SAH Commons | Joseph Taylor | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/abovethehumber/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Joseph Taylor is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:05:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bb21278e78fea4dd03300ec625d6211f Ingrid Nelson started the topic MLA 2027 Chaucer Forum panels in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/mla-2027-chaucer-forum-panels/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:15:34 -0500 Dear Chaucerians,

Please consider submitting to one of the Chaucer Forum panels for MLA 2027, which will be held Jan. 7-10 in Los Angeles. (Apologies for cross-posting!)
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<div dir=”auto”>Panel 1: Speculations in the Age of Chaucer</div>
<div dir=”auto”>Format:…[Read more]

]]> 0 67d51d9face4d40029856fc7fe1fcbe8 Heng Du started the topic Respondent/panelist for guaranteed panel on premodern temporality (MLA26) in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/respondent-panelist-for-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-mla26/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:10:54 -0400 We are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. I included below a draft of its description, which can be further tailored according to your interests/suggestions:

<b>Natural Time and Human Narratives: Competing Temporal Orders in the Premodern World</b><b></b>

As a comparative study of…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0f5b92dc79b61535ec1f51a1ecfec05 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-6/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:40:01 -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]

]]> 0 01a68f0c095b1312bf4581a4abf45e54 Ingrid Nelson started the topic MLA 2026: LLC Chaucer panels in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/mla-2026-llc-chaucer-panels/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:37:48 -0500 Here are the short and long CFPs for the 2026 MLA. (Deadlines: 10 March & 15 March). Please consider submitting a proposal!

  1. Chaucerian Attention Economies

 

Format: Roundtable

Short CFP

Attention, distraction, slow studies, post-critique, media/immediacy/immediation, idleness, perception, cognition, and/or sensology in Chaucer and…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e31108f736f4fd5332721c27565549b Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025 to TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912534/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:18:06 -0500 In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is dedicated to this reflection on the concept of narrative in order to sharpen it by defining its boundaries: Which phenomena cannot be appropriately lab…[Read more]

]]> 0 568bcbd9f2ec0d59aaa2fc1014633108 Sarah Sprouse started the topic CLCS Arthurian's CFPs for MLA 2026 in the forum CLCS Arthurian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/arthurian/forum/topic/clcs-arthurians-cfps-for-mla-2026/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:42:42 -0500 Good morning All! Please consider submitting a proposal for one of our two sessions for next year. As usual, proposals should be submitted via the MLA’s confex system. If you have questions, please feel free to e-mail me: ssprouse@wtamu.edu

 

Approaches to Teaching Arthurian Literature: Roundtable

To celebrate the forthcoming MLA volume, Approac…[Read more]

]]> 0 b64d254c9b0fd2e63c4c2b6d136fbc32 Betty Joseph started the topic INVITATION: Panel Topics for HISTORY & LITERATURE, MLA 2026 in the forum TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/invitation-panel-topics-for-history-literature-mla-2026/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:24:10 -0500 Dear Forum Members/Colleagues,

We will organize two panels at MLA 2026 (Toronto) and invite you to play a key role in shaping the event! As a valued member of this forum, we would love to hear your ideas for panel topics. This is an opportunity for you to contribute to the discussions and offer fresh perspectives.

To submit your topic, simply…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ea51b07e37e0f6ef015235a17f9ae15 Betty Joseph started the topic JOIN THE HISTORY & LITERATURE FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE! in the forum TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/join-the-history-literature-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 03:13:13 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee is seeking self-nominations for a five-year term starting 2025-2026. The committee organizes two panels at the annual convention and occasionally, an additional collaborative panel with another forum. Committee meetings take place during or after the annual convention (over Zoom). If you would like to be considered,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ea6f3e936d32e3c53a0bc39e43b9f0b Megan Cook started the topic Chaucer @ MLA 2025, and call for nominations in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/chaucer-mla-2025-and-call-for-nominations/ Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:13:56 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I hope you are all enjoying some restful time with loved ones as 2024 draws to a close. The Executive Committee of the Chaucer Forum would like to invite members of the forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC. The term is five years, from January 2026 to January 2031.  Only current MLA members are e…[Read more]

]]> 0 c30d42ad493d382fd04e2e6882e42af8 Nahir Otano Gracia started the topic On Palestine and the Medieval Academy of America in the forum CLCS Arthurian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/arthurian/forum/topic/on-palestine-and-the-medieval-academy-of-america-4/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:50:49 -0400 Medievalists of Color (MoC) have issued a statement on the Medieval Academy of America (MAA). They call for a boycott of the MAA.

You can read the full statement here.

]]> 0 371019595bee6911e1877c459cfa3fb5 Nahir Otano Gracia started the topic On Palestine and Medieval Studies in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/on-palestine-and-medieval-studies/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:38:31 -0400 Medievalists of Color have issued a statement on Palestine and Medieval Studies and they call for a boycott of the Medieval Academy of America.

You can read the full statement here

]]> 0 f311db3e78c2cfcf8df25aa294057faa Nahir Otano Gracia started the topic On Palestine and the Medieval Academy of America in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/on-palestine-and-the-medieval-academy-of-america/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:23:35 -0400 Medievalists of Color have issued a statement on Palestine and the Medieval Academy of America (MAA). They call for a boycott of the MAA

You can read the full statement here.

]]> 0 df53f202662622bd32d4256ed930d961 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Join the tabula gratulatoria for a festschrift for Karla Taylor! in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/join-the-tabula-gratulatoria-for-a-festschrift-for-karla-taylor-2/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:30:24 -0400 Passing this on from Cathy Sanok and Elizabeth Allen:

We are delighted to announce that a festschrift honoring Karla Taylor as a scholar and teacher, Language, Linguistics and Middle English Literature, is forthcoming from Boydell and Brewer in March 2025. The essays explore and exemplify language-focused methods for studying medieval literature…[Read more]

]]> 0 77154ac068a920a21bfd9d81f27a369e Donald W. Wood started the topic Iberia and Mediterranean-themed sessions: ICMS, Kalamazoo, 2025 in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/iberia-and-mediterranean-themed-sessions-icms-kalamazoo-2025/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:34:12 -0400 A comprehensive list of Iberia and Mediterranean-themed sessions at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2025

See complete Call for Papers page here: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/cfp.cgi

1. Body and Mind in Medieval Iberia (hybrid) Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)…[Read more]

]]> 0 15d049d2a03dcd6225e907cc21089a72 Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects-5/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:47:53 -0400 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

]]> 0 69968ff374b81e9c6b5a9c10ef10aecf Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:30:06 -0400 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

]]> 0 f96d7a41d2a5ebc303035818a351075a Leslie Zarker Morgan deposited Translation of two "Facezie" for study of the romance epic in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1894824/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:01:45 -0400 Poggio Fiorentino (Bracciolini), 1380 – 1459, wrote a series of “Facetiae” in Latin, “Facezie” in Italian, clever responses and short tales, first published in 1470. Placed on the Index, of the Council of Trent, these nonetheless were well known and have been translated into Italian in multiple editions… without the name(s) of the t…[Read more]

]]> 0 52b2c57fc247d4374dd1b30b24325837 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-5/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:45:07 -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]

]]> 0 50c0378fabd519def6343312e1c13019 David A. Wacks deposited Medieval Iberian Romance in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886747/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:07:30 -0400 The story of the medieval Romance on the Iberian Peninsula is a bit more complicated than that we read in traditional histories of Spanish or Catalan literature. Hebrew and Arabic authors also wrote texts that could be classified as romances some years before the Castilian Grail and Amadís. These authors adapted the motifs of Arthurian or…[Read more]

]]> 0 41bf393c133a5ae0c199f9e8d92cdd4b David A. Wacks deposited Foreword: 50 years of Spanish Arabism in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886744/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:03:34 -0400 Spanish Arabism was a touchstone of the major intellectual and political issues facing Spain as it emerged from its imperial past into its current form as a modern nation-state. James T. Monroe’s survey of four centuries of Spanish scholarship on the cultural history of al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) establishes Spanish scholars on the forefront of E…[Read more]

]]> 0 5044134d2f14c8d7d87a42023a5edd7b David A. Wacks deposited Preface to The Study of al-Andalus The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886742/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:00:14 -0400 The Study of al-Andalus is a collection of essays by students and colleagues of James T. Monroe, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Arabic at the University of California, Berkeley, and the premier scholar of Andalusi (Hispano-Arabic) literature in the United States. The introduction by the editors explains the impact Monroe’s s…[Read more]

]]> 0 84ec38fd98e2dbe69534cbf51fcbdbaf David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884545/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:13:29 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3790e2294fc5ee2f670242553c99506d David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884540/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:07:44 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5610dff3d48df262e4004ce68c4362e2 David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879890/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:07:26 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 281127f875516c4185a5941231ee60c5 David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879885/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:02:23 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b87fb2dddc72f3e37248c1d83a4ff995 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878059/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:09:12 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 849550a9463cac91221997bfe4af8eb5 Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:35:33 -0500 Hi all.

I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.

MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html

Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4fa4eef69df1ea4f9607cb058509e079 Megan Cook uploaded the file: MLA 2025 CFPs to LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877164/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:53:14 -0500 This document contains CFPs for the Chaucer LLC’s two sponsored sessions at the upcoming 2025 MLA Conference: Ugly Chaucer and Reproductive Chaucer

]]> 0 64d852d3832585648812854f2aaf2caf Megan Cook uploaded the file: MLA 2025 CFPs to LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877163/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:52:44 -0500 0 f188ea6e2cf6c25d65833e75c0e36d2f Megan Cook uploaded the file: MLA 2025 CFPs to LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877162/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:52:14 -0500 0 0b949be437478ed1dea2894030d0afbd Megan Cook started the topic CFPs for MLA 2025 in New Orleans in the discussion LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2025-in-new-orleans/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:09:55 -0500 Dear Chaucerians and affiliated premodernists: the Chaucer LLC executive committee invites your submissions for the following sponsored sessions at MLA 2025 in New Orleans.

All best, Megan

Chaucer LLC sponsored sessions for MLA 2025 (New Orleans)

Reproducing Chaucer

This panel seeks papers that explore the nexus of sexual, material, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 e25853339c14d7155fd2be5a683fe444 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Revisar los inicios del español desde el magisterio de Alarcos y Lapesa in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870990/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:04:09 -0500 During the long time of its documentation, Latin could not remain unchanged, so there had to be a cultured, writ-ten variant of the language and popular variants, which evolved into dialectal forms, Afro-Latin-Romance variants. As far as the African part is concerned, the novelty of this study, especially for Romanists and Arabists, is to convey…[Read more]

]]> 0 8fd438a9fc35c361b85c79086478a5e5 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Dominio y lenguas en el Mediterráneo Occidental hasta los inicios del español in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870985/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 El objetivo principal de este libro es recoger y transmitir reflexiones y resultados de una investigación que ha evolucionado en paralelo a la vida profesional de su autor. Arranca de la pregunta sobre cómo era la situación lingüística de la Península Ibérica tras la llegada de los sarracenos, en qué ambientes se iniciaron las lenguas romance…[Read more]

]]> 0 db86b7648d1c961b7fdaeb5fb54f05b2 Carissa Harris started the topic Chaucer Forum @MLA 2024! in the discussion LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-chaucer-forum-executive-committee-2025-2030/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:01:08 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the Chaucer Forum would like to invite members of the forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC. The term is five years, from January 2025 to January 2030.  Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be serving on another forum executive c…[Read more]

]]> 0 7180c91e5b7ae5aad5493765dee52da9 Carissa Harris started the topic Call For Nominations for Chaucer Forum Executive Committee, 2025-2030! in the discussion LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-chaucer-forum-executive-committee-2025-2030/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:01:08 -0500 The Executive Committee of the Chaucer Forum would like to invite members of the forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC. The term is five years, from January 2025 to January 2030.  Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be serving on another forum executive committee (unless t…[Read more]

]]> 0 0311d6a54d3f3804f28681f6806f3a45 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept... in the discussion TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/new-article-the-turkish-angel-in-the-house-a-travelling-concept-2/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:27:14 -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 fre…[Read more]

]]> 0 d733ace9e5d41108123edc42d07f0e7e Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865793/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:06:46 -0500 Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e6d3236ea044cf89ade8f1fe8a7f1c4 David A. Wacks deposited Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “Cómo Santa María ayudó a la emperatriz de Roma” in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864689/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:10:48 -0500 Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdec860d53aebbf4089f94f48d564498 David A. Wacks deposited Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “How the Virgen Mary Helped the Empress of Rome” in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864685/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:07:28 -0500 Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2d7f8e30fa73fd18a937d60e2444516 David A. Wacks deposited Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial (Granada, 1566) in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864670/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:00:02 -0500 Núñez-Muley abstract

The Edict of 1567, or Anti-Morisco Edict, was promulgated by Spanish King Philip II on January 1, after being approved in Madrid on November 17, 1566. Its purpose was to eliminate specific Morisco customs, such as their language, dress, and dances. Núñez Muley’s Petition is an attempt to persuade Christian authorities to de…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc53d9e31580aca42b636d397c90ec69 David A. Wacks started the topic Open access teaching unit: Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria (Cantiga 5) in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/open-access-teaching-unit-alfonso-x-cantigas-de-santa-maria-cantiga-5/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:45:33 -0500 Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

]]> 0 df074ce123cbf73b846df7790a1a461d Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858170/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:21:45 -0400 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

]]> 0 51a83109dec8e38bfa5f9c18b3e3e073 Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857511/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:29:49 -0400 This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]

]]> 0 e50073a729e182336a88ef3e62e32a10 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847390/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:18:26 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f2237866c263e769b3e808b285d54a8 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847385/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:57:59 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa900f880f77b32da8946ae233689f48 Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841285/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:35:48 -0400 This article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b178c677e3831c2220755f6c011e6f4 Amel Abbady deposited Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter in the group TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841280/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:24:53 -0400 McDonagh is arguably one of the most celebrated yet most controversial of contemporary Anglo-Irish playwrights. His plays have received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mostly for featuring graphic violence and obscene dialogues. Even though comedy is mostly seen as an inferior genre compared to tragedy, McDonagh, among many…[Read more]

]]> 0 434553d57c362fa4dbb651c1f6997c7f Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841277/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:20:01 -0400 The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fdd1aacb58c647c18a373cfc793f1a6 David A. Wacks started the topic Deadline extended to Mar 15: CFPs MLA 2024 (Medieval Iberian Studies) in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/deadline-extended-to-mar-15-cfps-mla-2024-medieval-iberian-studies-2/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 22:18:53 -0500  The Medieval Iberian Forum of the MLA announces the following calls for papers for the 2024 MLA Convention (Philadelphia, Jan 4-7). Please note that presenters must be members of the MLA before registering for the conference (but not in order to submit an abstract).

New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person) The LLC Medieval I…[Read more]

]]> 0 f9179b5353d56a54161adb7b529aa597 johnpendergast started the topic Request for Titles of Russian History Books in Use in the discussion TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/request-for-titles/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:19:33 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]

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