HASTAC Commons | Julia M. Wright | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/jmwright/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Julia M. Wright is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:36:49 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c816b817b008b4edcd8fee8466805037 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:48:02 +0000 <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 38842ee7f8a17c84de4adc97253101bc Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic Nominations and Self-nominations for Executive Committee in the forum LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-for-executive-committee/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:01:06 +0000 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The English Romantic LLC Forum Executive Committee seeks nominations and self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning in 2027. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate d…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ede33aeabe52948ed4d23eac2a70e9c Philip Trotter started the topic MLA 2026 Convention Session in the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities-and-health-studies/forum/topic/mla-2026-convention-session/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:44:07 +0000 Please find attached a link to the abstract and details for the MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing, and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing.”

 

]]> 0 c8b2a73e1808fbbc74cee42424de5f98 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due 1/15/26 in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-1-15-26/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:47:57 +0000 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 0 b877a6cf3316f13060c8bcaf632c4055 Robert Nguyen started the topic MLA 2026 CFPs, TC Adaptation Studies forum in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfps-tc-adaptation-studies-forum/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:39:32 +0000 Good morning,

Good morning,

As I thought they may be of interest to folks working in Screen Arts and Culture, I am posting here info on the panels that the TC Adaptation Studies forum will be sponsoring for the 2026 MLA convention. Also included is further detail on the panel we are co-sponsoring with the GS Comics and Graphic Narratives…[Read more]

]]> 0 e94efe99d5b627aed803ba118342e062 Tanya Shilina-Conte started the topic New Book: Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/new-book-black-screens-white-frames-gilles-deleuze-and-the-filmmaking-machine-4/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:38:23 +0000 Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine by Tanya Shilina-Conte is now available from Oxford University Press<u>: </u><u>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-screens-white-frames-9780197511336?cc=us&lang=en&#</u&gt;
<div class=”clearfix text-formatted field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary…[Read more]

]]> 0 aef748796a789733b7c5b1b1b2927cba Kevis Goodman started the topic Call for Self-nominations to Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-to-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:57:46 +0000 The British Romanticism Forum Executive Committee seeks self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning in 2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate delegates to the MLA Delegate Assembly every three y…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8dd031dfe5905ecc12ee8893ea78aa3 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900964/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:08:29 +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 6ec34b11565be267a1b47eb36f4a4a09 Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900962/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:03:00 +0000 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb076292c9c94f2692c88f0f8bd29076 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900896/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:21:10 +0000 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 da5c2e5fcbcc7f2ea5cc8cb86f9b49da Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900890/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:13:22 +0000 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 7182408e0c0cdb3d93778ea6ee074eb6 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900885/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:05:26 +0000 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 d2b6dd91861405bf7327b60fcab37d3f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900083/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:05:17 +0000 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 66c6832003cd8d722395a1818832c367 Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890470/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:01:22 +0000 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody’s muse.

Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]

]]> 0 a04eca7d0e61cf1615cabebfd0f77c37 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890326/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:05:42 +0000 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 b8d4102dda5b37ebec9583fa2165172f 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886051/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:19:53 +0000 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 ea47e2a2da1d60baf21b7ce85da03bd3 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Dutch Formosa in 2000: Taiwan as China’s Renegade Province in Wu Ziniu’s The Sino-Dutch War 1661," in Scenes from Dutch Formosa: Staging Taiwan’s Colonial Past, ed. Llyn Scott (Portland ME: MerwinAsia, 2014), pp. 153-179 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886042/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:01:41 +0000 What does Koxinga mean to today’s China and Taiwan? How does Wu Ziniu’s film The Sino-Dutch War 1661, a 2000 mainland Chinese film about seventeenth-century Dutch Formosa–with a mainland Chinese / Hong Kong / Japanese cast–complicate the questions of belonging and betrayal?

Taiwan’s cultural identities have always been political…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ba0877b688b1df686bd077a80b64133 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878852/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:03:03 +0000 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 25c74d38b6ef22c19411a42b8c0e9591 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878067/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:24:33 +0000 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]

]]> 0 8bf601f65afa35ec93e1a544b3b3bc72 Kendra Leonard deposited Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice (2004) in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877420/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:06:31 +0000 The performance history of The Merchant of Venice is one entangled with what producers and directors hear as the sounds of Jewishness, be it traditional prayer, like the Shema or Kaddish, or contrived nonsense, like the “old Hebraic song of sacrifice” sung by Anthony Sher in a 1987 stage production. In this essay, I interrogate composer Joc…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d72ce91f2a351d77190843f0d1662bf Kendra Leonard deposited Imagining Women’s Archives of Silent Film Music in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877413/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:01:54 +0000 Although women comprised the majority of American cinema accompanists during the silent film period (c. 1895–1927), few of their music libraries or compositions have survived, whereas collections created by male cinema musicians dominate the silent film music archives. Women musicians suggested, shaped, and helped define the musical tastes of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 41589079f77abc23207c6a5341a15e3c Kevis Goodman started the topic Call for Abstracts: "Desire without Objects," MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/call-for-abstracts-desire-without-objects-mla-2025/ Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:38:11 +0000 The MLA Forum on English Romantic Studies invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed forum session:

Desire without Objects: 

Romantic desire’s ambivalence toward objects: formlessness, the infinite, irony, disability, fragments, affects, music, rhythm, attunement, nostalgia, queerness, movement, conflict, aggregation, di…[Read more]

]]> 0 e76833cdfb5b163ed27a869c66f659ea Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 335-338 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876066/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:16:30 +0000 Going against the grain, this collection counters the common perception of the Maoist era as a time of ideological conformity. The contributors persuasively demonstrate that theatre activities were varied and lively between the 1950s and 1970s. While there was state control over the arts, performances in urban spaces were more frequently censored…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4f1955780d09e11fc4062ed0c2b194d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Performing the Socialist State by Xiaomei Chen, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 338-340 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876062/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:11:08 +0000 In this review, Alexa Alice Joubin outlines the main argument of Xiaomei Chen’s Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture. “The eight chronologically- and thematically-organized chapters in this book provide a much-needed critical survey of spoken drama (huaju) from its inception through the Republican and Maoist eras…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a4a2667e2f24460194fee72a9d8e1bb Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility," The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 195-211. in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876057/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:05:28 +0000 Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, have broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc2efe0805683b25b551f5c32fe5d8c8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI, Theater, and Interface Theory, keynote at Imaging Across Time: Wenshan International Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2023 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875820/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:05:29 +0000 What happens when AI goes to theatre with human audiences? Generative AI’s natural-language conversational interface has frequently been cast as an anthropomorphic interface. In performance, digital screen as interface has evolved from a vehicle for dramatic messages to a meaning-making agent with an anthropomorphic presence. While the tendency to…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff984c9c3179bd3665b2c4a2f6f8e19b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872233/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:05:38 +0000 What a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d4f5b8a2035d5f61348ef0963235cb1 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872218/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:05:57 +0000 What a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9dfd11ebb211e89928c23b80186a910 Laura G. Gutierrez replied to the topic Nominations for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion MS Screen Arts and Culture via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/nominations-for-forum-executive-committee/#post-1036981 Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:14:03 +0000 I have gotten this email close to 20 times. I am also no longer a member of MLA so I don’t have an active account and don’t know how to unsubscribe. Make it stop please

From: Alenda Chang <noreply@hcommons.org>
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 1:11 PM
To: Gutierrez, Laura G <lauragutierrez@utexas.edu>
Subject: [MLA Commons] MS Screen Arts and…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa18fa14c00cef3497f8a97e1db01a7b Alenda Chang started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture sessions at MLA 2024 in the discussion MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/ms-screen-arts-and-culture-sessions-at-mla-2024/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 03:11:46 +0000 Hi everyone! As this year’s forum executive committee chair for MS Screen Arts and Culture, I just wanted to alert everyone to the sessions that our forum has organized/sponsored. Thanks to our committee members for their hard work.

Organized by yours truly, tomorrow (THU) at 3:30PM we kick off with #92 “The Micropolitics of Environmental Media”…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea7d5818e4382fcbcfd270969c42f44e Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868242/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:07:19 +0000 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb8cdfccc9e9c8e07c198107f8e124a0 Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866468/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:05:48 +0000 Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 09aabae083e645aed6ece17c83f92f2d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness," Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866124/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:05:33 +0000 Inclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0f798e47734b6093b8311d7e6126cea 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 MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864815/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:00:51 +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 721a6b5806dd561544ddbc6b27a8ef49 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Generative AI as Shadow Publics in an Inquiry-Driven Society, Symposium on Digital Scholarship. Hong Kong Baptist University, October 27, 2023 in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864513/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:12:44 +0000 Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, simulate human writing and complicate the inquiry-driven culture we live in. These tools use singular first-person pronouns in their textual outputs and are often associated with anthropomorphic qualities. Within the humanities, conversations tend to focus on detecting new forms of plagiarism. What is missing…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b401a8df6a5396afe4a719d75a25551 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Plenary: "Are There Transgender Characters in Shakespeare?" Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia, November 4, 2023. in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864508/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:05:42 +0000 Video recording of Alexa Alice Joubin’s plenary is available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/8P5nNv86goQ There are certainly non-binary actors on stage, but are there Shakespearean characters who can be read as trans? The answer is yes. To ask whether there are transgender characters is to ask questions about the performance of gender roles. We are…[Read more]

]]> 0 1235add48699b8f87c2f10f7cbc45e68 Mike Phillips deposited West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863754/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 03:09:01 +0000 This chapter examines the relationship between American Westerns and Brazilian Nordesterns, films set in the arid northeastern region known as the sertão. US cultural and economic imperialism, in Brazil and throughout Latin America, is both cause and effect of persistent underdevelopment. The northward flow of natural resources has long been…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e4ff114aaa91731b21b764f39e0f848 Mike Phillips deposited Through a Tube, Darkly: Critical Remediation in High and Low (1963) in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863748/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 03:04:46 +0000 Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 police procedural is, as its title suggests, intensely interested in the socioeconomic valences of spatial relationships, literalized in Yokohama’s affluent hills and its low-lying slums. The central conflict between inhabitants of these two spaces articulates this local topography into a global framework, in which con…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d91554cd535a9a183843a5eab1573df Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861777/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:16:46 +0000 This article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ea3fbb285dad150fb326864837da518 Sophie Christman deposited * Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861776/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:14:05 +0000 This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fa4b79d079ee4826b3de6e64bf0a9bc Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857508/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:22:58 +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 896be9f64d8f247c6f5e2d6017eef6b4 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857504/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:13:27 +0000 In his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]

]]> 0 da851da4cbd29344ff94fe9c3f867439 Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures (Introduction) in the group TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855421/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:22:35 +0000 Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural
disasters: images of the “gray flood” and “silver tsunami” imbue
senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This
Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative
shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children,
but of one…[Read more]

]]> 0 016c3fadc8362c24fb1d6e6bf199047a Kendra Leonard deposited Women’s Compiled Scores in Early Film Music in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847293/ Fri, 26 May 2023 02:24:08 +0000 In this essay I address an area of cinematic musical development where the importance of women’s contributions has gone un(der) noticed: the compiled score, a film score created for early film primarily from pre-existing pieces, in both its written and recorded varieties. I examine written and recorded compiled scores created by Hazel Burnett, A…[Read more]

]]> 0 26d2fce6c88c8ee3e2e998a8e346e6ca Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Afterword: Adaptation studies and interactive pedagogies." Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences, ed. Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 187-200. in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846401/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:38:32 +0000 Criticism of the Shakespearean canon through adaptation as a genre has the capacity for liberation and social reparation. As a cluster of complex texts that sustains both past practices and contemporary interpretive conventions, Shakespeare provides fertile ground for training students to listen intently and compassionately to other individuals’ v…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e651335819bee9171e67510681a1e2e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "What makes Global Shakespeares an exercise in ethics?" Global Shakespeare and Social Justice: Towards a Transformative Encounter, ed. Chris Thurman and Sandra Young (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 58-77. in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846390/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:29:28 +0000 Stage and screen adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays raise ethical questions – that is, questions about how human beings should act and treat one another. In which contexts might cross-cultural enterprises be naturalising the values associated with Shakespeare to exploit unequal power relations among artists of different backgrounds? Con…[Read more]

]]> 0 031ea02367b7749e6a3ec1956fb512a0 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Joubin receives the bell hooks Legacy Award in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841264/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 03:55:09 +0000 Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. The award recognizes Joubin’s a…[Read more]

]]> 0 a957614edc60d51ac1c82a0f3899a005 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans as Method: The Sociality of Gender and Shakespeare." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840261/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:33:54 +0000 This special issue on contemporary performance proposes “trans” as method and as a social practice rather than as an immutable identity category that stands in opposition to more established ones such as cis-gender men or cisgender women. We ask new questions about Shakespearean performance: How might the meanings of the plays change if we…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0fa948136ec36730cf82eb040290f7c Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Shakespearean Performance through a Trans Lens." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840256/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:26:06 +0000 Gender is a set of interpersonal relationships and social practices that evolve in the presence of other people , in social spaces, and over time. My theory of trans lens corrects the institutionalized cis-sexism that assumes the cis status of even those characters with fluid gender practices. It does so by questioning the purported neutrality of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9a68ef5a8a54a1316e6efd908884cef Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "The Tempest as Trans Archive: An Interview with Scholar Mary Ann S. Saunders." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840251/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:18:18 +0000 This interview with Dr. Mary Ann Saunders, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, offers a new interpretation of Julie Taymor’s 2010 film The Tempest. Bringing her life experience to bear on cisgender biases in non-trans artists’ works, Saunders proposes a new interpretation of Ariel, as performed by Ben Whishaw, as a trans woman who is “both beautiful…[Read more]

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