Knowledge Commons | Michelle Burnham | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/mburnham/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Michelle Burnham is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:57:48 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 243dc67f3408c686df01358e00a1f606 Francisco Delgado replied to the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/?view=all#post-1041054 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:43:37 -0400 Sure, no problem.

]]> d40e147c807e712b6cf1c430060dfe7e Amee Schmidt replied to the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/#post-1041053 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:58:36 -0400 This is great, Francisco. Are you comfortable submitting it?

AMEE SCHMIDT, M.A.
Associate Professor of English
Marshalltown Community College
3700 S. Center St. • Marshalltown, IA 50158
Office 403F • 641-844-5777<tel:+16418445777>
Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu<mailto:Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu>

]]> 79a08983560475b1d26311d8a8e7290a Amee Schmidt replied to the topic Draft of Program Copy for Decolonizing the MLA - Feedback Needed, Please in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-of-program-copy-for-decolonizing-the-mla-feedback-needed-please/#post-1041052 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:58:10 -0400 That's a great suggestion! I will do that.

Also, I've been very, very ill, but I will get this submitted before tomorrow's deadline.

AMEE SCHMIDT, M.A.
Associate Professor of English
Marshalltown Community College
3700 S. Center St. • Marshalltown, IA 50158
Office 403F • 641…[Read more]

]]> d2343e8892fd60bf0b48f221493d0248 Margaret A. Noodin replied to the topic Draft of Program Copy for Decolonizing the MLA - Feedback Needed, Please in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-of-program-copy-for-decolonizing-the-mla-feedback-needed-please/#post-1041032 Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:04:25 -0400 This looks good to me! Beth did mention that this feels like important work and fits with the 2027 MLA theme of "emancipation" if you want to work that word in there but it's totally up to you. Thanks for taking care of this!

]]> 2d891d26651737784b1c913ea5ef296f Francisco Delgado started the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:28:21 -0400 Please see below for a program description for the panel, "Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California." All feedback welcome!

A more detailed description of the panel and the presentations is available under "Files."

This panel aims to promote the literatures, languages, and cultures of Indigenous peoples of present-day California, as…[Read more]

]]> 7beab847825ad852e39520fc05c47093 Francisco Delgado uploaded the file: Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California - MLA 2027 to LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1946977/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:20:12 -0400 Attached is the line-up for our panel, "Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California."

]]> 0 b399963e54f15c040ad3738279478770 Amee Schmidt started the topic Draft of Program Copy for Decolonizing the MLA - Feedback Needed, Please in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-of-program-copy-for-decolonizing-the-mla-feedback-needed-please/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:48:06 -0400 Decolonizing the MLA: A Unique Framework for Inclusion

Four panelists discuss complications in the teaching, learning, and representation of indigenous literatures and cultures, and offer new ways of understanding these stories. Academic spaces such as the MLA Conference can call attention to the intersections of indigenous voices and colonial…[Read more]

]]> 8be30c0b0d175fad58c3e6c83272028e Amee Schmidt uploaded the file: Proposals for Decolonizing the MLA - for 2027 to LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1946926/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:29:31 -0400 These are the three proposals we received for the Decolonizing the MLA panel.

]]> 0 1672bc709cfe3146d60ebb0b4f8485e8 Francisco Delgado started the topic CFPs EXTENDED to March 23rd! in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/cfp-extended-to-march-23rd/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:23:17 -0400 Our CFPs for MLA 2027 (Los Angeles, CA) will remain open to submissions until March 23rd:

  1. Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California - https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33577.html
  2. Decolonizing the MLA - https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33578.html

More information, including to whom…[Read more]

]]> 664579ad3763b67ebb27fd77d9825d53 Amee Schmidt replied to the topic MLA 2027 - Calls for Papers in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-calls-for-papers/#post-1040938 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:39:27 -0500 You can also direct folks to this page at hte MLA: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Session24153.html

 

]]> ee054cf6ae9ce0b441763985fe55d69f Amee Schmidt started the topic MLA 2027 - Calls for Papers in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-calls-for-papers/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:02:08 -0500 Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California

How does Indigenous California’s historical significance appear in Indigenous-made creative work? Moreover, how does this body of work contribute to, deepen, undermine, or challenge what visitors think they know about California?

200-word abstracts should be sent to Francisco Delgado at FDelgado@…[Read more]

]]> a0662f466fa3a1878eb61b55b1c075fb Francisco Delgado started the topic Notes from Executive Committee Meeting - Feb. 17th in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/notes-from-executive-committee-meeting-feb-17th/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:19:49 -0500 This document contains notes from the executive committee's meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 17th - including finalized versions of our CFPs.

]]> 39be42f1eb4269ccd32355995fc0f8af Amee Schmidt started the topic Ideas for Better Utilization of this Commons Page in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/ideas-for-better-utilization-of-this-commons-page/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:57:39 -0500 Post your ideas here.

]]> 5227434fde7c687dc1b9926128c005a0 Eric Aronoff started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (April 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/deadline-extended-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-april-1/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:43:27 -0500 EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 1 2026 

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors

Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition

Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and ma…[Read more]

]]> 31291192d3d52559252c3c58303f00d2 Francisco Delgado replied to the topic MLA 2027 CFP - Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-indigenous-california/?view=all#post-1040806 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:21:03 -0500 Hi Amee,

The deadline is similar to the CFPs currently posted on the MLA website: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/index.html (and could be subject to change).

I wanted to share the call now, so that interested folks can start drafting proposals.

 

]]> de8cb73348cae96a8fbe63cafc49fd8d Amee Schmidt replied to the topic MLA 2027 CFP - Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-indigenous-california/#post-1040800 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:23:43 -0500 Do we know what the deadline is from MLA yet?

AMEE SCHMIDT, M.A. (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of English and Communications

Vice President, MCC Faculty Senate

Marshalltown Community College

3700 S. Center St. • Marshalltown, IA 50158

Office 403F • 641-844-5777

[cid:d8736a74-53b1-4425-9970-f7716c97ef40]

Chair, MLA Executive Forum Com…[Read more]

]]> 85cfd1d71ee50f1c4cdc44266067e850 Francisco Delgado started the topic MLA 2027 CFP - Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-indigenous-california/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:52:18 -0500 Below is one CFP from the LLC Indigenous Literatures of the US and Canada forum:

Indigenous California

Let us make space at MLA for the literatures and communities of the state in which we will be gathering. Indigenous California aims to promote the literatures, languages, and cultures of Indigenous peoples of present-day California, as well as…[Read more]

]]> 58c187fd3e83e8e5d3a08e6724c0f998 Francisco Delgado started the topic Notes of Executive Committee Meeting - January 23, 2026 in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/notes-of-executive-committee-meeting-january-23-2026/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:45:28 -0500 The executive committee met on Zoom on Friday, January 23, 2026. Attached are the minutes of the meeting.

Submitted by Francisco Delgado, Secretary of LLC Indigenous Literatures of US and Canada

]]> 0163dd257b312c6442067668ed2ac7ec Eric Aronoff started the topic Contribute to New edition of MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (Feb. 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/contribute-to-new-edition-of-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-feb-1/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:33:43 -0500 Call for Survey Participants and Contributors
Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition
Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and materials available to teachers of Moby-Di…[Read more]

]]> 677646ccbf60b3825df5f5d7390f97a7 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-9/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:34:16 -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]

]]> abf433b8577472fd5761649b8b27d9c4 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-14/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:15:38 -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]

]]> 1346221240764e69d7024fdb1d1e0446 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-13/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:14:07 -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]

]]> 796971bce75bc3c605a66641c8db8c6d Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902703/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:01:49 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a417fe13be51018bb741d1ebccb5e27 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902284/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:04:14 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 d34927ce4e55de52f921986d63b92140 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902283/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:01:50 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 bace6e3e3e565e8883db206e91042b06 Minni Sawhney deposited Buddhism in the Oeuvre of Severo Sarduy in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879220/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:01:13 -0400 The exiled Cuban French novelist, essayist, poet Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) converted to Mahayana Buddhism in 1971 after his journeys to Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. Untramelled by the rituals of his new faith, he remained unabashed in his critique of socio – political Buddhism (as in the novel Maitreya). Instead, Buddhism for him meant a creativity t…[Read more]

]]> 0 583238d4880008c95636f50a3bf552ad Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26425-italian-american-llc-guaranteed-session-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:15:12 -0500 #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers

Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

New Orleans has for centuries been a port of call and interstitial space beckoning people to its banks, whether through choice, coercion, or bondage.

For the Italian diaspora, New Orleans has been one…[Read more]

]]> e903db105c16658b452a2750b9efd075 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26426-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-session-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:10:53 -0500 #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session

Title: Italian Creole: Accents and Intersections

This panel takes the rich history of Italian Americans in New Orleans as a starting point for exploring the politics and power of ethnic visibility in New Orleans. Italians and Italian Americans were foundational to the early infrastructure…[Read more]

]]> 0f1ceec8a33383ff85564faaad9da867 Bernadette Andrea started the topic Nominees to Executive Committee in the discussion GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/nominees-to-executive-committee/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:52:06 -0500 The MLA Travel Writing Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030. Please send nominations to bernadette.andrea@ucsb.edu by January 15, 2024. Self-nominations are welcome.

  • Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
  • Seven convention years must elapse…

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]]> 860fad05f0e0afca1b2fa4dad574ec73 Hashintha Jayasinghe created the doc Archive and Repertoire of the Esala of the Esala Perahera Performance in Sri Lanka in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865282/ Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:46:48 -0500 18193fa29726cccfe903fb3be5ab3938 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861768/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:54 -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 1303c0fe22af3c669c7e10c4eaba03bd Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847387/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:07:53 -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 fd08663d6959cf5867ce013ceaabbb38 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847382/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:47:11 -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 53cf24ddbf05a2c8c16ef093f9e92054 Ellen Cressman Frye started the topic Welcome to Antarctic Studies!!! in the discussion GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/welcome-to-antarctic-studies-2/ Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:28:40 -0400 With a lifetime of passion for studying other cultures, followed by a Ph.D. in Spanish and now nearly a decade of research, conference papers, and publications about Antarctica, I am most excited to bring Antarctica to North Amercia, via the Modern Language Association.

The Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences of Antarctica have always been…[Read more]

]]> b7443022213abbe8d781eaf95983ab3f Jessica Howell started the topic Inviting nominations for the Executive Committee in the discussion GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/inviting-nominations-for-the-executive-committee/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:11:50 -0500 Hello,

The Executive Committee of the Travel Writing Forum invites suggestions for new members of the Executive Committee. Feel free to message one of us directly, or to post a reply here.

All best,

Jessica Howell, Bernadette Andrea, Patricia Akhimie, Natalya Din Kariuki and Churnjeet Mahn

]]> b6093b5e031e8f90dcabe14c7bb090e5 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1827262/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:25:57 -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 3fa1e1132e56d744d3ff918b31cb1dc5 John Gruesser deposited Poe's Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in "Hop-Frog" in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826933/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:00:41 -0500 As I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]

]]> 0 a13d467796026e9393a160714d58d337 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/travel-writing/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-11/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:44:09 -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]

]]> 4f2287b0af5d9892c2ad99a437fe6412 Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817820/ Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:25:37 -0400 This essay examines ethnic strife and cultural friction in New Orleans during the Mexican-American war. Specifically, it explores how the Crescent City’s anglophone and francophone populations navigated the tension between national and transnational affiliation through performance. By considering both the material and the immaterial aspects of p…[Read more]

]]> 0 577165686d4dd3736d50f310d01fbe15 Amel Abbady deposited "'You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts' : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman" in the group LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788677/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 03:53:36 -0400 In The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]

]]> 0 b339597a0738db6a8255fda2a913f76b Minni Sawhney deposited La figura del renegado en el teatro de Cervantes in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1783819/ Sat, 11 Jun 2022 02:23:44 -0400 On the renegades in Cervantes's Captivity plays

]]> 0 2742116c59d2b4063af4d9e41661c962 Emily Friedman deposited "Let people tell their stories their own way": Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768610/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:30:42 -0500 In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfb2bb01da951bc85d6a36ffd56ccdab Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-18th-century-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2022-forum-delegate-election-25/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:48:11 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 65f05a90ac4067894260e70de190653c Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2022-forum-delegate-election-13/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:24:29 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> e5e781eefb9e10ed46983b9b67d785b6 Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021  in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-american-writers-in-paris-then-and-now-proposals-by-september-30-2021-3/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:52:17 -0400 CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now. 

The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]

]]> 58da7d47db076c20c48cf8c6043d36bc Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746403/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:59:29 -0400 Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c639ac2adcba9ccd4a3500ecb4f5854 Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746399/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:53:11 -0400 Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]

]]> 0 a50f9167d644ebedff39d0f04a58eeca Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746397/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:48:43 -0400 Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f68b8cb7e170d7dfc2ce9c7011502f8 James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742219/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:50:10 -0400 This essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7623780af42290ff68330962b0f0ba20 Noemi Martin Santo deposited La curiositas asiática en Conquista de las Islas Malucas de Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola in the group GS Travel Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1740517/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 03:48:43 -0400 Este ensayo propone una lectura de Conquista de las islas Malucas (1609) del poeta, historiador y eclesiástico Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (1562-1631) como un gabinete de curiosidades textual lleno de narraciones y objetos maravillosos. El autor emplea sus propias ideas sobre la escritura de la historia para crear una crónica de conquista co…[Read more]

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