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Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic CFP MLA 2027 Roundtable in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:58:27 +0000

MLA 2027 CFP Sponsored by the LLC Colonial Latin America Forum (guaranteed session)
Unbounding the Colonial Latin American Archive
Round table examining historical and critical approaches to the colonial archive and their political implications. Dissident narratives, emerging subjectivities, new geographies, displacements, regimes of visibility,…[Read more]

Eric Aronoff started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (April 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:43:27 +0000

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 1 2026

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors

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

Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

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

Eric Aronoff started the topic Contribute to New edition of MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (Feb. 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:33:43 +0000

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors
Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition
Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

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

Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations to serve in the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:02:29 +0000

The Executive Committee of the LLC Colonial Latin American Literature invites Forum Members to send nominations or self-nominations to the Forum’s executive committee. Send nominations by March 1, 2026 to Karen Stolley (kstolle@emory.edu) or Luis Fernando Restrepo (lrestr@uark.edu) or the MLA directly, as indicated below. The five year term is a…[Read more]

Giovanna Montenegro started the topic Join us for Happy Hour/ Cash Bar in Toronto- Friday January 9 5pm in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:36:51 +0000

Coming to MLA#26 in person? Please join LLC Colonial Latin American Literature along with CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern and LLC Medieval Iberian for a Happy Hour in Toronto.

Please join us at 3 Brasseurs at 5pm on Friday January 9 275 Yongue St.
This is a cash bar, and the bar can do individual checks.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ /&…[Read more]

Luis Restrepo started the topic MLA 2026 Toronto Colonial Latin American Literature Sessions-- join us! in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:32:57 +0000

2026 MLA LLC Colonial Latin American Forum Sessions

Thursday, 8 January 2026

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

#93 – Rethinking Connections between Latin American Colonial and Dutch Atlantic Worlds

Presider, Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton U, State U of New York

Living with Water: Aquatic Engagements in Colonized Neerlandophone Deltas

Julée Al-…[Read more]

Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election in the forum LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:17:59 +0000

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]

Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election in the forum LLC Early American

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:14:07 +0000

Hello!

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

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:12:45 +0000

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]

Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:05:21 +0000

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]

Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC 19th-Century American

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:01:49 +0000

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]

Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:06:21 +0000

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]

Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC Early American

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:04:14 +0000

Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:01:50 +0000

Corine Tachtiris deposited Translation Matters undergraduate syllabus in the group TC Translation Studies

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:02:31 +0000

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]

Corine Tachtiris deposited Literary Translation Workshop - Multilingual, Grad-level in the group TC Translation Studies

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:00:04 +0000

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.

Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Translation Studies

Thu, 30 May 2024 04:07:02 +0000

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]

Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "Winking at his Readers from the Gaps: Guamán Poma de Ayala's Silent Texts" in the group LLC Colonial Latin American

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 03:00:09 +0000

In this essay, I address the perception of confusion, entanglement, incomprehension, opacity, and enigmatic nature of Guamán Poma’s book that made scholars like Peruvian Historian Porras Barrenechea uncomfortable enough to push it to the margins of historical studies due to its perceived lack of value and merit. To this end, I briefly discuss ex…[Read more]

Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:15:12 +0000

#26425 – Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers

Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

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

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

Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:10:53 +0000

#26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session

Title: Italian Creole: Accents and Intersections

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

Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "From Science Fiction to Futurism in Peruvian Literature" in the group LLC Colonial Latin American

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:03:08 +0000

Introduction to the bilingual anthology “Qhipa Pacha. Peruvian Futurism” and preliminary study about the origins and development of the science fiction genre in Peruvian letters since the 19th century. The anthology includes 14 short stories written by contemporary Peruvian and Peruvian-based authors, members of the Qhipa Pacha Collective. These…[Read more]

Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited Qhipa Pacha. Futurismo peruano. Peruvian Futurism. A Bilingual Anthology. in the group LLC Colonial Latin American

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:00:03 +0000

This volume brings science fiction from the innermost point of Peruvian roots and ancestral knowledge. This bilingual anthology opens with a preliminary study of the Peruvian literature of science fiction from the 19th century to the present. It pays attention to the role of realismo mágico, lo real maravilloso, and literatura fantástica in the e…[Read more]

Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group LLC Colonial Latin American

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:06:12 +0000

This contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”

Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group TC Translation Studies

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:05:23 +0000

This chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]

Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:00:03 +0000

Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group TC Translation Studies

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:07:53 +0000

Calling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]

Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC 19th-Century American

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:54 +0000

The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation - revised in the group TC Translation Studies

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:06:09 +0000

This is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.

Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 19th-Century American

Sat, 27 May 2023 03:07:53 +0000

This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 19th-Century American

Sat, 27 May 2023 02:47:11 +0000

This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion TC Translation Studies

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:35:37 +0000

See attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.

“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores tra…[Read more]

John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group LLC 19th-Century American

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:25:57 +0000

Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

John Gruesser deposited Poe's Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in "Hop-Frog" in the group LLC 19th-Century American

Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:00:41 +0000

As I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]

Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:29:26 +0000

This essay examines ethnic strife and cultural friction in New Orleans during the Mexican-American war. Specifically, it explores how the Crescent City’s anglophone and francophone populations navigated the tension between national and transnational affiliation through performance. By considering both the material and the immaterial aspects of p…[Read more]

Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group LLC 19th-Century American

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:25:37 +0000

Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group TC Translation Studies

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 02:23:48 +0000

This chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.

Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El mito del pluricentrismo desde le realidad de la traducción in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:06:08 +0000

The present work analyzes the application of the pluricentric interpretation
to the Spanish language from the repercussion that this current may have
to correctly interpret the complex reality of Spanish in the United States. The
concept of pluricentrism is not innocent, it tries to favor certain political and
economic interests and it can…[Read more]

Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El mito del pluricentrismo desde le realidad de la traducción in the group LLC Colonial Latin American

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:05:16 +0000

Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Early American

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:24:29 +0000

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Gained, Lost, Missed, Ignored: Vernacular Scientific Translations from Agricola’s Germany to Herbert Hoover’s California in the group TC Translation Studies

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 04:03:17 +0000

For the past twenty years, scholars of world and global history and literature have shown that the early modern world was a complex, entangled place. And yet, by emphasizing connection, such work at times overlooks the many separations that drove the engines of global early modernity: transoceanic slave trades, tribute labor, and the economic…[Read more]

Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group TC Translation Studies

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 03:54:10 +0000

The Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]

Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Enigmas de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. in the group LLC Colonial Latin American

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:35:06 +0000

This article reviews four crucial moments of the editorial life of Guaman Poma de Ayala’s “Nueva corónica y buen gobierno” [New Chronicle and Good Government], a 1189-page history of Peru before, during, and after the Spanish conquest. The chronicle includes 399 ink drawings made by the author. The essay also addresses unanswered questions…[Read more]

Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group LLC Colonial Latin American

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:23:39 +0000

Invited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]

Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group TC Translation Studies

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:25:58 +0000

Canon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]

Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:24:56 +0000

Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:52:17 +0000

CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.

The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]

David A. Wacks deposited Pablo Tac, Conversión de los Saluiseños de la Alta California (Roma, ca. 1840) in the group LLC Colonial Latin American

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:26:19 +0000

Conversión de los Saluiseños de la Alta California (c. 1840) by Pablo Tac is the only published document written by an indigenous Californian during the Spanish-Mexican period. Born at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, north of San Diego, California in 1820, Tac wrote the manuscript while studying to be a Catholic priest at a seminary in Rome. C…[Read more]

David A. Wacks deposited Pablo Tac, Conversion of the Saluiseños of Alta California (Rome, c. 1840) in the group LLC Colonial Latin American

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:25:06 +0000

Conversión de los Saluiseños de la Alta California (Conversion of the Saluiseños of Alta California) (c. 1840) by Pablo Tac is the only published document written by an indigenous Californian during the Spanish-Mexican period. Born at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, north of San Diego, California in 1820, Tac wrote the manuscript while st…[Read more]

Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: DH and Spanish Literature and Culture (NeMLA, Baltimore 2022) in the discussion LLC Colonial Latin American

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:56:04 +0000

Posting by request of Erin Lane

Greetings,
I am leading a panel on Digital Humanities and Spanish Literature and Culture at the NeMLA convention in 2022 in Baltimore, MD. Would you be so kind as to share the following abstract with colleagues and/or graduate students who may be interested in participating? They can submit their…[Read more]

Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 04:04:50 +0000

Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more]