Knowledge Commons | Bette Bonacci | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/we63989/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Bette Bonacci is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:07:09 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 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]

]]> a8ad4ac0690f479f608f8ec8080425d9 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic call for nominations: MLA Delegate Assembly Representative in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-mla-delegate-assembly-representative/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:37:03 -0500 Please send nominations (including self-nominations) for 20th/21st-c French forum representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly to freedthall@nyu.edu, by March 9, 2026. The elected representative serves a 3-year term and must attend the annual Delegate Assembly meeting, held during the MLA convention. Learn more about the Delegate Assembly here:…[Read more]

]]> faee167f1f88339eeb2ef291f12233f0 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aesthetics and Politics of Resistance in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aesthetics-and-politics-of-resistance/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:15:04 -0500 This panel explores the aesthetics and politics of resistance in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. Possible topics include: conditions of control, surveillance, capture, and repression; fascism/antifascism; refusal, fugitivity, emancipation, or revolution. This is a non-guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March…[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]

]]> 360ae55cbfad2134312c716031801caa Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Literature and the News in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-literature-and-the-news/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:55:07 -0500 This panel explores intersections between literature and journalism in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. Topics include, but are not limited to, the fait divers, truth and disinformation, politics and aesthetics, fact and fiction. This is a guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March 15, 2026 to sk130@wellesley.edu

]]> 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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]]> c5422136117d01a9bf1d4678024a3a64 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Reproductive Justice in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-reproductive-justice/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:30:10 -0500 On the centenary of the birth of Simone Veil (namesake of the landmark 1975 French law legalizing abortion), this panel explores sexual autonomy, gender freedom, decolonial feminism, and reproductive dignity in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. This is a guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March 15 to freedthall@nyu.edu.

]]> 22eaebfef1511160dba471458faedfb6 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC 20th-and 21st Century French Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-5/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:54:18 -0500 Dear Colleagues, The LLC 20th 21st Century Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2027 through the close of the January 2031 convention). Responsibilities of the committee members also include serving as…[Read more]

]]> 952afe8057c263865a68a49978fe97e0 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-2/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:48:01 -0500 Please see the attached position and share widely.

 

]]> 9c886f0108ce73fd05556964fc4a0b75 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:31:13 -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]

]]> 4eefe464e65fee6c5839be2742476097 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP: Literature, Spiritualities and the Politics of Meaning in Liberal Italy in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/cfp-literature-spiritualities-and-the-politics-of-meaning-in-liberal-italy/ Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:07:16 -0400 Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to share the CFP for a special issue of Romance Studies, titled “Literature, Spiritualities and the Politics of Meaning in Liberal Italy (1861–1915)”.

Scholars interested in contributing are invited to submit an abstract by 31 August 2025.

Further details can be found in the attached document.

Best regar…[Read more]

]]> c694f9b6566ca18fb3d5310e6922fad3 Letizia Modena started the topic Narrating Renewal: Literary, Visual, and Physical Cultures of Urban Regeneration in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/narrating-renewal-literary-visual-and-physical-cultures-of-urban-regeneration/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:36:44 -0400 Call for Papers – Roundtable Proposal; 2026 NeMLA Convention, March 5-8, Pittsburgh, PA .

Narrating Renewal: Literary, Visual, and Physical Cultures of Urban Regeneration

This roundtable explores how urban regeneration is represented, shaped, and critiqued through literature, film, photography, and physical practice. It invites i…[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]

]]> 3f53d6747f302b4078fecd6ab4de2d51 Michael Subialka started the topic CFP "Who Do We Resemble? Selfhood, Perception, and Modernist Multiplicity" in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/cfp-who-do-we-resemble-selfhood-perception-and-modernist-multiplicity/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:14:49 -0500 <div data-olk-copy-source="MailCompose">Luigi Pirandello’s <i>One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand</i> (1926) presents a radical meditation on the fragmentation of identity, the impossibility of “true” self-perception, and the crisis of being seen differently by others. Published exactly a century ago, the novel interrogates the ways in which i…[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]

]]> 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]

]]> af41bf8d32aead3e34f1d795025a8884 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: "Queer Creoles in French and Francophone Contexts" in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-queer-creoles-in-french-and-francophone-contexts/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:56:50 -0500 Title: “Queer Creoles in French and Francophone Contexts.”

This panel explores queer language use across borders and cultural contexts, which includes, but is not limited to creolization, language accumulation, and translanguaging.  This is a guaranteed session. Send 250-word abstract and bio by March 13, 2025 to Denis Provencher: dmproven@ncsu.edu

]]> 6f1a71a6eabbc93965ef581da4b4b1c6 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: "Metropolitan Relations" A Guaranteed Session in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-metropolitan-relations-a-guaranteed-session/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:52:32 -0500 Title: “Metropolitan Relations: Diasporic & Indigenous Perspectives in Contemporary Cities.”

This panel explores French and Francophone representations of place-making, cultural memory, and spatial justice in urban environments. This is a guaranteed session. Send 250-word abstract and bio by March 13, 2025 to jmontlo@emory.edu

]]> 3b529c661bb68a1acbc1f068cf288bb4 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC 20th-and 21st Century French Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-4/ Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:00:26 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

The LLC 20th 21st Century Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2026 through the close of the January 2030 convention). Responsibilities of the committee members also include serving as…[Read more]

]]> 3074a7b3c87a12c56239d4529302b9ba Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900961/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:00:08 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 aeca886e970f1b390aba778c188c0119 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-2/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:32:30 -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 Perspec…[Read more]

]]> 0e5aae4c57dbff7a0d88b01d57df95a9 Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889768/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:06:01 -0400 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 c5129c6c75345ec33bc2a61254bc2bcc Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889375/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:01:08 -0400 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e91f3860ebd86c04cdacdd458483d27 Frank Pfost deposited ENSAYOS SOBRE ALGUNAS COMEDIAS DEL SIGLO DE ORO ESPAÑOL in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1888752/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:04:48 -0400 Se trata de un repaso a siete comedias del Siglo de Oro español, entre las que destacan: LOS PASOS de Lope de Rueda y el Entremés del RETABLO DE LAS MARAVILLAS de Miguel de Cervantes, LA VERDAD SOSPECHOSA de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, FUENTEOVEJUNA de Lope de Vega, EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA de Tirso de Molina, EL ESCLAVO DE DEMONIO de Mira de Amescua, y…[Read more]

]]> 0 64fa4498d4e3e1b595823b9cc5cf6325 Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887844/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:05:44 -0400 Les douze Lais de Marie de France, écrits au XIIe siècle par un auteur dont on connaît peu de choses,
retiennent leur renom pour maintes raisons. Ce sont des contes, des aventures, souvent merveilleuses
et fantastiques, des chevaliers errants et leurs dames au temps médiévaux lorsque la bataille épique et
continuelle entre le bien at le ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 77e9e20a412ac725aad1a7b544c48302 Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887555/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:05:04 -0400 One of the most important factors literary critics often overlook in the work of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-
1910) is the fact that it was subject to the censorship of the tsarist government before it was allowed to be published
in Russia. This harassment lasted the entire period of Tolstoy’s writing life, and although neither he nor his f…[Read more]

]]> 0 59d2150231eba54f41e24d43bcdc72cc Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025-2/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:57 -0500 How have enslavement, incarceration, and other colonial confinements shaped more-than-human circum-Caribbean ecologies? How have Black culture-makers confronted these ecologies with abolitionist aesthetics? Send 150-word abstracts to this co-sponsored panel (Caribbean & Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities).Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]

]]> e40139cd6ca10730f05fd9fcd7f14487 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: Édouard Glissant: Still A Caribbean Theorist? (MLA 2025, in-person panel) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/cfp-edouard-glissant-still-a-caribbean-theorist-mla-2025-in-person-panel-2/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:34:07 -0500 Michael Dash’s translation and abridgment of Le discours antillais into Caribbean Discourse raises the question of how we situate Glissant within Caribbean Studies. Send 150-word abstracts that consider how we deploy Glissant’s literary-creative-artistic thought today.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024 Nathan H. Dize, Washington Univ…[Read more]

]]> 14fd710192c2cacea60bcf12493eba2a Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874115/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:03:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1651080c71469d401f52fed810de2a1d Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874112/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb6da5d91ad556223f494ed2dd9aa1c3 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Unscripted Performances in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2025-cfp-unscripted-performances/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:11:43 -0500 Exploring the intersections of jazz, performance, and literary studies from diverse perspectives, this panel delves into the art of spontaneous storytelling, poetic play, and improvised narrative. A non-guaranteed session. 250-word abstract and bio due by March 8 2024 at montlouis-gabriel.1@osu.edu

]]> 360d25d6f7361acd5fe7fd0dc54b76da Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2025-cfp-entomological-turns/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:04:06 -0500 From Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.

This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]

]]> 927358c3d4850393f429d8ec592466a6 Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-3/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:01:51 -0500 Dear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

]]> cf7e909f3f0ea7d13970897743e3f339 Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. MLA Convention Session #154 in the discussion TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/religion-in-modern-spanish-memoir-and-autofiction-mla-convention-session-154/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:38:32 -0500 You are cordially invited to the  first of three sessions sponsored by this forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:

#154 - Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction

Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM

Marriott - Grand K (Level 5)
Presider:  Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York
Presentations
S…[Read more]

]]> 5c0375c7978e2e06f6506679c8d371de Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic New executive committee member to be appointed soon in the discussion TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/new-executive-committee-member-to-be-appointed-soon/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:06:04 -0500 Dear forum members,

If you are interested in being considered for appointment to the executive committee (EC) for this forum, please email me by 28 December 2023. Include your CV along with a message of intent. This is a five-year commitment during which you become secretary in your third year and chair in the fourth. You must be a member of MLA…[Read more]

]]> e6873c1affb3a760931be2104e4f8c8f Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868241/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:04:28 -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 ebfb3b3f884751204ef8f97c30d7abd4 Michael Subialka started the topic Call for Submissions, PSA Vol 36 (2024) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/call-for-submissions-psa-vol-36-2024/ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 21:50:31 -0500 Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the next volume (36) of PSA, the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the Pirandello Society of America (https://www.pirandellosociety.org/). This is an open topic issue – any work on or relating to Luigi Pirandello is invited. The volume will be published in 2024…[Read more]

]]> e378d0584f4c3a24cd6fd2b3d01ac9cf Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept... in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-the-turkish-angel-in-the-house-a-travelling-concept/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:18:44 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We would like to announce the publication of our new article titled "The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept in the Housewife Poems of Ziya Gökalp and Halide Nusret Zorlutuna" in the Journal of International Women's Studies. It is possible to download the article from the following link for free:…[Read more]

]]> bcd8a9fe3d7d60fbcbbb3ed79b432a55 Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866784/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:03:40 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 d63016f53b2ead1228aa3dc2eae70ffe Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866467/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:02:58 -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 b519953a878ab0679f5984b66717e0f1 Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863983/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:06:17 -0500 Thomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) "the things that make for peace." I offer as murder is to crow as a record of "perchings" in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ed0ff2f9c60b03993dbcd456c289880 Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863980/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:00:18 -0500 Thomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) "the things that make for peace." I offer as murder is to crow as a record of "perchings" in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]

]]> 0 377f7ccb455cc730d286255c8df1763a Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860582/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:10:02 -0400 'Modernism and Religion' argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b773a8ffbe8ffaa9453cc44a4e595f7 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860579/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:00:13 -0400 'Modernism and Religion' argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 6822d1cea93b8e57a0e3d66f63fb6a22 Marisa Verna deposited « Proust et l’odeur de son temps » in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856310/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:30:52 -0400 Until now, critics have shown little interest in the bouquet of aromas and scents that permeate the linguistic fabric of À la recherche du temps perdu , to the point of forming an olfactory (and cognitive) underlay. The aesthetic impact of these odors warrants further investigation, starting with a reconstruction of the “problem of smell” in Prou…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6efb9913de8e509c08b25c0b787f175 Maria Truglio uploaded the file: CFP ChLA International Committee Focus Panel to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854829/ Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:49:05 -0400 The International Committee of the Children's Literature Association has chosen the theme "Memories" for its focus panel at the 2024 conference and invites paper proposals. Please see attachment for details

]]> 0 dc6d789a2d242c1f5a8f7977c807d107 Steven Schroeder deposited the epic opposite | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume ten in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854161/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:13:36 -0400 the epic opposite is the tenth of a series of ten collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c368497307a73690861fee032b30ea8 Steven Schroeder deposited solitude is another matter | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume nine in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854160/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:10:59 -0400 solitude is another matter is the ninth of a series of ten collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back,…[Read more]

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