SAH Commons | Binod Paudyal | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/bpaudyal/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Binod Paudyal is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:38:09 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 084a019d484abc583af12fbee2ccf294 Domna C. Stanton replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/#post-1040987 Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:36:47 -0400 Thank you so much for sending me this announcement about the topic your plan investigate with your panelists at the 2027 MLA. It is enormously  timely and interesting and I know  members will want to attend. Unfortunately  I am on leave as of the end of december 2026 and very eager to return to my book project which is way over due. So sosry ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa10eb0e78fbd8db520238fa9a08ae57 Grace Monk started the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:20:47 -0400 Sharing a CFP for the MLA 2027 Convention in Los Angeles. I hope it is of interest!

Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem

Roundtable examining jobs beyond faculty roles, highlighting how humanities training informs career trajectories. All career stages welcome.

Deadline March 16, 2026

Link:…[Read more]

]]> 0 94769bd097a589d0e3a2d734482ab6c6 William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936463/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:27:18 -0500 0 6860801d45c0871e5b6be0bfa544f739 Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel-3/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:34:57 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of <b>ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature</b>

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extr…[Read more]

]]> 0 81872f27f37e07c52dc30aa298a5657f Heng Du started the topic Respondent/panelist for guaranteed panel on premodern temporality (MLA26) in the forum LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/respondent-panelist-for-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-mla26-2/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:47:02 -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 dbcc7fc10cc931586e43d33246d7b1db Francisco E. Robles started the topic TC Race and Ethnicity - MLA 2026 panel on contemporary poetry of statelessness in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tc-race-and-ethnicity-mla-2026-panel-on-contemporary-poetry-of-statelessness/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:10:57 -0400 Contemporary Poetry of Statelessness

In her poem “Nights,” Mona Kareem cycles between images of natural processes (cloud formation, rain, phases of the moon) and human ritual actions (dancing, lamenting, singing), suggesting a delicate balance in the liminal zone between the porous self and the ever-changing world. Celestial bodies and human…[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 66e44e5c2900995ffe9f23d7db788106 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-5/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:32:13 -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 db5e1f2431cafc9c6703e9142f0fe46e Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-4/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:26:51 -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 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 2100708011846a82b918a18f62d19b8a Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-4/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:01:22 -0500 The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.

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

]]> 0 c1a72ef9b1b380d234d1b17765120f4d Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-2/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:34:40 -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 ff2c9ec8a0cce582a8832730e4ef2292 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-4/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:09:45 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 b874032d6be4d13f548d2d987b340e16 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-2/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:06:54 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9c660823fa9d38c62f504520db2f90d Peter Leman started the topic ACLA 2025 Session CFP: "World Literature and Disappearance" in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/acla-2025-session-cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-2/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:07:20 -0400 Hi All,

I am co-organizing a session with Joseph Wager for the 2025 ACLA. Our topic is “World Literature and Disappearance.” Please consider submitting, and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested. Full CFP below. Thank you!

Best,

Peter Leman

 
World Literature and Disappearance
Enforced disappearance has become a lingua fran…[Read more]

]]> 0 5524f885b1ca8f70043d5b36e70bec1e Francisco E. Robles started the topic TC Race and Ethnicity Studies - Jobs in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tc-race-and-ethnicity-studies-jobs/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:59:24 -0400 Hi all,

I’m sending along a job posting from Texas A&M, which is in long nineteenth-century <span id=”_mainContent__descriptionText”>multi-ethnic, transnational, and comparative approaches to US literature</span>. This search is being chaired by Jessica Howell: https://faculty.tamu.edu/JobDetail?JobId=151010.

I also invite folks to add to this…[Read more]

]]> 0 27d9774623e34f616ab47334370fe09d Guylian Nemegeer started the topic Conference: Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity (29 October) in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/conference-pan-movements-regeneration-and-modernity-29-october/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:45:26 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Members in this group may be interested in the following conference. It is possible to attend the event online. Registration is needed: https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/89430443-ec0a-4dd1-8d2c-d3dfb82ad014

Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity (29 October)

This conference investigates the global development of…[Read more]

]]> 0 03158f0036249fcd0239fd5e6103c0d6 Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects-2/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:15:02 -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 2280319751e87a3cb8b20972929638cc Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-3/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:35:27 -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 1845e3dd2e102c7614b9d37b574fdb67 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-6/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 08:02:01 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 0 c9ef07ab1371c668a27de173077b30f0 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-4/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 07:55:25 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 0 5b6bb23195964ddd1cee8d0977a88df6 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-3/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 07:49:31 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 0 2e682e928f202731b027a2d21f536987 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890324/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 51dbb91a449b9d3478027c53ec16c2bb Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889190/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:31:49 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 09d5104fcd2af5a28cf3cc904d330a38 Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889179/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:07:15 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 5990b522e766e71f5f9f167d98bda74c Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887294/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:09:13 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f5fb33963a08bc3d161109f863f4c91 Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887208/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:13:30 -0400 Interim bibliography on the Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), May 2024

]]> 0 fd21853d52d8f378bac5575b37cbe5c3 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887203/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:05:19 -0400 Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c0e69b594196cd6142b4fb019f24838 Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Air India Flight 182: A 40th Anniversary Conference in the discussion LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-air-india-flight-182-a-40th-anniversary-conference/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:39:02 -0400 On June 23rd, 1985, a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182, enroute from Toronto to Delhi. All 329 passengers and crew aboard were killed, most of whom were Canadians of South Asian descent. Though this tragedy remains the largest mass murder in Canadian history and resulted in Canada’s longest and most expensive criminal investigation, it is l…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f36217dcaa6136d36924bb8c7825f3b Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/26428-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-and-aati-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:07:58 -0500 #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI Nonguaranteed Session

Title:  Helen Barolini’s Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women at Forty

This panel celebrates one of the seminal classics of Italian American literature on the advent of its fortieth anniversary. Helen Barolini’s 1985 anthology marked a fundam…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e8f08b9eb09ab00a8e0a5eb284bc2e1 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #25997: Guaranteed Allied Organization Session for IASA in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/25997-guaranteed-allied-organization-session-for-iasa-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:04:41 -0500 #25997: Allied Organization Session for IASA Guaranteed

Title: (In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies

MLA Description: Examines Morrison’s assertion that “Invisible ink is what lies under, between, outside the lines, hidden until the right reader discovers it,” then can only Italian Americans be the “right…[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 40a1c6164b167daf4c4542319d7b1127 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 and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878058/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:05:36 -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 48a08c6df444808ecc456c4a0328b2d6 Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025-2/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:35:37 -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 48a08c6df444808ecc456c4a0328b2d6 Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025-2/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:35:37 -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 5e5a41ced2d0d5175def6157d8ad7a24 Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025-2/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:35:37 -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…[Read more]

]]> 0 4701743b8c148fc1a6f3856f30385cfe Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876628/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:02:28 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 34aba525092de1f5220fc056fa47a2a3 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-4/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:29:42 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS.) We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 0 20301abeb72a45b27319f5ea2225eddf Kristin Moriah started the topic Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women's Lives in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/un-bioed-radically-reimagining-black-womens-lives-2/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:13:46 -0500 Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddcb01f8bb9fd11993471e51583fa96f Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870902/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:04:41 -0500 Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4e96485ab9e0971cdccbd1aaa86787e Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870893/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:10:19 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 32acb6cf8c04417de4e5af0e0ae381b3 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870106/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:02:09 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

]]> 0 fb89e0ea4a3876e5b139f426fe1afe4a Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media in the discussion TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/call-for-book-chapters-beyond-networks-of-domination-rethinking-machinic-media/ Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:47:52 -0500 Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of our Times

Editors: Ananya Roy Pratihar(IMIS,Bhubaneswar), Saswat Samay Das (IIT, Kharagpur) & Shashibhushan Nayak(GP Nayagarh)

The biopolitical schemas for restructuring machinic networks of Media, Digital, and cinema do not stand as…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c67c2d2118421b9ee6a6e988495e12b SBussey started the topic Philadelphia plans in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/philadelphia-plans-3/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:04:51 -0500 Looking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year’s Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]

]]> 0 105e972786eece810e68369a60ea3910 Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869277/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:01:42 -0500 This chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]

]]> 0 28d540979f0219b38d865883d0fb31af Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869276/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:00:52 -0500 This chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]

]]> 0 597a04df49be64a06c95c64eb941b72c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-19/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:19:20 -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…[Read more]

]]> 0 a74fe0ec01fd3798cad56068d62b232b Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:28:19 -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 96907e47313e9933be5dfca8e43910de Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866785/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:06:32 -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 1f3256199a6daa50337497ec519d5dab Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866469/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:07:17 -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]

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