SAH Commons | Phyllis Lassner | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/p67418/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Phyllis Lassner is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:21:47 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c816b817b008b4edcd8fee8466805037 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:48:02 -0500 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b3d0dcffea9e20c766f2f1a1e69dae1 MelissaBarchi Panek replied to the topic CFP: MLA 2027 (Los Angeles) — Mediated Futures: Technology and Transformation in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-los-angeles-mediated-futures-technology-and-transformation/#post-1040868 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:15:00 -0500 Call for Papers

Comparative Literature and Culture Studies (20th–21st Century)
Modern Language Association Conference, January 7-10 Los Angeles
Electronic Roundtable (8 participants)

Mediated Futures: Technology, Transformation, and the Literary-Cultural Field

This electronic roundtable invites short, exploratory interventions on the t…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a134d04b52bbae087bb76be6fc88d27 Andrea Zemgulys started the topic Joint Conference in Twentieth Century Lit (FeministinterModernist Space Between) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/joint-conference-in-twentieth-century-lit-feminist-modernist-and-space-between/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:07:30 -0500 FORWARDING ON BEHALF OF OTHERS (see email for contact information!)

A joint conference of the Space Between Society and the Feministinter/Modernist Association (FiMA)
University of North Carolina, GreensboroMay 26 – 29, 2026Proposals Due: January 15, 2026

CFP: SOLIDARITY!
Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for this year’s joint c…[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 0e8778175fa4e3943197d13818255d7c Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-3/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:50:52 -0500 Please consider applying and share widely!

]]> 0 bc5164b16277686d63d3ef2b1d08fefd Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:28:27 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extrajudicial kill…[Read more]

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

 

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

]]> 0 331fdbb76ec0d66fd7caa3e7ff63e943 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cf-applications-for-the-position-of-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:10:00 -0500 The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies.

 

Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: global animation; cinemas of East, Southeast, South, or Western Asia and…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc23953ca41a5b0470b18ce556a91ae7 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-3/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:03:43 -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 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 895c3dd6571a8af9459c5806c4ee68a8 Nattie Golubov uploaded the file: CFP Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2025-2025 to TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1924521/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:30:00 -0400 The first election of Donald Trump sparked a series of “Rogue” romance anthologies that framed love as resistance, and the romance genre as progressive and inclusive. Looking back after a decade, how has the genre registered and responded to ongoing political contexts–in the United States and elsewhere–of political radicalization, xenophobia,…[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 de6584d7523b9ec9f4b235077aed8f4d Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-amplifying-womens-voices-of-resistance/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:53:35 -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 a3166754357999561411cebfb54f2992 Autumn Womack started the topic Seeking Nominations For Prose Fiction Executive Committee in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:47:10 -0400 We’d very much like nominations (self nominations count!) for new committee members for the Prose Fiction Forum.  The term would begin Jan 2026 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas: amwomack@princeton.edu

]]> 0 b877a6cf3316f13060c8bcaf632c4055 Robert Nguyen started the topic MLA 2026 CFPs, TC Adaptation Studies forum in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfps-tc-adaptation-studies-forum/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:39:32 -0400 Good morning,

Good morning,

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

]]> 0 daa2de088a7ab1be014cd337cae1f691 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-8/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:26:29 -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 c21107a92990bb519167da689a9f06c7 Michael Subialka started the topic CFP "Who Do We Resemble? Selfhood, Perception, and Modernist Multiplicity" MLA in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-who-do-we-resemble-selfhood-perception-and-modernist-multiplicity-mla/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:17:20 -0500 Luigi Pirandello’s One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (1926) presents a radical meditation on the fragmentation of identity, the impossibility of “true” self-perception, and the crisis of being seen differently by others. Published exactly a century ago, the novel interrogates the ways in which individuals exist not as unified selves but as…[Read more]

]]> 0 e94efe99d5b627aed803ba118342e062 Tanya Shilina-Conte started the topic New Book: Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/new-book-black-screens-white-frames-gilles-deleuze-and-the-filmmaking-machine-4/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:38:23 -0500 Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine by Tanya Shilina-Conte is now available from Oxford University Press<u>: </u><u>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-screens-white-frames-9780197511336?cc=us&lang=en&#</u&gt;
<div class=”clearfix text-formatted field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8da52a82eba4d12541d7a4ee2f831fd Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/session-413-navigating-the-academy-a-mentoring-session-4/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:10:30 -0500 MLA 2025 Convention

MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession

Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session

 

NB: Session Information Follows. The mentoring session will continue informally following the roundtable via happy hour. Location: Ernst Café (600 S. Peters St.; across the street from the Hilton R…[Read more]

]]> 0 13ba7be5f3cd204b8809c48eb3104b06 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:58:34 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 0 c793b5b6e251dee1bff2d9cc68b93048 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:57:02 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 0 c5cc64396d5b9776ae727e5016cb122d Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-8/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:31:47 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 34d16a28df8835ef00c26a4bda7f8aa2 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-7/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:26:40 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8a6b7627444eb73c011563f94a4fc4d Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900966/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:13:45 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 2fefff99434499ac9c1c4efad33eb939 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900965/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:11:04 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 98412a2e171d72d17c3d1a23ff1aa1ce Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900963/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:05:42 -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 6ec34b11565be267a1b47eb36f4a4a09 Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900962/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:03:00 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

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

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

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

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

]]> 0 04177f7098d2441c828fe972bfbd4fac Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-3/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:03:14 -0400 Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: h…[Read more]

]]> 0 663c563867ffa0eedf8c7aa748df7953 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-2/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:55:38 -0400 Society of Novel Studies 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c7eee83e6c1050917a831971f326076 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:48:12 -0400 SNS 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2025 conference t…[Read more]

]]> 0 35509d6899737496d6df1fffec6cee0d Aarthi Vadde started the topic Society of Novel Studies 2025 CFP: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/society-of-novel-studies-2025-cfp-novel-languages/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:31 -0400 “NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies
Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website

The 2025 conference theme—…[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 457b5c4448c53e0e142413fccd6432da Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Review of Joseph O'Neill, in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890598/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:00:27 -0400 Early, refereed review of Joseph O’Neill’s third, groundbreaking novel set in post-9/11 New York City: the review charts key plot developments, a transatlantic mapping of the characters (Netherlands, Trinidad, UK and US) and its structural similarities to F Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. Originally published in the third issue of the…[Read more]

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

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

]]> 0 4f9442367a2527580c0220213c974ab3 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890327/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:08:57 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 a04eca7d0e61cf1615cabebfd0f77c37 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890326/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:05:42 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 74ac9e9b043df28e8632b000dd676f27 Brian Gregory Caraher deposited "Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!": Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890209/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:05:39 -0400 This paper describes the social and cultural climate of teaching the works of James Joyce — including his journalism and major works of fiction from “Dubliners” through “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake” — over the years 1993 to 2016 when the author was the Chair of English Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. The author draws upon his…[Read more]

]]> 0 f562bbe393c3a465eda69d68fc3fd8aa Brian Gregory Caraher deposited "Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!": Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890207/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 This paper describes the social and cultural climate of teaching the works of James Joyce — including his journalism and major works of fiction from “Dubliners” through “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake” — over the years 1993 to 2016 when the author was the Chair of English Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. The author draws upon his…[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 065b87c807f4b04bc751ae327171939a Katina Rogers deposited The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889658/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:53 -0400 The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing the ineffable qualities of…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d7c6486c99ba64dab093d69d0b2bfb1 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889186/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:21:53 -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 e3cfa136dddbc55ff6bc164146493c0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889181/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:53 -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]

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