SAH Commons | Susan Hegeman | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/shegeman/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Susan Hegeman is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:04:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 243dc67f3408c686df01358e00a1f606 Francisco Delgado replied to the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/?view=all#post-1041054 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:43:37 -0400 Sure, no problem.

]]> 0 d40e147c807e712b6cf1c430060dfe7e Amee Schmidt replied to the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/#post-1041053 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:58:36 -0400 This is great, Francisco. Are you comfortable submitting it?

AMEE SCHMIDT, M.A.
Associate Professor of English
Marshalltown Community College
3700 S. Center St. • Marshalltown, IA 50158
Office 403F • 641-844-5777<tel:+16418445777>
Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu<mailto:Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu>

]]> 0 79a08983560475b1d26311d8a8e7290a Amee Schmidt replied to the topic Draft of Program Copy for Decolonizing the MLA - Feedback Needed, Please in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-of-program-copy-for-decolonizing-the-mla-feedback-needed-please/#post-1041052 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:58:10 -0400 That’s a great suggestion! I will do that.

Also, I’ve been very, very ill, but I will get this submitted before tomorrow’s deadline.

AMEE SCHMIDT, M.A.
Associate Professor of English
Marshalltown Community College
3700 S. Center St. • Marshalltown, IA 50158
Office 403F • 641…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2343e8892fd60bf0b48f221493d0248 Margaret A. Noodin replied to the topic Draft of Program Copy for Decolonizing the MLA - Feedback Needed, Please in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-of-program-copy-for-decolonizing-the-mla-feedback-needed-please/#post-1041032 Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:04:25 -0400 This looks good to me! Beth did mention that this feels like important work and fits with the 2027 MLA theme of “emancipation” if you want to work that word in there but it’s totally up to you. Thanks for taking care of this!

]]> 0 2d891d26651737784b1c913ea5ef296f Francisco Delgado started the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:28:21 -0400 Please see below for a program description for the panel, “Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California.” All feedback welcome!

A more detailed description of the panel and the presentations is available under “Files.”

This panel aims to promote the literatures, languages, and cultures of Indigenous peoples of present-day California, as…[Read more]

]]> 0 7beab847825ad852e39520fc05c47093 Francisco Delgado uploaded the file: Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California - MLA 2027 to LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1946977/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:20:12 -0400 Attached is the line-up for our panel, “Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California.”

]]> 0 b399963e54f15c040ad3738279478770 Amee Schmidt started the topic Draft of Program Copy for Decolonizing the MLA - Feedback Needed, Please in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-of-program-copy-for-decolonizing-the-mla-feedback-needed-please/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:48:06 -0400 Decolonizing the MLA: A Unique Framework for Inclusion

Four panelists discuss complications in the teaching, learning, and representation of indigenous literatures and cultures, and offer new ways of understanding these stories. Academic spaces such as the MLA Conference can call attention to the intersections of indigenous voices and colonial…[Read more]

]]> 0 8be30c0b0d175fad58c3e6c83272028e Amee Schmidt uploaded the file: Proposals for Decolonizing the MLA - for 2027 to LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1946926/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:29:31 -0400 These are the three proposals we received for the Decolonizing the MLA panel.

]]> 0 1672bc709cfe3146d60ebb0b4f8485e8 Francisco Delgado started the topic CFPs EXTENDED to March 23rd! in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/cfp-extended-to-march-23rd/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:23:17 -0400 Our CFPs for MLA 2027 (Los Angeles, CA) will remain open to submissions until March 23rd:

  1. Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California – https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33577.html
  2. Decolonizing the MLA – https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33578.html

More information, including to whom…[Read more]

]]> 0 084a019d484abc583af12fbee2ccf294 Domna C. Stanton replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/#post-1040987 Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:36:47 -0400 Thank you so much for sending me this announcement about the topic your plan investigate with your panelists at the 2027 MLA. It is enormously  timely and interesting and I know  members will want to attend. Unfortunately  I am on leave as of the end of december 2026 and very eager to return to my book project which is way over due. So sosry ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa10eb0e78fbd8db520238fa9a08ae57 Grace Monk started the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:20:47 -0400 Sharing a CFP for the MLA 2027 Convention in Los Angeles. I hope it is of interest!

Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem

Roundtable examining jobs beyond faculty roles, highlighting how humanities training informs career trajectories. All career stages welcome.

Deadline March 16, 2026

Link:…[Read more]

]]> 0 664579ad3763b67ebb27fd77d9825d53 Amee Schmidt replied to the topic MLA 2027 - Calls for Papers in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-calls-for-papers/#post-1040938 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:39:27 -0500 You can also direct folks to this page at hte MLA: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Session24153.html

 

]]> 0 ee054cf6ae9ce0b441763985fe55d69f Amee Schmidt started the topic MLA 2027 - Calls for Papers in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-calls-for-papers/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:02:08 -0500 Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California

How does Indigenous California’s historical significance appear in Indigenous-made creative work? Moreover, how does this body of work contribute to, deepen, undermine, or challenge what visitors think they know about California?

200-word abstracts should be sent to Francisco Delgado at FDelgado@…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0662f466fa3a1878eb61b55b1c075fb Francisco Delgado started the topic Notes from Executive Committee Meeting - Feb. 17th in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/notes-from-executive-committee-meeting-feb-17th/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:19:49 -0500 This document contains notes from the executive committee’s meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 17th – including finalized versions of our CFPs.

]]> 0 39be42f1eb4269ccd32355995fc0f8af Amee Schmidt started the topic Ideas for Better Utilization of this Commons Page in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/ideas-for-better-utilization-of-this-commons-page/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:57:39 -0500 Post your ideas here.

]]> 0 31291192d3d52559252c3c58303f00d2 Francisco Delgado replied to the topic MLA 2027 CFP - Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-indigenous-california/?view=all#post-1040806 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:21:03 -0500 Hi Amee,

The deadline is similar to the CFPs currently posted on the MLA website: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/index.html (and could be subject to change).

I wanted to share the call now, so that interested folks can start drafting proposals.

 

]]> 0 de8cb73348cae96a8fbe63cafc49fd8d Amee Schmidt replied to the topic MLA 2027 CFP - Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-indigenous-california/#post-1040800 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:23:43 -0500 Do we know what the deadline is from MLA yet?

AMEE SCHMIDT, M.A. (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of English and Communications

Vice President, MCC Faculty Senate

Marshalltown Community College

3700 S. Center St. • Marshalltown, IA 50158

Office 403F • 641-844-5777

[cid:d8736a74-53b1-4425-9970-f7716c97ef40]

Chair, MLA Executive Forum Com…[Read more]

]]> 0 85cfd1d71ee50f1c4cdc44266067e850 Francisco Delgado started the topic MLA 2027 CFP - Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-indigenous-california/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:52:18 -0500 Below is one CFP from the LLC Indigenous Literatures of the US and Canada forum:

Indigenous California

Let us make space at MLA for the literatures and communities of the state in which we will be gathering. Indigenous California aims to promote the literatures, languages, and cultures of Indigenous peoples of present-day California, as well as…[Read more]

]]> 0 58c187fd3e83e8e5d3a08e6724c0f998 Francisco Delgado started the topic Notes of Executive Committee Meeting - January 23, 2026 in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/notes-of-executive-committee-meeting-january-23-2026/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:45:28 -0500 The executive committee met on Zoom on Friday, January 23, 2026. Attached are the minutes of the meeting.

Submitted by Francisco Delgado, Secretary of LLC Indigenous Literatures of US and Canada

]]> 0 8cdd25a78e579a1361394e8141dc22c3 Rob Wilkie started the topic Radical Caucus Resolution Signatures Needed by October 1, 2025 in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/radical-caucus-resolution-signatures-needed-by-october-1-2025/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:13:41 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

Do you feel the need for the MLA to take a stand against the fascistic attacks on higher education, the genocide in Gaza, and the spurious distortion of antisemitism as justification for these assaults?

The MLA Radical Caucus is sponsoring a resolution for the 2026 MLA Convention that will address these concerns. It is titled…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0f5b92dc79b61535ec1f51a1ecfec05 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-6/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:40:01 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e31108f736f4fd5332721c27565549b Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025 to TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912534/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:18:06 -0500 In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is dedicated to this reflection on the concept of narrative in order to sharpen it by defining its boundaries: Which phenomena cannot be appropriately lab…[Read more]

]]> 0 2105b6767d80ba284f2c435ed1592703 Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025 to TC Anthropology and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912533/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:13:38 -0500 In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is dedicated to this reflection on the concept of narrative in order to sharpen it by defining its boundaries: Which phenomena cannot be appropriately lab…[Read more]

]]> 0 929d484a9f320217cc99bd0d7f1c7515 Jim Kavanagh replied to the topic Resignation Executive Committee TC Marxism, Literature, and Society Forum in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/resignation-executive-committee-tc-marxism-literature-and-society-forum/#post-1039474 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:35:30 -0500 Thanks for standing up for humanity.

]]> 0 5c8d7113a2159116a63f1aa889f268e4 Nattie Golubov started the topic Resignation Executive Committee TC Marxism, Literature, and Society Forum in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/resignation-executive-committee-tc-marxism-literature-and-society-forum/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:15:37 -0500 Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee officers of our forum to let you know that we have resigned our appointments to protest the Council’s refusal to allow for an open debate of MLA Resolution 2025-1, which concerns an endorsement of the 2005 BDS call to action:…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c9de188b4efcda2fd4856bf2d125d62 Nattie Golubov started the topic Call for Chapters Atmospheres of Extinction in the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-atmospheres-of-extinction/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:07:38 -0500 Atmospheres of Extinction: Architecture & Post-Cold War Structures of Feeling

This collection seeks to understand post-Cold War built atmospheres that reference or update far-ranging Cold War affective geographies, geopolitical atmospheres and subjective forms in architecture, literature, popular culture and the arts by exploring the relationship…[Read more]

]]> 0 abf433b8577472fd5761649b8b27d9c4 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-14/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:15:38 -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 2100708011846a82b918a18f62d19b8a Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-4/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:01:22 -0500 The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.

We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[Read more]

]]> 0 03158f0036249fcd0239fd5e6103c0d6 Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects-2/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:15:02 -0400 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

]]> 0 2280319751e87a3cb8b20972929638cc Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-3/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:35:27 -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 1845e3dd2e102c7614b9d37b574fdb67 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-6/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 08:02:01 -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 2e682e928f202731b027a2d21f536987 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890324/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:00:04 -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 5d4f65344b789e2605a2ff2823f2b30f Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/MARX/PEIRCE in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886475/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:01:39 -0400 Exploration on the linkages among the modes of discourse and presentation in Hgel, Marx and Peirce
with a view to inferring a common dialectical tendency in their inquiries.

]]> 0 5f36217dcaa6136d36924bb8c7825f3b Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/26428-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-and-aati-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:07:58 -0500 #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI Nonguaranteed Session

Title:  Helen Barolini’s Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women at Forty

This panel celebrates one of the seminal classics of Italian American literature on the advent of its fortieth anniversary. Helen Barolini’s 1985 anthology marked a fundam…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e8f08b9eb09ab00a8e0a5eb284bc2e1 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #25997: Guaranteed Allied Organization Session for IASA in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/25997-guaranteed-allied-organization-session-for-iasa-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:04:41 -0500 #25997: Allied Organization Session for IASA Guaranteed

Title: (In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies

MLA Description: Examines Morrison’s assertion that “Invisible ink is what lies under, between, outside the lines, hidden until the right reader discovers it,” then can only Italian Americans be the “right…[Read more]

]]> 0 b87fb2dddc72f3e37248c1d83a4ff995 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878059/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:09:12 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 329e7406af3271ede582237826fb74d9 Purnima Bose started the topic Convention 2025: "Postcolonial Capitalism: Southeast Asia & Its Diaspora" in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/convention-2025-postcolonial-capitalism-southeast-asia-its-diaspora/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:41:50 -0500 Postcolonial Capitalism:  Southeast Asia and its Diaspora
(a co-sponsored proposal on behalf of the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Forum and the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum)
Short CFP:
How do representational narratives, forms, and genres register the articulation of emergent
capitalist imperatives as recompense…[Read more]

]]> 0 c313b8ed76dd74a8dfbac49b0a61b76f Purnima Bose started the topic CFP: MLA Convention 2025 in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-mla-convention-2025/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 15:01:03 -0500 The Executive Committee invites abstracts for two 2025 MLA sessions organized by the TC Marxism, Society and Literature Forum. More information is below.

Exhaustion, Involution, Bullshit Jobs: Virtual roundtable on the conditions and afflictions of over/underwork in response to a reading by David Graeber (the preface and first chapter “What is a…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ad7a9187ad4bb0a7f389a378f5c27a8 Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/PEIRCE in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876759/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:00:32 -0500 Speculative notes on the relation between Peirce’s pragmatist method and Hegel’s dialectics

]]> 0 4701743b8c148fc1a6f3856f30385cfe Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876628/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:02:28 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e0320d74e2ce5de79d92fc9f5572421 Mimi Winick deposited Abstracts for panel, "Anthropology and Speculative Fiction," MLA 2024 in the group TC Anthropology and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869862/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 “Anthropologists, Aliens, and Indigenous Futurism: Writing against Culture in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning” Eric Aronoff, Michigan State U
“Alberto Vanasco: An Alien Ethnography of Argentina,” Caleb Delorme, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
“H. G. Wells’s Fetishism ” Jayne Hildebrand, Barnard C
Respondent: Frank A. Palmeri, U of Miami

]]> 0 95f658cf022208640d2cbe0819693b4f Eva Cherniavsky started the topic Updates from the Forum Executive Committee 12/28/23 in the discussion TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/marxism-literature-and-society/forum/topic/updates-from-the-forum-executive-committee-12-28-23/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:56:17 -0500 Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]

]]> 0 597a04df49be64a06c95c64eb941b72c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-19/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:19:20 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]

]]> 0 d733ace9e5d41108123edc42d07f0e7e Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865793/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:06:46 -0500 Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 29f9630c46d3b85ce8e2361b8dc165b9 Epifanio San Juan deposited CHALLENGING AMERICAN STUDIES in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864252/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:11:49 -0500 Critique of orthodox American Studies in the last quarter of the twentieth=century.

]]> 0 6c80c11cd45005c6cf5225ca6a4a523f Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864248/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:00:15 -0500 Survey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.

]]> 0 7beeceb1ef2bb3838e45fe388fcb0fd7 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-12/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:53:34 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 8736ba23e2d0061913427cec10657c36 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860580/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:03:06 -0400 ‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 df074ce123cbf73b846df7790a1a461d Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858170/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:21:45 -0400 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

]]> 0 718fe57a82ea095353c9cf58d42e0bc7 Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858167/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:13:37 -0400 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

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