SAH Commons | Mingwei Song | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/msong2/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Mingwei Song is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:59 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0401525130ef52640a9055aff17a00e5 Jane Robbins Mize started the topic Science and Literature Panel MLA 2027 in the forum TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/science-and-literature-panel-mla-2027-2/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:38:20 -0500 Hi everyone,

The Science and Literature Forum is seeking abstracts for a panel at MLA 2027, “Food, Science, and Literature”:

California alone grows half of the fruits and vegetables in the US. This panel brings together scholars examining literature of food, food science, food justice, and agriculture in California and beyond.

Please submit a…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4394fcd163c828984327d03a1e601af Heng Du started the topic CFP: Permutations of the “Imagination”; Grappling with Absence in the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/cfp-permutations-of-the-imagination-grappling-with-absence-2/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:11:09 -0500 The MLA Pre-14th c. Chinese Lang Lit & Cul Forum is inviting proposals for the following two panels:

<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 and medieval China – and beyond.…[Read more]

]]> 0 2daef4e07a7478b88bcf768087773531 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-5/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:53:21 -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 6c2c8a824a5d5871288a361299ba23e8 Maria Franca Sibau started the topic Forum Executive Committee Invites Self-Nominations in the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-invites-self-nominations/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:03:27 -0500 The Ming and Qing Chinese forum executive committee invites self-nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term beginning in January 2027. Please send all nominations, and any questions you might have about the position, to Maria Franca Sibau at maria.sibau@emory.edu, by February 10, 2026. Many thanks!

]]> 0 81dd10f4b57b1c37290fde01d37f3773 Stephanie Shirilan started the topic Seeking Nominations for Sci Lit Exec Cttee! in the forum TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-sci-lit-exec-cttee/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:30:04 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

With apologies for my own belated entry into this designated digital discussion space, I am writing on behalf of the Executive Cttee for this TC Science and Literature Forum to say hello and solicit nominations (especially self-nominations) for a new Executive Committee member whose five-year term will begin in Jan 2027. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fd0130068183c6c1f8a64d90c5cc27c Heng Du started the topic Call for Proposals for MLA 2027 in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-for-mla-2027/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:23:06 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2027 MLA annual convention, which will be held Jan 7-10 in Los Angeles. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 0 954649814b4229611358d71541b321cf Heng Du started the topic Forum Executive Committee Seeks Nominations for 2027-2032 term in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-seeks-nominations-for-2027-2032-term/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:17:23 -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, 2027. We are particularly interested in junior scholars focusing on the medieval period, with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in…[Read more]

]]> 0 91883107bb3d582cdb8572c4bc16a7f0 Hua Li started the topic CFP for the 2027 MLA Conference in the forum GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-for-the-2027-mla-conference/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:52:18 -0500 This is a CFP for a guaranteed panel sponsored by the forum of GS Speculative Fiction for the 2027 MLA conference.
Title: Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction

Submit to Hua Li: huali@montana.edu
Description & Requirements: We invite papers engaging ecocritical approaches to Western and non-Western science fiction and fantasy exploring…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6010ba603cf4913c2e985663f1bcee6 Cristina Bacchilega replied to the topic GS Speculative Fiction--- New Committee Member Needed in the forum GS Speculative Fiction via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/gs-speculative-fiction-new-committee-member-needed/#post-1040713 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:52:21 -0500 Sorry. I am no longer an MLA member. I do not appreciate their lack of
support for Palestine.

Cristina Bacchilega
Professor Emerita of English
University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa

Cristina Bacchilega


Recent books
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350348295&st=
(open ac…[Read more]

]]> 0 72598d4118062ad915c9dcf0b367e509 Hua Li started the topic GS Speculative Fiction--- New Committee Member Needed in the forum GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/gs-speculative-fiction-new-committee-member-needed/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:47:28 -0500 The GS Speculative Fiction Forum needs one new committee member to serve a five-year term starting from 2027. This is an excellent opportunity for junior or senior faculty to serve at a national level. Please email me if you are interested or have any questions at huali@montana.edu by Feb. 27, 2026.

]]> 0 9bc9b5189830428c2d8a9f95891f80e5 Heng Du started the topic Panels on Chinese and EA Lit at the MLA (Toronto, Jan 8-11) in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/panels-on-chinese-and-ea-lit-at-the-mla-toronto-jan-8-11-2/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:11:27 -0500 <div>Dear Colleagues, please find in this Google Doc a compilation of panels related to the study of Chinese and East Asian Literatures at the MLA. We hope to see you there!</div>
<div></div>
<div>Warmly,</div>
<div></div>
<div>MLA Committees on Ming and Qing China & Pre-14th Century…[Read more]

]]> 0 f59d10c9947ec050bb3de2bc4e7a4ded Heng Du started the topic Panels on Chinese and EA Lit at the MLA (Toronto, Jan 8-11) in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/panels-on-chinese-and-ea-lit-at-the-mla-toronto-jan-8-11/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:09:48 -0500 Dear Colleagues, please find in this Google Doc a compilation of panels related to the study of China and East Asia at the MLA. We hope to see you there!

Warmly,

MLA Committees on Ming and Qing China & Pre-14th Century China

]]> 0 e4a9b2e4b2aebe5a84665701bc938579 Heng Du started the topic Panels on Chinese Lit and EA at the MLA in the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/panels-on-chinese-lit-and-ea-at-the-mla/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:05:42 -0500 Dear Colleagues, please find in this Google Doc a compilation of panels related to the study of China and East Asia at the MLA. We hope to see you there!

Warmly,

MLA Committees on Ming and Qing China & Pre-14th Century China

]]> 0 639a867bf8db30aa009a75233916b3e3 Rachel Haywood started the topic CfP for MLA 2026: Speculative Fiction forum (guaranteed session) in the forum GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2026-speculative-fiction-forum-guaranteed-session-2/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:19:48 -0500 MLA Call for Papers #29768

Session Title:  Genealogies and Futurities of AI in Speculative Fiction

Submit proposals to:  Rachel Haywood, Iowa State University (rhaywood@iastate.edu)

 

Description & Requirements:

Inviting proposals examining AI’s historical and futuristic representations in speculative fiction. How have speculative nar…[Read more]

]]> 0 353395ec89efb2c73702b5eca12021f1 Eric Hayot started the topic Call for Nominations for P14 China Representative to MLA Delegate Assembly in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-p14-china-representative-to-mla-delegate-assembly/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:47:29 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites nominations and self-nominations to serve as the forum’s representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. The election for the position will be held in the Fall of 2025, for a three-year term beginning January 2026 (after the convention).

Details about Delegate Assembly membership and…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f38280587daa86ad2b6c841a543e3ef Eric Hayot started the topic Call for Proposals for 2026 MLA conference in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-for-2026-mla-conference/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:43:41 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2025 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 8-11 in Toronto. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 0 7892050b15402196fe62b618169a5cbd Eric Hayot started the topic Forum Executive Committee Seeks Nominations for 2026-2031 term in the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-seeks-nominations-for-2026-2031-term/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:41:13 -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, 2026. 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 461bd69c3b1d31ccd38a618f0db401b4 Nathaniel Isaacson started the topic Self-Nominations: MLA Modern and Contemporary Forum in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/self-nominations-mla-modern-and-contemporary-forum/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:43:09 -0500 The MLA Forum for Modern and Contemporary Chinese invites self-nominations for executive committee candidates. Executive committee members serve a five-year term, beginning at the MLA Annual Convention in 2026, and must be prepared to retain MLA membership and regularly attend the MLA Convention during this period. The Forum will vote on nominees…[Read more]

]]> 0 01fa46361ee29cc820b32791fd95f438 andré carrington started the topic [CFP: Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, April 4-5 2025] in the forum GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-eaton-conference-on-speculative-fiction-april-4-5-2025/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:34:09 -0400 [CFP: Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, April 4-5 2025]

deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024
Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside
contact email: eatonconference@gmail.com
Conference Date: April 4-5, 2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AVXufNHQQFN00hrpVBOOsl2jMpv5-_ss/view

We warmly invite established and…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d6917be9337ee9eae3e8a1a8458e002 andré carrington posted an update in the group GS Speculative Fiction: [CFP: Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, April 4-5 […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1903570/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:30:22 -0400 [CFP: Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, April 4-5 2025]
deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024
Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside
contact email: eatonconference@gmail.com
Conference Date: April 4-5, 2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AVXufNHQQFN00hrpVBOOsl2jMpv5-_ss/view

We warmly invite established and…[Read more]

]]> 0 044f20111b0751c85aed46f10b528901 Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887205/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:10:32 -0400 Interim bibliography on the Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), May 2024

]]> 0 bbb36dfa631ec1f34935ae82dc60ee48 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887200/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:02:08 -0400 Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

]]> 0 bfbcfe0405bdb0fb578f124df5c3caf7 Louise Bethlehem deposited Lauren Beukes and African Futurism Interim Bibliography in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887044/ Fri, 24 May 2024 04:05:00 -0400 Research at the intersection between the African Futurism and the work of post-apartheid writer, Lauren Beukes.

]]> 0 6a6a0bf97842de957d94923de1abecea Louise Bethlehem deposited African Futurism Interim Bibliography in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887042/ Fri, 24 May 2024 04:02:13 -0400 A compilation of articles on African Futurism generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism research project supported by THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), updated May 2024.

]]> 0 1602961c6669fe6282afa940c429965e 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 Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886041/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:01:13 -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 8aa490bbe35b7c4c66dea57a6413aed3 Nicolai Volland started the topic MLA 2025: Collaborative session proposals in the discussion LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/mla-2025-collaborative-session-proposals/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:03:09 -0400 Dear members of the LLC Modern & Contemporary Chinese:

our Forum can sponsor one more “non-guaranteed, collaborative” session for the 2025 Convention. If you know of another forum with an open collaborative slot, or if you are organizing a proposal with another forum that you’d like the LLC Modern & Contemporary Chinese to co-sponsor, please…[Read more]

]]> 0 021ec4824576208999326ed8b6bb9ed2 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 Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878851/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:02:41 -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 dd49efb595d90502b082567e4ca80f36 Robert Nguyen started the topic Silicon Valley Beyond the Valley (CFP due 3/15, MLA2025 Sp. Session Proposal) in the discussion GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/silicon-valley-beyond-the-valley-cfp-due-3-15-mla2025-sp-session-proposal/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:26:56 -0500 Dear colleagues,

This post is a solicitation for papers for a special session proposal for MLA 2025 in New Orleans. The call is pasted further below and can also be found on the MLA website; as those calls are quite brief, I’ve included further below additional details.

I’m happy to respond to questions here, and I can also be reached at…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9defb0ddb563af9ac8978cd6d90e4f9 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 Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876065/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:16:09 -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 e73db22182bcf799755fc9f7abbd0aac 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 Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876061/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:10:47 -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 b5e1307cd3566f46df7a78557b226a4a Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-2/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:23:54 -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 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 530d1090145ed949612e0e9ce1d801b1 Darren J. Borg started the topic CFP: Collection on Intersectionality and Speculative Fiction in the discussion GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-collection-on-intersectionality-and-speculative-fiction/ Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:18:49 -0500 Please consider submitting to the attached CFP for a collection we are putting together as a follow up to our panel at the MLA, “What is a Life Worth Living?”: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life.

]]> 0 3308d1038e42855c4f715bfab63b8ffb Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/scaglione-prize-for-east-asian-studies-6/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:50:14 -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 19dabbaef64076eba761b88f53c5a13d Sarah Allen started the topic Call for nominations: LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese forum executive committee in the discussion LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-pre-14th-century-chinese-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:18:40 -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 b56eb8a086b70ab1c301b706c838c77e Rania Huntington started the topic Soliciting ideas for panel sessions, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/soliciting-ideas-for-panel-sessions-mla-2025/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:42:41 -0500 As you may know, every year our forum has two guaranteed panel sessions for the MLA convention. The Executive Committee of the forum would like to consider ideas from as broad a range of our membership as possible. Please share your ideas for these sessions for the 2025 convention in New Orleans. At this stage it can be a general idea, without a…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ee1285e956eda99e08e50d39039c0b2 Rania Huntington started the topic Suggestions for Executive Committee membership in the discussion LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/suggestions-for-executive-committee-membership/ Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:39:34 -0500 The Ming-Qing forum Executive Committee welcomes member suggestions, including self-nominations, for a new members of the Committee with a term beginning in 2024. Committee members must be MLA members, not a member of another forum’s Excutive Committee unless that position ends in 2024, and have not been an executive committee member of our forum…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb6c448bbb0739c69cd3a941f2bf48fc Rania Huntington started the topic Chinese and East Asian Literature reception, Friday January 5, 2024 in the discussion LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/chinese-and-east-asian-literature-reception-friday-january-5-2024/ Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:26:51 -0500 Please join us for the Chinese and East Asian Literature reception at MLA 2024 in Philadelphia, co- sponsored by the forums on Ming and Qing Chinese literature, pre-1400 Chinese literature, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, and East Asian Literature.

Time: Friday, January 5, 7:15-8:30 PM

Location: Marriott Grand A

Thanks to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b7883537352a3f0a4250eee1ffe1979 Rania Huntington started the topic Geiss-Hsu Travel Grant for MLA 2024 participants in the discussion LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ming-and-qing-chinese/forum/topic/geiss-hsu-travel-grant-for-mla-2024-participants/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:07:33 -0400 Thanks to the generous support of the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu  Foundation, the Executive Committee of the Ming-Qing Forum of the Modern Languages Association is pleased to announce the Geiss-Hsu Travel Grant to support participation in the 2024 MLA annual convention by scholars of the Ming and adjacent periods. Convention participants (…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ea63c5606b24a218bf40f6922de1af4 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861772/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:08:55 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a53fd4deb2ba6a532d10503fbe7e1e1 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854168/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:24:23 -0400 Makes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.

]]> 0 9a5e83b8101a9a604626539f01aaea8e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Lin Shu." The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852244/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 03:51:37 -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 78b8869494a4d212cb62583f029216ad Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group GS Speculative Fiction: Very excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart's Lesabéndio […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1843357/ Wed, 03 May 2023 00:30:13 -0400 Very excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle

]]> 0 bcc5c7bd69e61d675162630f8e0fa625 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Translational Agency in Liang Shiqiu’s Vernacular Sonnets," Shakespeare's Global Sonnets: Translation, Adaptation, Performance, ed. Jane Kingsley-Smith and W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 161-179 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835417/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 04:05:11 -0500 Like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Shakespeare’s Sonnets challenge the binaries between gender and between the vernacular and the literary. Translators take up this challenge and turn it into an opportunity for humanist interpretations of literature, as in the case of Taiwanese essayist Liang Shiqiu’s (1903–1987) translation. Widely known in the Sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 40777b997e6171981d61a8ff1cbfa13c Sarah Allen started the topic UPDATED UPDATED Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/updated-updated-call-for-proposals-for-the-2024-mla/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:32:28 -0500 Please note new deadline of 2/1 for proposal submissions, with apologies for the confusion!!

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…[Read more]

]]> 0 869a7d6cb0934515e7910e3dffe82090 Sarah Allen started the topic UPDATED Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/updated-call-for-proposals-for-the-2024-mla/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:22:34 -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 f558aa05691587a38f9142c53999cb58 Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-for-the-2024-mla/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:16:23 -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 892da87474c6d290039936a794332b3a Jack W. Chen started the topic Executive Forum Call for Nominations in the discussion LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/pre-14th-century-chinese/forum/topic/executive-forum-call-for-nominations/ Sat, 07 Jan 2023 21:54:04 -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 a37db09b892ec2e8ef17eb0e46cb2f3d Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823097/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:24:28 -0500 Considering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature?

]]> 0 78d6293de20e00b3f2f4d7c8ac47b0d3 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 Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1794547/ Sat, 17 Sep 2022 03:51:02 -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]

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