SAH Commons | Laraine R. Fergenson | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/poetryloverlaurie/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Laraine R. Fergenson is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 db39cbbae8c7e4aaa131014be0eaa4a1 Tara Coleman started the topic CFP: Emancipatory Narratives and Academic Freedom in the Writing Classroom in the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/cfp-emancipatory-narratives-and-academic-freedom-in-the-writing-classroom/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:07:28 -0500 Call for proposals for a guaranteed session for the 2027 MLA convention, sponsored by the Writing Pedagogies forum:

Seeking 250-word proposals exploring the impact of institutional and/or professional positionalities on how our students learn to interrogate dominant narratives in their writing. How do we emancipate students while recognizing our…[Read more]

]]> 0 5227434fde7c687dc1b9926128c005a0 Eric Aronoff started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (April 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/deadline-extended-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-april-1/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:43:27 -0500 EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 1 2026 

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors

Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition

Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 0163dd257b312c6442067668ed2ac7ec Eric Aronoff started the topic Contribute to New edition of MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (Feb. 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/contribute-to-new-edition-of-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-feb-1/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:33:43 -0500 Call for Survey Participants and Contributors
Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition
Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and materials available to teachers of Moby-Di…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 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 61083f16359bfa9076f03dd6fa7c7efd Lee B. Abraham started the topic Call for Papers: MLA 2026 for Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning in the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2026-for-forum-on-second-language-teaching-and-learning-3/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:43:00 -0400 Call for Papers
Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 8-11, 2026, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 0 865c8bbd1e34f01f43d9a99b09cef71c Tara Coleman started the topic Calls for Proposals: MLA 2026 Convention in Toronto in the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/calls-for-proposals-mla-2026-convention-in-toronto/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:00:33 -0500 The RCWS forum in Writing Pedagogies is organizing two panels for the MLA 2026 Convention in Toronto. Please reach out if you have questions or are interested in proposing something for either of these sessions!

Kinship, Care, and Writing Instruction
How do writing instructors foster connection across communities while navigating cultural and…[Read more]

]]> 0 38629fca75fe7b32a38be1f6544a0b6a Paul Michael Johnson started the topic CFP: Mediterranean Racialization (MLA 2026, Toronto) in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/cfp-mediterranean-racialization-mla-2026-toronto/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:56:11 -0500 How have conceptions of race shaped the Mediterranean, and how has the Mediterranean shaped the concept or lived experience of race? Potential approaches include racialization of nation, empire, and migration. 200-word abstracts to pmjohnson@jhu.edu. Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 15 March 2025

]]> 0 c92b65091a851503aea891c2101dc610 Paul Michael Johnson started the topic CFP: Iberian and Mediterranean Exteriorities (MLA 2026, Toronto) in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/cfp-iberian-and-mediterranean-exteriorities-mla-2026-toronto/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:51:36 -0500 Mediterranean territories “exterior” but connected to the Iberian Peninsula: Gibraltar, Maghreb, Ceuta, Melilla, Chafarinas, Baleares, Sardinia, Sicily, Naples, Sephardic communities, etc. All approaches considered. 200-word abstracts: MLA.Iberian.Lit.Cult.20th.21st.c@gmail.com and rpnewcomb@ucdavis.edu. Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025

]]> 0 c95335d4403ce9d68229f677e67b4672 Paul Michael Johnson started the topic Session on Mediterranean Sexualities this Saturday at MLA Convention in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/session-on-mediterranean-sexualities-this-saturday-at-mla-convention/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:48:59 -0500 For those who will be at the MLA Convention in New Orleans this week, please plan to attend our panel on Mediterranean Sexualities this Saturday, January 11, 10:15 – 11:30 a.m.  It will feature exciting presentations on asexuality, the queer female gaze, and alterity in ancient drama, Roman history, and Moroccan film, among other timely issues,…[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 89f0cf87394f60e5dc22df5f48823346 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/translation-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-6/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:12:45 -0500 Reading Cultures

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

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

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

]]> 0 796971bce75bc3c605a66641c8db8c6d Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902703/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:01:49 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 d34927ce4e55de52f921986d63b92140 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902283/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:01:50 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 811ee82ade023455300b6ad64802f5a4 Seo-Young Chu deposited Describing DICTEE in the group Poetics and Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896118/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:05:23 -0400 The visual images in Dictee are famously captionless. They resist straightforward explanation. In writing image descriptions of the images in Dictee, I have tried to preserve the “captionlessness” of the original. The point here is not to explain the pictures—an image description is not identical to a caption—but to make Dictee more accessible to…[Read more]

]]> 0 7dcc36a6d19353c8ad8c235bfd4a2b9d Corine Tachtiris deposited Translation Matters undergraduate syllabus in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896113/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:02:31 -0400 Syllabus for a 100-level undergraduate, general-education course in translation studies. Aimed at giving students translation literacy and introducing major practical and ethical problems of translation. Also includes practical approaches for hands-on learning. Syllabus includes list of readings, intralingual translation exercises, assignment…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d5cfaca5510df82b7af4f424eaadf8b Corine Tachtiris deposited Literary Translation Workshop - Multilingual, Grad-level in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896112/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Syllabus for a multilingual literary translation workshop at the graduate-student level. Includes translation exercises, assignment guidelines, and links to online readings. First taught in Spring 2021.

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

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

]]> 0 15b34bb549682037fd6cf2ff025a9519 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:28:57 -0400 Dear All,

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

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

]]> 0 e8bca9b0d17ea827485eb9f34050f6bb Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890472/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:08:37 -0400 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody’s muse.

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

]]> 0 2006ec5932b424c8aaf07aad13aa6999 Rosanna Cantavella deposited Inventari dels rims acordants i diccionals en Jordi de Sant Jordi in the group Poetics and Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889656/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:26 -0400 This .ods spreadsheet collects all acordant and diccional rhymes of the preserved poetry of Jordi de Sant Jordi. This inventory has been udertaken by Rosanna Cantavella (Universitat de València-Clare Hall University of Cambridge), and interpreted as a paper for the symposion “‘Tots jorns aprench e desaprench ensemps’: 600 anys de Jordi de Sant…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4ca20dd69d64e02ded476a7a54b2afd Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887556/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:07:02 -0400 One of the most important factors literary critics often overlook in the work of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-
1910) is the fact that it was subject to the censorship of the tsarist government before it was allowed to be published
in Russia. This harassment lasted the entire period of Tolstoy’s writing life, and although neither he nor his f…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8e60a3ab34256cef747a9362eb9e986 David A. Wacks deposited Medieval Iberian Romance in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886748/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:09:28 -0400 The story of the medieval Romance on the Iberian Peninsula is a bit more complicated than that we read in traditional histories of Spanish or Catalan literature. Hebrew and Arabic authors also wrote texts that could be classified as romances some years before the Castilian Grail and Amadís. These authors adapted the motifs of Arthurian or…[Read more]

]]> 0 148f7179d248e7c501a2d9f649e3ef81 David A. Wacks deposited Foreword: 50 years of Spanish Arabism in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886745/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:05:35 -0400 Spanish Arabism was a touchstone of the major intellectual and political issues facing Spain as it emerged from its imperial past into its current form as a modern nation-state. James T. Monroe’s survey of four centuries of Spanish scholarship on the cultural history of al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) establishes Spanish scholars on the forefront of E…[Read more]

]]> 0 f97e943f615639c465e202fa64267b90 David A. Wacks deposited Preface to The Study of al-Andalus The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886743/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:02:18 -0400 The Study of al-Andalus is a collection of essays by students and colleagues of James T. Monroe, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Arabic at the University of California, Berkeley, and the premier scholar of Andalusi (Hispano-Arabic) literature in the United States. The introduction by the editors explains the impact Monroe’s s…[Read more]

]]> 0 bbe2fa506b6d57ba0cbd37f15b244451 Maurizio Brancaleoni deposited Three Poems from Amelia Rosselli’s “Appunti sparsi e persi” (English Translation by Maurizio Brancaleoni) in the group Poetics and Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886469/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:00:45 -0400 Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) is considered one of the most important Italian poets of the past century. Born in Paris, she had to flee to Switzerland and then to the U.S. after the murder of her father and her uncle at the hands of Fascist militias. Back in Italy in the late 40s, in 1950 she settled in Rome, where she would spend the rest of her…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fa14591ea1e0a184fc89830079bb0f1 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited برابری‌خواهی جنسیتی در شعر پروین اعتصامی؟ in the group Poetics and Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884561/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:19:30 -0400 در بررسی شعر فمنیستی فارسی معمولاً به نام فروغ فرخزاد، سیمین بهبهانی، طاهره قره‌العین، زندخت شیرازی و اخیراً ژاله عالم‌تاج قائم‌‌مقامی برمی‌خوریم و نام پروین اعتصامی (1285-1320ش) در چنین مباحثی مطرح نمی‌شود. آنچه پژوهشگران تا به اکنون دربارۀ شعر او در کانون توجه قرار داده‌اند جنبه‌های اجتماعی اشعار این شاعر و تلاش وی برای به تصویر کشیدن…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec54bebeafc2788f315070e0740e112a David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884546/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:15:42 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ad9f8b44f08767fa62b6382592d8ad5 David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884541/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:10:03 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ef798cb893ffd8f4ba75fcd2c76ccb8 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/dear-colleagues-i-assoc-prof-dr-fatma-fulya-tepe-from-istanbul-aydin/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:35:20 -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 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 b820cf099d226b5a4acdd02011e24e3d Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La poesía de protesta medieval a través del cine de Hollywood, de los Monty Python y de la serie Juego de Tronos in the group Poetics and Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880568/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:01:07 -0400 El presente trabajo articula varias reflexiones sobre la poesía de protesta en la Castilla medieval y su representación en la pequeña y en la gran pantalla a través de tres referencias audiovisuales: un filme clásico del cine histórico de Hollywood, ‘El valle de las espadas’ ( ‘The Castillian’, 1963); uno de los grandes éxitos humoríst…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c41fb0a5a05b79af9c8e31160d167a5 David A. Wacks started the topic Online workshop: Intro to Sephardic Culture (online July 8-11) Deadline Apr 15 in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/online-workshop-intro-to-sephardic-culture-online-july-8-11-deadline-apr-15/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:18:27 -0400 This summer I’ll be teaching on online workshop for grad students, faculty, and professionals: “Sephardic Culture: An Introduction” 8-11 July 2024 (remote). Deadline to apply is April 15. Please share widely! https://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/overview-sephardic-culture-2024

]]> 0 467f3db4ada6b1770092e206341ac67c David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879891/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:09:37 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d434741092832fb63a81580bdf40a71 David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879886/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:04:40 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 95c452ff9785d98096af4a505a7f687b Paul Michael Johnson started the topic Last call to submit an abstract for MLA 2024 panel on Mediterranean Sexualities in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/last-call-to-submit-an-abstract-for-mla-2024-panel-on-mediterranean-sexualities/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:35:36 -0400 Mediterranean Sexualities
<div></div>
How do Mediterranean sexual epistemologies challenge common approaches to the history of sexuality? Especially encouraged are papers considering queer sexuality and erotics with (in)visibility of/in archives, empire, slavery, race, migration, and nation. 200-word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15…[Read more]

]]> 0 f82dffac1731931a4e77d0673a049b68 Tara Coleman started the topic Seeking Nominations for the RCWS Writing Pedagogies Form Committee in the discussion RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-rcws-writing-pedagogies-form-committee/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:45:56 -0500 The RCWS Writing Pedagogies Forum requests nominations for a new Executive Committee member! We’re seeking passionate individuals with a dedication to writing pedagogies to contribute to our community. Being on the committee allows you to participate in organizing guaranteed sessions for the MLA convention each January and generally engage in…[Read more]

]]> 0 583238d4880008c95636f50a3bf552ad Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26425-italian-american-llc-guaranteed-session-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:15:12 -0500 #26425 – Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers

Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

New Orleans has for centuries been a port of call and interstitial space beckoning people to its banks, whether through choice, coercion, or bondage.

For the Italian diaspora, New Orleans has been one…[Read more]

]]> 0 e903db105c16658b452a2750b9efd075 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26426-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-session-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:10:53 -0500 #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session

Title: Italian Creole: Accents and Intersections

This panel takes the rich history of Italian Americans in New Orleans as a starting point for exploring the politics and power of ethnic visibility in New Orleans. Italians and Italian Americans were foundational to the early infrastructure…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5016f4a927012adc17a4896f569f122 johnpendergast started the topic CfP MLA 2025 Opera and Musical Performance, 01/9-12/2025, New Orleans in the discussion CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romantic-and-19th-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2025-opera-and-musical-performance-01-9-12-2025-new-orleans-2/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:05:10 -0500 “Horizons of Musical Adaptation: Audibility, Visibility, Media and Performance”

Musical adaptations from literary texts (see Broomfield-McHugh 2019; Elliott 2020; Hutcheon 2006; Leitch 2007, 2023, etc.) make the invisible (e.g. context, subtext) audible, and perhaps visible anew (e.g. staging, cinematography)—re/shaping meaning and recep…[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 9c21c02f9108fb669ce869d0fa2f0066 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:21:22 -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 ed00f5554fd02608613332491b43ee0c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New short story: Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-short-story-professor-mali-romantic-longhair-and-the-girl/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:24:23 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

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

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

]]> 0 9f5c14480a8af553f4154f9dc3dbae85 David A. Wacks started the topic International Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Summer School (Jersualem, July 28-Aug 12) in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/international-ladino-judeo-spanish-summer-school-jersualem-july-28-aug-12/ Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:46:27 -0500 The first International Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Summer School will be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from July 28 to August 12, 2024. The intensive courses about the Sephardi language and culture (6 credits) will be held in English and will form a meeting point between Israeli and international students in the fields of Jewish Studies,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3202468bd3d10979b32b42564af032a2 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy , by Zhinia Noorian, Leiden, Leiden University Press, 2023, 284 pp. €117.00, ISBN 9789087284121 in the group Poetics and Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873210/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 03:01:03 -0500 The volume provides readers with close reading—a dimension that has been notably neglected in most analyses of Iʿtiṣāmī’s poetry. The significance of Noorian’s approach extends beyond such meticulous close readings; she equally emphasizes the contextualization of Iʿtiṣāmī’s career within the broader framework of modern Iran. In this manner, the v…[Read more]

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