HASTAC Commons | Karen Lentz Madison | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/karen_madison/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Karen Lentz Madison is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:16:38 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c4c43b60f345186a9d99f144ab505952 Janine M. Utell started the topic Webinar of Interest: Commonsense Strategies for Publishing While Teaching in the forum HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/webinar-of-interest-commonsense-strategies-for-publishing-while-teaching/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:42:15 +0000 Check out this upcoming free webinar!
Commonsense Strategies for Publishing while Teaching
24 March 2026 | 4:00–5:00 p.m. ET

This webinar, on writing and publishing, is designed for faculty members at access-oriented institutions, especially community colleges. Speakers will share strategies for identifying writing opportunities, bringing tog…[Read more]

]]> 0 db39cbbae8c7e4aaa131014be0eaa4a1 Tara Coleman started the topic CFP: Emancipatory Narratives and Academic Freedom in the Writing Classroom in the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/cfp-emancipatory-narratives-and-academic-freedom-in-the-writing-classroom/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:07:28 +0000 Call for proposals for a guaranteed session for the 2027 MLA convention, sponsored by the Writing Pedagogies forum:

Seeking 250-word proposals exploring the impact of institutional and/or professional positionalities on how our students learn to interrogate dominant narratives in their writing. How do we emancipate students while recognizing our…[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:

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]]> 0 61083f16359bfa9076f03dd6fa7c7efd Lee B. Abraham started the topic Call for Papers: MLA 2026 for Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning in the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2026-for-forum-on-second-language-teaching-and-learning-3/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:43:00 +0000 Call for Papers
Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 8-11, 2026, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 0 e33eaa34a4b23138a6533d58ad5c0c2c Elizabeth Weixel started the topic CFP: Faces: Resemblances and Otherness in Global Literature in the forum HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/cfp-faces-resemblances-and-otherness-in-global-literature/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:10:55 +0000 An object of curiosity and desire, the face has also been subject to symbolic and real violence. This panel seeks papers discussing the presentation of the face and facelessness in Global literature.

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Send 200-word abstracts and presenter bio to Umar Shehzad, University of Edinburgh…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd6b052d42829edf69a3ca6560be055e Elizabeth Weixel started the topic CFP: Precarity and Protest: What Can I Actually Do? in the forum HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/cfp-precarity-and-protest-what-can-i-actually-do-2/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:04:18 +0000 Seeking 200-word abstracts and presenter bios for practical strategies in teaching, activism, and research for a roundtable discussion on making marginalized voices heard, especially within the confines of contingency, institutional policy, and current political climate

Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025
Send abstracts and bios to:…[Read more]

]]> 0 865c8bbd1e34f01f43d9a99b09cef71c Tara Coleman started the topic Calls for Proposals: MLA 2026 Convention in Toronto in the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/calls-for-proposals-mla-2026-convention-in-toronto/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:00:33 +0000 The RCWS forum in Writing Pedagogies is organizing two panels for the MLA 2026 Convention in Toronto. Please reach out if you have questions or are interested in proposing something for either of these sessions!

Kinship, Care, and Writing Instruction
How do writing instructors foster connection across communities while navigating cultural and…[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 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 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 f7a9241345c314ca4ac5710c9611cc59 Elizabeth Weixel started the topic CFP MLA 2025: Madness and Magic in Global Lit in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2025-madness-and-magic-in-global-lit/ Fri, 15 Mar 2024 01:05:02 +0000 From the HEP Forum for Part-Time and Continent Faculty Issues:

Call for Papers: Manifestations of Madness and Magic in Global Literature

Commonalities of Kesey and Quiroga, Carroll and Cortázar, Plath and Poe? Panelists discuss connections between discernible delusion and imaginative illusion found in world literature. Send a 200-word abstract…[Read more]

]]> 0 f82dffac1731931a4e77d0673a049b68 Tara Coleman started the topic Seeking Nominations for the RCWS Writing Pedagogies Form Committee in the discussion RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-rcws-writing-pedagogies-form-committee/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:45:56 +0000 The RCWS Writing Pedagogies Forum requests nominations for a new Executive Committee member! We’re seeking passionate individuals with a dedication to writing pedagogies to contribute to our community. Being on the committee allows you to participate in organizing guaranteed sessions for the MLA convention each January and generally engage in…[Read more]

]]> 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 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 3616fe610560e3e950437178a720a5fe Jessica Yood deposited Humanities Core Curriculum, Humanities Core Values in the group RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870296/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:00:14 +0000 Addressing the decline of a longtime commitment to humanistic study as the core of a general education, panelists consider the history of core curricula, the place of the humanities within it, and current challenges. With an eye toward the practical and sustainable, they offer possible paths for humanistic study—and general education—in challenging times.

]]> 0 b9cead3db0e72273e3b38cbf1eb7d429 Stacey Amo started the topic Discussion Group on What Contingency Means to You in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/discussion-group-on-what-contingency-means-to-you-6/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:27:30 +0000 Join members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063

]]> 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 be7abe84ef0e3b6a9de4db24c8dd506a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-11/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:44:58 +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 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 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 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 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 76d01e474a2c43b28c0f99bab71ee362 James R. Britton started the topic Three CFPs--MLA 2024 in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/three-cfps-mla-2024/ Sat, 18 Feb 2023 16:40:18 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

I’d like to call your attention to three CFPs for the 2024 MLA convention that may interest you.

  • The Range of Contingency: Models and Strategies for Success: As the nature of contingency evolves with non-tenure track faculty assuming increased responsibilities within the academy, what models or strategies can help to assure f…

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]]> 0 c16f8593ffe3f2174fdf63eca8892160 Elizabeth Hutton started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies CFP for MLA 2024: Literacies of self-care in the discussion RCWS History and Theory of Composition https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-composition/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-cfp-for-mla-2024-literacies-of-self-care-2/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:46:57 +0000 The RCWS Literacy Studies forum committee invites 250-word proposals addressing the MLA 2024 conference theme of celebration: joy and sorrow, with a focus on self-care literacies. What are the varied ways that instructors, artists, students, scholars, writers and readers enact and enable literacies of self-care? How do such literacies commemorate,…[Read more]

]]> 0 1024b71cd1e60c342e156df7d9a4974f Elizabeth Hutton started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies CFP for MLA 2024: Literacies of self-care in the discussion RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-cfp-for-mla-2024-literacies-of-self-care/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:46:50 +0000 The RCWS Literacy Studies forum committee invites 250-word proposals addressing the MLA 2024 conference theme of celebration: joy and sorrow, with a focus on self-care literacies. What are the varied ways that instructors, artists, students, scholars, writers and readers enact and enable literacies of self-care? How do such literacies commemorate,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4d56c4835684b1b5acd13047d8e2826 Sujata Iyengar deposited 'It was the best butter': Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829048/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:28:01 +0000 Series of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 09fd991fc3e1c4fed88c73705d5921e8 Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1825764/ Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:26:36 +0000 Virginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e65efd28040c56ed7693e35230fa5e2 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/1823102/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:30:38 +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 developme…[Read more]

]]> 0 830822c11c335527a640adf20dea7d95 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/1823100/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:27:16 +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 6219d9790a092ab7125941026b69a330 Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1792487/ Fri, 02 Sep 2022 02:23:41 +0000 The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals should work to protect multiple runs of actual Victorian periodicals, which are potentially at risk in “collective collections” organized by academic libraries.

]]> 0 4f0e6551251bc28c9bf357ff9c7df061 Mirosław Miernik started the topic CFP: Volume on Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo), "Hadrian the Seventh" in the discussion LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/victorian-and-early-20th-century-english/forum/topic/cfp-volume-on-frederick-rolfe-baron-corvo-hadrian-the-seventh/ Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:23:23 +0000 We are seeking submissions for an upcoming volume on the work of Frederick Rolfe, also known as Baron Corvo, with particular emphasis placed on his novel Hadrian the Seventh. The book will be published by Lexington Books in 2024. The chapters should be around 7,500 words. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • The politics…

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]]> 0 c9264fcf8c0fbb7a372e876f2704a23e Jacob Jewusiak deposited Tennyson’s Wrinkled Feet: Ageing and the Poetics of Decay in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1775703/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:29:11 +0000 This article argues that Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ (1860) draws together ageing and decay through the poem’s formal wrinkling: moments where metrical disruption, folding, slackness, or concealment correspond to the insights derived from the perspective of great age — chiming the poet’s keynotes of disappointment, mourning, and loss. I turn to ‘Ulysses…[Read more]

]]> 0 770f85e53348ff5aa0e0a64d10b5cd4f Jacob Jewusiak deposited Grandpaternalism: Kipling's Imperial Care Narrative in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1775701/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:26:39 +0000 The significance of old age in Kipling’s work has gone largely unacknowledged by critics who attend to the many youthful protagonists who sail, hunt, and explore their way across the plots of his fiction. This essay argues that the relationship between grandparent and grandchild in Kipling’s Kim serves as a representational strategy—at the level…[Read more]

]]> 0 e86485143e540a371d458f6cd7ff79c6 Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old From Dickens to Woolf (Introduction) in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1775699/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:23:38 +0000 The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5229d4372a37532f4301d31dd89d1338 James Gifford deposited Durrell’s Delta and Dylan Thomas’ ‘Prologue to an Adventure’ in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1774918/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 03:51:48 +0000 In 1939, Keidrych Rhys charged that Dylan Thomas’ “Prologue to an Adventure” was reprinted “in Delta (Paris) without acknowledgement… without permission”; however, Ralph Maud contrarily argues “Durrell, as editor of Delta, asked Thomas for contributions and published something by him in all three issues” (123). Thomas’ letters support the latter…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b6855b826f5b4f20ce232cdc829d092 Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771418/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:53:31 +0000 Example of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.

]]> 0 787dbd1f4b7442ec92aa71880144f221 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771062/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:26:22 +0000 The Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]

]]> 0 1058de33ff13d01b530963761f83a915 Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769035/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 04:09:12 +0000 The aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d8124036aab918ae4b0edf276d248df Dustin Friedman deposited Teaching Queer Theory beyond the Western Classroom in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769032/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 04:03:36 +0000 This article develops a theory of postcolonial queer pedagogy through reflections on teaching nineteenth-century literature at the National University of Singapore. Students draw on their experiences living in a culture torn between liberal and illiberal tendencies and recognize that such contradictions exist in both the Western and non-Western world.

]]> 0 2282d1f5a5d1d5b2949bfb090ed27c56 Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769028/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 03:50:21 +0000 This essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]

]]> 0 f04dd31ff832b96a9a4b5b9e9446e180 Michael Hancher deposited Making magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth century: Twenty-one reports in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768601/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:23:39 +0000 The reports listed here and then reproduced in facsimile were published in British and American journals during the nineteenth century. They describe contemporary aspects, both editorial and mechanical, of the production processes that made such publications possible. Leading topics include the relative efficiency of steam-powered printing, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 72cfde5fd7d548a1334c1bac1015c0c9 Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768476/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 03:49:37 +0000 What started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]

]]> 0 e50bf75d4e02b2440cf94dc363134c73 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion RCWS History and Theory of Composition https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-composition/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2022-forum-delegate-election-45/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:10:34 +0000 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5ef16deb5c321ec355a3b9e79490645 Carla Sassi posted an update in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English: The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1754857/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:57:37 +0000 The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]

]]> 0 90532fb87250020efa90fff41b8d5441 Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750926/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:29:32 +0000 This essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7f2023b2530dae56be6546c2302d960 Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1749991/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 03:50:48 +0000 ABSTRACT
The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries.…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ee1c50023b9d2241ed8e1d9cbbe5fe2 Sujata Iyengar deposited "Decolonizing" Milton and Spenser through Diasporic Interpreters in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1748189/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 03:53:19 +0000 Describes and provides examples of modules and assignments for a sophomore Brit Lit survey and an upper-division poetics class that responded to student demands for a more racially diverse canon. Includes a brief discussion of Lucius Henry Holsey, enslaved worker on the UGA campus, who claimed to have learned to read from Milton’s Paradise Lost…[Read more]

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