SAH Commons | Andrés Nicolás Rabinovich | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/andresnr/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Andrés Nicolás Rabinovich is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a6c1b287328e2d262fae990514e094d8 Pedro Craveiro started the topic [MLA 2027] Call for Papers in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/mla-2027-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:11:30 -0500 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles:
1. Global Pretuguês: Language and Literature beyond Translational and Transnational Borders
We invite papers examining the creative expressions of Pretuguês in literatures across Africa, Brazil, a…[Read more]

]]> 0 eed160b9adf7eb4744a28cbd016c0b6c Cole Rizki started the topic Nominations for Candidates to Delegate Election in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-for-candidates-to-delegate-election/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:19:15 -0500 Hi everyone, I write to solicit nominations for candidates to the MLA delegate election. For eligibility: any candidates for election must have been included in the membership list of the association for the preceding year. No one can occupy more than one delegate seat at a time and delegates may only serve two consecutive terms on the Delegate…[Read more]

]]> 0 21613f4d7281e7e57f243100ab1f58c4 Cole Rizki started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:07:48 -0500 Hi everyone, I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Friday January 23rd with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 f138030239ed8176067934af4463cdd5 Krista Brune created the doc Found Families: Migrant and Diasporic Voices in Portuguese in the group LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936699/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:22:21 -0500 0 895c3dd6571a8af9459c5806c4ee68a8 Nattie Golubov uploaded the file: CFP Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2025-2025 to TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1924521/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:30:00 -0400 The first election of Donald Trump sparked a series of “Rogue” romance anthologies that framed love as resistance, and the romance genre as progressive and inclusive. Looking back after a decade, how has the genre registered and responded to ongoing political contexts–in the United States and elsewhere–of political radicalization, xenophobia,…[Read more]

]]> 0 266d0d1713e443cc981345600cdbbe26 Krista Brune started the topic Call for Papers for 2026 MLA in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-2026-mla-2/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:38:00 -0500 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto:

Afro-Brazil as Method and Theory. Papers exploring Black theorists’ epistemological contributions to (re)thinking Brazil and its racial contradictions. Trends in Afro-Brazilian literary theory and i…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc9583b1ca27376010641589da70461f Krista Brune started the topic CFP: Modernisms in Portuguese for Portuguese Cultural Studies (deadline 3/20/25) in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-modernisms-in-portuguese-for-portuguese-cultural-studies-deadline-3-20-25/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:24:59 -0500 Fernando Guimarães (2007) elucidates the intrinsic connection between avant-gardes and the overarching paradigm of Modernism. Within the rich tapestry of the Portuguese language, seminal movements such as Orpheu, Futurism, Brazilian Modernism, Surrealism, and Concretism emerge as pivotal in shaping the artistic and literary landscape during the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5b81ec6a27df050f42ff3e4444b7653 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session in the forum MLAgrads https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mlagrads/forum/topic/session-413-navigating-the-academy-a-mentoring-session/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:46:34 -0500 Please see the mentoring session below and share widely.

MLA 2025 Convention

MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession

Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session

 

NB: Session Information Follows. The mentoring session will continue informally following the roundtable via happy hour. Location: Ernst Café (…[Read more]

]]> 0 8764972e24cc7d05ecb3268cd2f3576d Krista Brune started the topic Nominations for LLC Luso-Brazilian Executive Committee in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/nominations-for-llc-luso-brazilian-executive-committee/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:53:55 -0500 Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to be a part of the executive committee of the LLC Luso-Brazilian Forum. The new EC member will serve from after the 2026 MLA through the 2031 conference. We are accepting nominations until Thursday, January 16. Thanks! Obrigada!

]]> 0 9d5e2d3e60d71708ad9ac3c103810696 Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the call for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907864/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:37:56 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce the call for Guaranteed Session Proposals for the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto. If accepted by our Forum, your panel is guaranteed a place at next year’s convention. We invite proposals that engage with a wide range of topics related to 20th- a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d62191f783a3cb76c17bd6d381ac13b Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907863/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:34:06 -0500 Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 15th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 10e0822b8fa7b2282eed7eb1e6e586a6 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-4/ Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:55:06 -0400 Reading Cultures

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

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

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

]]> 0 d8a6b7627444eb73c011563f94a4fc4d Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900966/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:13:45 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 f93c965c33fdb6cc54d1615a21b40ce0 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-3/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:28:18 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

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

]]> 0 31dd13cc24fcf20ac9ab6d00f3eb6a86 Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues started the topic Call for Papers for MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-mla-2025/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:51:28 -0500 From Hip-Hop to Slam poetry hoje and beyond
Papers examining the scope of artistic performances and perspectives for theoretical approaches to slam poetry, rap, and similar forms of poetic expressions. Comparative studies are welcome. 200 words abstract + short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
Paulo Dutra, The University of N…[Read more]

]]> 0 74755405707853a0d82fe9bfe7a82e5c Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025-3/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:58 -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]

]]> 0 292811c4e08d23bff02f77cb2bd58766 Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870641/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:04:05 -0500 This contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”

]]> 0 f51e48204bd4c01f1697cb6850f2e37b Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-2/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:45:22 -0500 Hi everyone,I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 16th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 a4e6cdd7e9c478623c66d3ee14f0da1c Stacey Amo started the topic Discussion Group on What Contingency Means to You in the discussion MLAgrads https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mlagrads/forum/topic/discussion-group-on-what-contingency-means-to-you-5/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:26:49 -0500 Join members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063

]]> 0 8771cba4aca5223da953e49779f4abe3 Karin Bagnall started the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-5/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:04:29 -0500 If you’re a Philadelphia local (or power user!), please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.

]]> 0 fb5c6751e0b32c5272cc26242bdb2984 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-9/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:00:59 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d86035d473581cc789b2ef6342ef0611 Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866456/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:01:17 -0500 This article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”

]]> 0 5490b5d63f070e9fdde3a97a63736ade Golam Rabbani deposited Media and Peeping Tom Culture: Violating Familial Privacy and Communal Responsibility in the Evolution of Voyeurism in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866344/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:06:26 -0500 In the name of visual pleasure, there are different entertainments in today’s media that instigate voyeurism among common viewers. In this study, the author intends to focus on two phases where the spectators are turning voyeurs without their consent. In the first phase, the study reveals the process where film influences voyeuristic behavior. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 c27bcf3374bc03d68b89165671d0e868 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s "It Must be Heaven" and Panah Panahi’s "Hit the Road" in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864817/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:06:08 -0500 Abstract | The final scene of Elia Suleiman’s film, It Must be Heaven (2019), ends with the actor/director sitting in an Arab bar in the city of Haifa, while the young crowd is dancing to “Arabyon Ana” (2000) by Lebanese singer Yuri Mrakadi. The Arabic music is a testimony to a Palestinian-Arab culture that resists erasure.

The songs in Sulei…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd4a5a8f5fe6f89c6310b0108b039a68 Mike Phillips deposited West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil in the group LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863753/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 03:08:27 -0500 This chapter examines the relationship between American Westerns and Brazilian Nordesterns, films set in the arid northeastern region known as the sertão. US cultural and economic imperialism, in Brazil and throughout Latin America, is both cause and effect of persistent underdevelopment. The northward flow of natural resources has long been…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2ddbfd60c5edf973a7c03becc9db2ab Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-50/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:18:10 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 b818dfb9ded44a636c0f68cb55409d2d Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858685/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:27:00 -0400 This paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.

]]> 0 ae615cb62747646c07e843ef9ce59d41 Golam Rabbani deposited Review of Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development through Music in Urban Poverty by Klisala Harrison in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858682/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:18:28 -0400 This book points out new ways to identify and resolve human rights and improve the competencies of urban poor communities in Vancouver, Canada.

]]> 0 4008c67c3129e22058882c031cfac923 Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857510/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:27:06 -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 84634af0c75837cfa940a14e841dc6a7 Emily Friedman deposited Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855713/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:06:59 -0400 Revised (but still draft) version of the 2023 version of Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen, a course that has students do in-depth analysis of tabletop roleplaying games through extended play, close reading of rule systems, and analysis of actual play.

]]> 0 85b86f6e19a9792f11b87eb44c316a96 Janine M. Utell edited the post The Road Towards a PhD in the group MLAgrads https://mlagrads.mla.hcommons.org/2023/04/12/the-road-towards-a-phd/ Wed, 12 Apr 2023 19:54:58 -0400 Thais Rutledge

(Note: Thais Rutledge is co-chair of the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities.)

The impetus for this blog post was a conversation that took place in the Graduate […]

]]> 3b6e0c0bfcef2cb88d6ec058bc794e4a Raquel Patricia Chiquillo started the topic CFP: for Journal Humanities - on Twenty-First Century Central American Novel in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-for-journal-humanities-on-twenty-first-century-central-american-novel/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:43:57 -0500 Buenas tardes, colegas: quisiera invitarlos a subir sus artículos sobre la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI para consideración de ser publicadas en la revista académica “Humanities.” La fecha de entrega es el 31 de marzo pero se puede extender. Me han dicho que el APC no se va a cobrar. Se aceptan manuscritos en español y en inglés. Por favo…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ed1037e68e43af233a312da60ac87fb Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835479/ Sun, 26 Feb 2023 03:55:12 -0500 Despite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bb8f7f660b48b97e2a2d04305c7388c Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835406/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:48:43 -0500 This book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bb22f519b43c479d80435e6e2c9da8f Janine M. Utell edited the post Living with Disability in the Time of Coronavirus in the group MLAgrads https://mlagrads.mla.hcommons.org/2023/01/23/living-with-disability-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 15:46:06 -0500 Shahrzad Ghobadlou

(Note: This is a post in response to our call for submissions addressing the experience of graduate students living with disability in the time of COVID. Thank you to Shahrzad Ghobadlou for […]

]]> 57354b817c017804f7bb6972829ab240 Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee/ Sun, 22 Jan 2023 20:17:56 -0500 Hi everyone,

I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 25th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 a76f60c9a3f230ae72769bad4a4df11a 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 Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821159/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:49:44 -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 40562a33a7d3ae9a258940bec4023781 Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Papers African American Literature and Culture in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/call-for-papers-african-american-literature-and-culture/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:05:12 -0400 The non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.  We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ea0b45b8834f7c7efbd5d034320410c Debra Ann Castillo created the doc Invitation to apply: New editor(s) for Latin American Literary Review in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1785757/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:17:16 -0400 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 0fcf9ab2a85c12f944c262a41c748205 Janine M. Utell edited the post Call for Submissions—Living with Disability in the Time of Coronavirus in the group MLAgrads https://mlagrads.mla.hcommons.org/2022/03/30/call-for-submissions-living-with-disability-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:39:33 -0400 The Call: I would love to hear from any of you about your experiences surviving Covid as a student who, like me, experiences disability. If you have ideas about how your university did a great job supporting […]

]]> f10b0b2095f02b2d0840b1d7b9d36cdf Krista Brune started the topic Call for Papers for MLA 2023 in the discussion LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-mla-2023/ Mon, 17 Jan 2022 18:02:18 -0500 Please consider submitting your paper to the following panels organized for the Luso-Brazilian forum for the MLA 2023. Presentations in English or Portuguese will be accepted. Proposals are due by March 15, 2022.

Black and Indigenous Literatures in Portuguese. Papers examining literature written in Portuguese by people of African and Indigenous…[Read more]

]]> 0 17a0545ec790830039c033c322533500 Didem Uca edited the post Publishing Your First Academic Article - A Roadmap in the group MLAgrads https://mlagrads.mla.hcommons.org/2022/01/08/publishing-your-first-academic-article-a-roadmap/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:46:38 -0500 by Didem Uca, Ph.D., co-chair of CSGSH, Assistant Professor of German Studies, Emory University

So you want to publish your first academic article––but where do you start? This roadmap outlines the key sta […]

]]> 7b4b1b6488e38a4ecfc9bf07a1895c54 June Di Marzo edited the post Meet the Committee in the group MLAgrads https://mlagrads.mla.hcommons.org/2022/01/07/meet-the-committee/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 15:41:56 -0500 Thais Rutledge (2021-2024)

My name is Thais Rutledge, and I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. After a rewarding teaching experience, I decided to return to […]

]]> 477c746870d75f9c4357407f937a1c31 Emily Friedman deposited ENGL4160EA: Fall 2022: How Games Tell Stories in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1760795/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:25:31 -0500 We are quickly approaching the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the 10th anniversaries of Twitch and Itch.io, and the ninth generation of video game consoles. The most successful TV/film Kickstarter of all time funded the animated series for D&D livestream Critical Role. Game Studies has existed as an interdisciplinary field for over three…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c2852c25834be709e7e392393922a78 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750091/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 03:52:44 -0400 Since the Intifada of 2000, living conditions in the Gaza Strip have progressively deteriorated, and when Hamas came to power in 2006–07, a complete blockade was enforced on the inhabitants by Egypt and Israel. In addition, five full-scale wars have been
waged on the Strip. Despite these conditions, Gazans remain resilient, as evidenced by s…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7690430bc1ad69981f9bd00faf58346 Anne Donlon started the topic Demystifying scholarly publishing in the discussion MLAgrads https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mlagrads/forum/topic/demystifying-scholarly-publishing/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 20:47:28 -0400 This summer, the MLA is the host press for the Association of University Presses’s Ask UP site. Ask UP is a site that aims to demystify the publishing process, providing answers to frequently asked questions about how to publish and promote scholarship.

If you don’t find your question answered there already, submit a question. This summer, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 af5176d180cd6e405ca8de89143616f5 Claudio Palomares-Salas deposited The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1739363/ Tue, 25 May 2021 03:48:47 -0400 The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough exploration of the meanings and values Hispanic poets and artists assigned to four iconic locations of modernity: the city, the cafés, means of transportation, and the sea, during the first decades of the 20th century. Joining important studies on S…[Read more]

]]> 0 7befc63af97681a1de2b0417ed284ba4 A. David Lewis deposited Bringing Superheroes into the Fight against COVID-19 Misinformation in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1736579/ Thu, 29 Apr 2021 02:24:03 -0400 Over the past year, artists, doctors, medical professionals, and international agencies such as the World Health Organisation have been using comics to communicate the risks of the SARS-CoV2 virus. The visual economy and a near-universal language of lines, balloons, and panels in comics makes them well suited to disseminate epidemic-related…[Read more]

]]> 0 90409e7299c17907156a98a05e06c064 Victoria Saramago started the topic Reminder Journal of Lusophone Studies CFP: Apocalyptic Imaginaries in Portuguese in the discussion LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/reminder-journal-of-lusophone-studies-cfp-apocalyptic-imaginaries-in-portuguese/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:40:10 -0400 Please consider submitting an article!

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The apocalypse is perhaps the most intractable of phenomena, open to religious, ideological, environmental, technological, and epidemiological interpretations of the end of civilization. The apocalypse has traditionally operated as a fringe hermeneutic,…[Read more]

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