Knowledge Commons | Susanne Rinner | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/srinner/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Susanne Rinner is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:49:58 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4a3e696105cf9639e86c490f2c4dd7c0 Helen Finch replied to the topic Seeking new Forum Committee member for LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/seeking-new-forum-committee-member-for-llc-20th-and-21st-century-german/#post-1040772 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:49:23 -0500 Dear all, apologies for the formatting above.

Apologies for the formatting above: please see clean copy below.

The Modern Language Association of America LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German (D061) Forum is seeking a new Forum Committee Member to take up the role for a five-year term starting in 2027. We would particularly welcome applications from…[Read more]

]]> 03c28885b10dd5c753fc3b6802b3f234 Helen Finch started the topic CFP: Beyond Identities: Queer Formations in 20th and 21st C German Culture in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-beyond-identities-queer-formations-in-20th-and-21st-c-german-culture/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:54:07 -0500 <div class="x_elementToProof" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Dear colleagues, please do consider submitting an abstract for the Forum sessions at the MLA conference in Los Angeles from 7 to 10 January 2027,  on <b>Beyond Identities: Queer Formations in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century German Culture</b>. Abstracts are due by 16 March 2026.…[Read more]

]]> dbaa5602e9857944ce31adcdbc958a1f Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940348/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:24:56 -0500 6a3fe91f5a5b33a51aeaca46ebf3461c Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940345/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:22:47 -0500 18d5efa7eab9aaae3c3d9cf96295ce19 Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940344/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:21:09 -0500 7974eee32a97cd3fbf0e12b3aa461eae Lynn Wolff started the topic CFP: The Holocaust in a Global Context in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-the-holocaust-in-a-global-context/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:10:57 -0500 Please consider submitting an abstract to the session The Holocaust in a Global Context at the MLA conference, taking place January 8–11, 2026 in Toronto. Submissions are due by March 15, 2025. This session is organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum.

This panel series seeks to examine Holocaust literature, broadly defined, by p…[Read more]

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

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

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

]]> 4c3b892d1e3b434a5cf176e5fcc2089b Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-5/ Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:42:38 -0500 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]

]]> 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 57e89a423ca365b2a6776c7458ed68cd Ela Gezen started the topic Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/literary-alliances-networks-and-solidarities-across-minoritized-communities/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:49:32 -0500 Modern Language Association Conference
New Orleans, LA
January 9–12, 2025

CfP Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities (organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum)
This panel series seeks to examine varied, sometimes intersecting forms, forums, and formats for facilitating, expressing, and p…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 2b88edeb0eb767a99449c92f9c170487 Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German: Very excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart's Lesabéndio […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1843359/ Wed, 03 May 2023 00:31:42 -0400 Very excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart's Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle

]]> 0 db67182db3d449fe3e244819a468c97e Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/cfp-surrealism-dans-tous-ses-etats-2/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:12:52 -0500 2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]

]]> fed01636f5095d46b4b80dddeae77656 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic "What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy" in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-the-american-dirt-controversy-2/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:19:55 -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]

]]> 237402b24f7b44f6d61c986cb4182d32 Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1828214/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 03:51:32 -0500 The Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
Bridge was born. The American Translators Association is a member of this initiative.

]]> 0 7c6f0ae10a299cf57c19c7949b50a5df Evan Chaloupka deposited Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826176/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 03:48:45 -0500 This talk introduces the concept of “prosthetic narration,” a narrative technique that mediates the engagement of disabled cognition such that the reader is invited to reimagine how one thinks and perceives. In his essay, “The Novel,” Émile Zola establishes the “intimate union” between the author and “the reality of the scene” as a premise of fic…[Read more]

]]> 0 376ca21f864297cc7aab224689952d2e Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-and-early-20th-century-german/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-35/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:05:23 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 19d8cb84f126c12b0311789c8a86357a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-and-early-20th-century-german/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-30/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:04:09 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> c6bb33777e3a472c1990b66f805697e1 Elisa Kriza deposited Wer ist hier der Feind? Verbündete und Gegner in Alexander Solschenizyns Darstellung von Deutschland in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821416/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:23:58 -0500 The prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was known mainly for his work on the Soviet prison camps. In many of his fictional and non-fiction works, however, Solzhenitsyn dealt with the subject of Germany. This article analyses Solzhenitsyn's depiction of Germany in the works August 1914, The Gulag A…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa7cb7386ffe304db87d78fa02e4ec76 Elisa Kriza deposited Helena. La soledad en el laberinto. Epistolario de Helena Laura Paz Garro y Ernst Jünger, por: Elsa Margarita Schwarz Gasque y María del Carmen Vázquez Martínez, ISBN: 9786078706433, Ediciones del Lirio, 2020. in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821158/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:48:43 -0500 This is a book review that evaluates the Spanish-language edition of the letters written by the Mexican poet Helena Paz Garro to the German writer Ernst Jünger, which were originally written in French. The reviewer had access to the original letters in the German Literature Archive in Germany and she compares the original texts with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a4083b2e279b5e05c4b3623149eb20e Tekla Babyak started the topic CFP: Musical responses to Goethe's Works (ASECS, St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023) in the discussion LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-musical-responses-to-goethes-works-asecs-st-louis-march-9-11-2023-3/ Sat, 03 Sep 2022 21:15:08 -0400 Sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America, I’m chairing a session on Goethe and music at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023). I’m a disabled and unemployed musicologist with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). Thus, my Goethe session helps promote div…[Read more]

]]> 5ade04f903773217098676d51792e888 Kyle Frackman deposited Archival Research Guide for Grad Students in the group LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1792029/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 02:25:34 -0400 This document is a basic guide for graduate students who need to work in archives or other special libraries. The guide includes items to bring or have on hand as well as steps for planning your visit and organizing your notes.

]]> 0 2e592712acdc5a60d5e01a5ece80b69a Kyle Frackman deposited Archival Research Guide for Grad Students in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1792028/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 02:25:03 -0400 This document is a basic guide for graduate students who need to work in archives or other special libraries. The guide includes items to bring or have on hand as well as steps for planning your visit and organizing your notes.

]]> 0 d0b1dd1b400f14fe0a9d84383df37b07 Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788300/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 03:48:44 -0400 Examines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.

]]> 0 1d6cdee67b7a159847c5ad1f0f7f8746 Tekla Babyak deposited Contemplation, Heroism, and Gender in Clara Schumann's Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17, Third Movement (1846) in the group LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1787702/ Tue, 19 Jul 2022 02:26:37 -0400 I'm a disability activist and musicologist with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). I'm unaffiliated due to discrimination against my disabilities. However, I often give guest lectures, both virtually and in person. My speaking engagements help to advance diversity and representation in academia: I offer students the opportunity…[Read more]

]]> 0 d188d220a34f328cb460611dd7124856 Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Paranoid Publics in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1780938/ Sat, 07 May 2022 02:24:10 -0400 This article takes up the insurrection in Washington DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics, tracking such gamification as a political-economic demand generated by neoliberalism. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud's insight that delusional formations are attempts at…[Read more]

]]> 0 580927c10ebbc26f53b5c671c15080c2 Corinna Sauter deposited "nur die Flüssigkeit gibt die Freiheit zu neuer Gestaltung". Überlegungen zum Witz als Prinzip der ungebundenen Schreibart bei Jean Paul in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1779737/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:26:22 -0400 Der Aufsatz widmet sich dem Jean Paulschen Witz als einem grundlegenden Verfahren, das maßgeblich zur Poetizität seiner satirischen Prosa beiträgt. Der Gang der Argumentation führt vom Wort-Schatz als Ressource des Witzes (I.) über die Manöver des (unbildlichen) Witzes (II.), die sprachliche Selbstreferenz des Wortspiels (III.) und die Anagr…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe42899ba0191dc6582c33b7ff2852a6 Corinna Sauter deposited Wilhelm Raabe Meisterdieb. Plagiarismus in "Gutmanns Reisen" in the group LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1779736/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:25:43 -0400 Mit dem Begriff des Plagiats findet Wilhelm Raabe in "Gutmanns Reisen" eine Chiffre für seine Praxis unhintergehbarer Intertextualität. Angesichts einer durch starke Vorgänger und eine stetig anwachsende 'Literaturgeschichte' fraglich gewordenen Kategorie des Neuen behauptet Raabe eine paradoxe Autorschaft originärer Sekundarität, die darin best…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca8c8bdb65d6132ece8418ad7d404611 Corinna Sauter deposited Wilhelm Raabe Meisterdieb. Plagiarismus in "Gutmanns Reisen" in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1779735/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:25:13 -0400 Mit dem Begriff des Plagiats findet Wilhelm Raabe in "Gutmanns Reisen" eine Chiffre für seine Praxis unhintergehbarer Intertextualität. Angesichts einer durch starke Vorgänger und eine stetig anwachsende 'Literaturgeschichte' fraglich gewordenen Kategorie des Neuen behauptet Raabe eine paradoxe Autorschaft originärer Sekundarität, die darin best…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fa3ced50cb6d6e2295414ee06ec085a Corinna Sauter deposited Proversa - "Oder umgekehrt". Wilhelm Raabes (Literatur-)Satire "Deutscher Mondschein" (1872/1873) als Programmschrift der Prosa in the group LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1779734/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:24:30 -0400 Raabe schreibt eine Prosa, die er an der Verdichtung der Versdichtung bemisst und die sich die Umwendung zum Modell nimmt. Ein Text, der diesen Umstand im Zeichen der Korrektur 'dürftiger Prose' inszeniert und den ich daher eine Programmschrift der Prosa nenne, liegt mit "Deutscher Mondschein" vor. Auf der Textbühne der Satire werden nicht nur d…[Read more]

]]> 0 a77eddcd40efc8eb7611b40df54ddf65 Corinna Sauter deposited Proversa - "Oder umgekehrt". Wilhelm Raabes (Literatur-)Satire "Deutscher Mondschein" (1872/1873) als Programmschrift der Prosa in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1779733/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:23:55 -0400 Raabe schreibt eine Prosa, die er an der Verdichtung der Versdichtung bemisst und die sich die Umwendung zum Modell nimmt. Ein Text, der diesen Umstand im Zeichen der Korrektur 'dürftiger Prose' inszeniert und den ich daher eine Programmschrift der Prosa nenne, liegt mit "Deutscher Mondschein" vor. Auf der Textbühne der Satire werden nicht nur d…[Read more]

]]> 0 da473a28034c1a1666a0f682a660da04 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Redesigning Modernities Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-redesigning-modernities-special-issue-of-comparative-literature-studies/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:40:09 -0500 The journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of t…[Read more]

]]> 5e3c30f1ca19d938e994188a86a1734f Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768475/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 03:48:43 -0500 What started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]

]]> 0 99079ca54cfb24eda76325cf6f72d8aa Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/thank-you-for-terrific-attendance/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:14:19 -0500 Thank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.

]]> 9575fe2266194edee1ea88417e9c0137 Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, "Life Writing and Cognition" (Sunday) in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/session-645-life-writing-and-cognition-sunday/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 08:39:06 -0500 Please join us for "Life-Writing and Cognition" (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.

]]> 87f09402ac3739dbdf38907e3416dbb8 Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group 2022 MLA Convention: Join us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1765465/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:25:31 -0500 Join us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655

]]> 0 aba786f0b97a5c960baea7da15972227 Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/ms-screen-arts-and-culture-virtual-panels-and-postponement/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:49:05 -0500 As the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.

 

The following sessions will now be held virtually:

Viral Media - Thursday, January 6, 3:30 - 4:45 pm

Presider: Rielle Navitski

A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]

]]> 600f64e8c4215443fc6c77b1e6f3025c Anne Donlon started the topic Sharing convention materials on the Commons in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/sharing-convention-materials-on-the-commons/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:48:25 -0500 Hello, all,

If you're looking for more information about how to share your convention materials, this post has details about how to share work in CORE or in Docs. CORE assigns your work a DOI and gives you the option to share the deposit with groups. Work in CORE is publicly accessible--no log-in necessary to read or download. If you want to…[Read more]

]]> 9c431340eb8eb495e2dc97da2484740a Rosi Song started the topic UPDATE: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies Online Panels in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/update-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-studies-online-panels/ Sun, 02 Jan 2022 19:25:48 -0500 Due to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.

Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]

]]> f71284ab31304800cf5cf3cb1dd08a36 Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Forum Sessions in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/mla-adaptation-forum-sessions/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 19:49:12 -0500 The MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum.  We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]

]]> a644daa0c097824b9d50d9350ac670b0 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/update-re-us-latinx-studies-2022-mla-convention/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:20:22 -0500 Due to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.

We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]

]]> ec85671a89913be02c2c55fbcf613285 MLA Commons created the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756376/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:59:47 -0400 0 6c7374ab1c5a27835b5244b5ed81f154 Kyle Frackman deposited 'Coming Out' Teaching Guide in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1751180/ Thu, 09 Sep 2021 02:23:39 -0400 A teaching guide to accompany the East German film "Coming Out" (1989, directed by Heiner Carow).

]]> 0 ad1f67ce56f4f385c6b45e6ddbcf5829 johnpendergast started the topic CfP NEMLA 2022: Enduring Influence: Classical Exemplars from the Medieval to the in the discussion LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-and-early-20th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-nemla-2022-enduring-influence-classical-exemplars-from-the-medieval-to-the/ Tue, 15 Jun 2021 01:01:26 -0400 The Classics have exerted a profound influence on world culture from the medieval period to the present day. Scores of literary works have drawn upon the intellectual and literary models of Classical authors as well as the rich trove of pagan legends and myths. This appropriation of classical and mythological themes and personalities allows…[Read more]

]]> 4e48341c0321b85c06aefdb5cc9f6bf7 Petra S. McGillen deposited More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei, MLA 2022 (Abstracts) in the group LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732633/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 04:00:27 -0400 Abstracts for the Two-Panel Series “More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022.

]]> 0 c17b74739b358e692458938ade1ac970 Petra S. McGillen deposited More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei, MLA 2022 (Abstracts) in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732632/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 03:59:51 -0400 Abstracts for the Two-Panel Series “More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022.

]]> 0 a76b083f1bc2fbbbe29a15a8b56de4b0 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Resistance Literature and Occupied Palestine in Cold War Beirut in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727898/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 02:23:53 -0500 FREE ACCESS: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0377919X.2020.1855933
For the last decade of his life, the Palestinian intellectual, author, and editor Ghassan Kanafani (d. 1972) was deeply immersed in theorizing, lecturing, and publishing on Palestinian resistance literature from Beirut. A refugee of the 1948 war, Kanafani presented…[Read more]

]]> 0 414a8f54aba606ea90619a87db1f4631 Carl Gelderloos deposited Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics in Weimar Germany—Helmuth Plessner in Translation (review essay) in the group LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727291/ Fri, 12 Feb 2021 02:23:41 -0500 In this short essay I discuss two new translations of Helmuth Plessner's work, "Political Anthropology," translated by Nils F. Schott (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and "Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology," translated by Millay Hyatt (Fordham University Press, 2019).

]]> 0 e453685daa5f4b5b25aebbfaa5787f3f Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1718532/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 02:26:44 -0500 VARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
VARIEDADES offers communicative activities…[Read more]

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