HASTAC Commons | Dr. Carlos Acosta-Ponce | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/carlosacostaponce/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Dr. Carlos Acosta-Ponce is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:39:38 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1d3ce99fd2c0c4afd3b5bd13d01379a8 Israel Reyes started the topic Boricua Pop(ulist) Art: Reassessing Puertorriqueñidad in the Bad Bunny Era in the forum LLC Puerto Rican https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/boricua-populist-art-reassessing-puertorriquenidad-in-the-bad-bunny-era/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:29:17 +0000 During the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries, Puerto Rican artists helped lead the charge of what at the time was denominated the Latin Boom. Artists like Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, and Jennifer Lopez became ubiquitous, which led some to sound the clarion call for further visibility and representation. However, while their careers…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae29b15624254dc94fb1447bc503fd8c Monica Vega Gonzalez created the doc Between "Residente" and "Benito": Naming and the Performance of Puertorriqueñidad in the Bad Bunny Era in the group LLC Puerto Rican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947242/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:54:11 +0000 0 895c3dd6571a8af9459c5806c4ee68a8 Nattie Golubov uploaded the file: CFP Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2025-2025 to TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1924521/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:30:00 +0000 The first election of Donald Trump sparked a series of “Rogue” romance anthologies that framed love as resistance, and the romance genre as progressive and inclusive. Looking back after a decade, how has the genre registered and responded to ongoing political contexts–in the United States and elsewhere–of political radicalization, xenophobia,…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ff0ae544a33c6d7030e23974b575637 Maria Windell created the doc Panel description for Latinx Fracasos: Past, Present, and Future in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1921433/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:55:51 +0000 0 d8a6b7627444eb73c011563f94a4fc4d Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900966/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:13:45 +0000 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f6b05fec25e22dd7c1afdb9595e2eba Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-4/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:32:06 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 0 f93c965c33fdb6cc54d1615a21b40ce0 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-3/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:28:18 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4b4f7bac86900e718d99e9a11f3ce9a Minni Sawhney deposited Buddhism in the Oeuvre of Severo Sarduy in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879221/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:03:19 +0000 The exiled Cuban French novelist, essayist, poet Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) converted to Mahayana Buddhism in 1971 after his journeys to Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. Untramelled by the rituals of his new faith, he remained unabashed in his critique of socio – political Buddhism (as in the novel Maitreya). Instead, Buddhism for him meant a creativity t…[Read more]

]]> 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 +0000 #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 +0000 #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 f58f80810a98ecb4e31ba46e8bff447c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-18/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:14:15 +0000 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 fb5c6751e0b32c5272cc26242bdb2984 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-9/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:00:59 +0000 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 the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d86035d473581cc789b2ef6342ef0611 Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866456/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:01:17 +0000 This article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”

]]> 0 5490b5d63f070e9fdde3a97a63736ade Golam Rabbani deposited Media and Peeping Tom Culture: Violating Familial Privacy and Communal Responsibility in the Evolution of Voyeurism in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866344/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:06:26 +0000 In the name of visual pleasure, there are different entertainments in today’s media that instigate voyeurism among common viewers. In this study, the author intends to focus on two phases where the spectators are turning voyeurs without their consent. In the first phase, the study reveals the process where film influences voyeuristic behavior. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 c27bcf3374bc03d68b89165671d0e868 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s "It Must be Heaven" and Panah Panahi’s "Hit the Road" in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864817/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:06:08 +0000 Abstract | The final scene of Elia Suleiman’s film, It Must be Heaven (2019), ends with the actor/director sitting in an Arab bar in the city of Haifa, while the young crowd is dancing to “Arabyon Ana” (2000) by Lebanese singer Yuri Mrakadi. The Arabic music is a testimony to a Palestinian-Arab culture that resists erasure.

The songs in Sulei…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2ddbfd60c5edf973a7c03becc9db2ab Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-50/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:18:10 +0000 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 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 +0000 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 +0000 ‘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 fda5592c333f610ce6fd9e637ba2c9d5 Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/mla-sit-and-writes-announced-for-fall-2023-2/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:44:56 +0000 Please join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023!  Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.

Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions

]]> 0 b818dfb9ded44a636c0f68cb55409d2d Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858685/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:27:00 +0000 This paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.

]]> 0 ae615cb62747646c07e843ef9ce59d41 Golam Rabbani deposited Review of Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development through Music in Urban Poverty by Klisala Harrison in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858682/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:18:28 +0000 This book points out new ways to identify and resolve human rights and improve the competencies of urban poor communities in Vancouver, Canada.

]]> 0 b97a31ba9603264fa6821c6b6d5de687 Arthur Wang started the topic CFP: Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes for Emerging and Contingent Scholars in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-inaugural-post45-essay-prizes-for-emerging-and-contingent-scholars/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:31:57 +0000 Post45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholars. The Emerging Scholar prize is named in honor of two-time Post45 Journal editor Mary Esteve to celebrate her commitment to the work of the journ…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d63245016c9e13af946c7ebccfe51ec Stephanie Rountree started the topic CFP: Record, Document, Archive [edited collection, advance contract LSU Press] in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-record-document-archive-edited-collection-advance-contract-lsu-press/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:09:28 +0000 Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region [edited collection]

Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press

Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison

Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023

Completed Chapters (7,000 words): March 15, 2024

 

As the double meaning of our title suggests,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4008c67c3129e22058882c031cfac923 Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857510/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:27:06 +0000 This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]

]]> 0 84634af0c75837cfa940a14e841dc6a7 Emily Friedman deposited Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855713/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:06:59 +0000 Revised (but still draft) version of the 2023 version of Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen, a course that has students do in-depth analysis of tabletop roleplaying games through extended play, close reading of rule systems, and analysis of actual play.

]]> 0 93538900b3546bc5791869908eaa5261 Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847392/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:28:00 +0000 Review of Consider David Foster Wallace.

]]> 0 fecc9ca554e24fba362032d0cfed7522 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847388/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:10:34 +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]

]]> 0 4b9ac4cca9adb060a84b0f7f630cfa9d Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847383/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:50:03 +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]

]]> 0 65e49f2b44706a042e7e19a069edf897 Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847379/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:38:10 +0000 Excerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9c519e8f299e85d32b5c1c938a08dc8 Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847377/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:28:38 +0000 This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]

]]> 0 f80e06d0d97a09b764e4c22fc1e47ae1 Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841276/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:15:38 +0000 The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ed1037e68e43af233a312da60ac87fb Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835479/ Sun, 26 Feb 2023 03:55:12 +0000 Despite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0bad784b67525a89225838ddcb1ffef Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/mla-proposed-session-political-oratory-and-african-am-lit-abstracts-by-3-13/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:54:11 +0000 I am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on “Political Oratory and African American Literature.”  Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse.   Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.

Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae871c037a068653c970f170549b1dda Elena Machado Sáez started the topic "What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy" in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-the-american-dirt-controversy/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:19:47 +0000 An op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!

“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]

]]> 0 860038066c6c56cfe47a64407ce6557b Faye Hammill deposited The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830475/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:50:53 +0000 Transatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships’ libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a94fef82b8efa1aaae343e862594d4e Minni Sawhney deposited Violencia e identidades: Elmer Mendoza y la creación de una saga detectivesca in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826717/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:50:04 +0000 The portrayal of narcotrafficking in the novels of Elmer Mendoza.

]]> 0 f27d9e0fd0f2119e39fa1d1623c445f8 Joseph R. Millichap deposited James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823109/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:35:02 +0000 James Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Mor…[Read more]

]]> 0 40562a33a7d3ae9a258940bec4023781 Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Papers African American Literature and Culture in the discussion TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/popular-culture/forum/topic/call-for-papers-african-american-literature-and-culture/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:05:12 +0000 The non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.  We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0ac8eea82a7ad3730039f42b79e2af5 Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1789159/ Sat, 30 Jul 2022 03:48:49 +0000 This article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0660ae358322d6ee4346a8f6b1d9dab Amel Abbady deposited "'You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts' : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman" in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788676/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 03:48:53 +0000 In The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea3c1e7fb24a0fdafc979d1cdc844bf4 Minni Sawhney deposited Surmounting Borders, The Corridos of Jenni Rivera in the group LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1783821/ Sat, 11 Jun 2022 02:26:24 +0000 Ranchera music on the U.S. Mexican Border

]]> 0 6210ae1e10cd817ec982acb171cc6c32 Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/call-for-essays-on-african-american-literature-and-culture-3/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:51:00 +0000 The non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.  

We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]

]]> 0 0be1b38f77913d0ad99bd83f7085463b Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Call for Applications: Bucknell English MA Program in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/call-for-applications-bucknell-english-ma-program/ Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:14:14 +0000 Do you have any undergraduates who are interested in pursuing graduate studies but perhaps not ready to enter a PhD program yet?

 

I’m hoping that you’ll consider advising them to apply to Bucknell’s MA in English program. Admission comes with two years of tuition remission and an approximately $12,000 stipend.

 

The MA program features one-on-…[Read more]

]]> 0 dae9a5931ba00017087aa15b684373fd Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769326/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 02:23:52 +0000 A sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.

]]> 0 2fefbf94fc0840357abbf2bcd7ec779c Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Nominations Welcome for Executive Committee of “LLC Latina and Latino” Forum in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/nominations-welcome-for-executive-committee-of-llc-latina-and-latino-forum/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 14:42:56 +0000 The MLA has just announced a new process for appointments to the executive committee which now allows us to “solicit suggestions directly from the forums’ members in the forums’ MLA Commons groups.”

The executive committee appoints one new member to the executive committee every year. We welcome recommendations of colleagues as well as sel…[Read more]

]]> 0 d90e291b0cabb700e18f34c3eaf3a8d2 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion LLC Puerto Rican https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/update-re-us-latinx-studies-2022-mla-convention-9/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 20:34:31 +0000 Due to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.

We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]

]]> 0 477c746870d75f9c4357407f937a1c31 Emily Friedman deposited ENGL4160EA: Fall 2022: How Games Tell Stories in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1760795/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:25:31 +0000 We are quickly approaching the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the 10th anniversaries of Twitch and Itch.io, and the ninth generation of video game consoles. The most successful TV/film Kickstarter of all time funded the animated series for D&D livestream Critical Role. Game Studies has existed as an interdisciplinary field for over three…[Read more]

]]> 0 7708c5e3bb309a751d1a1003e9bf52c8 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/us-latinx-studies-2022-mla-convention-5/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:15:59 +0000 The Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!

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Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel

In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet

Presider: Alberto Varón

Recent events have demonstrated the…[Read more]

]]> 0 380547ef4b7b0396ef0b87299da5db55 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/us-latinx-studies-2022-mla-convention/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:56:34 +0000 The Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!

 

Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

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]]> 0 22e1a25870fbfc7d910bcf8371571bd8 Rielle Navitski started the topic Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook in the discussion LLC Latina and Latino https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latina-and-latino/forum/topic/latinx-media-an-open-access-textbook/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:43:02 +0000 I’m excited to announce that a beta version of Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook is now available online: https://open.online.uga.edu/latinxmedia/

Edited by Leslie Marsh and myself (Rielle Navitski) with the support of the Affordable Learning Georgia initiative, the freely available textbook addresses a range of media forms (film, te…[Read more]

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