SAH Commons | johnpendergast | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/johnpendergast/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which johnpendergast is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:55:39 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 91441a91bdeed2f844dfbb5fd6e185de Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP - MLA Convention 2027 in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-mla-convention-2027-2/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:04:03 -0400 Language Ideologies and the Discursive Construction of Emancipatory Narratives
We invite 250-word abstracts of interdisciplinary contributions that examine how language ideologies and practices, historically and in digital contexts, mediate power, shape public perception, and negotiate responsibility within social, political, and pedagogical…[Read more]

]]> 0 c816b817b008b4edcd8fee8466805037 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:48:02 -0500 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 0 449434bee3550586b44084517f90aa5e Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum-3/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:11:49 -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 Stu…[Read more]

]]> 0 d69bfcf2d744701bfacd2e6cf104e2dc Shakil Rabbi started the topic Abstract for Translingual Rhetorics and the Language Movement in Bangladesh in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/abstract-for-translingual-rhetorics-and-the-language-movement-in-bangladesh/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:54:13 -0500 This presentation explores the role of Language Movement in the formation of the Bangladeshi national identity. Analyzing the translingual negotiations between diverse language ideologies I argue that these interactions laid the groundwork for a distinct national consciousness. Rather than viewing language and nationalism as fixed categories, this…[Read more]

]]> 0 80c221f457103f995092339003cc52ed Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms abstract in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/family-resemblances-between-world-languages-and-nationalisms-abstract-2/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:15:41 -0500 Posting at Shakil’s request–here is my abstract for the panel:

<u>Language and Identity in the Sinitic Empire of Letters</u>

For centuries prior to the advent of modern nationalism, Chinese literature had already been constructed by scholars into a common heritage and united civilizational tradition; with modern Chinese nationalism, this…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb8d10444be5cd39fe31df04f28e584e Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms abstract in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/family-resemblances-between-world-languages-and-nationalisms-abstract/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:13:18 -0500 At Shakil’s request to mention our panel here, I thought I would post a copy of my abstract for our MLA panel on Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms.  The panel is scheduled for Saturday January 10 8:30-9:45 in MTCC-707.

 

<u>Language and Identity in the Sinitic Empire of Letters</u>

For centuries prior to the advent…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8b2a73e1808fbbc74cee42424de5f98 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due 1/15/26 in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-1-15-26/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:47:57 -0500 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

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]]> 0 6f70c112050a2dd780080a49d81e5deb Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-5/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:15:00 -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 b877a6cf3316f13060c8bcaf632c4055 Robert Nguyen started the topic MLA 2026 CFPs, TC Adaptation Studies forum in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfps-tc-adaptation-studies-forum/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:39:32 -0400 Good morning,

Good morning,

As I thought they may be of interest to folks working in Screen Arts and Culture, I am posting here info on the panels that the TC Adaptation Studies forum will be sponsoring for the 2026 MLA convention. Also included is further detail on the panel we are co-sponsoring with the GS Comics and Graphic Narratives…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b99c09da9a6a7494fe191ed7fc2a0af Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-14/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:33:36 -0500 (Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases, and ethical implications. Send 300…[Read more]

]]> 0 e94efe99d5b627aed803ba118342e062 Tanya Shilina-Conte started the topic New Book: Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/new-book-black-screens-white-frames-gilles-deleuze-and-the-filmmaking-machine-4/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:38:23 -0500 Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine by Tanya Shilina-Conte is now available from Oxford University Press<u>: </u><u>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-screens-white-frames-9780197511336?cc=us&lang=en&#</u&gt;
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]]> 0 8892a2796bed477b91b7bd8844e60f06 Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for 2026 MLA: Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-2026-mla-family-resemblances-between-world-languages-and-natiionalisms/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:05:21 -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 b64d254c9b0fd2e63c4c2b6d136fbc32 Betty Joseph started the topic INVITATION: Panel Topics for HISTORY & LITERATURE, MLA 2026 in the forum TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/invitation-panel-topics-for-history-literature-mla-2026/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:24:10 -0500 Dear Forum Members/Colleagues,

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

To submit your topic, simply…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9d55be06d96aa58afe95a036838e629 Inés Vañó García uploaded the file: The Invisible Politics of Affect in STEM Learning Contexts to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1909237/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:36:18 -0500 PPT Presentation by Suresh Canagarajah, “The Invisible Politics of Affect in STEM Learning Contexts,” (LSL Session: (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power)
ABSTRACT
Affect has been defined as experienced at the prelinguistic and nonconscious level by theorists such as Brian Massumi (2015). For that reason, Massumi also theorizes that…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3398652dfc009e9e2a1bf289d5e5527 Inés Vañó García uploaded the file: Deconstructing Masculine (Will)power through French Medical Models of Trauma (1914-1919) to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1909236/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:33:16 -0500 PPT Presentation by Katherine Ellis, “Deconstructing Masculine (Will)power through French Medical Models of Trauma (1914-1919)”, ((LSL Session: (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power)
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Since the Enlightenment, willpower in dominant Western societies has emblematized consciousness, civilization, and masculinity, opposite which…[Read more]

]]> 0 52e36da6b2a80c4d2e1e0dfac040a68f Inés Vañó García uploaded the file: (Un)natural Languages, (Un)natural Identities: Decentering Spanish in a Curriculum for Puerto Rican Studies to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1909234/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:29:39 -0500 PPT Presentation by Carmín Quijano Seda, ” (Un)natural Languages, (Un)natural Identities: Decentering Spanish in a Curriculum for Puerto Rican Studies ” (LSL Session: (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power)
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When examining how practices of dominance and control work in modern societies, it is vital to move away from analyses that…[Read more]

]]> 0 4483a39eee92b48f998f2df540a233a4 Shakil Rabbi uploaded the file: Slide Deck by Shannon Mooney "Ungrading in the Age of Generative AI" (Panel "Issues of Agency with AI") to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1908641/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:11:22 -0500 This is the presentation “Ungrading in the Age of Generative AI” by Prof. Shannon Mooney.

]]> 0 5ef0bb388a674253cc42586fbb22da09 Shakil Rabbi uploaded the file: PDF of Presentation by Collier Nogues "Co-Creating with Generative AI" (Panel "Issues of Agency with AI") to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1908273/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:10:42 -0500 This is a PDF of the presentation “Co-creating with Generative AI” by Prof. Collier Nogues.

]]> 0 e4ca85ebb9f3d0726a14d54718e0fbda Maria Helena Lima replied to the topic 288. (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power - Friday 10 Jan. at 12pm in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/288-invisibility-language-ideology-and-power-friday-10-jan-at-12pm/#post-1039181 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:02:55 -0500 <div class=”nH”>
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]]> 0 0b23d43ed1dbdefb2fa88afda58dad62 Maria Helena Lima replied to the topic 288. (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power - Friday 10 Jan. at 12pm in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/288-invisibility-language-ideology-and-power-friday-10-jan-at-12pm/#post-1039180 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:58:29 -0500 <div class=”nH”>
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]]> 0 b9c06a485b93a470199e1ec017c2a785 Inés Vañó García started the topic 288. (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power - Friday 10 Jan. at 12pm in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/288-invisibility-language-ideology-and-power-friday-10-jan-at-12pm/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:26:43 -0500 Do not miss our session on Friday – Churchill A1 (Hilton New Orleans Riverside).

Learn more about our panelists’ presentations:

The Invisible Politics of Affect in STEM Learning Contexts, A. Suresh Canagarajah (Penn State U, University Park)

Affect has been defined as experienced at the prelinguistic and nonconscious level by theorists such as…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 864c8081b85042c6189a1df448054a6c Shakil Rabbi started the topic Virtual Sponsored MLA Presentation on "Issues of Agency with AI" in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/virtual-sponsored-mla-presentation-on-issues-of-agency-with-ai/ Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:12:06 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

If you’re registered for the 2025 MLA conference and are interested in the topic of AI, please consider attending the LSL sponsored session “Issues of Agency with AI.”

The session will be held virtually on January 9th, at 7pm. This is the link to the session: Issues of Agency with AI (you will need your username and registration…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8dd031dfe5905ecc12ee8893ea78aa3 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900964/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:08:29 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ec34b11565be267a1b47eb36f4a4a09 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900962/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:03:00 -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 cb076292c9c94f2692c88f0f8bd29076 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics," Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900896/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:21:10 -0400 Whom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 da5c2e5fcbcc7f2ea5cc8cb86f9b49da Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900890/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:13:22 -0400 How do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]

]]> 0 7182408e0c0cdb3d93778ea6ee074eb6 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China," in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900885/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:05:26 -0400 This chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin’s interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2b6dd91861405bf7327b60fcab37d3f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900083/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:05:17 -0400 Focusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[Read more]

]]> 0 52b2c57fc247d4374dd1b30b24325837 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-5/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:45:07 -0400 Dear All,

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

]]> 0 66c6832003cd8d722395a1818832c367 Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890470/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:01:22 -0400 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody’s muse.

Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]

]]> 0 a04eca7d0e61cf1615cabebfd0f77c37 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890326/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:05:42 -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 4710ca9664a8d50f75fec67761488beb Steve McCarty deposited English Education and Bilingual Education in Japan in the group Language requirements in higher education https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889643/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:19 -0400 The Japan Times quoted the author extensively in a recent article on bilingual education. The reporter agreed to share the full interview with the Japan Association for Language Teaching Bilingualism Special Interest Group (JALT Bilingualism SIG) publication Bilingual Japan. Asked why the level of English in Japan remains low, the author goes well…[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 489a162a816d58c7ea25774145c951e8 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889180/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:39 -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 71e06ab33ff4fcaae20d2d377bac2c52 Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889175/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:07 -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 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 b8d4102dda5b37ebec9583fa2165172f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886051/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:19:53 -0400 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

This year’s Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on the theme of global disability performances of Shakespeare. Curated by K…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea47e2a2da1d60baf21b7ce85da03bd3 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Dutch Formosa in 2000: Taiwan as China’s Renegade Province in Wu Ziniu’s The Sino-Dutch War 1661," in Scenes from Dutch Formosa: Staging Taiwan’s Colonial Past, ed. Llyn Scott (Portland ME: MerwinAsia, 2014), pp. 153-179 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886042/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:01:41 -0400 What does Koxinga mean to today’s China and Taiwan? How does Wu Ziniu’s film The Sino-Dutch War 1661, a 2000 mainland Chinese film about seventeenth-century Dutch Formosa–with a mainland Chinese / Hong Kong / Japanese cast–complicate the questions of belonging and betrayal?

Taiwan’s cultural identities have always been political…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ba0877b688b1df686bd077a80b64133 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Keynote: Cinematic Representations of East Asian American Women, Tucker-Boatwright Festival and Symposium: Hollywood & the Asian American Imagination, Richmond, February 23, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878852/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:03:03 -0500 My keynote explores such questions as: What are the patterns in Hollywood representations of East Asian American women from romantic comedy to science fiction films? How do racism and sexism intersect in these patterns? Watch the video recording on YouTube (https://youtu.be/iHjKOYf-IXQ) to gain a better understanding how gender biases are…[Read more]

]]> 0 25c74d38b6ef22c19411a42b8c0e9591 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878067/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:24:33 -0500 Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia by Alexa Alice Joubin. Lecture video now available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/R8mbUd_mHjQ Drawing on her forthcoming book, Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2024), Alexa Alice Joubin examines cultural encounters with Shakespeare’s plays as heterotopia, a set of parallel s…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5016f4a927012adc17a4896f569f122 johnpendergast started the topic CfP MLA 2025 Opera and Musical Performance, 01/9-12/2025, New Orleans in the discussion CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romantic-and-19th-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2025-opera-and-musical-performance-01-9-12-2025-new-orleans-2/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:05:10 -0500 “Horizons of Musical Adaptation: Audibility, Visibility, Media and Performance”

Musical adaptations from literary texts (see Broomfield-McHugh 2019; Elliott 2020; Hutcheon 2006; Leitch 2007, 2023, etc.) make the invisible (e.g. context, subtext) audible, and perhaps visible anew (e.g. staging, cinematography)—re/shaping meaning and recep…[Read more]

]]> 0 f072c9d14b6bb9d35fa714dfb374efa3 johnpendergast started the topic CfP MLA 2025 Opera and Musical Performance, 01/9-12/2025, New Orleans in the discussion MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-and-musical-performance/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2025-opera-and-musical-performance-01-9-12-2025-new-orleans/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:05:07 -0500 “Horizons of Musical Adaptation: Audibility, Visibility, Media and Performance”

Musical adaptations from literary texts (see Broomfield-McHugh 2019; Elliott 2020; Hutcheon 2006; Leitch 2007, 2023, etc.) make the invisible (e.g. context, subtext) audible, and perhaps visible anew (e.g. staging, cinematography)—re/shaping meaning and recep…[Read more]

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

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

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

Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives,…[Read more]

]]> 0 8bf601f65afa35ec93e1a544b3b3bc72 Kendra Leonard deposited Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice (2004) in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877420/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:06:31 -0500 The performance history of The Merchant of Venice is one entangled with what producers and directors hear as the sounds of Jewishness, be it traditional prayer, like the Shema or Kaddish, or contrived nonsense, like the “old Hebraic song of sacrifice” sung by Anthony Sher in a 1987 stage production. In this essay, I interrogate composer Joc…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d72ce91f2a351d77190843f0d1662bf Kendra Leonard deposited Imagining Women’s Archives of Silent Film Music in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877413/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:01:54 -0500 Although women comprised the majority of American cinema accompanists during the silent film period (c. 1895–1927), few of their music libraries or compositions have survived, whereas collections created by male cinema musicians dominate the silent film music archives. Women musicians suggested, shaped, and helped define the musical tastes of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd632c5c514268485490f4267b798066 Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:58:14 -0500 (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power
Papers should address the (in)visible intersection(s) between language and power (research and teaching) within educational contexts along its historical, economical, and socio-political implications/dimensions. 300-word abstracts to jessica.ouellette@maine.edu by March 11.

Deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 0 e76833cdfb5b163ed27a869c66f659ea Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 335-338 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876066/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:16:30 -0500 Going against the grain, this collection counters the common perception of the Maoist era as a time of ideological conformity. The contributors persuasively demonstrate that theatre activities were varied and lively between the 1950s and 1970s. While there was state control over the arts, performances in urban spaces were more frequently censored…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4f1955780d09e11fc4062ed0c2b194d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Performing the Socialist State by Xiaomei Chen, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 338-340 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876062/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:11:08 -0500 In this review, Alexa Alice Joubin outlines the main argument of Xiaomei Chen’s Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture. “The eight chronologically- and thematically-organized chapters in this book provide a much-needed critical survey of spoken drama (huaju) from its inception through the Republican and Maoist eras…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a4a2667e2f24460194fee72a9d8e1bb Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility," The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 195-211. in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876057/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:05:28 -0500 Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, have broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. This…[Read more]

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