SAH Commons | Emily M. Garcia | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/emmar/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Emily M. Garcia is a member. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:22:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6fb44110c847f56105435123316c33c3 Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic CFP MLA 2027 Roundtable in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-roundtable/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:58:27 -0500 MLA 2027 CFP Sponsored by the LLC Colonial Latin America Forum (guaranteed session)
 Unbounding the Colonial Latin American Archive
Round table examining historical and critical approaches to the colonial archive and their political implications. Dissident narratives, emerging subjectivities, new geographies, displacements, regimes of visibility,…[Read more]

]]> 0 5227434fde7c687dc1b9926128c005a0 Eric Aronoff started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (April 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/deadline-extended-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-april-1/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:43:27 -0500 EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 1 2026 

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors

Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition

Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and ma…[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 0163dd257b312c6442067668ed2ac7ec Eric Aronoff started the topic Contribute to New edition of MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (Feb. 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/contribute-to-new-edition-of-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-feb-1/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:33:43 -0500 Call for Survey Participants and Contributors
Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition
Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and materials available to teachers of Moby-Di…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed3bf905fb590373ab996b08082a1777 Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations to serve in the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-to-serve-in-the-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:02:29 -0500 The Executive Committee of the LLC Colonial Latin American Literature invites Forum Members to send nominations or self-nominations to the Forum’s executive committee.  Send nominations by March 1, 2026 to Karen Stolley (kstolle@emory.edu) or Luis Fernando Restrepo (lrestr@uark.edu) or the MLA directly, as indicated below.  The five year term is a…[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 9a69482e422108e49b614808749176b3 Giovanna Montenegro started the topic Join us for Happy Hour/ Cash Bar in Toronto- Friday January 9 5pm in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/join-us-for-happy-hour-cash-bar-in-toronto-friday-january-9-5pm/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:36:51 -0500 Coming to MLA#26 in person? Please join LLC Colonial Latin American Literature along with CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern and LLC Medieval Iberian for a Happy Hour in Toronto.</div>

Please join us at 3 Brasseurs at  5pm on Friday January 9 275 Yongue St.
This is a cash bar, and the bar can do individual checks.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/<wbr /&…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae0f6db7ddb684ad47e0728031f6a372 Luis Restrepo started the topic MLA 2026 Toronto Colonial Latin American Literature Sessions-- join us! in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/mla-2026-toronto-colonial-latin-american-literature-sessions-join-us/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:32:57 -0500 2026 MLA LLC Colonial Latin American Forum Sessions

 

Thursday, 8 January 2026

 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

#93 – Rethinking Connections between Latin American Colonial and Dutch Atlantic Worlds

Presider, Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton U, State U of New York

 

Living with Water: Aquatic Engagements in Colonized Neerlandophone Deltas

Julée Al-…[Read more]

]]> 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 1346221240764e69d7024fdb1d1e0446 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-13/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:14:07 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 796971bce75bc3c605a66641c8db8c6d Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902703/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:01:49 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a417fe13be51018bb741d1ebccb5e27 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902284/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:04:14 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 d34927ce4e55de52f921986d63b92140 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902283/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:01:50 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 6427ab1636918f02ddc8f981b594725e Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "Winking at his Readers from the Gaps: Guamán Poma de Ayala's Silent Texts" in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1880716/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 03:00:09 -0400 In this essay, I address the perception of confusion, entanglement, incomprehension, opacity, and enigmatic nature of Guamán Poma’s book that made scholars like Peruvian Historian Porras Barrenechea uncomfortable enough to push it to the margins of historical studies due to its perceived lack of value and merit. To this end, I briefly discuss ex…[Read more]

]]> 0 583238d4880008c95636f50a3bf552ad Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26425-italian-american-llc-guaranteed-session-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:15:12 -0500 #26425 – Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers

Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

New Orleans has for centuries been a port of call and interstitial space beckoning people to its banks, whether through choice, coercion, or bondage.

For the Italian diaspora, New Orleans has been one…[Read more]

]]> 0 e903db105c16658b452a2750b9efd075 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26426-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-session-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:10:53 -0500 #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session

Title: Italian Creole: Accents and Intersections

This panel takes the rich history of Italian Americans in New Orleans as a starting point for exploring the politics and power of ethnic visibility in New Orleans. Italians and Italian Americans were foundational to the early infrastructure…[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 eaad96e8b0c12fe22034e7d61fc7889b Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "From Science Fiction to Futurism in Peruvian Literature" in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875800/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:03:08 -0500 Introduction to the bilingual anthology “Qhipa Pacha. Peruvian Futurism” and preliminary study about the origins and development of the science fiction genre in Peruvian letters since the 19th century. The anthology includes 14 short stories written by contemporary Peruvian and Peruvian-based authors, members of the Qhipa Pacha Collective. These…[Read more]

]]> 0 551b75c79e5fc3e04d2401bd0f6e659d Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited Qhipa Pacha. Futurismo peruano. Peruvian Futurism. A Bilingual Anthology. in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875014/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:00:03 -0500 This volume brings science fiction from the innermost point of Peruvian roots and ancestral knowledge. This bilingual anthology opens with a preliminary study of the Peruvian literature of science fiction from the 19th century to the present. It pays attention to the role of realismo mágico, lo real maravilloso, and literatura fantástica in the e…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7eadde6b87787f526f9f3a7a33301c9 Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870642/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:06:12 -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 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 f654c2b09898f6ba822edc0f235dbc69 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 19th-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-latin-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-26/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:06:28 -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 18193fa29726cccfe903fb3be5ab3938 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861768/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:54 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1303c0fe22af3c669c7e10c4eaba03bd Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847387/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:07:53 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd08663d6959cf5867ce013ceaabbb38 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847382/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:47:11 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 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 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 b6093b5e031e8f90dcabe14c7bb090e5 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1827262/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:25:57 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fa1e1132e56d744d3ff918b31cb1dc5 John Gruesser deposited Poe's Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in "Hop-Frog" in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826933/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:00:41 -0500 As I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]

]]> 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 4f2287b0af5d9892c2ad99a437fe6412 Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817820/ Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:25:37 -0400 This essay examines ethnic strife and cultural friction in New Orleans during the Mexican-American war. Specifically, it explores how the Crescent City’s anglophone and francophone populations navigated the tension between national and transnational affiliation through performance. By considering both the material and the immaterial aspects of p…[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 5cc07b5eba7f8ae92614ec57bd82f261 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El mito del pluricentrismo desde le realidad de la traducción in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766340/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:05:16 -0500 The present work analyzes the application of the pluricentric interpretation
to the Spanish language from the repercussion that this current may have
to correctly interpret the complex reality of Spanish in the United States. The
concept of pluricentrism is not innocent, it tries to favor certain political and
economic interests and it can…[Read more]

]]> 0 65f05a90ac4067894260e70de190653c Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2022-forum-delegate-election-13/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:24:29 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed6f2f49206f89dd82233dbb0ffead72 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Enigmas de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756115/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:35:06 -0400 This article reviews four crucial moments of the editorial life of Guaman Poma de Ayala’s “Nueva corónica y buen gobierno” [New Chronicle and Good Government], a 1189-page history of Peru before, during, and after the Spanish conquest. The chronicle includes 399 ink drawings made by the author. The essay also addresses unanswered questions…[Read more]

]]> 0 e54b6719e699c07dcfbe1589d5125871 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756112/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:23:39 -0400 Invited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5e781eefb9e10ed46983b9b67d785b6 Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021  in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-american-writers-in-paris-then-and-now-proposals-by-september-30-2021-3/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:52:17 -0400 CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now. 

The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]

]]> 0 d62ba9f07ebe3703cd804368c50b9cfd David A. Wacks deposited Pablo Tac, Conversión de los Saluiseños de la Alta California (Roma, ca. 1840) in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1748167/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:26:19 -0400 Conversión de los Saluiseños de la Alta California (c. 1840) by Pablo Tac is the only published document written by an indigenous Californian during the Spanish-Mexican period. Born at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, north of San Diego, California in 1820, Tac wrote the manuscript while studying to be a Catholic priest at a seminary in Rome. C…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd7adeafb67b1ffd806c1a47fae576bf David A. Wacks deposited Pablo Tac, Conversion of the Saluiseños of Alta California (Rome, c. 1840) in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1748165/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:25:06 -0400 Conversión de los Saluiseños de la Alta California (Conversion of the Saluiseños of Alta California) (c. 1840) by Pablo Tac is the only published document written by an indigenous Californian during the Spanish-Mexican period. Born at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, north of San Diego, California in 1820, Tac wrote the manuscript while st…[Read more]

]]> 0 95086df3fd491218a9a8b221d2db4dd7 Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: DH and Spanish Literature and Culture (NeMLA, Baltimore 2022) in the discussion LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-dh-and-spanish-literature-and-culture-nemla-baltimore-2022/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:56:04 -0400 Posting by request of Erin Lane <ellane2@asu.edu>

Greetings,
I am leading a panel on Digital Humanities and Spanish Literature and Culture at the NeMLA convention in 2022 in Baltimore, MD. Would you be so kind as to share the following abstract with colleagues and/or graduate students who may be interested in participating? They can submit their…[Read more]

]]> 0 58da7d47db076c20c48cf8c6043d36bc Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746403/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:59:29 -0400 Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c639ac2adcba9ccd4a3500ecb4f5854 Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746399/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:53:11 -0400 Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]

]]> 0 a50f9167d644ebedff39d0f04a58eeca Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746397/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:48:43 -0400 Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[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 b5d33a977f3e955ff3511ab38f2e81fa Thomas Robert Ward started the topic Roque Moreno, novela histórica peruana de Teresa González de Fanning (nueva ed.) in the discussion LLC 19th-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-latin-american/forum/topic/roque-moreno-novela-historica-peruana-de-teresa-gonzalez-de-fanning-nueva-ed/ Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:15:17 -0400 Thomas Ward, Spanish Professor at Loyola University Maryland has published a critical edition of Roque Moreno, a historical novel Teresa González de Fanning (1836-1913), Peruvian educator and novelist, published in 1905. The novel portrays the chaos that characterized Peru in the years immediately after Independence. The plot revolves around two…[Read more]

]]> 0 f20236d2a4ca08052383eb917eb909b6 Thomas Robert Ward deposited Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1731126/ Fri, 12 Mar 2021 02:24:02 -0500 This book delves into the inadequately explored, liberative side of Humanism during the late Renaissance. While some long-sixteenth-century thinking anticipates twentieth-century Liberation Theology, a broader description is simply “liberation thinking,” which embraces its diverse, timeless, and sometimes nontheological aspects.

Two moments fra…[Read more]

]]> 0 d97ff97b3f9ad3081a0e48f17a52ea2a Dan Connor started the topic INSCREVA-SE PARA UMA BOLSA DE MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/inscreva-se-para-uma-bolsa-de-mla-international-bibliography-2/ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:11:16 -0500 INSCREVA-SE PARA UMA BOLSA DE MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

O prazo de inscrição é 1º de abril de 2021

O MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB) está aceitando inscrições para bolsas de três anos para bibliógrafos externos. Os bolsistas do MLAIB atuam como bibliógrafos externos que examinam textos acadêmicos, escrevem resumos informativ…[Read more]

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