SAH Commons | Sharon G. Feldman | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/sgfeldman/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Sharon G. Feldman is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:16:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6cc787ce89f07b5dffb5383d1d64c73b Pamela Phillips started the topic Deadline Extended -- CFP for 2 18thC panels at MLA 2027 in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/deadline-extended-cfp-for-2-18thc-panels-at-mla-2027-3/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:29:27 -0400 Please consider submitting a proposal for either of the following 2027 MLA panels in eighteenth-century comparative studies (CLCS 18th-Century).

Panel: Places and Traces: Eighteenth-Century Networks and Neighborhoods

Inspired by Los Angeles as a city of neighborhoods and networks of missions that characterize California, this panel seeks…[Read more]

]]> 0 36a26344cc3920444f5be8a412b2cade Cynthia Chase replied to the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/#post-1040991 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:40:39 -0400 That is: How long is the paper I would deliver supposed to be? How many pages? (It used to be 15-20 minutes, always a strain to condense it to that.)

From: Cynthia Chase <noreply@hcommons.org>
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2026 6:30 AM
To: Cynthia Chase <cc97@cornell.edu>
Subject: [MLA Commons] re: DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING – CFP MLA 2027 (GS Drama and…[Read more]

]]> 1 cd1688f61d0a43626779f8fd963d4f78 Cynthia Chase replied to the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/#post-1040990 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:28:41 -0400 I’m thinking about it. I just arrived in Paris and am jet-lagged and have only 3 days to meet the Friday Mar. 20 deadline. I need to know exactly how long the paper should be, in terms of minutes and in terms of pages.

My paper would be about the power of resistance in differentiated productions (in the process of re-canonization) of, in p…[Read more]

]]> 0 04ee16898b00419ad5fd7a642dc2b1b7 Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - CFP MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-cfp-mla-2027/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:59:11 -0400 Dear Colleagues

Please do consider proposing a paper for the panel below. Reach out if you have ideas or questions you’d like to discuss. Thanks!

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Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century

How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for,…[Read more]

]]> 0 20d457672d9297e9a3e980500064c9e4 Jennifer Buckley started the topic 2026 Summer Shaw Symposium (July 24-26) CFP in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/2026-summer-shaw-symposium-july-24-26-cfp/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:30:36 -0500 <p class=”p1″>The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival warmly invite scholars and theatre artists to the annual summer Shaw Symposium, which will take place July 24-26 in Niagara- on-the-Lake, Ontario,Canada. Registration is free for ISS members.</p>
<p class=”p1″>Focused on Bernard Shaw’s writings, his legacies, and his c…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c40929115590ed39ff22f250c94092e Lennie Amores uploaded the file: CFP: MLA Convention 2027 Los Angeles ( to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1945300/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:47:11 -0500 MLA Annual Convention
Los Angeles, January 7-10, 2027
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
LLC 20th- and 21st- Century Spanish and Iberian Forum
Emancipatory Narratives of Aging
This guaranteed session will examine cultural and literary representations of aging, old age, and memory in Spain, its emancipatory potential, challenges to aging, ageism, discrimination,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8a62bb169ed59bc2daedd99a6aa2979 Ju Yon Kim started the topic New committee member and delegate assembly representative nominations welcome! in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/new-committee-member-and-delegate-assembly-representative-nominations-welcome/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:57:54 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing 1) an additional member to the committee, starting January 2027, and 2) the forum’s delegate assembly representative. Please see below for more information.

#1: Annual new app…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ea640888bd7c2b1aa8e43d6a820a513 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-6/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:55:05 -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 b0d0caa70655bbd0ee0202651d99f7de Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP - MLA 2027 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:16:37 -0500 Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century

How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for, and potentially provoking a reconceptualization of, emancipatory ways of being in the world? 250-word abstracts, brief bios.

Deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ff7fca4cbefb3a9a31dfb533aea9b08 Scott Poulson-Bryant started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee-3/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:42:53 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. If you’d like to be considered, please email me directly at scottpb@umich.edu with your int…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d2331b86208f730b5a350865fdd59db Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941342/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:52:17 -0500 CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. Special Issue of Hispanófila.
Edited by: Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College) and Adam Cohn (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Proposals due March 6, 2026

]]> 0 0b570da289a6bc7576adf6e8606bfd66 Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941341/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:50:36 -0500 CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. Special Issue of Hispanófila.
Edited by: Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College) and Adam Cohn (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Proposals due March 6, 2026

]]> 0 631f0861a5db02afe37e97d9f4cf058f Laura Vilardell Domenech started the topic New MLA Delegate for the LLC Catalan Studies (2026-29) in the forum LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/catalan-studies/forum/topic/new-mla-delegate-for-the-llc-catalan-studies-2026-29/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:51:17 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to share that I have been elected as the new MLA Delegate for the LLC Catalan Studies forum in the Delegate Assembly election held last fall. This three-year term runs from January 12, 2026, through January 2029.

It is a great honor to serve in this role, and my primary goal is to ensure that Catalan continues to be…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5412b4a8231677c9500557177f42efb Sarah Balkin started the topic CFP: IFTR 2026 at the University of Melbourne in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-iftr-2026-at-the-university-of-melbourne/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:30:19 -0400 Submissions to the 2026 IFTR Conference “What Theatre Does” will open Saturday, November 1, 2025.

 

Over time and across cultures, performance has variously been said to beguile, celebrate, empower, entertain, exalt, instruct, oppress, provoke, purify, moralise, remember, subvert, transfigure, and welcome. 

 

But does it real…[Read more]

]]> 0 348afd253ba702abdce5b0cd9cb9a772 Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP: MLA Toronto 2026 in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/cfp-mla-toronto-2026/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:53:00 -0400 So much drama! The view from abroad: a roundtable

How does the current dramatic state of the American union appear as performance, especially when projected to audiences beyond USA borders? How might the spectacle broadcast from the USA seem to shape socio-political performances elsewhere?

 

Deadline for submissions (extended): 7 September…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f857c771cd76cdfcf61330a36028b65 Aparna Dharwadker started the topic Publication of COSMO-MODERNISM AND THEATER IN INDIA (Columbia UP, 2025) in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/publication-of-cosmo-modernism-and-theater-in-india-columbia-up-2025/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:27:59 -0400 Dear colleagues: I am happy to announce the publication of my monograph, Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms, in the Modernist Latitudes Series at Columbia University Press. Paula Krebs confirmed that we can share such news with the Forum membership, so I look forward to similar posts from other…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c96bcc39400711eaf75e3b668f81da6 Sarah Balkin started the topic MLA Drama and Performance 2026 CFPs in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/mla-drama-and-performance-2026-cfps/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 04:33:21 -0400 <div class=”html-div xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd”>
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]]> 0 226cb5486e7af9c3765c19a33b6d2278 Yvonne Fuentes started the topic LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Calls for Papers in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/llc-18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian-calls-for-papers/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:58:11 -0500 Reminder:  We have two great sessions proposed for the 2026 MLA. Please submit your abstracts before the deadline.

1. Can You Guess My Name? Pen Names, Pseudonyms, and Anonymous Authorship in 18th and 19th Century Iberian Texts
This panel explores hidden or concealed representations of authorship in 18th and 19th century Iberia and the texts…[Read more]

]]> 0 b09d06f6b6d8806086a2edb954759e84 Pamela Phillips started the topic CLCS–18 Sessions at the MLA 2026 in Toronto CFP in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/clcs-18-sessions-at-the-mla-2026-in-toronto-cfp-3/ Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:16:12 -0500 The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies–18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed sessions:

Comparative Liberties

The concept of liberty in the eighteenth century underwent significant development, particularly through the Enlightenment, which challenged existing ideas about g…[Read more]

]]> 0 10fbd328b01c8fea7b8ff0bdeb997b4a Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic MLA 2026 in Toronto, Call for Papers in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2026-in-toronto-call-for-papers/#post-1039479 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:40:11 -0500 Repeating garbled message:

We have two guaranteed sessions, please consider submitting an abstract:

1. Can You Guess My Name? Pen Names, Pseudonyms, and Anonymous Authorship in 18th and 19th Century Iberian Texts
This panel explores hidden or concealed representations of authorship in 18th and 19th century Iberia and the texts they claimed, in…[Read more]

]]> 0 71afc862f58894c6c055b71565ae32f8 Yvonne Fuentes started the topic MLA 2026 in Toronto, Call for Papers in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2026-in-toronto-call-for-papers/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:34:38 -0500 <div>
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<div class=”x_elementToProof”><b data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>1. Can You Guess My Name? Pen Names, Pseudonyms, and Anonymous Authorship in 18th and 19th Century Iberian…[Read more]

]]> 0 3242f320294264250fb5a442dbb78bee Leslie Harkema started the topic CFP for MLA 2026: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN CATALAN STUDIES AND THE GLOBAL HISPANOPHONE in the forum LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/catalan-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2026-encounters-between-catalan-studies-and-the-global-hispanophone/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:36:49 -0500 Co-organized by CLCS Global Hispanophone and LLC Catalan Studies Forum

Catalonia occupies a paradoxical position in colonial and global history: as both a participant in Spanish imperial projects and a region historically marginalized within the Castilian-centric state. While the wealth of modern Barcelona—and other Catalonian cities—was dee…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3704e0d64890279b554fff3dd635de9 Sarah Balkin started the topic Self-nominations for the Forum's Delegate Assembly representative in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/self-nominations-for-the-forums-delegate-assembly-representative/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:10:18 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has been suggested by the forum’s membership (unless there are too few suggestions). I write to encourage you to submit you…[Read more]

]]> 0 6dc4ed9716cd7e3be682bcd895c73224 Elizabeth Franklin Lewis started the topic Grants and Award opportunity Duques de Soria in the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/grants-and-award-opportunity-duques-de-soria/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:13:49 -0500 <p class=”x_elementToProof”><span data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>Please see the exciting opportunity from the Duques de Soria Foundation for Science and Hispanic Culture (FDS) below. Through its Permanent Observatory of Hispanism (OPH), the Foundation has announced the third edition of its International Hispanism Seminar Awards. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb77c98ed2495bf6fe7d52b823c99daa Sarah Balkin started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee-2/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:21:17 -0500 Dear Drama and Performance Forum Members,

I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. The committee will meet during the 2025 convention to discuss and organize panels for the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 0 0294a5cc2013cfb5fed00f220e15be1a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/drama-and-performance/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-7/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:55:05 -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 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 10697a60384a7ca03d821b6499d898fa Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902702/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:00:06 -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 4cdc505d6974a63bb5a0109cc3c5ab89 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902282/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:00:08 -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 ef54abba0ac1222513086091b1913190 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 GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900894/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:17:57 -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 b155b6073243a0b1eec92a5a004a0671 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900888/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:10:09 -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 7a23080c6edfb9a974825760533648f9 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 GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900883/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:02:06 -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 cdac2f491cffb3deba520c196f504906 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900081/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:02:02 -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 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 56d50c041cc9233b51c0e018c6f1eca9 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891694/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:02:05 -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 0b548460633c2324e68208139933c5fc Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890325/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:03:58 -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 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 14335be4a82325dcddb92c9d04e6c2f7 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886049/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:15:42 -0400 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

This year’s Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on the theme of global disability performances of Shakespeare. Curated by K…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1e6489c360bb09bd7e42a82ab2bd1f4 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 GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886044/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:07:48 -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 5173774325a41d7f6cca49fe58975158 David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884547/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:17:01 -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 5df3de38a312a30708db9fe8e6801dda David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884542/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:11:25 -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 e4ff2d4ac5562ff178ddcbd09b01bca0 David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879892/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:10:59 -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 0f6b9c9ff4bfca026859d5da9b37328d David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group LLC Catalan Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879888/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:06:06 -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 f5c1a6246aefaa5928c096d339b5a69b 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 GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878848/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:00:13 -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 b702f905345ef3ff13f537adf272e462 Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic CFP CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL Universitat de València 6-8 nov 2024 in the discussion LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-19th-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-congreso-internacional-universitat-de-valencia-6-8-nov-2024/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:49:53 -0500 Call for Papers Congreso Internacional Recreando pasados: diálogos entre emociones, imperios y género (ss. XVII-XIX) 6-8 noviembre 2024, Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de València

El grupo de investigación emergente EMODER (Emociones de la Modernidad. Sentidos y significados globales a través del imperio, el género y la nación…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cb4d0a697afc921ee33c648a9d21c34 Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037800 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:05:17 -0500 Adding a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture TeachingThis panel explores repositioning Iberian Studies by connecting students with communities, decolonizing the syllabus, and diversifying curricular perspectives and…[Read more]

]]> 0 ace3f098733860d7a0095c40978f961f Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037799 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:04:36 -0500 A revised CFP, including a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

 

Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture TeachingThis panel explores repositioning Iberian Studies by connecting students with communities, decolonizing the syllabus, and diversifying curricular…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdf3168b9cf15bc2923b7d2ee01830ff Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037797 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:01:43 -0500 Revised CFP, including a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

 

 

]]> 0 f0ccf77c12c351468ae25e72aeeff1aa Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group GS Drama and Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878065/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:21:18 -0500 Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia by Alexa Alice Joubin. Lecture video now available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/R8mbUd_mHjQ Drawing on her forthcoming book, Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2024), Alexa Alice Joubin examines cultural encounters with Shakespeare’s plays as heterotopia, a set of parallel s…[Read more]

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