Knowledge Commons | Nathan H. Dize | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/nathanhdize/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Nathan H. Dize is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:53:37 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 642f420f2adee2033c131c1c8a450562 Rachael Mulvihill edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Rachael Mulvihill in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/03/27/hastac-scholar-spotlight-rachael-mulvihill/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:02:48 -0400 Rachael V. Mulvihill is a PhD Candidate in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research examines utopian and dystopian representations of capitalism across […]

]]> c63c9eda1be0fcde14629bace7a04c55 Grace Dignazio edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Grace Dignazio in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/03/06/hastac-scholar-spotlight-grace-dignazio/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:38:00 -0500 Grace Dignazio is an interdisciplinary scholar and MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The New School in New York City. Her digital humanities research focuses on hybrid poetics, electronic literature, and […]

]]> 0e5561b59b281793a85e18d8136623f5 Elisa Castro edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Elisa Castro in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/02/28/hastac-scholar-spotlight-elisa-castro/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:55:46 -0500 Elisa is a post-graduate fellow with the Transborder Digital Humanities Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where her research focuses on migration, archival studies, and transborder digital […]

]]> 9e5e5fa8894556fd0fa017b195ce65d6 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum Teaching and Learning https://hastac.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:48:09 -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]

]]> 3ab98575169b38c50f12b905c2a160a8 Julia Frengs started the topic CFP for MLA 2027: Queer Emancipatory Narratives of the Francosphere in the forum LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-queer-emancipatory-narratives-of-the-francosphere/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:39:00 -0500 This panel seeks proposals engaging with the articulation of queer emancipatory narratives from throughout the "francosphere." We aim to consider how queer discourses of emancipation are constructed throughout the French-speaking world, taking into account a variety of cultural norms that might restrict queer voices. We would be delighted to see…[Read more]

]]> 8e06941fab37302863906624655c4fa1 William J. Spurlin started the topic CfP for MLA 2027 in Los Angeles: Queer Nations: Remembering Jarrod Hayes in the forum LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-in-los-angeles-queer-nations-remembering-jarrod-hayes-2/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:36:22 -0500 This guaranteed session, sponsored by LLC Francophone, celebrates the work of the late Jarrod Hayes, Professor of French Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at the University of Monash in Melbourne, Australia, at the time of his untimely passing in 2025, and previously Professor of French and Francophone…[Read more]

]]> 8cc50d7ca56ca8135d1bc69d0c8a755f Ame Min-Venditti edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Ame Min-Venditti in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/02/08/hastac-scholar-spotlight-ame-min-venditti/ Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:55:38 -0500 Ame Min-Venditti (they/them/elle) is a scholar motivated by water stories, sharing and learning from ancestral wisdom to create just and peaceful futures. Ame is a participatory action researcher engaging in […]

]]> eed160b9adf7eb4744a28cbd016c0b6c Cole Rizki started the topic Nominations for Candidates to Delegate Election in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-for-candidates-to-delegate-election/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:19:15 -0500 Hi everyone, I write to solicit nominations for candidates to the MLA delegate election. For eligibility: any candidates for election must have been included in the membership list of the association for the preceding year. No one can occupy more than one delegate seat at a time and delegates may only serve two consecutive terms on the Delegate…[Read more]

]]> a8ad4ac0690f479f608f8ec8080425d9 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic call for nominations: MLA Delegate Assembly Representative in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-mla-delegate-assembly-representative/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:37:03 -0500 Please send nominations (including self-nominations) for 20th/21st-c French forum representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly to freedthall@nyu.edu, by March 9, 2026. The elected representative serves a 3-year term and must attend the annual Delegate Assembly meeting, held during the MLA convention. Learn more about the Delegate Assembly here:…[Read more]

]]> faee167f1f88339eeb2ef291f12233f0 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aesthetics and Politics of Resistance in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aesthetics-and-politics-of-resistance/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:15:04 -0500 This panel explores the aesthetics and politics of resistance in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. Possible topics include: conditions of control, surveillance, capture, and repression; fascism/antifascism; refusal, fugitivity, emancipation, or revolution. This is a non-guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March…[Read more]

]]> 360ae55cbfad2134312c716031801caa Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Literature and the News in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-literature-and-the-news/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:55:07 -0500 This panel explores intersections between literature and journalism in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. Topics include, but are not limited to, the fait divers, truth and disinformation, politics and aesthetics, fact and fiction. This is a guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March 15, 2026 to sk130@wellesley.edu

]]> c5422136117d01a9bf1d4678024a3a64 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Reproductive Justice in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-reproductive-justice/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:30:10 -0500 On the centenary of the birth of Simone Veil (namesake of the landmark 1975 French law legalizing abortion), this panel explores sexual autonomy, gender freedom, decolonial feminism, and reproductive dignity in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. This is a guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March 15 to freedthall@nyu.edu.

]]> 22eaebfef1511160dba471458faedfb6 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC 20th-and 21st Century French Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-5/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:54:18 -0500 Dear Colleagues, The LLC 20th 21st Century Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2027 through the close of the January 2031 convention). Responsibilities of the committee members also include serving as…[Read more]

]]> 21613f4d7281e7e57f243100ab1f58c4 Cole Rizki started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:07:48 -0500 Hi everyone, I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Friday January 23rd with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 12c9e260caac24bfe267dde16acaf09c Zhihui Zou edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Zhihui Zou in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2025/12/04/hastac-scholar-spotlight-zhihui-zou/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:34:02 -0500 Zhihui Zou

HASTAC Scholar

History and Computer Science Student at Duke University

Zhihui Zou is a History and Computer Science student at Duke University. His historical research focuses on the oil […]

]]> 40cab8c6b22e73db78dc89fa2daa21b9 Marianne Goldin edited the doc Comics and Machines Conference 2026 – Uppsala/Stockholm – Call for Submissions (Abstracts: 1 Dec, 2025) https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1933594/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:11:28 -0500 1f567e51740c81952a8f1fa042544a09 Marianne Goldin created the doc Comics and Machines Conference 2026 - Uppsala/Stockholm - Call for Submissions (Abstracts: 1 Dec, 2025) https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1933593/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:10:15 -0500 af41bf8d32aead3e34f1d795025a8884 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: "Queer Creoles in French and Francophone Contexts" in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-queer-creoles-in-french-and-francophone-contexts/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:56:50 -0500 Title: “Queer Creoles in French and Francophone Contexts.”

This panel explores queer language use across borders and cultural contexts, which includes, but is not limited to creolization, language accumulation, and translanguaging.  This is a guaranteed session. Send 250-word abstract and bio by March 13, 2025 to Denis Provencher: dmproven@ncsu.edu

]]> 6f1a71a6eabbc93965ef581da4b4b1c6 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: "Metropolitan Relations" A Guaranteed Session in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-metropolitan-relations-a-guaranteed-session/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:52:32 -0500 Title: “Metropolitan Relations: Diasporic & Indigenous Perspectives in Contemporary Cities.”

This panel explores French and Francophone representations of place-making, cultural memory, and spatial justice in urban environments. This is a guaranteed session. Send 250-word abstract and bio by March 13, 2025 to jmontlo@emory.edu

]]> 3b529c661bb68a1acbc1f068cf288bb4 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC 20th-and 21st Century French Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-4/ Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:00:26 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

The LLC 20th 21st Century Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2026 through the close of the January 2030 convention). Responsibilities of the committee members also include serving as…[Read more]

]]> 25b2886fd0994dafaf4392af840f9184 Tatiana Bertolucci edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Nazua Idris in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2025/01/10/hastac-scholar-spotlight-nazua-idris/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:40:09 -0500 Nazua Idris

HASTAC Scholar (2023-25)

Doctoral Candidate in Literary Studies, Department of English, Washington State University

Nazua’s (She/her) research focuses on the intersections of the ni […]

]]> 9d5e2d3e60d71708ad9ac3c103810696 Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the call for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907864/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:37:56 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce the call for Guaranteed Session Proposals for the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto. If accepted by our Forum, your panel is guaranteed a place at next year’s convention. We invite proposals that engage with a wide range of topics related to 20th- a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d62191f783a3cb76c17bd6d381ac13b Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907863/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:34:06 -0500 Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 15th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 89f0cf87394f60e5dc22df5f48823346 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/translation-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-6/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:12:45 -0500 Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

]]> 584cceced163122960d4b9f4e40d2d13 Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902704/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:04:14 -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 dbef4b774e1811db014244f2516c24f0 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902285/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:05:13 -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 7dcc36a6d19353c8ad8c235bfd4a2b9d Corine Tachtiris deposited Translation Matters undergraduate syllabus in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896113/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:02:31 -0400 Syllabus for a 100-level undergraduate, general-education course in translation studies. Aimed at giving students translation literacy and introducing major practical and ethical problems of translation. Also includes practical approaches for hands-on learning. Syllabus includes list of readings, intralingual translation exercises, assignment…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d5cfaca5510df82b7af4f424eaadf8b Corine Tachtiris deposited Literary Translation Workshop - Multilingual, Grad-level in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896112/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Syllabus for a multilingual literary translation workshop at the graduate-student level. Includes translation exercises, assignment guidelines, and links to online readings. First taught in Spring 2021.

]]> 0 df01d75410acc421c32b84d26c0f3263 Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889765/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:00:12 -0400 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 c5129c6c75345ec33bc2a61254bc2bcc Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889375/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:01:08 -0400 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b38497d82f1d41e24e8a09b62bbd376 Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887841/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:00:11 -0400 Les douze Lais de Marie de France, écrits au XIIe siècle par un auteur dont on connaît peu de choses,
retiennent leur renom pour maintes raisons. Ce sont des contes, des aventures, souvent merveilleuses
et fantastiques, des chevaliers errants et leurs dames au temps médiévaux lorsque la bataille épique et
continuelle entre le bien at le ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4ca20dd69d64e02ded476a7a54b2afd Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887556/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:07:02 -0400 One of the most important factors literary critics often overlook in the work of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-
1910) is the fact that it was subject to the censorship of the tsarist government before it was allowed to be published
in Russia. This harassment lasted the entire period of Tolstoy’s writing life, and although neither he nor his f…[Read more]

]]> 0 74755405707853a0d82fe9bfe7a82e5c Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025-3/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:58 -0500 How have enslavement, incarceration, and other colonial confinements shaped more-than-human circum-Caribbean ecologies? How have Black culture-makers confronted these ecologies with abolitionist aesthetics? Send 150-word abstracts to this co-sponsored panel (Caribbean & Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities).Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]

]]> 59d2150231eba54f41e24d43bcdc72cc Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025-2/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:57 -0500 How have enslavement, incarceration, and other colonial confinements shaped more-than-human circum-Caribbean ecologies? How have Black culture-makers confronted these ecologies with abolitionist aesthetics? Send 150-word abstracts to this co-sponsored panel (Caribbean & Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities).Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]

]]> d872021a4d6fc5e2360b0a35be3144ad Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:53 -0500 How have enslavement, incarceration, and other colonial confinements shaped more-than-human circum-Caribbean ecologies? How have Black culture-makers confronted these ecologies with abolitionist aesthetics? Send 150-word abstracts to this co-sponsored panel (Caribbean & Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities).Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]

]]> 4411ed8281bca12df4eb15c1feffa9d1 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: Édouard Glissant: Still A Caribbean Theorist? (MLA 2025, in-person panel) in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-edouard-glissant-still-a-caribbean-theorist-mla-2025-in-person-panel-3/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:34:08 -0500 Michael Dash’s translation and abridgment of Le discours antillais into Caribbean Discourse raises the question of how we situate Glissant within Caribbean Studies. Send 150-word abstracts that consider how we deploy Glissant’s literary-creative-artistic thought today.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024 Nathan H. Dize, Washington Univ…[Read more]

]]> e40139cd6ca10730f05fd9fcd7f14487 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: Édouard Glissant: Still A Caribbean Theorist? (MLA 2025, in-person panel) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/cfp-edouard-glissant-still-a-caribbean-theorist-mla-2025-in-person-panel-2/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:34:07 -0500 Michael Dash’s translation and abridgment of Le discours antillais into Caribbean Discourse raises the question of how we situate Glissant within Caribbean Studies. Send 150-word abstracts that consider how we deploy Glissant’s literary-creative-artistic thought today.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024 Nathan H. Dize, Washington Univ…[Read more]

]]> f5211a96488ef1a359b32caf08a69486 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: Édouard Glissant: Still A Caribbean Theorist? (MLA 2025, in-person panel) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-edouard-glissant-still-a-caribbean-theorist-mla-2025-in-person-panel/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:34:03 -0500 Michael Dash’s translation and abridgment of Le discours antillais into Caribbean Discourse raises the question of how we situate Glissant within Caribbean Studies. Send 150-word abstracts that consider how we deploy Glissant’s literary-creative-artistic thought today.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024 Nathan H. Dize, Washington Univ…[Read more]

]]> 821c9aa3fe209dd6fd8931b6a372f9c4 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: LABOR CONDITIONS in Caribbean Studies in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-labor-conditions-in-caribbean-studies/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:31:37 -0500 This roundtable discussion continues a conversation begun at MLA 2023 about Caribbeanist scholars' labor conditions. Send 150-word abstracts that explore the expectations and vulnerabilities Caribbeanists face when working across borders of nation, language, and discipline.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024Raj Chetty, St. John’s U, NY …[Read more]

]]> cb6da5d91ad556223f494ed2dd9aa1c3 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Unscripted Performances in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2025-cfp-unscripted-performances/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:11:43 -0500 Exploring the intersections of jazz, performance, and literary studies from diverse perspectives, this panel delves into the art of spontaneous storytelling, poetic play, and improvised narrative. A non-guaranteed session. 250-word abstract and bio due by March 8 2024 at montlouis-gabriel.1@osu.edu

]]> 360d25d6f7361acd5fe7fd0dc54b76da Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2025-cfp-entomological-turns/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:04:06 -0500 From Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.

This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]

]]> 292811c4e08d23bff02f77cb2bd58766 Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870641/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:04:05 -0500 This contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for "Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge."

]]> 0 f51e48204bd4c01f1697cb6850f2e37b Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-2/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:45:22 -0500 Hi everyone,I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 16th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 89027516df51f11f75af8c6f7be191bb Siham Bouamer started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC Francophone (2025) in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-francophone-2025/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:43:08 -0500 Dear Colleagues,The LLC Francophone Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention). Members who would like to nominate themselves or other members for…[Read more]

]]> 30e6f0749ad44fe27cd2a6d84b8b6d95 Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/call-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-4/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:16:07 -0500 Dear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

]]> 927358c3d4850393f429d8ec592466a6 Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-3/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:01:51 -0500 Dear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

]]> 4bb77f84ab8650ac77822452bb48eda4 Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869278/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:05:23 -0500 This chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]

]]> 0 341c5309f871fb60d21cca0de5926c24 Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865838/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:07:53 -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 0577931add8d3ff57ee9a6726efaff2f Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:37:12 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 92e8441ace3332ac6183b0487124aad4 Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation - revised in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1859972/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:06:09 -0400 This is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.

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