Knowledge Commons | Stephen J. Ramsay | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/sramsay/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Stephen J. Ramsay is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:53:42 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 36a26344cc3920444f5be8a412b2cade Cynthia Chase replied to the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/#post-1040991 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:40:39 -0400 That is: How long is the paper I would deliver supposed to be? How many pages? (It used to be 15-20 minutes, always a strain to condense it to that.)

From: Cynthia Chase <noreply@hcommons.org>
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To: Cynthia Chase <cc97@cornell.edu>
Subject: [MLA Commons] re: DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 (GS Drama and…[Read more]

]]> cd1688f61d0a43626779f8fd963d4f78 Cynthia Chase replied to the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/#post-1040990 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:28:41 -0400 I’m thinking about it. I just arrived in Paris and am jet-lagged and have only 3 days to meet the Friday Mar. 20 deadline. I need to know exactly how long the paper should be, in terms of minutes and in terms of pages.

My paper would be about the power of resistance in differentiated productions (in the process of re-canonization) of, in p…[Read more]

]]> 04ee16898b00419ad5fd7a642dc2b1b7 Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:59:11 -0400 Dear Colleagues

Please do consider proposing a paper for the panel below. Reach out if you have ideas or questions you'd like to discuss. Thanks!

*****

Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century

How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for,…[Read more]

]]> 20d457672d9297e9a3e980500064c9e4 Jennifer Buckley started the topic 2026 Summer Shaw Symposium (July 24-26) CFP in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/2026-summer-shaw-symposium-july-24-26-cfp/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:30:36 -0500 <p class="p1">The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival warmly invite scholars and theatre artists to the annual summer Shaw Symposium, which will take place July 24-26 in Niagara- on-the-Lake, Ontario,Canada. Registration is free for ISS members.</p>
<p class="p1">Focused on Bernard Shaw’s writings, his legacies, and his c…[Read more]

]]> a8a62bb169ed59bc2daedd99a6aa2979 Ju Yon Kim started the topic New committee member and delegate assembly representative nominations welcome! in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/new-committee-member-and-delegate-assembly-representative-nominations-welcome/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:57:54 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing 1) an additional member to the committee, starting January 2027, and 2) the forum’s delegate assembly representative. Please see below for more information.

#1: Annual new app…[Read more]

]]> 209e48696653b95d79fdc6f3795ee3cc Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aural-reorientations-or-sound-studies-as-listening-otherwise/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:35:39 -0500 Dear Sound Studies Communities,

The MS Sound Forum executive committee has just published the CFP for our guaranteed session at MLA 2027. We look forward to receiving many of your proposals! :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

]]> 8ea640888bd7c2b1aa8e43d6a820a513 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-6/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:55:05 -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]

]]> b0d0caa70655bbd0ee0202651d99f7de Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP - MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:16:37 -0500 Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century

How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for, and potentially provoking a reconceptualization of, emancipatory ways of being in the world? 250-word abstracts, brief bios.

Deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 114ee83fce11a8960ee323c26b63d5cb Jack Dudley started the topic Black Studies and Spirituality (MLA 2027) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/black-studies-and-spirituality-mla-2027/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:29:22 -0500 Black Studies and Spirituality

This guaranteed online session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention invites papers on literary production and culture that occurs at the intersections of Black Studies and spirituality. How have texts by Black writers imagined, challenged, and embraced traditional, new, and…[Read more]

]]> 7ff7fca4cbefb3a9a31dfb533aea9b08 Scott Poulson-Bryant started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee-3/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:42:53 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. If you’d like to be considered, please email me directly at scottpb@umich.edu with your int…[Read more]

]]> 18eddb608fffee862a75ea355d51f8f0 William Viestenz started the topic City of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith (MLA 2027) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/city-of-angels-migration-encounter-and-new-forms-of-faith-mla-2027/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:22:51 -0500 For this guaranteed session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention, we invite papers focusing on literatures of migration and spirituality. Given the convention’s location in Los Angeles, we especially welcome proposals that consider authors and texts with connections to LA and the city as a site of contact, d…[Read more]

]]> e16ff38350b1015ec0ce696065f49325 Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic MLA TC Religion and Literature Executive Self-Nominations Invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-tc-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:45:37 -0500 The executive committee of TC Religion and Literature invites self-nominations for a five-year term on the executive committee beginning January 2027. Here’s a clarifying paragraph from the MLA:

 Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. Members may suggest new committee members by writing or typing in the na…

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]]> 86e4e75ec10857b0692754404a40a12d Brian Croxall replied to the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/#post-1040727 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:11:21 -0500 As an update, we are extending the deadline for submissions to the poster slam at DH 2026 for the DH Pedagogy and Training SIG. Please submit proposals by Monday, February 9. Accepted participants will now be notified no later than 28 February.</span>

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]]> ebbb4a01a4573f5eba5fd63eee70d12f Brian Croxall replied to the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/#post-1040727 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:11:21 -0500 As an update, w<span style="font-weight: 400;">e are extending the deadline for submissions to the poster slam at DH 2026 for the DH Pedagogy and Training SIG. Please submit proposals by Monday, February 9. Accepted participants will now be notified no later than 28 February.</span>

Please see the original post for full details.

]]> 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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On Thursday, January 8, 2026, 2:55 PM, Randall Gess <noreply@hcommons.org> wrote:

#yiv1703992147 html, #yiv1703992147 body {Margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important;min-height:100% !important;width:100% !…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> a479c956d938c1e569ff3897ea2cc58d Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-5/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:55:30 -0500 Please consider applying and share widely.

]]> 2026f89c16ec13126857a2eb4b9009d5 Brian Croxall started the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:13:02 -0500 Overview
The DH Pedagogy and Training SIG will hold a Pedagogy Poster Slam at the 2026 DH Conference in Daejeon, South Korea. The Pedagogy Poster Slam will take place during the SIG’s reserved slot during one of the conference’s two workshop days, either Monday, 27 July 2026, or Tuesday, 28 July 2026.

Posters will either focus on a) a spe…[Read more]

]]> 227876ecd355d0675cbe7ebd2574d1d5 Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP - Openness in Language Education in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-openness-in-language-education/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:34:04 -0500 📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review

I’m happy to share that The EUROCALL Review is launching a new thematic issue on:
👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”.

This issue focuses on the role and impact of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in language education worldwi…[Read more]

]]> 58da3414739d0ec665d9eb3a651681a1 Shawna Ross started the topic CFP - A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-a-field-guide-to-lost-modernisms/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:03:35 -0400 A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
Call for papers

The Internet is a significant yet leaky infrastructure by which modernism circulates. Members of the public often encounter modernist literature and culture online, while students and scholars depend on the World Wide Web for conducting and disseminating their research. Worryingly, Internet assets…[Read more]

]]> b5412b4a8231677c9500557177f42efb Sarah Balkin started the topic CFP: IFTR 2026 at the University of Melbourne in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-iftr-2026-at-the-university-of-melbourne/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:30:19 -0400 Submissions to the 2026 IFTR Conference “What Theatre Does” will open Saturday, November 1, 2025.

 

Over time and across cultures, performance has variously been said to beguile, celebrate, empower, entertain, exalt, instruct, oppress, provoke, purify, moralise, remember, subvert, transfigure, and welcome. 

 

But does it real…[Read more]

]]> 348afd253ba702abdce5b0cd9cb9a772 Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP: MLA Toronto 2026 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-mla-toronto-2026/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:53:00 -0400 So much drama! The view from abroad: a roundtable

How does the current dramatic state of the American union appear as performance, especially when projected to audiences beyond USA borders? How might the spectacle broadcast from the USA seem to shape socio-political performances elsewhere?

 

Deadline for submissions (extended): 7 September…[Read more]

]]> 6f857c771cd76cdfcf61330a36028b65 Aparna Dharwadker started the topic Publication of COSMO-MODERNISM AND THEATER IN INDIA (Columbia UP, 2025) in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/publication-of-cosmo-modernism-and-theater-in-india-columbia-up-2025/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:27:59 -0400 Dear colleagues: I am happy to announce the publication of my monograph, Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms, in the Modernist Latitudes Series at Columbia University Press. Paula Krebs confirmed that we can share such news with the Forum membership, so I look forward to similar posts from other…[Read more]

]]> 619d74ca55798701cebc4e1a0e9e084d Jennifer Stoever started the topic Recommendation for real-world assignment with Wiki Education! (not spam!) in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/recommendation-for-real-world-assignment-with-wiki-education-not-spam/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:45:32 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear all,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">I wanted to share with everyone a high-impact teaching opportunity that has added a lot to my own classroom – the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikipedia assignment</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span>

I have had great success and enjoyment fr…[Read more]

]]> ee658bc86a722c27351a576af5880a22 Jennifer Stoever started the topic CFP: Hate and NonHuman Listening, Due 14 July 2025 in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-hate-and-nonhuman-listening-due-14-july-2025/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:15:47 -0400 Call for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
A Guest Series for Sounding Out! guest edited by Kathryn Huether
Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT

Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: kathryn.huether@gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.

We invite subm…[Read more]

]]> e1710a5c1c5f873429e0d70337b99b99 Heng Du started the topic MLA2026 Guaranteed panel on premodern temporality in search of respondent/panel in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla2026-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-in-search-of-respondent-panel/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:36:53 -0400 We are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. All three papers so far deal with temporality in the religious context, and we will probably highlight this dimension in the finalized panel description. I included below a draft that can be further tailored according to your…[Read more]

]]> fb341b8fae190e2c93f935005efacd77 Heng Du started the topic Guaranteed panel on premodern temporality in search of respondent/panelist in the forum CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/classical-and-modern/forum/topic/guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-in-search-of-respondent-panelist/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:55:49 -0400 <b>Natural Time and Human Narratives: Competing Temporal Orders in the Premodern World</b><b></b>

As a comparative study of clashing temporal orders in past contexts, this panel aims to challenge the stereotyped conception of the premodern as ponderous and static. Existing papers explore early empires' endeavors to harness cosmic time to cr…[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]

]]> 5c96bcc39400711eaf75e3b668f81da6 Sarah Balkin started the topic MLA Drama and Performance 2026 CFPs in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/mla-drama-and-performance-2026-cfps/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 04:33:21 -0400 <div class="html-div xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd">
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]]> 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]

]]> 405dcc5c6cf6c0a64a3bddb0f6b74af3 Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers MLA 2026 in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-mla-2026/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:49:57 -0500 <div class="bbp-reply-content">
(Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities (Online)
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases,…[Read more]

]]> ad3a4f55f7fe48a0b41921495368c2b4 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2026 CFP – Clapping Back in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-clapping-back-2/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:34:05 -0500 Dear MS Sound Forum,

I write on behalf of the MS Sound Forum Executive Committee members to share the MLA2026 CFP “Clapping Back: Responses from Sound Studies to Censorship & Silencing.” Please consider applying & help spread the word :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

p.s. We will soon launch a Discord channel for the Sound Studies scholars, in hopes of…[Read more]

]]> e4db8fe48eecfe98104fadb1e7936b51 Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic CFP: Religion, Literature, and Palestinian Liberation (MLA 2026) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-religion-literature-and-palestinian-liberation-mla-2026/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:35:48 -0500 <p style="font-weight: 400;">For this guaranteed session of the January 2026 MLA convention, the TC Religion and Literature forum invites proposals that focus on literatures of Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, especially in their engagements with religion, interfaith encounters, justice, and liberation movements. As members of the MLA…[Read more]

]]> 562c560d4a8a1016ea953f8931cdbebd Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic CFP: Brave Sermons: Religious Speech and the Struggle for Justice (MLA 2026) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-brave-sermons-religious-speech-and-the-struggle-for-justice-mla-2026/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:31:55 -0500 <p style="font-weight: 400;">Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde’s January 2025 inauguration sermon sparked both praise and critique, shining light on the contested role of religious speech in public discourse and its relation to justice and good governance. As Elizabeth Ammons writes in Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet (2010), r…[Read more]

]]> c3704e0d64890279b554fff3dd635de9 Sarah Balkin started the topic Self-nominations for the Forum's Delegate Assembly representative in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/self-nominations-for-the-forums-delegate-assembly-representative/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:10:18 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has been suggested by the forum’s membership (unless there are too few suggestions). I write to encourage you to submit you…[Read more]

]]> f0369cd34af62690abd75124ce43dc91 María Herrera-Sobek replied to the topic MLA Religion and Literature Executive self-nominations invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/#post-1039403 Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:35:19 -0500 Dear Professor Cynthia Wallace,
I am responding to your invitation to self-nominate for the position in the
MLA Executive Committee for the forum TC Religion and Literature.
Much of my research has focused on the Virgin of Guadalupe in the Mexican
ballad and the Mexican Christmas plays or Pastorelas.
Thanking you,
Maria Herrera-Sobek
Professor…[Read more]

]]> 52a949909c4ab7e8bc0768b74531d41b Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic MLA Religion and Literature Executive self-nominations invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/ Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:55:46 -0500 The executive committee of TC Religion and Literature invites self-nominations for a five-year term on the executive committee beginning January 2026. Here's a clarifying paragraph from the MLA:

<i data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Appointments</i>. Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. Members may…[Read more]

]]> eb77c98ed2495bf6fe7d52b823c99daa Sarah Balkin started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee-2/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:21:17 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I'm writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. The committee will meet during the 2025 convention to discuss and organize panels for the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 0565a01f746dc2e6020adf5e71d8b024 John Melillo started the topic MS Sound Rountable at MLA 2025: Sound and Literature Now in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/ms-sound-rountable-at-mla-2025-sound-and-literature-now/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:20:39 -0500 Please join the MS Sound forum for a wide-ranging roundtable on "Sound and Literature Now." Our roundtable will take place on Friday morning, January 10th, at 8:30 AM in Salon 16 of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside (first floor):

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Panelists describe and discuss new academic and creative interventions that connect sound and literary…[Read more]

]]> 0294a5cc2013cfb5fed00f220e15be1a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-7/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:55:05 -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]

]]> 1f517b3eeb9facb5109be93eaedf9b1d Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/classical-and-modern/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-3/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:48:24 -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]

]]> 73215c5974629be9153feaf055551809 Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-3/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:55:17 -0500 The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.

We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[Read more]

]]> 51dfa962c8509dc311cdee9b05cdc507 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:54:04 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 10697a60384a7ca03d821b6499d898fa Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902702/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:00:06 -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 4cdc505d6974a63bb5a0109cc3c5ab89 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902282/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:00:08 -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 f5ec3a5c25c83fd9ea0bc470829eafb1 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:16:00 -0400 Reading Cultures

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

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

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

]]> d96b0196cf95344577f6bbedf241c451 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901836/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:03:50 -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 ef54abba0ac1222513086091b1913190 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 GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900894/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:17:57 -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]

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