Knowledge Commons | Miriam Thaggert | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/mthaggert/activity/ Activity feed for Miriam Thaggert. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:53:42 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ed325e8f002a98582360394c9730e645 Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion Black American Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/llc-af-am-events-at-mla-2/ Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:34:22 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

 

Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:

 

41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement

Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Presiding: Dana A. Wil…[Read more]

]]> c97be1ba7384efd8d52196f839d6814e Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion Black American Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/llc-af-am-events-at-mla/ Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:29:41 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:

41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement

Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Presiding: Dana A. Williams, How…[Read more]

]]> d291129e7ef2731398b0d68217afc6db Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP - Af. Am. Interrogations of American National Narratives in the discussion Black American Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/mla-session-cfp-af-am-interrogations-of-american-national-narratives/ Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:43:18 -0400 African American Interrogations of American National Narratives: how do African American texts (e.g. Morrison's Playing in the Dark, Paradise, or A Mercy) question the stability of American mythologies? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to thabiti@wsu.edu by March 25.

]]> 86599de8617148a30a48756ae23e9079 Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP - Nat Turner: From Confessions to Film in the discussion Black American Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/mla-session-cfp-nat-turner-from-confessions-to-film/ Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:41:09 -0400 Nat Turner: From Confessions to Film: How do various media re-imagine black rebellion/revolt as related to the 1831 "Confessions," Styron's 1967 novel, and/or Nate Parker's film "Birth of a Nation"? 250-word abstracts, CV to miriam-thaggert@uiowa.edu by March 25.

]]> 034a8ed955f57a8e7ebada73fb206aca Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP - Contemporary African American Theatre in the discussion Black American Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/mla-session-cfp-contemporary-african-american-theatre/ Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:38:03 -0400 Contemporary African American Theatre: what critical conversations and new directions must emerge to sustain the vitality of African American theatre and performance and our understanding of its role in society? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to d_williams@howard.edu by March 25.

]]> 6457437b7127cd1b864adf476b82c1f6 Miriam Thaggert started the topic Announcing the American Literature Society in the discussion Black American Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/announcing-the-american-literature-society/ Tue, 01 Mar 2016 22:37:29 -0500 Announcing the American Literature Society 

On behalf of the Advisory Board, I am pleased to announce the American Literature Society, a professional organization of scholars devoted to the preservation, study and recognition of American literature and culture. Formerly known as the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association…[Read more]

]]> 0771f7da1d8727341ca82c89ed6ef251 Miriam Thaggert started the topic MELUS CFP - 21st Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures in the discussion Black American Literature and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/melus-cfp-21st-century-perspectives-on-us-ethnic-literatures/ Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:44:20 -0500 MELUS Call for Papers 
Special Issue: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures

(A commemorative special issue in honor of MELUS Emeritus Editor Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.)

 

Guest Editors: A Yęmisi Jimoh and Angelo Robinson

Deadline for submission: 31 August 2016

Anticipated publication: 2018

With more than a decade and a half…[Read more]

]]> efba4b6e46bde8f56baebadf824a6d14 Miriam Thaggert edited the file: Cash Bar - MLA 2016 - 2 in LLC African American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539062/ Wed, 20 Jan 2016 06:13:54 -0500 0 07333513f6ebdf0797c2f80fb6ac2313 Miriam Thaggert uploaded the file: Cash Bar - MLA 2016 - 3 to LLC African American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539061/ Wed, 20 Jan 2016 06:13:11 -0500 Attendees at the LLC African American Cash Bar

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