SAH Commons | Liyao Chen | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/leochenliyao/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Liyao Chen is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:45:42 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 084dfed0c0bc033445ea05542e3e8b3d Heng Du started the topic CFP: Permutations of the “Imagination”; Grappling with Absence in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-permutations-of-the-imagination-grappling-with-absence/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:09:21 -0500 The MLA Pre-14th c. Chinese Lang Lit & Cul Forum is inviting proposals for the following two panels.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> </span>

<b>Permutations of the “Imagination” in Early and Medieval Literary and Visual Art</b><b></b>

This panel will explore the idea of the “imagination” as manifest in the literary and visual arts of early…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b4259816cfb740985c7bf6d1803697e Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-4/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:52:03 -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 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 b22ea75eb6865e0a9e38fd78827f79d8 Edward B. Kamens started the topic MLA Session 72: Family Resemblances in East Asian Anthologies in the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-session-72-family-resemblances-in-east-asian-anthologies/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:56:55 -0500 There are several panels on the program of the 2026 conference that will be of interest to members of this Forum (and others).  Please consider attending panel 72, “Family Resemblances in East Asian Anthologies,” a roundtable designated as a Presidential Theme Panel.  Mary Gilstad (UCLA), Mengling Wang (Colgate), Niels van der Salm (Leiden) and I…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ea82408ce02e602316c3ab755f83e3f Erin Brightwell started the topic MLA Roundtable Session 515 in the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-roundtable-session-515/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:07:37 -0500 Dear Colleagues, if you’re looking for a roundtable with a heavy premodern Japan presence at the upcoming MLA, please consider joining us at MLA 2026 Session 515 (Remote): “Fact, Fiction, and the In-Between: How Japanese Studies Can Foster Student Literacy in an Age of Dis- and Misinformation.”

Although it’s a roundtable, we will have five short…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7e66adea713777f8932a4c7e89b6d4f Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due by 1/15/26 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-by-1-15-26/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:52:54 -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>

 

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 0 28c07cccec2cf371b0df678a6435f022 Charo D'Etcheverry started the topic Membership suggestions for Japan to 1900 Executive Forum in the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-japan-to-1900-executive-forum/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:34:28 -0500 The Japan to 1900 Executive Forum needs to appoint one new member for a 5-year term starting in January 2026. Please email the current chair, Charo D’Etcheverry (cdetcheverry@wisc.edu), to nominate yourself or someone else! All candidates must be members of MLA. Deadline for nominations: November 30, 2025.

]]> 0 26f9aa9adc6b3a268da92ca93cf090e8 Tian Jing Teh started the topic CFP USC Korean Studies Institute Annual Graduate Conference 2025-2026 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-usc-korean-studies-institute-annual-graduate-conference-2025-2026/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:09:13 -0400 The USC Korean Studies Institute invites applications for its Annual USC Graduate Conference in Korean Studies 2025-2026. This conference aims to foster a multidisciplinary community of local and regional graduate students whose research projects significantly engage Korean society and culture across the periods. It offers a platform for emerging…[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 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 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 bed759e6f99a8179ea616dcf19aafd15 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-17/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:33:42 -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 957b663ecd634e8c4d560585b26d9d17 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891695/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:03:47 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7fdc8af26b6c0ed70fa772f30721b0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889177/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:03:45 -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 06f816f7a922654b5a975298576da41e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886045/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:09:56 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7035478ecacbe747575cd69b0be1585 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 LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886040/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:00:15 -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 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 13bdfd6523fb954a4545031350fa4e81 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 LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878849/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:01:57 -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 8344490172d70a9035dfa7a8cded582f 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 LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876064/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:15:27 -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 8b43440e5e6ec54332bfd3892c75887d 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 LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876060/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:10:03 -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 e0145bfbba1ffdd449d1df08d629828e Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://sah.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874114/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:03:08 -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 085d313e046aa420168c40f47f867b03 Edward B. Kamens started the topic Planning for the 2025 MLA Conference in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/planning-for-the-2025-mla-conference-2/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:02:14 -0500 The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4bf7214ea655b6f8f20b445a0575a6b Edward B. Kamens started the topic Planning for the 2025 MLA Conference in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/planning-for-the-2025-mla-conference/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:02:11 -0500 The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[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 a0ffa69f54b02e88f5945de1d665a8ea Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion LLC Korean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/korean/forum/topic/scaglione-prize-for-east-asian-studies-7/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:50:26 -0500 Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

]]> 0 e41efa5201965a356302884cdda44b53 Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/scaglione-prize-for-east-asian-studies-2/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:41:10 -0500 Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

]]> 0 6040bfd2e01b91ac26fb71bd922a90a0 Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/scaglione-prize-for-east-asian-studies/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:40:53 -0500 Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

]]> 0 45336e7f966f11ae663c5b33dc363eea Sarah Allen started the topic Call for nominations: LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese forum executive committee in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-pre-14th-century-chinese-forum-executive-committee-2/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:18:45 -0500 P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2025. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

]]> 0 51eb252f1ce5bb0db603c5a5528cacdb Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Generative AI as Shadow Publics in an Inquiry-Driven Society, Symposium on Digital Scholarship. Hong Kong Baptist University, October 27, 2023 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864511/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:10:22 -0500 Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, simulate human writing and complicate the inquiry-driven culture we live in. These tools use singular first-person pronouns in their textual outputs and are often associated with anthropomorphic qualities. Within the humanities, conversations tend to focus on detecting new forms of plagiarism. What is missing…[Read more]

]]> 0 c120e24fc58ff08ad4f360bfde82c103 Brian Bernards started the topic Job Opening: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Premodern Korean Studies, USC in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/job-opening-tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-premodern-korean-studies-usc/ Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:29:15 -0400 Assistant Professor in Premodern Korean Studies

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Premodern Korean Studies. The position is…[Read more]

]]> 0 643abf0568769fc35c5d9f1c1a36a900 Brian Bernards started the topic AAS 2024 Seattle CFP: Verge-sponsored panel on Inter-Asia Intermediality in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/aas-2024-seattle-cfp-verge-sponsored-panel-on-inter-asia-intermediality-3/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:03:06 -0400

AAS 2024: Call for Papers for Verge-sponsored Panels


Inter-Asia Intermediality: The Transboundary Production of Global Asian Mediascapes
Organizers: Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) and Elmo Gonzaga…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2fcb50aa07950adfbadfbd899a15fce Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Lin Shu." The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852243/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 03:50:51 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]

]]> 0 d153553dd0f25c4e21176eb0a3464fea Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin Receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846406/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:44:48 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, which recognizes Professor Joubin’s “contributions to social justice and inclusive excellence ” that exemplify “the ideals that Dr. King espoused,” particularly “community-based social justice organizing rooted in non-violence.” The MLK Award comes on the heel of her bell hook…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9214cc2733fa2de07951b5547e17437 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Do English Audiences Have the Toughest Time with Shakespeare?," Quarto: The Magazine of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, Spring/Summer, 2023 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841708/ Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:28:28 -0400 All the world’s a stage, but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. “English audiences are at a disadvantage because the language has evolved and is more and more distant. They need footnotes, props and staging to understand,” said Alexa Alice Joubin, a Shakespeare schol…[Read more]

]]> 0 aebd7d95f2785d794287eee8466bab0d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "English Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory." GW Today, April 12, 2023 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841267/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:01:36 -0400 When ChatGPT was launched, Alexa Alice Joubin realized it was here to stay. She views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use it responsibly, not as a shortcut. “This technology is going to be with us, and students need employable skills in terms of curation, editorial repackaging and prompt engineering,” Joubin said. “They need…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2972aa49680c84015f882de0c96701e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Joubin receives the bell hooks Legacy Award in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841262/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 03:52:41 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. The award recognizes Joubin’s a…[Read more]

]]> 0 146efd9ed4d3d16037d355a301b813d2 Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: USC Teaching-Track Position in EALC in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/job-announcement-usc-teaching-track-position-in-ealc/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:12:16 -0400 The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the East Asian Studies Center in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, invite applications for a full-time teaching-track faculty position in East Asian cultural studies, with a preferred focus on…[Read more]

]]> 0 949def254e6a7436693fb8db7dafd87c Anne Furlong started the topic Consider joining the Executive Committee of LSL! in the discussion LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/consider-joining-the-executive-committee-of-lsl/ Sun, 15 Jan 2023 02:29:00 -0500 Greetings to the membership of LSL Linguistics and Literature!

Each year our Executive Committee says farewell to its longest-serving member and welcomes a new one. Following the annual MLA Convention, we appoint a new EC member, submitting a short list of names to the MLA by 28 January. The five-year term of service starts in January of 2024,…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb9bf095c5061d5441d27bdd0dc84c73 Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-for-the-2024-mla-4/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:28:30 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 0 d200cfd197086821d22ff040e411205e Jack W. Chen started the topic Executive Forum Call for Nominations in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/executive-forum-call-for-nominations-2/ Sat, 07 Jan 2023 21:54:08 -0500 P14 Chinese Forum members, we are in the process of soliciting nominations for the forum executive committee. We are particularly interested in midlevel senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world literary methodologies. Please send all nominations, including…[Read more]

]]> 0 957fe518fd442433abdda761f8d8a198 Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1795019/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 03:49:58 -0400 Contrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]

]]> 0 1622c4d03655f74f1e1e975feaff1324 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Anti-Asian Racist Misogyny in Science Fiction Films." The American Mosaic: The Asian American Experience (Bloomsbury ABC-CLIO, 2022). Digital Database in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1794546/ Sat, 17 Sep 2022 03:50:21 -0400 The depiction of women of East Asian descent in science fiction films reveals how racial hierarchies are mapped onto, and used as justification for, mistreatment of women—and misogynistic prejudices inform racism. Contributing to the patterns that dehumanize Asian women are multiple sci-fi films that feature cyborgs and androids in Asian female b…[Read more]

]]> 0 61e57abdd574fa579fbae6386a2d0c7a Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-2nd-biennial-conference-of-the-society-of-sinophone-studies-6/ Sun, 17 Jul 2022 23:54:15 -0400 Oceans and Empires: Sinophone Crossroads in Global Space and Time 

The 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies <https://www.sinophonestudies.org/s3conference>

5/12—5/14/2023

Penn State University

The Sinophone world that is invigorated by “multisensory protests” and “ally-ship” (the focus of the 2021 conference) al…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4d07c8f8f0b1f25a316492ea149a44f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology, 1987-2007, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Palgrave, 2022) in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1786320/ Sat, 09 Jul 2022 03:52:56 -0400 Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, three of the most frequently adapted tragedies, have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China for over two centuries as political theatre, comedic parody, Chinese opera, and avant-garde theatre. Gender roles in the plays take on new meanings when they are e…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b0cdd0878fe7cd1531c09877f9909f8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television," Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19.1 (March 2022): 167-180. in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1784804/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 03:50:40 -0400 The global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism, this article analyzes the manifestation of the ideas of yellow peril and yel…[Read more]

]]> 0 d188d220a34f328cb460611dd7124856 Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Paranoid Publics in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1780938/ Sat, 07 May 2022 02:24:10 -0400 This article takes up the insurrection in Washington DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics, tracking such gamification as a political-economic demand generated by neoliberalism. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud’s insight that delusional formations are attempts at…[Read more]

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