SAH Commons | Barry P. Scherr | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/bpscherr/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Barry P. Scherr is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c96fe51d4c7136b1fd9cec12632aef84 James Dunn started the topic CFP: Two Panels on Global Englishes, AI, and Migration (MLA 2027) in the forum LSL Global English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-english/forum/topic/cfp-two-panels-on-global-englishes-ai-and-migration-mla-2027-2/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:58:02 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to share two CFPs for MLA panels sponsored by the Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Global English. The MLA Convention will be January 7–10, 2027, in Los Angeles. 250-word abstracts are due by March 15, 2026, and we will respond by April 1st. More information on presenting at MLA is available on the official w…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce6cb19cda7028716dd9ddca95f0ff87 Domna C. Stanton replied to the topic 2026 LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/2026-lsl-forum-on-romance-linguistics/#post-1040637 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:57:41 -0500 Thanks so much for writing But I am not able To attend the conventionGood luck at the conventionBest ds

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]]> 0 198c11ce77d0fac244c3b6b94d78d95a Randall Gess started the topic 2026 LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/2026-lsl-forum-on-romance-linguistics/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:54:59 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics welcomes you to our session at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We hope to see you on Friday, January 9th at 5:15 @ MTCC – 205A
Presentations
 The Curious Case of Interconsonantal S in Old French , Francisco Antonio…[Read more]

]]> 0 fce5b7c06e2e4c0676bc1b64a2fab4a1 Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum-6/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:07:38 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning cordially invites you to our three (3) sessions at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We look forward to seeing you and to your participation!
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314 – Reimagining Learning and Teaching with Studen…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff6cf632af415a378b569ff2d6b6de44 Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Global English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-english/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum-4/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:26:17 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning cordially invites you to our three (3) sessions at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We look forward to seeing you and to your participation!

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314 – Reimagining Learning and Teaching with Studen…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3166754357999561411cebfb54f2992 Autumn Womack started the topic Seeking Nominations For Prose Fiction Executive Committee in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:47:10 -0400 We’d very much like nominations (self nominations count!) for new committee members for the Prose Fiction Forum.  The term would begin Jan 2026 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas: amwomack@princeton.edu

]]> 0 d3c5c387861b64491bd6b61901c6da0c Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Global English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-english/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-7/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:20:20 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11. Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

How do linguistic features passed…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d562ab73002b6b5c3b686bf474fbdf7 Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-6/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:17:32 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11. Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

How do linguistic features passed…[Read more]

]]> 0 6411651436af88122e2a7fb303b20f5e Oana Popescu-Sandu started the topic Romanian forum/Romanian Studies Association guaranteed panel proposals for 2026 in the forum LLC Slavic and East European https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/slavic-and-east-european/forum/topic/romanian-forum-romanian-studies-association-guaranteed-panel-proposals-for-2026/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:28:04 -0500 Dear colleagues,

The guaranteed roundtable proposal from the Romanian Forum might interest the members of this group. Please send any questions and proposals to Oana Popescu-Sandu at opopescusa@usi.edu. Thank you.

MLA Romanian Forum and RSAA (Romanian Studies Society of American) Proposal for Guaranteed Roundtables at MLA 2026 Toronto

Panel 1:…[Read more]

]]> 0 0cbf8a76aa8752e25099af14ea0c572e Mary Hayes started the topic MLA 2026 panels; Linguistics and Literature forum in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2026-panels-linguistics-and-literature-forum/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:12:12 -0500 The Linguistics and Literature forum (D036) is sponsoring two panels at MLA 2026.
Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation
MDM encompasses various genres of post-factual literature­ – deepfakes, inauthentic soundbytes, recontextualized signs – rife in 21st-century public truth claims. What work does MDM pose for linguists and literary scho…[Read more]

]]> 0 daa2de088a7ab1be014cd337cae1f691 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-8/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:26:29 -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 2ae82909a48f8ff04b3cca46f1b5e6bd Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-3/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:24:03 -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 2105b6767d80ba284f2c435ed1592703 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 TC Anthropology and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912533/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:13:38 -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 13299da5e81f7fc1048c2028b8739199 Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for Language and Society's Sponsored Session at the 2026 MLA Conference in the forum LSL Global English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-english/forum/topic/cfp-for-language-and-societys-sponsored-session-at-the-2026-mla-conference/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:39:13 -0500 The Language and Society Forum is calling for papers for our sponsored session at the 2026 MLA Conference. We are seeking examinations of world languages and nationalisms in terms of their family resemblances across social, community, and individual domains, with special attention to their discursive and material developments. 300-word abstracts…[Read more]

]]> 0 464e9aab5f08d9102b94e628d5f4c110 Katherine S. Flowers started the topic 2025 Global English Panels in the forum LSL Global English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-english/forum/topic/2025-global-english-panels/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:00:51 -0500 The LSL Global English Forum has two sponsored panels at this year’s MLA Convention in New Englishes. If you’re interested in linguistic justice, World Englishes, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, TESOL, writing studies, or literary studies, these presentations are for you.

Session 358 – Global Englishes in the Public Sphere

Friday, Janua…[Read more]

]]> 0 13ba7be5f3cd204b8809c48eb3104b06 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:58:34 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 0 89f0cf87394f60e5dc22df5f48823346 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/translation-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-6/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:12:45 -0500 Reading Cultures

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

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

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

]]> 0 3074a7b3c87a12c56239d4529302b9ba Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900961/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:00:08 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c7eee83e6c1050917a831971f326076 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:48:12 -0400 SNS 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2025 conference t…[Read more]

]]> 0 35509d6899737496d6df1fffec6cee0d Aarthi Vadde started the topic Society of Novel Studies 2025 CFP: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/society-of-novel-studies-2025-cfp-novel-languages/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:31 -0400 “NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies
Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website

The 2025 conference theme—…[Read more]

]]> 0 7dcc36a6d19353c8ad8c235bfd4a2b9d Corine Tachtiris deposited Translation Matters undergraduate syllabus in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896113/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:02:31 -0400 Syllabus for a 100-level undergraduate, general-education course in translation studies. Aimed at giving students translation literacy and introducing major practical and ethical problems of translation. Also includes practical approaches for hands-on learning. Syllabus includes list of readings, intralingual translation exercises, assignment…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d5cfaca5510df82b7af4f424eaadf8b Corine Tachtiris deposited Literary Translation Workshop - Multilingual, Grad-level in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896112/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Syllabus for a multilingual literary translation workshop at the graduate-student level. Includes translation exercises, assignment guidelines, and links to online readings. First taught in Spring 2021.

]]> 0 aeca886e970f1b390aba778c188c0119 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-2/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:32:30 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title “A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspec…[Read more]

]]> 0 2aa30b4c49328a0016c5a50a788c70b9 Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group LLC Slavic and East European https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889377/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:02:07 -0400 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ce100436d219d91dd4619a9083e8dbf Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group LLC Russian and Eurasian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889376/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:01:27 -0400 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d7c6486c99ba64dab093d69d0b2bfb1 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889186/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:21:53 -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 e3cfa136dddbc55ff6bc164146493c0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889181/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:53 -0400 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 c66d5f0bbd7bdb647ff290fb6a4bf5af Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889176/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:35 -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 b4ca20dd69d64e02ded476a7a54b2afd Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887556/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:07:02 -0400 One of the most important factors literary critics often overlook in the work of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-
1910) is the fact that it was subject to the censorship of the tsarist government before it was allowed to be published
in Russia. This harassment lasted the entire period of Tolstoy’s writing life, and although neither he nor his f…[Read more]

]]> 0 20ae87acced4ef99097ec6798582b351 Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group LLC Slavic and East European https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887553/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:00:52 -0400 One of the most important factors literary critics often overlook in the work of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-
1910) is the fact that it was subject to the censorship of the tsarist government before it was allowed to be published
in Russia. This harassment lasted the entire period of Tolstoy’s writing life, and although neither he nor his f…[Read more]

]]> 0 42e1cad2b8bf1cdfe227d6f55f3bc9ce Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group LLC Russian and Eurasian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887552/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:00:12 -0400 One of the most important factors literary critics often overlook in the work of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-
1910) is the fact that it was subject to the censorship of the tsarist government before it was allowed to be published
in Russia. This harassment lasted the entire period of Tolstoy’s writing life, and although neither he nor his f…[Read more]

]]> 0 233001d0475794a431a62df7560cd17c Anne Furlong deposited LSL Linguistics and Literature (D036) Abstracts for the 2025 MLA Convention, New Orleans in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1881935/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 03:05:04 -0400 The LSL Forum is hosting two panels (both in person) at the 2025 MLA Convention in New Orleans: Panel I: Visibility, Language, Style: Authorship as Resistance, and Panel II: Translation, visibility, and style: accommodating audiences. I am uploading the abstracts for those planning their visit to the Convention.

]]> 0 9efecd54ad70ca81685f0d85f4460f23 Oana Popescu-Sandu started the topic LLC ROmanian MLA 2025 CFP in the discussion LLC Slavic and East European https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/slavic-and-east-european/forum/topic/llc-romanian-mla-2025-cfp-2/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 15:43:11 -0500 Colleagues,

Please see below our CFP for next year’s MLA from LLC Romanian! Email your 250-word proposals by March 15 to Ileana Marin at marini@uw.edu.

(In)visibility of Romanian Writers in English as a Second Language

The list of successful exophonic writers is impressive: Vladimir Nabokov (native speaker of Russian), Elie Wiesel…[Read more]

]]> 0 09fd99a653c54fe34c6297dbcaa9d284 Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Calls for Abstracts on Global Englishes for MLA 2025 in the discussion LSL Global English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-english/forum/topic/calls-for-abstracts-on-global-englishes-for-mla-2025/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:36:39 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to share two CFPs for MLA panels sponsored by the Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Global English. The MLA Convention will be January 9–12, 2025, in New Orleans. 250-word abstracts are due by March 15 and we will respond by March 22. More information on presenting at MLA is available here. Here are the d…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff084706159c2ecf7f3e8fc3524deb38 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877012/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:05:35 -0500 Abstract
In his email conversations with Arabella Kurtz in The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, J.M. Coetzee entertains the notion of settling on fictions of ourselves, which we are able to inhabit more comfortably than what is perceived as our real life. In addition, he implies that in order to form fictions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f16633d3d893f4c79bc09d7d40fbf75b Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-5/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:35:48 -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 1651080c71469d401f52fed810de2a1d Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874112/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 fac7fdb9aab2fa748a50f8a475561965 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Serán ceniza, mas tendrán sentido: orígenes de las humanidades digitales en España in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870999/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:10:09 -0500 Se recogen en este capítulo los movimientos iniciales y proyectos de humani-dades digitales sobre la lengua española entre 1971 y 1993. Se trata, sobre todo, de proyectos españoles desarrollados principalmente en relación con universidades y centros de investigación de Madrid. Se hace referencia también a otros centros y otros proyectos, sobre…[Read more]

]]> 0 6114a370fb6889078cd766deab7fa550 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Revisar los inicios del español desde el magisterio de Alarcos y Lapesa in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870993/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:06:39 -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 8561b3e27cde56c6824e616483dc7d77 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Dominio y lenguas en el Mediterráneo Occidental hasta los inicios del español in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870988/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:02:53 -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 22c51628c59efe7b38796c9b00f9d75d Christine Y Lupton started the topic Seeking Nominations for committee members in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-committee-members/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:09:16 -0500 We’d very much like nominations for our new committee member.  The term would begin Jan 25 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas (self nomination totally OK!):  c.lupton@warwick.ac.uk. DEADLINE:  Jan 15th 2024.

]]> 0 9e0320d74e2ce5de79d92fc9f5572421 Mimi Winick deposited Abstracts for panel, "Anthropology and Speculative Fiction," MLA 2024 in the group TC Anthropology and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869862/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 “Anthropologists, Aliens, and Indigenous Futurism: Writing against Culture in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning” Eric Aronoff, Michigan State U
“Alberto Vanasco: An Alien Ethnography of Argentina,” Caleb Delorme, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
“H. G. Wells’s Fetishism ” Jayne Hildebrand, Barnard C
Respondent: Frank A. Palmeri, U of Miami

]]> 0 d9fa149c80baaf379cf934208ab1b72b Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Panels Related to Global English at MLA 2024 in the discussion LSL Global English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-english/forum/topic/panels-related-to-global-english-at-mla-2024/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:23:55 -0500 The LSL Global English Forum has two sponsored panels at this year’s MLA Convention in Philadelphia. If you’re interested in World Englishes, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, TESOL, writing studies, or literary studies, these presentations are for you.

Session 107 – New Entanglements of English, Agency, and Global Economies

Thursday,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4bb77f84ab8650ac77822452bb48eda4 Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869278/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:05:23 -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 e6873c1affb3a760931be2104e4f8c8f Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868241/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:04:28 -0500 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 e378d0584f4c3a24cd6fd2b3d01ac9cf Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept... in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-the-turkish-angel-in-the-house-a-travelling-concept/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:18:44 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

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

]]> 0 bcd8a9fe3d7d60fbcbbb3ed79b432a55 Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866784/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:03:40 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 d63016f53b2ead1228aa3dc2eae70ffe Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866467/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:02:58 -0500 Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 341c5309f871fb60d21cca0de5926c24 Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865838/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:07:53 -0500 Calling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b89a1e64b8e0d438dae42cc1c28894d Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865790/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:04:02 -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]

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