SAH Commons | Max Cavitch | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/maxcavitch/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Max Cavitch is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:22:01 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 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 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 5db699579b9a1163567e55cf51c326f9 Philip Trotter started the topic MLA 2026 Convention Session in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/mla-2026-convention-session-2/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:45:32 -0500 Please find attached a link to the abstract and details for the MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing, and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing.”

]]> 0 705489ea008668cfaa17a8195b2fb19b Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-2/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:01:55 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2abc3a6ad564a418ef1822a9abe18df Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-amplifying-womens-voices-of-resistance-2/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:06:21 -0400 CFP for “Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance: Challenging Power, Shaping Change”, for a special issue of the South Atlantic Review: The Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

This special issue seeks to honor and amplify the voices of women who have resisted, challenged, and redefined societal norms—both histori…[Read more]

]]> 0 92184c734d554ee6f0b8d483f80afe38 Nathan Gorelick started the topic Psychoanalysis of the Mother in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychoanalysis-of-the-mother-2/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:20:26 -0400 Starting a thread to facilitate planning for the Forum’s 2026 MLA panel on “Psychoanalysis of the Mother.”

]]> 0 ece4a82e4641d0e9443a321b32e94720 Nathan Gorelick started the topic Psychoanalysis of the Mother in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychoanalysis-of-the-mother/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:18:11 -0400 Starting a thread to facilitate conversation and planning for the Forum’s 2026 MLA panel on “Psychoanalysis of the Mother.”

]]> 0 4def381b0b7bdc8b3ab415f531121376 Seda Arıkan replied to the topic Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/#post-1039662 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:31:46 -0400 Dear Editors,

I have sent an email with my proposal. I will be happy if you inform me whether you received it.

Best wishes,

Seda Arikan

email: sarikan@firat.edu.tr

]]> 0 63df32676ae57d67937294cf8081651b Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:37:41 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 66e44e5c2900995ffe9f23d7db788106 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-5/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:32:13 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 739ba1e37c55cbf87f05956564f8b9ab Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters - Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/life-writing/forum/topic/call-for-chapters/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:04:07 -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 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 fd2638c01bc5c93119ea5d4b13810bef Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2025 MLA Convention in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2025-mla-convention/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 01:19:29 -0500 UPDATE 1-1-25:

Forum member Steven Swarbrick has notified us of another panel of interest:

Friday, 10 January 2025:

Freud’s Ecology

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Hilton New Orleans Riverside – Jackson (3rd Floor)

 

The Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature invites you to attend our panels at the 2025 MLA…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3deb1816f7f1cf4411d3973f5c07ab3 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Join TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature’s Executive Board! in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/join-tc-psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literatures-executive-board/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:42:17 -0500 MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for a seat on the Executive Board. The Executive Board devises and runs programming for the MLA Convention, including at least two panels yearly. The Forum is an excellent way to meet colleagues with similar i…[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 c1a72ef9b1b380d234d1b17765120f4d Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-2/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:34:40 -0400 Reading Cultures

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

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

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

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

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

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

]]> 0 15b34bb549682037fd6cf2ff025a9519 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:28:57 -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 Perspect…[Read more]

]]> 0 7713e2e4cab1acc57a5b2dccec2ec358 Ramzi Salti deposited Women’s Voices in Arabic Music by Ramzi Salti (Stanford University) in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890606/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:01:15 -0400 This is the corrected and edited transcript of Dr. Ramzi Salti’s talk about “Women’s Voices in Arabic Music” which was presented for Women’s History Month at Santa Rosa Junior College on March 7, 2024. You can also watch the video on YouTube (with CC on).

]]> 0 e8bca9b0d17ea827485eb9f34050f6bb Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890472/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:08:37 -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 92550cbe78b973ea643203eee9e18695 Sandra Pinasco started the topic New Article: Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs Auster and Giralt Torrente in the discussion GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/life-writing/forum/topic/new-article-ambiguous-loss-in-grief-memoirs-auster-and-giralt-torrente/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 23:52:18 -0400 Dear Colleagues,
I would like to share my new article titled “Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs: Meaning Making in Auster and Giralt Torrente Patriographies” published in the a/b Autobiography Studies Journal. You can find the abstract and the link to the article below:

Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs: Meaning Making in Auster and Giralt Tor…[Read more]

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

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

]]> 0 6fb2118fa6fa234001c47c185652e93a Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-at-the-beginning-of-the-multi-par-2/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:14:48 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[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 40a1c6164b167daf4c4542319d7b1127 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878058/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:05:36 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 e990d2a3986e2d8739558b55bb5bb68f Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877011/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:03:58 -0500 Abstract
In his email conversations with Arabella Kurtz in The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, J.M. Coetzee entertains the notion of settling on fictions of ourselves, which we are able to inhabit more comfortably than what is perceived as our real life. In addition, he implies that in order to form fictions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed00f5554fd02608613332491b43ee0c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New short story: Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-short-story-professor-mali-romantic-longhair-and-the-girl/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:24:23 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

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

]]> 0 1651080c71469d401f52fed810de2a1d Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874112/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2ef1aee2f0d62c02c913d28588a90c0 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Join TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature's Executive Committee! in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/join-tc-psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literatures-executive-committee-6/ Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:38:08 -0500 MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for a seat on the Executive Board. The Executive Board devises and runs programming for the MLA Convention, including at least two panels yearly. The Forum is an excellent way to meet colleagues with similar interests.…[Read more]

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

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

]]> 0 ef8b7e8201ae71c5ae7e7de670de3117 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870108/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:07:49 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

]]> 0 b1d48430d1efef11828098d075de4822 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-osman-hamdi-bey-an-ottoman-orientalist-or-a-humanist-ottoman-7/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:12:19 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more]

]]> 0 a74fe0ec01fd3798cad56068d62b232b Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:28:19 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by the…[Read more]

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

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

]]> 0 8bf24815d5df5fe14cda1a97be78b78f Darren J. Borg replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2024-mla-convention/#post-1036037 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 21:40:29 -0500 Our panel, #733–“What is a life worth living?: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life– does not have a specific focus on psychoanalysis, but my paper, “Towards a Psychoanalysis of the Time-Traveller,” does. Please share!

]]> 0 8f6f8db6524872e65eeeb7d59aac5688 Dorothy Stringer replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2024-mla-convention-3/#post-1036033 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:38:53 -0500 Apologies for missing info; dates and times as follows:

194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti

Friday, 5 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level 4)

 

648 – Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis

Sunday, 7 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Marriott – Franklin 2 (Level 4)

]]> 0 b74bb9759dbb16a818db67ecb7019945 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2024-mla-convention/ Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:10:57 -0500 The Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature invites you to attend our panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia!

We have two interesting and timely sessions this year:

194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti

Friday, 5 January 2024, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ed0ff2f9c60b03993dbcd456c289880 Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863980/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:00:18 -0500 Thomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]

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