willing to help out, BUT I have to tell you that I no longer attend MLA, and could only work virtually.

Richard Strier
Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Editor, Modern Philology, 2004-2016
Department of English
University of…[Read more]

]]> ead9e249332e55a8432ace6a076f36d1 Su Fang Ng started the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-appointment-to-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:27:54 -0500 Dear all:We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC 17th-Century English. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements…[Read more]

]]> 4911f3546614ca570c39409dfe6ac135 Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868238/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:00:17 -0500 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b928d5db6d0dee9fe35e0497af8ecba Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866782/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:01:18 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 78010d9d737c9ed4f43944f6727c449b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness," Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866123/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:03:54 -0500 Inclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4ac11e3af08a6a03a3abf2f013d097d Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865834/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:00:13 -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 ecae664839a80a622bd3011a905611e0 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Generative AI as Shadow Publics in an Inquiry-Driven Society, Symposium on Digital Scholarship. Hong Kong Baptist University, October 27, 2023 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864512/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:11:06 -0500 Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, simulate human writing and complicate the inquiry-driven culture we live in. These tools use singular first-person pronouns in their textual outputs and are often associated with anthropomorphic qualities. Within the humanities, conversations tend to focus on detecting new forms of plagiarism. What is missing…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ef5cd5e9cf68a031cc1f77d22d7d2da Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Plenary: "Are There Transgender Characters in Shakespeare?" Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia, November 4, 2023. in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864507/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:04:00 -0500 Video recording of Alexa Alice Joubin's plenary is available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/8P5nNv86goQ There are certainly non-binary actors on stage, but are there Shakespearean characters who can be read as trans? The answer is yes. To ask whether there are transgender characters is to ask questions about the performance of gender roles. We are…[Read more]

]]> 0 98513ee47b821c4f46169f4ec2ed360f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook 20: Pericles, ed. Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Deanne Williams in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864065/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:03:58 -0500 This volume focuses on Pericles, Prince of Tyre, whose narrative of refugee suffering, familial loss, emotional distancing, people-trafficking, and eventual, joyous recovery speaks strikingly to our historical moment. The play’s internationalist reach, its images of cross-cultural relations, and its Eastern Mediterranean setting also promote a r…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ae83735da2016ff2dc4073dacd4c426 Cristina León Alfar deposited Abandoning Tragedy in James Ijames Fat Ham in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1862109/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:04:02 -0400 The story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is adapted and revised by James Ijames in his play Fat Ham, which ran from 12 May to 31 July 2022 at The Public Theater, coproduced by the National Black Theatre. Ijames’s play, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, plays with and departs from the plot of Hamlet to explore Black manhood, the fam…[Read more]

]]> 0 03de5ef2317f7195d356b986ecfc8996 Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic Job opportunity: UNC Distinguished Professor of As Am Literature in the discussion LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/job-opportunity-unc-distinguished-professor-of-as-am-literature/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 14:11:40 -0400 The Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill invites applications for a Distinguished Professorship with a specialization in Asian American literature and related forms of cultural production. We seek a candidate in any area or subfield of Asian American literary studies with an outstanding record of research,…[Read more]

]]> 8f6ef451d6fec3a3fac44d30a90aaa5a Vimala C. Pasupathi deposited "TEACHING WITH COMMONPLACE BOOKS IN THE AGE OF #RELATABLECONTENT" in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857155/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:10:15 -0400 An Essay about a Commonplace book assignment I wrote and tested in 2012 (published in Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy in 2014) and have since revisited and reflected upon. The essay goes into more detail about aspects of my assignment that I had not discussed in my earlier, and more practical, publication for JITP––more spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 73787bcd81ce6c8ce004306b28b54668 Vimala C. Pasupathi deposited "TEACHING WITH COMMONPLACE BOOKS IN THE AGE OF #RELATABLECONTENT" in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857154/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:08:57 -0400 An Essay about a Commonplace book assignment I wrote and tested in 2012 (published in Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy in 2014) and have since revisited and reflected upon. The essay goes into more detail about aspects of my assignment that I had not discussed in my earlier, and more practical, publication for JITP––more spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea8268dfe81a6286a0d786eb3ae63fb0 Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855397/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:14:20 -0400 A book's a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on "Counting (in) Early Modern Drama," I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]

]]> 0 97edbde5d6cd85ad67afb2476a85e6c2 Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854431/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:11:42 -0400 According to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section "until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types." 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4's printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0dd18ed9c3be4c721f4b0d51c11551d Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854430/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:10:23 -0400 According to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section "until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types." 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4's printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]

]]> 0 e85b73c27b6110d2896e13f7cc19f3b3 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin Receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846407/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:45:33 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, which recognizes Professor Joubin’s “contributions to social justice and inclusive excellence ” that exemplify “the ideals that Dr. King espoused,” particularly “community-based social justice organizing rooted in non-violence.” The MLK Award comes on the heel of her bell hook…[Read more]

]]> 0 90d2d4757c857d2b67637d80b5b00cbf Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Afterword: Adaptation studies and interactive pedagogies." Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences, ed. Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 187-200. in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846398/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:36:56 -0400 Criticism of the Shakespearean canon through adaptation as a genre has the capacity for liberation and social reparation. As a cluster of complex texts that sustains both past practices and contemporary interpretive conventions, Shakespeare provides fertile ground for training students to listen intently and compassionately to other individuals’ v…[Read more]

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