HASTAC Commons | Patrizia C. McBride | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/patriziamcbride/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Patrizia C. McBride is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:18:09 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 084a019d484abc583af12fbee2ccf294 Domna C. Stanton replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/#post-1040987 Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:36:47 +0000 Thank you so much for sending me this announcement about the topic your plan investigate with your panelists at the 2027 MLA. It is enormously  timely and interesting and I know  members will want to attend. Unfortunately  I am on leave as of the end of december 2026 and very eager to return to my book project which is way over due. So sosry ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa10eb0e78fbd8db520238fa9a08ae57 Grace Monk started the topic CFP for MLA 2027--Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-beyond-the-professoriat-the-broader-humanities-ecosystem/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:20:47 +0000 Sharing a CFP for the MLA 2027 Convention in Los Angeles. I hope it is of interest!

Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem

Roundtable examining jobs beyond faculty roles, highlighting how humanities training informs career trajectories. All career stages welcome.

Deadline March 16, 2026

Link:…[Read more]

]]> 0 209e48696653b95d79fdc6f3795ee3cc Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aural-reorientations-or-sound-studies-as-listening-otherwise/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:35:39 +0000 Dear Sound Studies Communities,

The MS Sound Forum executive committee has just published the CFP for our guaranteed session at MLA 2027. We look forward to receiving many of your proposals! :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

]]> 0 4a3e696105cf9639e86c490f2c4dd7c0 Helen Finch replied to the topic Seeking new Forum Committee member for LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/seeking-new-forum-committee-member-for-llc-20th-and-21st-century-german/#post-1040772 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:49:23 +0000 Dear all, apologies for the formatting above.

Apologies for the formatting above: please see clean copy below.

The Modern Language Association of America LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German (D061) Forum is seeking a new Forum Committee Member to take up the role for a five-year term starting in 2027. We would particularly welcome applications from…[Read more]

]]> 0 03c28885b10dd5c753fc3b6802b3f234 Helen Finch started the topic CFP: Beyond Identities: Queer Formations in 20th and 21st C German Culture in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-beyond-identities-queer-formations-in-20th-and-21st-c-german-culture/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:54:07 +0000 <div class=”x_elementToProof” data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>Dear colleagues, please do consider submitting an abstract for the Forum sessions at the MLA conference in Los Angeles from 7 to 10 January 2027,  on <b>Beyond Identities: Queer Formations in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century German Culture</b>. Abstracts are due by 16 March 2026.…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbaa5602e9857944ce31adcdbc958a1f Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940348/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:24:56 +0000 0 6a3fe91f5a5b33a51aeaca46ebf3461c Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940345/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:22:47 +0000 0 18d5efa7eab9aaae3c3d9cf96295ce19 Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940344/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:21:09 +0000 0 619d74ca55798701cebc4e1a0e9e084d Jennifer Stoever started the topic Recommendation for real-world assignment with Wiki Education! (not spam!) in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/recommendation-for-real-world-assignment-with-wiki-education-not-spam/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:45:32 +0000 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear all,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I wanted to share with everyone a high-impact teaching opportunity that has added a lot to my own classroom – the </span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Wikipedia assignment</span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>. </span>

I have had great success and enjoyment fr…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee658bc86a722c27351a576af5880a22 Jennifer Stoever started the topic CFP: Hate and NonHuman Listening, Due 14 July 2025 in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-hate-and-nonhuman-listening-due-14-july-2025/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:15:47 +0000 Call for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
A Guest Series for Sounding Out! guest edited by Kathryn Huether
Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT

Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: kathryn.huether@gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.

We invite subm…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0f5b92dc79b61535ec1f51a1ecfec05 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-6/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:40:01 +0000 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad3a4f55f7fe48a0b41921495368c2b4 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2026 CFP – Clapping Back in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-clapping-back-2/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:34:05 +0000 Dear MS Sound Forum,

I write on behalf of the MS Sound Forum Executive Committee members to share the MLA2026 CFP “Clapping Back: Responses from Sound Studies to Censorship & Silencing.” Please consider applying & help spread the word :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

p.s. We will soon launch a Discord channel for the Sound Studies scholars, in hopes of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7974eee32a97cd3fbf0e12b3aa461eae Lynn Wolff started the topic CFP: The Holocaust in a Global Context in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-the-holocaust-in-a-global-context/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:10:57 +0000 Please consider submitting an abstract to the session The Holocaust in a Global Context at the MLA conference, taking place January 8–11, 2026 in Toronto. Submissions are due by March 15, 2025. This session is organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum.

This panel series seeks to examine Holocaust literature, broadly defined, by p…[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 8e31108f736f4fd5332721c27565549b Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025 to TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912534/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:18:06 +0000 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 dedicated to this reflection on the concept of narrative in order to sharpen it by defining its boundaries: Which phenomena cannot be appropriately lab…[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 0565a01f746dc2e6020adf5e71d8b024 John Melillo started the topic MS Sound Rountable at MLA 2025: Sound and Literature Now in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/ms-sound-rountable-at-mla-2025-sound-and-literature-now/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:20:39 +0000 Please join the MS Sound forum for a wide-ranging roundtable on “Sound and Literature Now.” Our roundtable will take place on Friday morning, January 10th, at 8:30 AM in Salon 16 of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside (first floor):

Description:

Panelists describe and discuss new academic and creative interventions that connect sound and literary…[Read more]

]]> 0 2100708011846a82b918a18f62d19b8a Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-4/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:01:22 +0000 The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.

We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c3b892d1e3b434a5cf176e5fcc2089b Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-5/ Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:42:38 +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 03158f0036249fcd0239fd5e6103c0d6 Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects-2/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:15:02 +0000 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

]]> 0 2280319751e87a3cb8b20972929638cc Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-3/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:35:27 +0000 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title “A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspec…[Read more]

]]> 0 1845e3dd2e102c7614b9d37b574fdb67 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-6/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 08:02:01 +0000 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 0 2e682e928f202731b027a2d21f536987 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890324/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:00:04 +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 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 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 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 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 b87fb2dddc72f3e37248c1d83a4ff995 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 TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878059/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:09:12 +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 4701743b8c148fc1a6f3856f30385cfe Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876628/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:02:28 +0000 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 57e89a423ca365b2a6776c7458ed68cd Ela Gezen started the topic Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/literary-alliances-networks-and-solidarities-across-minoritized-communities/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:49:32 +0000 Modern Language Association Conference
New Orleans, LA
January 9–12, 2025

CfP Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities (organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum)
This panel series seeks to examine varied, sometimes intersecting forms, forums, and formats for facilitating, expressing, and p…[Read more]

]]> 0 29a83e6cb3e5c3cf9fa36545405c85b3 andré carrington started the topic Open General Business Meeting for the Forum:MS Sound at #MLA2024 in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/open-general-business-meeting-for-the-forumms-sound-at-mla2024/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:11:42 +0000 Good day everyone! If you’re attending the annual convention and you’d like to join the Forum MS Sound (or you’re already a member) please join us at 3:30p.m. on Saturday, January 6, in the Marriott – Grand D (Level 5). We’ll catch up and solicit interest in potential topics for sponsored sessions, and we have seats opening up, so you can become a…[Read more]

]]> 0 d14409d50ee921ee3795570127b849a5 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus's motion in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/the-executive-committee-endorses-the-radical-caucuss-motion/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:16:11 +0000 Dear Forum Participants,

The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a057da11b45938b30d41232ee41cfe0 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus's motion in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/the-executive-committee-endorses-the-radical-caucuss-motion/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:16:11 +0000 Dear Forum Participants,

The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[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 597a04df49be64a06c95c64eb941b72c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-19/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:19:20 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]

]]> 0 d733ace9e5d41108123edc42d07f0e7e Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865793/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:06:46 +0000 Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9a4d1d41ee66e08e8fa77ec3d1a28a8 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 Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864816/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:03:47 +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 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 df074ce123cbf73b846df7790a1a461d Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858170/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:21:45 +0000 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

]]> 0 718fe57a82ea095353c9cf58d42e0bc7 Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858167/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:13:37 +0000 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

]]> 0 51a83109dec8e38bfa5f9c18b3e3e073 Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857511/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:29:49 +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 a06ef29afbc9a53bb9bcfd9d2742b44a Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857507/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:19:36 +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 fcceb40fb754bad8302d0065dd977ad7 Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real" in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856307/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:22:16 +0000 Zunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]

]]> 0 e50073a729e182336a88ef3e62e32a10 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847390/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:18:26 +0000 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

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