Knowledge Commons | Josef Raab | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/raab/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Josef Raab is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:21:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 275c3ca7836c66a87f92819f43a93b69 José Alonso de la Garza Valenzuela uploaded the file: Pasados Special Issue: Against the Past/Contra Pasados to LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1925703/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:03:43 -0400 Deadline: January 15, 2026

]]> 0 1ff0ae544a33c6d7030e23974b575637 Maria Windell created the doc Panel description for Latinx Fracasos: Past, Present, and Future in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1921433/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:55:51 -0400 dbcc7fc10cc931586e43d33246d7b1db Francisco E. Robles started the topic TC Race and Ethnicity - MLA 2026 panel on contemporary poetry of statelessness in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tc-race-and-ethnicity-mla-2026-panel-on-contemporary-poetry-of-statelessness/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:10:57 -0400 Contemporary Poetry of Statelessness

In her poem "Nights," Mona Kareem cycles between images of natural processes (cloud formation, rain, phases of the moon) and human ritual actions (dancing, lamenting, singing), suggesting a delicate balance in the liminal zone between the porous self and the ever-changing world. Celestial bodies and human…[Read more]

]]> 7d2751c87c50d0d9301bf849c67dbe59 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-6/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:53:41 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 5524f885b1ca8f70043d5b36e70bec1e Francisco E. Robles started the topic TC Race and Ethnicity Studies - Jobs in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tc-race-and-ethnicity-studies-jobs/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:59:24 -0400 Hi all,

I'm sending along a job posting from Texas A&M, which is in long nineteenth-century <span id="_mainContent__descriptionText">multi-ethnic, transnational, and comparative approaches to US literature</span>. This search is being chaired by Jessica Howell: https://faculty.tamu.edu/JobDetail?JobId=151010.

I also invite folks to add to this…[Read more]

]]> 27d9774623e34f616ab47334370fe09d Guylian Nemegeer started the topic Conference: Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity (29 October) in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/conference-pan-movements-regeneration-and-modernity-29-october/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:45:26 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Members in this group may be interested in the following conference. It is possible to attend the event online. Registration is needed: https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/89430443-ec0a-4dd1-8d2c-d3dfb82ad014

Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity (29 October)

This conference investigates the global development of…[Read more]

]]> 5b6bb23195964ddd1cee8d0977a88df6 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-3/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 07:49:31 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 131b8317c3abea3bae05c595a07cc05e Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890468/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:00:08 -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 f4b4f7bac86900e718d99e9a11f3ce9a Minni Sawhney deposited Buddhism in the Oeuvre of Severo Sarduy in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879221/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:03:19 -0400 The exiled Cuban French novelist, essayist, poet Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) converted to Mahayana Buddhism in 1971 after his journeys to Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. Untramelled by the rituals of his new faith, he remained unabashed in his critique of socio – political Buddhism (as in the novel Maitreya). Instead, Buddhism for him meant a creativity t…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f36217dcaa6136d36924bb8c7825f3b Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/26428-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-and-aati-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:07:58 -0500 #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI Nonguaranteed Session

Title:  Helen Barolini’s Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women at Forty

This panel celebrates one of the seminal classics of Italian American literature on the advent of its fortieth anniversary. Helen Barolini’s 1985 anthology marked a fundam…[Read more]

]]> 4e8f08b9eb09ab00a8e0a5eb284bc2e1 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #25997: Guaranteed Allied Organization Session for IASA in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/25997-guaranteed-allied-organization-session-for-iasa-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:04:41 -0500 #25997: Allied Organization Session for IASA Guaranteed

Title: (In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies

MLA Description: Examines Morrison’s assertion that “Invisible ink is what lies under, between, outside the lines, hidden until the right reader discovers it,” then can only Italian Americans be the “right…[Read more]

]]> b9831f0d05b5bf7d308a5a51d379e31a Lupe Escobar started the topic CFP: Cold War Afterlives in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/cfp-cold-war-afterlives/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:29:08 -0500 Frames of war generally magnify precarity, heightening bodily vulnerability, albeit differentially. How do transamerican narrative practices rupture temporal logic to respond to the lasting impact of the Cold War? Send 250-word abstract with C.V.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024

Guadalupe Escobar, U of Nevada, R…[Read more]

]]> 34aba525092de1f5220fc056fa47a2a3 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-4/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:29:42 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS.) We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 20301abeb72a45b27319f5ea2225eddf Kristin Moriah started the topic Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women's Lives in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/un-bioed-radically-reimagining-black-womens-lives-2/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:13:46 -0500 Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women's Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women's life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

]]> 8c67c2d2118421b9ee6a6e988495e12b SBussey started the topic Philadelphia plans in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/philadelphia-plans-3/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:04:51 -0500 Looking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year's Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]

]]> 6ac19d36ce2a036eea761d8257646a60 Epifanio San Juan deposited CHALLENGING AMERICAN STUDIES in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864253/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:13:36 -0500 Critique of orthodox American Studies in the last quarter of the twentieth=century.

]]> 0 27b689d40fa57269ed39a40a2490466e Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864251/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:09:01 -0500 Survey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.

]]> 0 7beeceb1ef2bb3838e45fe388fcb0fd7 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-12/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:53:34 -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]

]]> 8736ba23e2d0061913427cec10657c36 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860580/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:03:06 -0400 'Modernism and Religion' argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 b97a31ba9603264fa6821c6b6d5de687 Arthur Wang started the topic CFP: Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes for Emerging and Contingent Scholars in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-inaugural-post45-essay-prizes-for-emerging-and-contingent-scholars/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:31:57 -0400 Post45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholars. The Emerging Scholar prize is named in honor of two-time Post45 Journal editor Mary Esteve to celebrate her commitment to the work of the journ…[Read more]

]]> 3d63245016c9e13af946c7ebccfe51ec Stephanie Rountree started the topic CFP: Record, Document, Archive [edited collection, advance contract LSU Press] in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-record-document-archive-edited-collection-advance-contract-lsu-press/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:09:28 -0400 Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region [edited collection]

Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press

Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison

Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023

Completed Chapters (7,000 words): March 15, 2024

 

As the double meaning of our title suggests,…[Read more]

]]> 93538900b3546bc5791869908eaa5261 Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847392/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:28:00 -0400 Review of Consider David Foster Wallace.

]]> 0 fecc9ca554e24fba362032d0cfed7522 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847388/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:10:34 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b9ac4cca9adb060a84b0f7f630cfa9d Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847383/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:50:03 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 65e49f2b44706a042e7e19a069edf897 Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847379/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:38:10 -0400 Excerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9c519e8f299e85d32b5c1c938a08dc8 Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847377/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:28:38 -0400 This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]

]]> 0 f80e06d0d97a09b764e4c22fc1e47ae1 Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841276/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:15:38 -0400 The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa04154611bdcc6b079bf7270d5269c9 Andrea R. Malone replied to the topic CFP for MLA Convention 2024 in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-convention-2024-3/#post-1033037 Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:33:16 -0500 To clarify, this session is sponsored by the Libraries and Research forum.

]]> f0bad784b67525a89225838ddcb1ffef Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/mla-proposed-session-political-oratory-and-african-am-lit-abstracts-by-3-13/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:54:11 -0500 I am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on "Political Oratory and African American Literature."  Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse.   Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.

Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]

]]> c083acc1081e817e87a8b8e9c4a70f8e Elena Machado Sáez started the topic "What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy" in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-the-american-dirt-controversy-3/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:19:56 -0500 An op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!

"What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it's a…[Read more]

]]> ae871c037a068653c970f170549b1dda Elena Machado Sáez started the topic "What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy" in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-the-american-dirt-controversy/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:19:47 -0500 An op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!

"What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it's a…[Read more]

]]> 860038066c6c56cfe47a64407ce6557b Faye Hammill deposited The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830475/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:50:53 -0500 Transatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships' libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the…[Read more]

]]> 0 6debf6b1784bb91b3211229ec5520511 Habiba Ibrahim started the topic Self-Nominations & Suggestions | TC Race & Ethnicity Studies Forum EC in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/self-nominations-suggestions-tc-race-ethnicity-studies-forum-ec-2/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 22:23:16 -0500 Every year, Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. This year, the Race and Ethnicity Studies Forum executive committee seeks self-nominations and suggestions for a new committee member from our membership so as to allow for broad participation. Our hope is that broad participation will ensure diversity of…[Read more]

]]> 3f3dfbf727bd6ac922f718abdab392f1 David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1828216/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 04:46:52 -0500 3d11988bac9eb24b08ec4a668075b902 David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1828103/ Tue, 03 Jan 2023 03:07:53 -0500 802b5f3be6ae2a91e48ab484ab271ee5 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1827266/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:35:39 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 87948b58fde9f9886586e50ed8c396d6 John Gruesser deposited Poe's Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in "Hop-Frog" in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826936/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:06:49 -0500 As I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0564049e671656e77b57478ab996a37 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) Text in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826932/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:58:00 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in…[Read more]

]]> 0 25b0c7afd2a99367532cd5d56bafb750 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) PowerPoint in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826929/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:52:14 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a94fef82b8efa1aaae343e862594d4e Minni Sawhney deposited Violencia e identidades: Elmer Mendoza y la creación de una saga detectivesca in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826717/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:50:04 -0500 The portrayal of narcotrafficking in the novels of Elmer Mendoza.

]]> 0 f27d9e0fd0f2119e39fa1d1623c445f8 Joseph R. Millichap deposited James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823109/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:35:02 -0500 James Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Mor…[Read more]

]]> 0 77377f5f28b0164ca916fabca367b7e5 Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic 3 tenure-track jobs: Afro-Brazil, Black Diasporas, Race & Indigeneity (UVA) in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/3-tenure-track-jobs-afro-brazil-black-diasporas-race-indigeneity-uva/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:00:18 -0500 Dear colleagues,

Please help spread the word about 3 tenure-track positions related to race and ethnicity at UVA. I am on the search committee for the first two, Afro Brazilian Studies and Black Diasporas of the Américas, and am happy to take questions about both positions. I've been asked to share the third link (Race & Indigeneity,…[Read more]

]]> a0ac8eea82a7ad3730039f42b79e2af5 Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1789159/ Sat, 30 Jul 2022 03:48:49 -0400 This article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0660ae358322d6ee4346a8f6b1d9dab Amel Abbady deposited "'You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts' : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman" in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788676/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 03:48:53 -0400 In The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea3c1e7fb24a0fdafc979d1cdc844bf4 Minni Sawhney deposited Surmounting Borders, The Corridos of Jenni Rivera in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1783821/ Sat, 11 Jun 2022 02:26:24 -0400 Ranchera music on the U.S. Mexican Border

]]> 0 9523075c82a581a7d9b2c16a158c4020 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Job Post: Visiting Assistant Prof of English in Multi-Ethnic Literature in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/job-post-visiting-assistant-prof-of-english-in-multi-ethnic-literature/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:29:12 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Please share this job post with your networks!

Many thanks,

Elena

----------

https://jobs.bucknell.edu/en-us/job/497067/visiting-assistant-professor-of-english-in-multiethnic-literature

Bucknell University’s English Department seeks to hire a visiting assistant professor of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US. The one-year r…[Read more]

]]> 6210ae1e10cd817ec982acb171cc6c32 Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/call-for-essays-on-african-american-literature-and-culture-3/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:51:00 -0400 The non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.  

We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]

]]> 6449914853d1322028ed177735466407 Lupe Escobar started the topic MLA 2023 Call For Papers in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/mla-2023-call-for-papers-2/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:04:45 -0400 DESCALING CAPTIVITY

Drawing on Mary Pat Brady’s latest conception of “scales of captivity,” we welcome papers that consider children’s human rights in literary and media representations within a hemispheric framework. Send 250-word abstract & bio.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 25 March 2022

Guadalupe Escobar, U of Nevada, Reno ([Read more]

]]> 0be1b38f77913d0ad99bd83f7085463b Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Call for Applications: Bucknell English MA Program in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/call-for-applications-bucknell-english-ma-program/ Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:14:14 -0500 Do you have any undergraduates who are interested in pursuing graduate studies but perhaps not ready to enter a PhD program yet?

 

I'm hoping that you'll consider advising them to apply to Bucknell’s MA in English program. Admission comes with two years of tuition remission and an approximately $12,000 stipend.

 

The MA program features one-on-…[Read more]

]]> dae9a5931ba00017087aa15b684373fd Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769326/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 02:23:52 -0500 A sharply critical response to Shelby Steele's first book, The Content of Our Character.

]]> 0