Knowledge Commons | Peter A. Hess | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/peter_hess/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Peter A. Hess is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:59:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 95d8e9de66817bc686ac5685c72f20d0 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-2/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:49:34 -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]

]]> 6e62d447801dc538b9b9ac4f4eae8397 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic Invitation for self-nominations to the Forum Executive Committee in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/invitation-for-self-nominations-to-the-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:34:16 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee of CLCS Renaissance / Early modern invites self-nominations for TWO positions on the committee: one replacement position for a 3-year term, and one new member for a five-year term. Our primary responsibility is to organize panels and roundtables for the MLA convention; we have two guaranteed panels per…[Read more]

]]> ce6cb19cda7028716dd9ddca95f0ff87 Domna C. Stanton replied to the topic 2026 LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/2026-lsl-forum-on-romance-linguistics/#post-1040637 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:57:41 -0500 Thanks so much for writing But I am not able To attend the conventionGood luck at the conventionBest ds

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]]> 198c11ce77d0fac244c3b6b94d78d95a Randall Gess started the topic 2026 LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/2026-lsl-forum-on-romance-linguistics/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:54:59 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics welcomes you to our session at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We hope to see you on Friday, January 9th at 5:15 @ MTCC – 205A
Presentations
 The Curious Case of Interconsonantal S in Old French , Francisco Antonio…[Read more]

]]> fce5b7c06e2e4c0676bc1b64a2fab4a1 Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum-6/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:07:38 -0500 The Modern Language Association's (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning cordially invites you to our three (3) sessions at the MLA's 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We look forward to seeing you and to your participation!
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314 - Reimagining Learning and Teaching with Studen…[Read more]

]]> ea4812be429fe3cb6ca501e8c73285c9 Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:46:31 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> 6d562ab73002b6b5c3b686bf474fbdf7 Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-6/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:17:32 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11. Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

How do linguistic features passed…[Read more]

]]> 0cbf8a76aa8752e25099af14ea0c572e Mary Hayes started the topic MLA 2026 panels; Linguistics and Literature forum in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2026-panels-linguistics-and-literature-forum/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:12:12 -0500 The Linguistics and Literature forum (D036) is sponsoring two panels at MLA 2026.
Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation
MDM encompasses various genres of post-factual literature­ – deepfakes, inauthentic soundbytes, recontextualized signs – rife in 21st-century public truth claims. What work does MDM pose for linguists and literary scho…[Read more]

]]> 2ae82909a48f8ff04b3cca46f1b5e6bd Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-3/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:24:03 -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]

]]> 5512468dfe66b60c9745c1b9e771aca9 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic CFP MLA 2026: Early Modern Women’s Violence in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2026-early-modern-womens-violence/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:56:59 -0500 <p style="font-weight: 400;">The Renaissance and Early Modern Forum executive committee invites proposals for a guaranteed *virtual* panel at MLA 2026 titled “Early Modern Women’s Violence.” This panel will explore representations of women’s violence across early modern literature and culture. How do early modern texts gender violence? How do they…[Read more]

]]> 6bcabc0fd4f13b0dc91dd570a224e88e Julie Koser started the topic CFP: Explorations of Space (MLA, Toronto, Jan. 8-11, 2026) in the forum LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-explorations-of-space-mla-toronto-jan-8-11-2026/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:52:20 -0500 Modern Language Association Conference
Toronto
January 8–11, 2026

CFP: Explorations of Space (organized by the LLC Forum for 18th- and early 19th-Century German)

The Forum for 18th- and early 19th-century German seeks papers contributing new insights to notions of space in the German-speaking world around 1800. The “spatial turn” has gener…[Read more]

]]> 995e7775c026c9279a403d0a6edb24b7 Kyle Pivetti started the topic Self-Nominations for Renaissance and Early Modern Forum Executive Committee in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/self-nominations-for-renaissance-and-early-modern-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:54:49 -0500 We invite self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the CLCS Renaissance/Early Modern forum. We appoint one new member annually for a five-year term. Our primary responsibility is to organize panels and roundtables for the MLA convention; we have two guaranteed panels per year.

Eligibility:

1. Only current MLA members are…[Read more]

]]> d1ca42eebf710bee42180ac2c9232285 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901834/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:00:10 -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 3b64664b4c520f5dac09f7d56c458694 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 CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900892/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:16:06 -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 7d7b2fd99fe4ae4f4b5300d18a5b628a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900887/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:08:19 -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 8e282cc7c10e0f32f596bd7b427c96d0 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 CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900882/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:00:09 -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 e3710f36cc43db4e8b25731ea2d647fc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900080/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:00:08 -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 42f441651281ba769a6c511e2046ee77 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891693/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:00:07 -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 f7ce58764ff13856e54eef1716e2de09 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886893/ Wed, 22 May 2024 18:49:22 -0400 e960db8a16e66fe5f700982f6ac2cb95 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 CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886048/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:13:15 -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 cfd0f85013b89ea8f855f265b41df342 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 CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886043/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:05:15 -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 233001d0475794a431a62df7560cd17c Anne Furlong deposited LSL Linguistics and Literature (D036) Abstracts for the 2025 MLA Convention, New Orleans in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1881935/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 03:05:04 -0400 The LSL Forum is hosting two panels (both in person) at the 2025 MLA Convention in New Orleans: Panel I: Visibility, Language, Style: Authorship as Resistance, and Panel II: Translation, visibility, and style: accommodating audiences. I am uploading the abstracts for those planning their visit to the Convention.

]]> 0 5fe90e56c80f64ed38b639681a9f8543 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878064/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:19:25 -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 c41d31ebe82ca5e64e0bb6121d97febc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited CBC Podcast: Liberate Your Mind – Exploring Sex and Gender in Shakespeare, February 20, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878060/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:13:59 -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 124aa1077ec2394ae5aba39400272200 Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876627/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:00:30 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 785545bc90ecadafd432541a0848eaa7 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 CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876054/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:00:12 -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 465e66dd32668c6568ff8d71af884aaa Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI, Theater, and Interface Theory, keynote at Imaging Across Time: Wenshan International Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2023 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875816/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:00:12 -0500 What happens when AI goes to theatre with human audiences? Generative AI's natural-language conversational interface has frequently been cast as an anthropomorphic interface. In performance, digital screen as interface has evolved from a vehicle for dramatic messages to a meaning-making agent with an anthropomorphic presence. While the tendency to…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d5f0281039e97e70ca33ae9d4cde113 Corinne NOIROT started the topic MLA 2025 New Orleans - Calls for papers in the discussion CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/mla-2025-new-orleans-calls-for-papers-2/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:24:21 -0500 Seeing, Watching, Looking in Sixteenth Century France (1480-1630) Beyond eyewitness testimony, how do writers and characters see, watch, look at things and beings in the 16th century? With what implications regarding representation, cognition, relationality, or agency? Genre differences? 250-word abstract and short CV by 15 March 2020.  (Contact:…[Read more]

]]> 7bcb426a373e0ce591086d27c6b68dcc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872230/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 60eab17b3f965cf793f67beebfcce79d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872215/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:00:03 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 0f19517dd36ec6f5c5fb919584cd0eee Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of #SuchStuff Podcast by the London Globe, Early Modern Digital Review 6.2 (2023): 149-153 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1871758/ Sat, 20 Jan 2024 04:00:11 -0500 Educational podcasts have gained momentum in recent years. Closure of live performance venues and widespread lockdowns as part of public hygiene measures during the global COVID-19 pandemic further increased interest in at-home consumption of digitally delivered content for entertainment and education. Supported by the Globe Theatre’s education d…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d337f791cd55095358f9b74a1fa9180 Corinne NOIROT started the topic NOMINATE YOURSELF OR OTHERS by 01/25 (2026-2030 Forum Executive Committee term) in the discussion CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/nominate-yourself-or-others-by-01-25-2026-2030-forum-executive-committee-term-2/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:27:58 -0500 The LLC 16TH CENTURY FRENCH Forum is seeking self-nominations to fill the next open seat on the Executive Committee, for convention years 2026-2030.

This appointment implies a 5-year commitment. The Executive Committee mostly works remotely. MLA Convention attendance in at least 3 of the 5 years served is expected. You would effectively start…[Read more]

]]> fac7fdb9aab2fa748a50f8a475561965 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Serán ceniza, mas tendrán sentido: orígenes de las humanidades digitales en España in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870999/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:10:09 -0500 Se recogen en este capítulo los movimientos iniciales y proyectos de humani-dades digitales sobre la lengua española entre 1971 y 1993. Se trata, sobre todo, de proyectos españoles desarrollados principalmente en relación con universidades y centros de investigación de Madrid. Se hace referencia también a otros centros y otros proyectos, sobre…[Read more]

]]> 0 6114a370fb6889078cd766deab7fa550 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Revisar los inicios del español desde el magisterio de Alarcos y Lapesa in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870993/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:06:39 -0500 During the long time of its documentation, Latin could not remain unchanged, so there had to be a cultured, writ-ten variant of the language and popular variants, which evolved into dialectal forms, Afro-Latin-Romance variants. As far as the African part is concerned, the novelty of this study, especially for Romanists and Arabists, is to convey…[Read more]

]]> 0 8561b3e27cde56c6824e616483dc7d77 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Dominio y lenguas en el Mediterráneo Occidental hasta los inicios del español in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870988/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:02:53 -0500 El objetivo principal de este libro es recoger y transmitir reflexiones y resultados de una investigación que ha evolucionado en paralelo a la vida profesional de su autor. Arranca de la pregunta sobre cómo era la situación lingüística de la Península Ibérica tras la llegada de los sarracenos, en qué ambientes se iniciaron las lenguas romance…[Read more]

]]> 0 f57cce9cdc3d22c0ff4320607a5df60e Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870639/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:01:18 -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 710a87b6a0f8828b503e1f99fdd80b92 Crystal Anne Chemris started the topic MLA Discount on The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity in the discussion CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/mla-discount-on-the-spanish-baroque-and-latin-american-literary-modernity/ Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:47:58 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Attached is a flyer for an MLA discount on my book, The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: Writing on Constellation.

Crystal Chemris

]]> f75a8e11fe7b099e8d32e4e37dc515d5 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness," Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866121/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:00:13 -0500 Inclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 fad9a7216f13575d528c9f04a29bad83 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Plenary: "Are There Transgender Characters in Shakespeare?" Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia, November 4, 2023. in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864505/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:00:12 -0500 Video recording of Alexa Alice Joubin's plenary is available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/8P5nNv86goQ There are certainly non-binary actors on stage, but are there Shakespearean characters who can be read as trans? The answer is yes. To ask whether there are transgender characters is to ask questions about the performance of gender roles. We are…[Read more]

]]> 0 efb176fc64bee7648baf18408dceb58f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook 20: Pericles, ed. Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Deanne Williams in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864063/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:00:13 -0500 This volume focuses on Pericles, Prince of Tyre, whose narrative of refugee suffering, familial loss, emotional distancing, people-trafficking, and eventual, joyous recovery speaks strikingly to our historical moment. The play’s internationalist reach, its images of cross-cultural relations, and its Eastern Mediterranean setting also promote a r…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3171f222223adbd01e03909fbb1a608 Cristina León Alfar deposited Abandoning Tragedy in James Ijames Fat Ham in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1862106/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:00:13 -0400 The story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is adapted and revised by James Ijames in his play Fat Ham, which ran from 12 May to 31 July 2022 at The Public Theater, coproduced by the National Black Theatre. Ijames’s play, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, plays with and departs from the plot of Hamlet to explore Black manhood, the fam…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b4a2f66bfe0506897609e17d63371ac Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855395/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:11:49 -0400 A book's a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on "Counting (in) Early Modern Drama," I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]

]]> 0 02541637e8561413ee8d07a68aae50c9 Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854429/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:08:17 -0400 According to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section "until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types." 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4's printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc833ec169f545db81445fd702140b40 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Lin Shu." The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852242/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 03:48:44 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]

]]> 0 786d1eb88c8fba27c9b15138691472c6 Corinna Sauter deposited Vom Schwarzwerden des Humors in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847475/ Mon, 29 May 2023 02:24:03 -0400 Der Beitrag widmet sich dem satirischen Humor Jean Pauls als schwarzem Humor skizzenhaft ausgehend von der Fundierung des ästhetischen Humors in der Weltverachtung (§ 33 der "Vorschule der Ästhetik"). In einer Lektüreminiatur zur späten menippeischen Satire "Des Geburthelfers Walther Vierneissel Nachtgedanken über seine verlornen Fötus…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8a86a53761b3258c30a65dac1df059a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin Receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846403/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:41:19 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, which recognizes Professor Joubin’s “contributions to social justice and inclusive excellence ” that exemplify “the ideals that Dr. King espoused,” particularly “community-based social justice organizing rooted in non-violence.” The MLK Award comes on the heel of her bell hook…[Read more]

]]> 0 eed284d38f7a66b7d91c851f00fd9db6 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Afterword: Adaptation studies and interactive pedagogies." Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences, ed. Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 187-200. in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846395/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:33:28 -0400 Criticism of the Shakespearean canon through adaptation as a genre has the capacity for liberation and social reparation. As a cluster of complex texts that sustains both past practices and contemporary interpretive conventions, Shakespeare provides fertile ground for training students to listen intently and compassionately to other individuals’ v…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a3e67df79429437f351977994618500 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "What makes Global Shakespeares an exercise in ethics?" Global Shakespeare and Social Justice: Towards a Transformative Encounter, ed. Chris Thurman and Sandra Young (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 58-77. in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846382/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:23:49 -0400 Stage and screen adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays raise ethical questions – that is, questions about how human beings should act and treat one another. In which contexts might cross-cultural enterprises be naturalising the values associated with Shakespeare to exploit unequal power relations among artists of different backgrounds? Con…[Read more]

]]> 0 25596e21ff2cfefebb4eb8d5e41ae4b4 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Do English Audiences Have the Toughest Time with Shakespeare?," Quarto: The Magazine of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, Spring/Summer, 2023 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841706/ Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:24:37 -0400 All the world’s a stage, but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. “English audiences are at a disadvantage because the language has evolved and is more and more distant. They need footnotes, props and staging to understand,” said Alexa Alice Joubin, a Shakespeare schol…[Read more]

]]> 0 d032df04250cfc023e501727df79bba9 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "English Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory." GW Today, April 12, 2023 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841265/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 03:58:05 -0400 When ChatGPT was launched, Alexa Alice Joubin realized it was here to stay. She views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use it responsibly, not as a shortcut. “This technology is going to be with us, and students need employable skills in terms of curation, editorial repackaging and prompt engineering,” Joubin said. “They need…[Read more]

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