SAH Commons | Michelle Nancy Levy | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/michellelevy/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Michelle Nancy Levy is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 209e48696653b95d79fdc6f3795ee3cc Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aural-reorientations-or-sound-studies-as-listening-otherwise/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:35:39 -0500 Dear Sound Studies Communities,

The MS Sound Forum executive committee has just published the CFP for our guaranteed session at MLA 2027. We look forward to receiving many of your proposals! :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

]]> 0 38842ee7f8a17c84de4adc97253101bc Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic Nominations and Self-nominations for Executive Committee in the forum LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-for-executive-committee/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:01:06 -0500 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The English Romantic LLC Forum Executive Committee seeks nominations and self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning in 2027. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate d…[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 619d74ca55798701cebc4e1a0e9e084d Jennifer Stoever started the topic Recommendation for real-world assignment with Wiki Education! (not spam!) in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/recommendation-for-real-world-assignment-with-wiki-education-not-spam/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:45:32 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear all,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I wanted to share with everyone a high-impact teaching opportunity that has added a lot to my own classroom – the </span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Wikipedia assignment</span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>. </span>

I have had great success and enjoyment fr…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee658bc86a722c27351a576af5880a22 Jennifer Stoever started the topic CFP: Hate and NonHuman Listening, Due 14 July 2025 in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-hate-and-nonhuman-listening-due-14-july-2025/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:15:47 -0400 Call for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
A Guest Series for Sounding Out! guest edited by Kathryn Huether
Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT

Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: kathryn.huether@gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.

We invite subm…[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 ad3a4f55f7fe48a0b41921495368c2b4 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2026 CFP – Clapping Back in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-clapping-back-2/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:34:05 -0500 Dear MS Sound Forum,

I write on behalf of the MS Sound Forum Executive Committee members to share the MLA2026 CFP “Clapping Back: Responses from Sound Studies to Censorship & Silencing.” Please consider applying & help spread the word :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

p.s. We will soon launch a Discord channel for the Sound Studies scholars, in hopes of…[Read more]

]]> 0 aef748796a789733b7c5b1b1b2927cba Kevis Goodman started the topic Call for Self-nominations to Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-to-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:57:46 -0500 The British Romanticism Forum Executive Committee seeks self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning in 2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate delegates to the MLA Delegate Assembly every three y…[Read more]

]]> 0 0565a01f746dc2e6020adf5e71d8b024 John Melillo started the topic MS Sound Rountable at MLA 2025: Sound and Literature Now in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/ms-sound-rountable-at-mla-2025-sound-and-literature-now/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:20:39 -0500 Please join the MS Sound forum for a wide-ranging roundtable on “Sound and Literature Now.” Our roundtable will take place on Friday morning, January 10th, at 8:30 AM in Salon 16 of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside (first floor):

Description:

Panelists describe and discuss new academic and creative interventions that connect sound and literary…[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 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 41589079f77abc23207c6a5341a15e3c Kevis Goodman started the topic Call for Abstracts: "Desire without Objects," MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/call-for-abstracts-desire-without-objects-mla-2025/ Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:38:11 -0500 The MLA Forum on English Romantic Studies invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed forum session:

Desire without Objects: 

Romantic desire’s ambivalence toward objects: formlessness, the infinite, irony, disability, fragments, affects, music, rhythm, attunement, nostalgia, queerness, movement, conflict, aggregation, di…[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 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 29a83e6cb3e5c3cf9fa36545405c85b3 andré carrington started the topic Open General Business Meeting for the Forum:MS Sound at #MLA2024 in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/open-general-business-meeting-for-the-forumms-sound-at-mla2024/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:11:42 -0500 Good day everyone! If you’re attending the annual convention and you’d like to join the Forum MS Sound (or you’re already a member) please join us at 3:30p.m. on Saturday, January 6, in the Marriott – Grand D (Level 5). We’ll catch up and solicit interest in potential topics for sponsored sessions, and we have seats opening up, so you can become a…[Read more]

]]> 0 d14409d50ee921ee3795570127b849a5 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus's motion in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/the-executive-committee-endorses-the-radical-caucuss-motion/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:16:11 -0500 Dear Forum Participants,

The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a057da11b45938b30d41232ee41cfe0 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus's motion in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/the-executive-committee-endorses-the-radical-caucuss-motion/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:16:11 -0500 Dear Forum Participants,

The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea7d5818e4382fcbcfd270969c42f44e Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868242/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:07:19 -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 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 fb8cdfccc9e9c8e07c198107f8e124a0 Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866468/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:05:48 -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 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 e9a4d1d41ee66e08e8fa77ec3d1a28a8 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s "It Must be Heaven" and Panah Panahi’s "Hit the Road" in the group MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864816/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:03:47 -0500 Abstract | The final scene of Elia Suleiman’s film, It Must be Heaven (2019), ends with the actor/director sitting in an Arab bar in the city of Haifa, while the young crowd is dancing to “Arabyon Ana” (2000) by Lebanese singer Yuri Mrakadi. The Arabic music is a testimony to a Palestinian-Arab culture that resists erasure.

The songs in Sulei…[Read more]

]]> 0 e29e4f73658750f3bfd0747a623fcc7e Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation - revised in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1859973/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:08:31 -0400 This is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.

]]> 0 05c69f2b49a047a939fc61be4ea1cc94 andré carrington started the topic CFP for 2024: Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-for-2024-putting-the-bowtie-on-funk-the-sound-of-philadelphia/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:07:48 -0400 Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia

Guaranteed session for MLA 2024 sponsored by Forum MS Sound, in collaboration with Forum African American Literature, Language, and Culture

Philly Soul, with its roots in the Black performance traditions of gospel, funk, and rhythm & blues, transformed popular music in the 1970s. How have…[Read more]

]]> 0 e91534eb2c7328a59857bc41076e1838 Atia Sattar started the topic NWSA CFP: Decolonizing Feminist and Queer Pedagogies in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/nwsa-cfp-decolonizing-feminist-and-queer-pedagogies/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:26:37 -0500 The CFP below is for a pedagogy workshop to be conducted at the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore, October 26–29, 2023.

“This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 0018af13ccd57109ababffac840bc9c3 Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1833564/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:27:11 -0500 Salaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]

]]> 0 04fe59dfaad14625ec9e73116e7792f1 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP Conference: USES OF MODERNISM (Ghent, Belgium - 20-22 September 2023) in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-conference-uses-of-modernism-ghent-belgium-20-22-september-2023/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:53:05 -0500 Dear colleagues,

Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.

CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023

The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6e4ef2af55164d31e9afd316bbe430f Adelina Modesti deposited CFP- AIWAC 2022 Women’s Legacies in Nature Studies, Health and Liberal Arts in the group Women in Book History, 1660-1836 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783152/ Fri, 03 Jun 2022 02:24:16 -0400 CFP – AIWAC 2nd edition Rome 2022

]]> 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]

]]> 0 e5d11c8f5d58ddb37a827ab55ec5db8a Cheryl Farris-Clayton deposited On Dickinson in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1780859/ Fri, 06 May 2022 03:48:59 -0400 Essay on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her impact upon literature. This essay celebrates her global reach from within societal spheres of gender. “Emily Dickinson transformed the genre of poetry from the academic salon styled idealism to the personal poignant voice of reality from the poet’s point of view.”

]]> 0 8eb39ec897051a5886e9b0a688abf635 Kristin E. Pitt started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor, Queer and Sexuality Studies, UW-Milwaukee in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/visiting-assistant-professor-queer-and-sexuality-studies-uw-milwaukee/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 01:01:24 -0400 Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in Queer and Sexuality Studies for 2022-2023. Must be able to teach Queer Theory and Feminist Theory courses. Apply by April 10, 2022 to ensure consideration. https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/33994

]]> 0 1873f657483ccc356448a9925e675f3d Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771175/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 02:26:41 -0500 This chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.

]]> 0 e45e2bba4999a9544cf155d77052ffdf Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group Women in Book History, 1660-1836 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1771070/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:40:52 -0500 This syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]

]]> 0 315a84d7f381eb041991f40f47f08402 Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771066/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:35:15 -0500 This syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]

]]> 0 2742116c59d2b4063af4d9e41661c962 Emily Friedman deposited "Let people tell their stories their own way": Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768610/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:30:42 -0500 In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ce419cddae3c34250e7eb2c3d26d059 Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1763725/ Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:25:32 -0500 This article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.

]]> 0 cfb2bb01da951bc85d6a36ffd56ccdab Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-18th-century-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2022-forum-delegate-election-25/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:48:11 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc6e4c522c48ba7c9310a4f9efc2d49e Leigh Gilmore started the topic Job Opportunity in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/job-opportunity/ Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:01:11 -0400 Position No. 00005756.  The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]

]]> 0 6194182a0a74d8ee5c75ebdf40e7a9f1 Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/womens-historical-fiction-across-the-globe-online-conference-28-29-october-2021/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:41:39 -0400 ‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register

Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London

This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ec5dcb59f35c54eb50867e1edc3d172 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756114/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:28:40 -0400 Invited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]

]]> 0 54538235dc74e75bc815ac930187c145 Carla Sassi posted an update in the group LLC English Romantic: The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1754861/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:12:35 -0400 The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]

]]> 0 03a4d05c6d83f8e0486297dcd3a57764 Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1753237/ Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:24:18 -0400 Review of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c8dbec45963dee385da81804a876746 Jesse A. Goldberg started the topic CFP: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies” in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-2022-quarry-farm-symposium-on-abolition-studies/ Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:34:43 -0400 CALL FOR PAPERS: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies”

Sept 30 — Oct 1, 2022

Elmira, NY

The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College is hosting its annual Quarry Farm Symposium during the Fall 2022 semester, from September 30th to October 1st, organized around the theme of Abolition Studies. This year’s Keynote Address will…[Read more]

]]> 0 4325903f45acdbdb1ec9b0126650375e Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745161/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 04:00:43 -0400 The connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f8216296d7ff0b92176fee5b4bb4682 Magdalena Ostas deposited Keats's Voice in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745121/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:29:44 -0400 Keats’s poetic thoughts on the topic of human identity remain some of Romanticism’s most incisive reflections on the constitution of selfhood. This essay is about the ways Keats’s verse thinks through questions about human subjectivity and its horizons with an imaginative range. Keats famously asserts that the poetical character has “no i…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0d7eda6eaa129cca0a2d70edbbe434e Samuel Baker deposited The Gothic, Supernatural and Religious: Scott, Hogg, and Blackwood’s in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1743679/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:28:15 -0400 A distinctive style of “Scottish Gothic’”emerged, after 1815, in fiction by Walter Scott, James Hogg, and fellow members of the Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine circle. This chapter introduces this corpus of Scottish Gothic literature, specifies some ways in which the uncanny entailments of Scottish Gothic relate to religious discourse (very muc…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f68b8cb7e170d7dfc2ce9c7011502f8 James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742219/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:50:10 -0400 This essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]

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