Knowledge Commons | Norman N. Holland | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/normholland/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Norman N. Holland is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:38:21 -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]

]]> c816b817b008b4edcd8fee8466805037 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:48:02 -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]

]]> bec805cbd0f060d1e675eaad436c676d Marco Caracciolo started the topic 2027 MLA CfP: Gut Cognition (Cognitive and Affect Studies forum) in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/2027-mla-cfp-gut-cognition-cognitive-and-affect-studies-forum/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:51:02 -0500 Gut Cognition in Literature
This non-guaranteed session explores interoceptive feelings in literature. How do they interact with literary forms? How do they reflect historical and cultural variations in bodily experience?

Please submit a 200-word abstract and a brief bio to Marco Caracciolo, Ghent U (marco.caracciolo@ugent.be)

Submission…[Read more]

]]> 0e0603b41731d0a83737c5a05a3d66cb Haiyan Lee started the topic 2027 MLA Panel CFP: Elements of Surprise in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/2027-mla-panel-cfp-elements-of-surprise/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:57:07 -0500 <div><b data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Elements of Surprise</b></div>
<div>2027 MLA Convention, January 7-10, Los Angeles</div>
<div>Co-sponsored by TC Cognitive and Affect Studies and LSL Linguistics and Literature</div>
<div>Co-organizers: Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and Vera Tobin; presider: Haiyan Lee</div>
<div></div>
<div>We invite contributions…[Read more]

]]> 5d86f57405a6bb40518a3e79babc78f4 Aili Pettersson Peeker started the topic Seeking Support for MLA Forum Proposal on Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/seeking-support-for-mla-forum-proposal-on-trauma-informed-pedagogy/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:32:01 -0500 Dear all,

I am writing to ask whether you would be willing to add your name in support of a new MLA forum proposal, “Trauma-Informed Pedagogy.” This proposed forum offers a space for scholarship and dialogue on how trauma (personal, historical, and structural) shapes teaching, learning, and literary study. It complements existing MLA forums but…[Read more]

]]> 5c69ca935d743e146818b000a53969b9 SARAH ELLENZWEIG started the topic Seeking Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee (Starting 2026-2027)! in the forum LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/restoration-and-early-18th-century-english/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-starting-2026-2027/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:30:55 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee seeks self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning 2026-2027. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize two roundtables/panels for the following year’s meeting. If you’d like to be considered, please email Danielle Bobker (danielle.bobker@concordia.ca) wit…[Read more]

]]> c8b2a73e1808fbbc74cee42424de5f98 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due 1/15/26 in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-1-15-26/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:47:57 -0500 <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

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

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

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

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

Best wishes,

Seda Arikan

email: sarikan@firat.edu.tr

]]> b877a6cf3316f13060c8bcaf632c4055 Robert Nguyen started the topic MLA 2026 CFPs, TC Adaptation Studies forum in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfps-tc-adaptation-studies-forum/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:39:32 -0400 Good morning,

Good morning,

As I thought they may be of interest to folks working in Screen Arts and Culture, I am posting here info on the panels that the TC Adaptation Studies forum will be sponsoring for the 2026 MLA convention. Also included is further detail on the panel we are co-sponsoring with the GS Comics and Graphic Narratives…[Read more]

]]> 63df32676ae57d67937294cf8081651b Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:37:41 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> e94efe99d5b627aed803ba118342e062 Tanya Shilina-Conte started the topic New Book: Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/new-book-black-screens-white-frames-gilles-deleuze-and-the-filmmaking-machine-4/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:38:23 -0500 Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine by Tanya Shilina-Conte is now available from Oxford University Press<u>: </u><u>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-screens-white-frames-9780197511336?cc=us&lang=en&#</u&gt;
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary…[Read more]

]]> ca03b353698d574917dfb7ce4794a508 SARAH ELLENZWEIG started the topic Join the Forum Executive Committee! in the forum LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/restoration-and-early-18th-century-english/forum/topic/join-the-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:20:49 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee seeks self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning 2025-2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize two roundtables/panels for the following year's meeting. If you'd like to be considered, please email Sarah Ellenzweig (sellenz@rice.edu) with your…[Read more]

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

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

Friday, 10 January 2025:

Freud's Ecology

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Hilton New Orleans Riverside - Jackson (3rd Floor)

 

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

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

]]> 582e8fa64344f6db0af4d8591fd64d15 Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job posting, please distribute in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-distribute/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:57:13 -0400 Dear colleagues, Please distribute the following job posting. Thanks!

The Department of English at the University of California Santa Barbara
invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in
Literature and Mind studies. We welcome applications from scholars of
literatures in English working in Cognitive Humanities and/or…[Read more]

]]> 5a09aaf3e76e8fa52f9363b77dab854a Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job Posting, please share in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-share-3/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:52:16 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Please distribute the attached job posting. Thanks!

Warm regards,

Isabel

]]> 9f7e96dce1cbbd2d3eb96ebdace552c6 Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job Posting, please share in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-share-2/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:48:52 -0400 Dear colleagues, Please distribute the following job posting. Thanks! Warm regards, Isabel

The Department of English at the University of California Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Literature and Mind studies. We welcome applications from scholars of literatures in English working in Cognitive…[Read more]

]]> fc43f6a775bdb6c59e469ad0342db183 Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job Posting, please share in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-share/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:45:57 -0400 Dear colleagues, Please distribute the following job posting. Thank you! Warm regards, Isabel

The Department of English at the University of California Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Literature and Mind studies. We welcome applications from scholars of literatures in English working in…[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 b8dd031dfe5905ecc12ee8893ea78aa3 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900964/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:08:29 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ec34b11565be267a1b47eb36f4a4a09 Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900962/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:03:00 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb076292c9c94f2692c88f0f8bd29076 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900896/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:21:10 -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 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 da5c2e5fcbcc7f2ea5cc8cb86f9b49da Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900890/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:13:22 -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 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 7182408e0c0cdb3d93778ea6ee074eb6 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900885/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:05:26 -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 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 d2b6dd91861405bf7327b60fcab37d3f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900083/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:05:17 -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 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 66c6832003cd8d722395a1818832c367 Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890470/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:01:22 -0400 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody's muse.

Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]

]]> 0 a04eca7d0e61cf1615cabebfd0f77c37 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890326/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:05:42 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 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 b8d4102dda5b37ebec9583fa2165172f 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886051/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:19:53 -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 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 ea47e2a2da1d60baf21b7ce85da03bd3 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Dutch Formosa in 2000: Taiwan as China’s Renegade Province in Wu Ziniu’s The Sino-Dutch War 1661," in Scenes from Dutch Formosa: Staging Taiwan’s Colonial Past, ed. Llyn Scott (Portland ME: MerwinAsia, 2014), pp. 153-179 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886042/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:01:41 -0400 What does Koxinga mean to today’s China and Taiwan? How does Wu Ziniu’s film The Sino-Dutch War 1661, a 2000 mainland Chinese film about seventeenth-century Dutch Formosa–with a mainland Chinese / Hong Kong / Japanese cast–complicate the questions of belonging and betrayal?

Taiwan’s cultural identities have always been political…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ba0877b688b1df686bd077a80b64133 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Keynote: Cinematic Representations of East Asian American Women, Tucker-Boatwright Festival and Symposium: Hollywood & the Asian American Imagination, Richmond, February 23, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878852/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:03:03 -0500 My keynote explores such questions as: What are the patterns in Hollywood representations of East Asian American women from romantic comedy to science fiction films? How do racism and sexism intersect in these patterns? Watch the video recording on YouTube (https://youtu.be/iHjKOYf-IXQ) to gain a better understanding how gender biases are…[Read more]

]]> 0 25c74d38b6ef22c19411a42b8c0e9591 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878067/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:24:33 -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 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 8bf601f65afa35ec93e1a544b3b3bc72 Kendra Leonard deposited Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice (2004) in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877420/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:06:31 -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 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 6d72ce91f2a351d77190843f0d1662bf Kendra Leonard deposited Imagining Women’s Archives of Silent Film Music in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877413/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:01:54 -0500 Although women comprised the majority of American cinema accompanists during the silent film period (c. 1895–1927), few of their music libraries or compositions have survived, whereas collections created by male cinema musicians dominate the silent film music archives. Women musicians suggested, shaped, and helped define the musical tastes of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 e76833cdfb5b163ed27a869c66f659ea Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 335-338 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876066/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:16:30 -0500 Going against the grain, this collection counters the common perception of the Maoist era as a time of ideological conformity. The contributors persuasively demonstrate that theatre activities were varied and lively between the 1950s and 1970s. While there was state control over the arts, performances in urban spaces were more frequently censored…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4f1955780d09e11fc4062ed0c2b194d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Performing the Socialist State by Xiaomei Chen, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 338-340 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876062/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:11:08 -0500 In this review, Alexa Alice Joubin outlines the main argument of Xiaomei Chen's Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture. "The eight chronologically- and thematically-organized chapters in this book provide a much-needed critical survey of spoken drama (huaju) from its inception through the Republican and Maoist eras…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a4a2667e2f24460194fee72a9d8e1bb 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876057/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:05:28 -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 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]

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