HASTAC Commons | Jonathan Grossman | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/jonathangrossman/activity/ Activity feed for Jonathan Grossman. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8140eba9a01dde780acc82382a0b2e91 Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Panel "Beyond the Individual" in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/mla-2020-gs-prose-fiction-panel-beyond-the-individual/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:25:36 +0000 Beyond the Individual #763

Sunday, January 12 2020
1:45pm-3pm
Sheraton — Willow B

Presiding: Daniel Hack

]]> 0 07e75d52ba5fd18539ef4ca1ab297dd8 Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Roundtable: Fictions of Belonging in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/mla-2020-gs-prose-fiction-roundtable-fictions-of-belonging/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:21:31 +0000 #256 Fictions of Belonging

Friday, 10 January 2020
10:15am-11:30am
Sheraton — Willow B

Speakers address theories and histories about modes of belonging in relation to fiction, including blackness, imperial subjects, migrancy and the diaspora, intimate archives, transhistorical and future audiences, queer theory, utopian politics, and…

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]]> 0 c39a0bd45ac5ddc9ae84cb33ae4cc65a Jonathan Grossman's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660952/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 04:31:05 +0000 0 0e89bc1e9be7c43f1e1f9f9d5465241c Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 on Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/gs-prose-fiction-panel-at-mla-2019-on-religions-and-secularisms-in-the-novel/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 03:04:53 +0000 GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019

176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom A

Presentations

Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah

Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…

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176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom A

Presentations Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah

Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…

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]]> 0 4b048ac7045b5831467657ae9f74b13f Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group GS Prose Fiction: MLA 2019: CFP from GS Prose Fiction Title of session: […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601172/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:28:53 +0000 MLA 2019: CFP from GS Prose Fiction
Title of session: Religions + Secularisms in the Novel
Submission requirements: 200-wd abstract & brief bio to jhg@ucla.edu
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2018
Description: After the demise of the secular thesis, new ways of reading the novel in relation to secularism and religion?
Contact person…[Read more]

]]> 0 1cade267a6d647ae248d036cd80c902c Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group GS Prose Fiction: MLA 2018 in New York (technical difficulties prevented me […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601115/ Sat, 17 Feb 2018 22:00:44 +0000 MLA 2018 in New York
(technical difficulties prevented me this year from posting the GS Prose Fiction panels before MLA; apologies!)
GS Prose Fiction held two panels: Fictionality in a Post-Fact World & Infrastructure
I will post the call for papers for MLA 2019’s panel here.

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New theorizations of truth-making in and from fiction. Abstracts: grogers@pitt.edu Abstracts of up to 350 words by 1 March 2017.

]]> 0 6c44595f8c31c5f74953168e6ea9a09f Jonathan Grossman's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556462/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:24:43 +0000 0 0d84043e7f0ff0c3c3781f3a7302db01 Jonathan Grossman's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556461/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:23:52 +0000 0 ddf2ce32659eba211253bfa79f326ef2 Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/gs-prose-fiction-panels-at-mla-2017-philadelphia/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:03:32 +0000 2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia

49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park

1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New York; Sarah Mesle, Univ. of Southern Ca…[Read more]

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49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park

1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New York; [Read more]

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49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park

1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New Yo…[Read more]

]]> 0 5922e73f584c147e079a1f57fc76f42e Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/gs-prose-fiction-panels-at-mla-2017-philadelphia/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:03:32 +0000 <p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>

49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park

1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New Yo…[Read more]

]]> 0 5922e73f584c147e079a1f57fc76f42e Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/gs-prose-fiction-panels-at-mla-2017-philadelphia/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:03:32 +0000 <p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>

49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park

1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New Yo…[Read more]

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49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
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Presiding:<i> </i>Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park

1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present T…[Read more]

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If you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2018, email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the other committee members before MLA. I will collate all suggestions and bring them forward to the committee at our meeting.

All best,

Jonathan

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbacks/
Over 2000 yellowback covers: single volumes of popular fiction published in Britain during the 19th century.

 

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]]> 0 e9b02a30b06687366775416af983e18c Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction avatar in the discussion Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/gs-prose-fiction-avatar/ Sun, 09 Oct 2016 04:04:20 +0000 Do people approve of this as an avatar for our GS Prose Fiction forum?

I thought this allusion to Don Quixote might work because it also gets in a Modernist ref (with the Picasso) as well as contemporary fiction. Plus it is slightly amusing.

The first English use of the term “prose fiction” appears to occur in Schlegel’s Lectures on the Hi…[Read more]

]]> 0 43fcd97d57b52817f7d12ffbf74dce01 Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction Panels at MLA! in the discussion Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/gs-prose-fiction-panels-at-mla/ Sun, 09 Oct 2016 02:28:53 +0000 49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction

Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park

1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New York; Sarah Mesle, Univ. of S…[Read more]

]]> 0 59859f47d950c71c24cd490e0bffa64f Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction panel topic suggestions for 2017 in the discussion Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/prose-fiction-panel-topic-suggestions-for-2017/ Mon, 04 Jan 2016 03:44:57 +0000 If you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2017, post them here or email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the committee members before MLA! Sorry for late notice. (Teaching starts tomorrow here.)

Jonathan

]]> 0 81f23b51a552a61350b94f8bfbff9fe2 Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose fiction panels at MLA in the discussion Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/prose-fiction-panels-at-mla/ Tue, 10 Nov 2015 21:15:37 +0000 The session sponsored at the upcoming MLA by the Prose Fiction forum is:

316. Cli-Fi: Climate Change and Narrative Fiction
Friday, 8 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 409, JW Marriott

Presiding: Wai Chee Dimock, Yale Univ.

1. “Ecocatastrophic Nightmares in Recent Experimental Fiction,” Courtney Traub, Univ. of Oxford

2. “Climate-Change Fiction a…

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]]> 0 a97ecad7ad1538039d014b7aba87ddc1 Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction board elections in the discussion Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/prose-fiction-board-elections/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:29:32 +0000 I just wanted to post here to let everyone on this group know that I am running for the MLA Prose Fiction executive committee. One of the basic jobs of this position is choosing topics for the guaranteed MLA panels, and I promise to think broadly and openly about formulating those. (In fact, I think it would be a good idea to solicit suggestions…[Read more]

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