HASTAC Commons | John G. Peters | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/jpeters/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which John G. Peters is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:51:55 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2a134d04b52bbae087bb76be6fc88d27 Andrea Zemgulys started the topic Joint Conference in Twentieth Century Lit (FeministinterModernist Space Between) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/joint-conference-in-twentieth-century-lit-feminist-modernist-and-space-between/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:07:30 +0000 FORWARDING ON BEHALF OF OTHERS (see email for contact information!)

A joint conference of the Space Between Society and the Feministinter/Modernist Association (FiMA)
University of North Carolina, GreensboroMay 26 – 29, 2026Proposals Due: January 15, 2026

CFP: SOLIDARITY!
Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for this year’s joint c…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc5164b16277686d63d3ef2b1d08fefd Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:28:27 +0000 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extrajudicial kill…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3959e4e2a62c924d45493a4a0b4b306 Dennis Denisoff started the topic extended deadline for a Vic/Ealy-20th-C Forum panel in the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/victorian-and-early-20th-century-english/forum/topic/extended-deadline-for-a-vic-ealy-20th-c-forum-panel/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:59:44 +0000 Dear all,

The “Victorian and Early-20th-C English” forum has extended the deadline to submit an abstract for Panel 30480 “Solidarity and Institutional (In)action ” to March 28! They have also tweaked the description to emphasize their openness to a range of approaches to the topic; here is the new description:

<span…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b86b0335629a13c5d77407cda471e6b Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-3/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:48:46 +0000 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

Date: September 29 – October 2, 2025

Deadline for submissions: March 10, 2025

Location: Wuppertal, Germany

Subject Field: Narratology

Since Roland Barthes’ formula “international, transhistorical, transcultural, narration is there, like life i…[Read more]

]]> 0 acb76370ab72d18339c580c8e87aa82a Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-2/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:45:48 +0000 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

September 29 – October 2, 2025, Wuppertal, Germany

 

In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is…[Read more]

]]> 0 3caf98fe3af4b0f34ce3d7bb50dc294e Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:41:11 +0000 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 – October 2, 2025

In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is ded…[Read more]

]]> 0 26d12671e6dbd2e3ec96da6e4e03152e Ian Balfour started the topic Self-nomination for this committee in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/self-nomination-for-this-committee/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:43:01 +0000 <div>

The Philosophy and Literature Forum Executive Committee solicits self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, starting 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 e…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e690ac0215a5f7b0830ba601e63d931 Amy Wong started the topic Nominations for New Member for Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/victorian-and-early-20th-century-english/forum/topic/nominations-for-new-member-for-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:27:28 +0000 Hello LLC Victorian and Early 20thC English Members,

I’m writing on behalf of the Forum Executive Committee to solicit nominations (self-nominations welcome!) for appointing an additional member to the committee. Annual new appointments are completed in March. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables…[Read more]

]]> 0 c793b5b6e251dee1bff2d9cc68b93048 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:57:02 +0000 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 0 89f0cf87394f60e5dc22df5f48823346 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/translation-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-6/ 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]

]]> 0 c5cc64396d5b9776ae727e5016cb122d Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-8/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:31:47 +0000 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 663c563867ffa0eedf8c7aa748df7953 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-2/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:55:38 +0000 Society of Novel Studies 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2…[Read more]

]]> 0 7dcc36a6d19353c8ad8c235bfd4a2b9d Corine Tachtiris deposited Translation Matters undergraduate syllabus in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896113/ 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]

]]> 0 6d5cfaca5510df82b7af4f424eaadf8b Corine Tachtiris deposited Literary Translation Workshop - Multilingual, Grad-level in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896112/ 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.

]]> 0 74ac9e9b043df28e8632b000dd676f27 Brian Gregory Caraher deposited "Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!": Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890209/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:05:39 +0000 This paper describes the social and cultural climate of teaching the works of James Joyce — including his journalism and major works of fiction from “Dubliners” through “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake” — over the years 1993 to 2016 when the author was the Chair of English Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. The author draws upon his…[Read more]

]]> 0 49a34afa92822a05df006168e57ae42c Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889767/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:02:18 +0000 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 1027fdb9a09a284718242aa9978c8c26 Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889378/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:02:47 +0000 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 d83a9ad157caec422913592927951e4f Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889187/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:24:47 +0000 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e466df197665225411a86d11c68e436 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889182/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:14:46 +0000 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 70acda6b306b4d4012d51e830c63701b Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889178/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:04:39 +0000 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 8207cd29ddd7fbcf5f8a30183de6c575 Frank Pfost deposited ENSAYOS SOBRE ALGUNAS COMEDIAS DEL SIGLO DE ORO ESPAÑOL in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1888751/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:01:07 +0000 Se trata de un repaso a siete comedias del Siglo de Oro español, entre las que destacan: LOS PASOS de Lope de Rueda y el Entremés del RETABLO DE LAS MARAVILLAS de Miguel de Cervantes, LA VERDAD SOSPECHOSA de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, FUENTEOVEJUNA de Lope de Vega, EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA de Tirso de Molina, EL ESCLAVO DE DEMONIO de Mira de Amescua, y…[Read more]

]]> 0 122c371ef70ff9126ebe49b97e65f8dc Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887843/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:02:13 +0000 Les douze Lais de Marie de France, écrits au XIIe siècle par un auteur dont on connaît peu de choses,
retiennent leur renom pour maintes raisons. Ce sont des contes, des aventures, souvent merveilleuses
et fantastiques, des chevaliers errants et leurs dames au temps médiévaux lorsque la bataille épique et
continuelle entre le bien at le ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4ca20dd69d64e02ded476a7a54b2afd Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887556/ 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]

]]> 0 5b536600b6f17de30dfd92188cf3539e Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887554/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:01:31 +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]

]]> 0 e0ba1ae94924cbf389ba86cb02b95746 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887291/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:02:03 +0000 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b6f994ac008bdf06a3edab3bb11295b Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/MARX/PEIRCE in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886476/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:03:56 +0000 Exploration on the linkages among the modes of discourse and presentation in Hgel, Marx and Peirce
with a view to inferring a common dialectical tendency in their inquiries.

]]> 0 0a987c7927563a1fc0505ba073fff56d Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878056/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:01:26 +0000 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 4650fd6ef5efb57a488f31bb801b3bd4 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878055/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:00:11 +0000 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5d6ca3e69e217f9585a9441415aa667 Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/PEIRCE in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876760/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:02:28 +0000 Speculative notes on the relation between Peirce’s pragmatist method and Hegel’s dialectics

]]> 0 fe5cd44c0d2bb8934fe53383d5fe0a29 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870900/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:01:52 +0000 Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

]]> 0 176906164fcfcf1156f6dd3104617392 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870889/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:04:06 +0000 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 4bb77f84ab8650ac77822452bb48eda4 Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869278/ 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]

]]> 0 656172e172d5381ea81fb674543c5049 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/new-article-angela-carters-adaptations-of-the-ashputtle-story-2/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:21:08 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please write t…[Read more]

]]> 0 341c5309f871fb60d21cca0de5926c24 Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865838/ 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]

]]> 0 fb802fe28b0c606a2447c7f882a728f6 Sharon Smulders deposited "Medicated Music": Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864376/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:03:10 +0000 Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s experience of love undoubtedly informs the female speaker’s curative restoration in Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), the series also shows the conscious deliberation of a Victorian poet engaged in the task of renovating generic imperatives to release feminine subjectivity — which had been invalidated by t…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b5b85e5dccc3a05c852b8f33b2cbe4f Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864249/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:02:13 +0000 Survey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.

]]> 0 4e4bac3cef040facb17a850eb066033f Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863982/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:03:14 +0000 Thomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]

]]> 0 93b2eec1c8f268b8e2c34d42d2898937 Sophie Christman deposited * Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861775/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:11:59 +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 e67b1cc91c2b355a357176e50866ef51 Sophie Christman deposited * Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861774/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:10:45 +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 f696afa71955448884debd8081615db3 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861769/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:03:17 +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]

]]> 0 9c6d6a525de8cd5c127db89652936dd5 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860581/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:07:28 +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 92e8441ace3332ac6183b0487124aad4 Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation - revised in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1859972/ 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.

]]> 0 2baa57b6e00d3eb86153d58e633ba620 Brian Bernards started the topic AAS 2024 Seattle CFP: Verge-sponsored panel on Inter-Asia Intermediality in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/aas-2024-seattle-cfp-verge-sponsored-panel-on-inter-asia-intermediality-2/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:03:04 +0000

AAS 2024: Call for Papers for Verge-sponsored Panels


Inter-Asia Intermediality: The Transboundary Production of Global Asian Mediascapes
Organizers: Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) and Elmo Gonzaga…[Read more]

]]> 0 58a53c9c57c188b24d73ae1806224bd6 Andrea Zemgulys deposited Bullied Young Women, Virginia Woolf's Sex Japes, and Modernist Sociability in the Time of #MeToo in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1843717/ Fri, 05 May 2023 03:48:45 +0000 Salacious rumors about Alfred Tennyson’s conduct with young women inspired Virginia Woolf’s satirical depiction of Tennyson and Ellen Terry in her draft and produced play -Freshwater.- In considering whether Woolf’s satire silences the whispers of Victorian women and/or corrects salacious rumor-mongering, this essay decides that the play more…[Read more]

]]> 0 95a90345546abcb79e2cfc046587394d Hania A.M. Nashef deposited J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy: A Search for Answers in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1842191/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 03:54:34 +0000 The 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The…[Read more]

]]> 0 956527711cba4aac5dc809d7df8fd42c Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1838061/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 03:50:11 +0000 This essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 be445919f23fa8a13801da240a753477 Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1838060/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 03:48:44 +0000 This essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 b874d6ae5994634051346d2d8e09a415 Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/rhythm-speed-path-spatiotemporal-experiences-in-narrative-poetry-and-drama-2/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:03:03 +0000 Dear colleagues,

we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.

The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).

This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]

]]> 0 470b158753e8402534a0358954902afd Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/translation-studies/forum/topic/call-for-book-proposals-translatio-see-flyer-attached/ 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]

]]> 0 7f93cff9b00188432377cdf42b3ac54e Faye Hammill deposited The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination in the group Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830474/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:49:30 +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]

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