Knowledge Commons | Sarah Wadsworth | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/sawadsworth/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Sarah Wadsworth is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:32:29 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 642f420f2adee2033c131c1c8a450562 Rachael Mulvihill edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Rachael Mulvihill in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/03/27/hastac-scholar-spotlight-rachael-mulvihill/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:02:48 -0400 Rachael V. Mulvihill is a PhD Candidate in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research examines utopian and dystopian representations of capitalism across […]

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

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

]]> 9e5e5fa8894556fd0fa017b195ce65d6 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum Teaching and Learning https://hastac.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:48:09 -0500 <p style="text-align: center;">Call for Papers</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> d5bf060489bc102f6c04f2ba648e37f0 Philip Nel started the topic CFP, MLA 2027: Migration in Children’s & YA Graphic Narratives in the forum GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-migration-in-childrens-ya-graphic-narratives/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:30:17 -0500 A collaboration between the Comics and Graphic Narratives Form and the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum, this panel examines migration in comics and graphic narratives for children and young adults. Images of children are frequently mobilized to solicit empathy for the plight of migrants and to call attention to the inhumane treatment t…[Read more]

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

]]> 5227434fde7c687dc1b9926128c005a0 Eric Aronoff started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (April 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/deadline-extended-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-april-1/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:43:27 -0500 EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 1 2026 

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors

Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition

Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and ma…[Read more]

]]> 0163dd257b312c6442067668ed2ac7ec Eric Aronoff started the topic Contribute to New edition of MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (Feb. 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/contribute-to-new-edition-of-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-feb-1/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:33:43 -0500 Call for Survey Participants and Contributors
Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition
Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and materials available to teachers of Moby-Di…[Read more]

]]> 5db699579b9a1163567e55cf51c326f9 Philip Trotter started the topic MLA 2026 Convention Session in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/mla-2026-convention-session-2/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:45:32 -0500 Please find attached a link to the abstract and details for the MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing, and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing.”

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

HASTAC Scholar

History and Computer Science Student at Duke University

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

]]> 40cab8c6b22e73db78dc89fa2daa21b9 Marianne Goldin edited the doc Comics and Machines Conference 2026 – Uppsala/Stockholm – Call for Submissions (Abstracts: 1 Dec, 2025) https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1933594/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:11:28 -0500 1f567e51740c81952a8f1fa042544a09 Marianne Goldin created the doc Comics and Machines Conference 2026 - Uppsala/Stockholm - Call for Submissions (Abstracts: 1 Dec, 2025) https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1933593/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:10:15 -0500 705489ea008668cfaa17a8195b2fb19b Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-2/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:01:55 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> fc1adfb3ef5f465bd7930a1a488016a7 Nicholas DiSabatino created the doc Duke University Press to publish open access monographs through MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) in the group Member Forum https://up.hcommons.org/activity/p/1917744/ Tue, 06 May 2025 13:21:47 -0400 f2abc3a6ad564a418ef1822a9abe18df Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-amplifying-womens-voices-of-resistance-2/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:06:21 -0400 CFP for “Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance: Challenging Power, Shaping Change”, for a special issue of the South Atlantic Review: The Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

This special issue seeks to honor and amplify the voices of women who have resisted, challenged, and redefined societal norms—both histori…[Read more]

]]> e0bdc94091ffb0c8bdfd05314223c3bd Karin E. Westman started the topic CFPs for MLA 2026 in the forum GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2026/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:26:10 -0500 With apologies for cross-posting, in case these CFPs are not already on
your radar --

1) Call for papers for MLA 2026 Guaranteed Session: "Stories of the Land
and the Land of the Stories: Highlighting Critical Indigenous Literacies"

This guaranteed panel is sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult
Literature Forum for the Modern L…[Read more]

]]> 8e31990f05811ce483eaeb46141c6469 Paige Gray uploaded the file: Panel Sessions for Children's and Young Adult Literature Forum, 1980–2025 to GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1909012/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 02:16:18 -0500 0 3d8b297645fd5eefc2b6895d233d551b Karin E. Westman started the topic Nominations for Exec Committee and for session proposals for MLA 2026 in the forum GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/nominations-for-exec-committee-and-for-session-proposals-for-mla-2026/ Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:04:20 -0500 <span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span class="html-span xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69…[Read more]

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

HASTAC Scholar (2023-25)

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

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

]]> 796971bce75bc3c605a66641c8db8c6d Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902703/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:01:49 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 5066b3a3d25c635ec03594a4ba30f16b Ansgar Allen deposited Homo Catastrophicus: The Revolt Against Civilisation in the group Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902481/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:00:41 -0400 In Homo Catastrophicus Louis Armand explores the agonism of an emergent Algorithmic State Apparatus. Its genealogy traverses the constellation of aesthetic & political avant-gardes of the long 20th century & the terminal shock of posthumanism. Technology has always posed a challenge to notions of human subjectivity. Yet this challenge cannot be…[Read more]

]]> 0 d34927ce4e55de52f921986d63b92140 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902283/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:01:50 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 998163ae8aa4c83b79591056d8de2342 Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1899999/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:04:35 -0400 SHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- o…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd9fc1455129606c2b2897b073088aff Kath Burton started the topic Sharing research information project in the forum Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/publishing-and-the-publicly-engaged-humanities/forum/topic/sharing-research-information-project/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 07:49:44 -0400 Incoming invitation!! 🚀

For colleagues working (and publishing in the US), check out this Invitation to Participate: Research Interview about Sharing Research Information from Daniel Tracy

As special interest in: "individuals who conduct public humanities or engaged humanities research with or for non-scholarly audiences".

Full details via the…[Read more]

]]> 15b34bb549682037fd6cf2ff025a9519 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:28:57 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title "A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspect…[Read more]

]]> 7713e2e4cab1acc57a5b2dccec2ec358 Ramzi Salti deposited Women’s Voices in Arabic Music by Ramzi Salti (Stanford University) in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890606/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:01:15 -0400 This is the corrected and edited transcript of Dr. Ramzi Salti’s talk about “Women’s Voices in Arabic Music” which was presented for Women’s History Month at Santa Rosa Junior College on March 7, 2024. You can also watch the video on YouTube (with CC on).

]]> 0 e8bca9b0d17ea827485eb9f34050f6bb Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890472/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:08:37 -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 673afc335f21a61349f67d3443760400 Katina Rogers deposited The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing in the group Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889659/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:06:21 -0400 The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing the ineffable qualities of…[Read more]

]]> 0 489a162a816d58c7ea25774145c951e8 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889180/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:39 -0400 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 71e06ab33ff4fcaae20d2d377bac2c52 Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889175/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:07 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 6fb2118fa6fa234001c47c185652e93a Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-at-the-beginning-of-the-multi-par-2/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:14:48 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 198215b35f5d6d08f39e652f6d449005 Maria Truglio uploaded the file: ChLA Global South Speaker to GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1880903/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:09:55 -0400 Please see attachment for information on the second speaker in our Global South Speaker Series. We are happy to present Dr. Fatemah (Neda) Farnia in webinar format on April 17, 2024.

]]> 0 583238d4880008c95636f50a3bf552ad Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26425-italian-american-llc-guaranteed-session-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:15:12 -0500 #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers

Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

New Orleans has for centuries been a port of call and interstitial space beckoning people to its banks, whether through choice, coercion, or bondage.

For the Italian diaspora, New Orleans has been one…[Read more]

]]> e903db105c16658b452a2750b9efd075 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26426-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-session-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:10:53 -0500 #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session

Title: Italian Creole: Accents and Intersections

This panel takes the rich history of Italian Americans in New Orleans as a starting point for exploring the politics and power of ethnic visibility in New Orleans. Italians and Italian Americans were foundational to the early infrastructure…[Read more]

]]> e5016f4a927012adc17a4896f569f122 johnpendergast started the topic CfP MLA 2025 Opera and Musical Performance, 01/9-12/2025, New Orleans in the discussion CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romantic-and-19th-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2025-opera-and-musical-performance-01-9-12-2025-new-orleans-2/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:05:10 -0500 “Horizons of Musical Adaptation: Audibility, Visibility, Media and Performance”

Musical adaptations from literary texts (see Broomfield-McHugh 2019; Elliott 2020; Hutcheon 2006; Leitch 2007, 2023, etc.) make the invisible (e.g. context, subtext) audible, and perhaps visible anew (e.g. staging, cinematography)—re/shaping meaning and recep…[Read more]

]]> d727eab026654bc91e61300c630b279f Anne Valk started the topic Looking for an Assistant Director for Digital Projects in the discussion Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/publishing-and-the-publicly-engaged-humanities/forum/topic/looking-for-an-assistant-director-for-digital-projects-2/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:32:34 -0500 The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the CUNY Graduate Center is looking to hire an Assistant Director for Digital Projects. It's a one year full-time staff position with possibility of renewal, pending funding. The Assistant Director focuses on developing, coordinating, and fundraising for digital projects, and is…[Read more]

]]> fd6a6112a6190ce10d89ab76b456cfd3 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-6/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:38:32 -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]

]]> ed00f5554fd02608613332491b43ee0c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New short story: Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-short-story-professor-mali-romantic-longhair-and-the-girl/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:24:23 -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]

]]> ef8b7e8201ae71c5ae7e7de670de3117 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870108/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:07:49 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled "The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World". It has been turned into a short film titled "The 40th Day'--available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

]]> 0 8f262afd8dd2fd0e4eeac9dd17033d0b Karin E. Westman replied to the topic Updates from the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum Exec Committee in the discussion GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/updates-from-the-childrens-and-young-adult-literature-forum-exec-committee/?view=all#post-1036548 Sun, 31 Dec 2023 16:21:41 -0500 Correction to the meeting time! The Forum meeting will be Weds Jan 10, 2:00pm ET / 1:00pm CT.

Register for the Zoom link at https://tinyurl.com/mlachildlitexec2024

]]> da26ad862ca8967a9aeba31d5ae02412 Karin E. Westman started the topic Updates from the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum Exec Committee in the discussion GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/updates-from-the-childrens-and-young-adult-literature-forum-exec-committee/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 04:12:04 -0500 Greetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!

Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 4-7).

At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2025 in New Orleans (Jan 9-12).

So we can ensure r…[Read more]

]]> beb70cd121063642803111a2d462410b Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868240/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:02:39 -0500 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1d48430d1efef11828098d075de4822 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-osman-hamdi-bey-an-ottoman-orientalist-or-a-humanist-ottoman-7/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:12:19 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled "Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?" in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more]

]]> 4c71c2ab1aabaf3b79076371edb1489c Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866465/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:01:11 -0500 Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f6f8db6524872e65eeeb7d59aac5688 Dorothy Stringer replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2024-mla-convention-3/#post-1036033 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:38:53 -0500 Apologies for missing info; dates and times as follows:

194 - Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti

Friday, 5 January 2024 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Marriott - Franklin 7 (Level 4)

 

648 - Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis

Sunday, 7 January 2024 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Marriott - Franklin 2 (Level 4)

]]> 247c7797004f89b00f5a5495e7c081dc Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865836/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:02:30 -0500 Calling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]

]]> 0 d22d098d567bcc95b69518016554a9ee Kath Burton started the topic PIDs and Publishing Engaged Scholarship - new paper out now! in the discussion Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/publishing-and-the-publicly-engaged-humanities/forum/topic/pids-and-publishing-engaged-scholarship-new-paper-out-now/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:36:49 -0500 We've just published a new paper emerging from the NISOPlus 2023 conference: https://publishingandthepubliclyengagedhumanities.hcommons.org/2023/11/20/harnessing-the-transformational-power-of-pids/

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]]> 7b9c591160f5d8895c99f9b135ca4636 Kath Burton edited the post Harnessing the transformational power of PIDs in the group Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities https://publishingandthepubliclyengagedhumanities.hcommons.org/2023/11/20/harnessing-the-transformational-power-of-pids/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:17:39 -0500 Download the Article here

Citation: Burton, Kath, Cocks, Catherine, and Russell, Bonnie. ‘Recognizing and Harnessing the Transformational Power of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for Publicly-engaged S […]

]]> c73ed70447f1dae1327adf38912bb124 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-5/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:41:16 -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]

]]> 18193fa29726cccfe903fb3be5ab3938 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861768/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:54 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

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