SAH Commons | Robin Visser | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/rvisser/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Robin Visser is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:11:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 084dfed0c0bc033445ea05542e3e8b3d Heng Du started the topic CFP: Permutations of the “Imagination”; Grappling with Absence in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-permutations-of-the-imagination-grappling-with-absence/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:09:21 -0500 The MLA Pre-14th c. Chinese Lang Lit & Cul Forum is inviting proposals for the following two panels.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> </span>

<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…[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 9b4259816cfb740985c7bf6d1803697e Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-4/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:52:03 -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 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>
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<div>Warmly,</div>
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<div>MLA Committees on Ming and Qing China & Pre-14th Century…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7e66adea713777f8932a4c7e89b6d4f Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due by 1/15/26 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-by-1-15-26/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:52:54 -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 9a0828f599954a53e60ae5243aa1fa2b Linda Badley uploaded the file: REMINDER: Abstracts due 9/15: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive to TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1926260/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:51:26 -0400 Abstracts (300-400 words) and a short bio are due September 15th, first drafts March 30, 2026, and final drafts October 31, 2026. When needed, deadlines can be extended. Please send abstracts to Linda Badley (lbadley@comcast.net), Jenna Coughlin (coughl3@stolaf.edu), and Gitte Mose (gitte.mose@iln.uio.no). For more information, see below:

]]> 0 26f9aa9adc6b3a268da92ca93cf090e8 Tian Jing Teh started the topic CFP USC Korean Studies Institute Annual Graduate Conference 2025-2026 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-usc-korean-studies-institute-annual-graduate-conference-2025-2026/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:09:13 -0400 The USC Korean Studies Institute invites applications for its Annual USC Graduate Conference in Korean Studies 2025-2026. This conference aims to foster a multidisciplinary community of local and regional graduate students whose research projects significantly engage Korean society and culture across the periods. It offers a platform for emerging…[Read more]

]]> 0 b094bfbbe1c1842a331b2fdbe494942d Linda Badley started the topic CFP: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-future-library-critical-approaches-to-an-unseen-archive/ Sun, 11 May 2025 18:35:21 -0400 Jenna Coughlin, Gitte Mose, and I are excited to be co-editing a collection of essays about Future Library. Please consider submitting a proposal and share the attached call with colleagues who may be interested in contributing.

]]> 0 dbcc7fc10cc931586e43d33246d7b1db Francisco E. Robles started the topic TC Race and Ethnicity - MLA 2026 panel on contemporary poetry of statelessness in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tc-race-and-ethnicity-mla-2026-panel-on-contemporary-poetry-of-statelessness/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:10:57 -0400 Contemporary Poetry of Statelessness

In her poem “Nights,” Mona Kareem cycles between images of natural processes (cloud formation, rain, phases of the moon) and human ritual actions (dancing, lamenting, singing), suggesting a delicate balance in the liminal zone between the porous self and the ever-changing world. Celestial bodies and human…[Read more]

]]> 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 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 bed759e6f99a8179ea616dcf19aafd15 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-17/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:33:42 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 5524f885b1ca8f70043d5b36e70bec1e Francisco E. Robles started the topic TC Race and Ethnicity Studies - Jobs in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tc-race-and-ethnicity-studies-jobs/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:59:24 -0400 Hi all,

I’m sending along a job posting from Texas A&M, which is in long nineteenth-century <span id=”_mainContent__descriptionText”>multi-ethnic, transnational, and comparative approaches to US literature</span>. This search is being chaired by Jessica Howell: https://faculty.tamu.edu/JobDetail?JobId=151010.

I also invite folks to add to this…[Read more]

]]> 0 27d9774623e34f616ab47334370fe09d Guylian Nemegeer started the topic Conference: Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity (29 October) in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/conference-pan-movements-regeneration-and-modernity-29-october/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:45:26 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Members in this group may be interested in the following conference. It is possible to attend the event online. Registration is needed: https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/89430443-ec0a-4dd1-8d2c-d3dfb82ad014

Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity (29 October)

This conference investigates the global development of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7583e36ca6b4738ea6c1e1f207c81ec5 Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP ACLA Seminar Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-acla-seminar-literature-resource-extraction-and-settler-colonialism-2/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:39:48 -0400 We are seeking papers for our ACLA seminar on Literature, Resource Extraction and Settler Colonialism for the 2025 ACLA conference (held online).

We invite papers that consider literary responses to various forms of resource extraction within settler colonial states. Extraction was and remains central to settler colonial projects around the…[Read more]

]]> 0 957b663ecd634e8c4d560585b26d9d17 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891695/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:03:47 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b6bb23195964ddd1cee8d0977a88df6 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-3/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 07:49:31 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 0 973069b14dbaf2b127bbe76d5c2f1564 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889189/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:31:08 -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 5c4dc6f3e54c4b336c421dcdd6815292 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889185/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:21:11 -0400 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7fdc8af26b6c0ed70fa772f30721b0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889177/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:03:45 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 890c526507d598544127f4a3b7896aa2 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887293/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:08:31 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3c724d6cbfdee489e425901f37f8517 Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887207/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:12:50 -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 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 cb348e5157f4c3a6115d5a712af2fa75 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887202/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:04:35 -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 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 06f816f7a922654b5a975298576da41e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886045/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:09:56 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 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 b7035478ecacbe747575cd69b0be1585 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 East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886040/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:00:15 -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 13bdfd6523fb954a4545031350fa4e81 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 East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878849/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:01:57 -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 510177aa4a2c57ecd382b3bf9e133aff Sarah Benharrech started the topic Enlightening Encounters: confronting the invisibility of the non-humans in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/enlightening-encounters-confronting-the-invisibility-of-the-non-humans/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:19:56 -0500 The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies- 18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed session:

Enlightening Encounters: confronting the invisibility of the non-humans, the less-than-humans and the-more-than humans, in the long 18th century.

This panel invites papers that explore en…[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 8344490172d70a9035dfa7a8cded582f 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 East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876064/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:15:27 -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 8b43440e5e6ec54332bfd3892c75887d 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 East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876060/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:10:03 -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 4219f23c1f32b787bc90c80531a4e50a Allison Carruth started the topic MLA25 CFPs for Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities Forum in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/mla25-cfps-for-ecocriticism-environmental-humanities-forum/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:25:37 -0500 The Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum EC has submitted three CFPs, one in collaboration with the Caribbean Studies forum to the MLA 2025 CFP submission site.

The calls are below with instructions for how to submit an abstract.

1. Forms of Water, Forms of Life

This panel invites blue humanities perspectives on literary forms,…[Read more]

]]> 0 34aba525092de1f5220fc056fa47a2a3 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-4/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:29:42 -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 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 91b33a0fa8702ef55c575e4b2f5696b5 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/mla-2025-cfp-entomological-turns-2/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:04:14 -0500 From Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.

This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]

]]> 0 20301abeb72a45b27319f5ea2225eddf Kristin Moriah started the topic Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women's Lives in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/un-bioed-radically-reimagining-black-womens-lives-2/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:13:46 -0500 Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

]]> 0 085d313e046aa420168c40f47f867b03 Edward B. Kamens started the topic Planning for the 2025 MLA Conference in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/planning-for-the-2025-mla-conference-2/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:02:14 -0500 The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]

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