HASTAC Commons | Enrique Rodrigues-Moura | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/rodrigues/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Enrique Rodrigues-Moura is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:52:09 +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 6c40929115590ed39ff22f250c94092e Lennie Amores uploaded the file: CFP: MLA Convention 2027 Los Angeles ( to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1945300/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:47:11 +0000 MLA Annual Convention
Los Angeles, January 7-10, 2027
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
LLC 20th- and 21st- Century Spanish and Iberian Forum
Emancipatory Narratives of Aging
This guaranteed session will examine cultural and literary representations of aging, old age, and memory in Spain, its emancipatory potential, challenges to aging, ageism, discrimination,…[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 651b9ff81676ea0c0061aff8d40e11f2 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria replied to the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Embodied Difference and the Making of Ability in Early Modern Span in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-embodied-difference-and-the-making-of-ability-in-early-modern-span/#post-1040931 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:58:51 +0000 CORRECTION:  Submit a 250-word abstract by March 18, 2026.

]]> 0 2dd2f4e6b64691c7d49118a02b7be672 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Empowering Others in Early Modern Spanish Poetry and/or Prose in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-empowering-others-in-early-modern-spanish-poetry-and-or-prose/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:55:28 +0000 This panel invites paper proposals that explore the multiple representations of the empowerment of the “Other” in early modern Spanish poetry and prose of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We are particularly interested in literary articulations that represent or problematize agency, resistance, mediation, and the visiualization of rac…[Read more]

]]> 0 bfdf75869ef24b6c263fd5f967cd44a6 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Embodied Difference and the Making of Ability in Early Modern Span in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-embodied-difference-and-the-making-of-ability-in-early-modern-span/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:50:09 +0000 Over the past two decades, disability studies has transformed medieval and early modern scholarship and continues to expand across literary, historical, and comparative fields. The scale and global circulation of Iberian writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries make early modern Spanish prose and poetry a uniquely capacious tradition for…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6c1b287328e2d262fae990514e094d8 Pedro Craveiro started the topic [MLA 2027] Call for Papers in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/mla-2027-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:11:30 +0000 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles:
1. Global Pretuguês: Language and Literature beyond Translational and Transnational Borders
We invite papers examining the creative expressions of Pretuguês in literatures across Africa, Brazil, a…[Read more]

]]> 0 95d8e9de66817bc686ac5685c72f20d0 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-2/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:49:34 +0000 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 0 eed160b9adf7eb4744a28cbd016c0b6c Cole Rizki started the topic Nominations for Candidates to Delegate Election in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-for-candidates-to-delegate-election/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:19:15 +0000 Hi everyone, I write to solicit nominations for candidates to the MLA delegate election. For eligibility: any candidates for election must have been included in the membership list of the association for the preceding year. No one can occupy more than one delegate seat at a time and delegates may only serve two consecutive terms on the Delegate…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e62d447801dc538b9b9ac4f4eae8397 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic Invitation for self-nominations to the Forum Executive Committee in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/invitation-for-self-nominations-to-the-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:34:16 +0000 The Forum Executive Committee of CLCS Renaissance / Early modern invites self-nominations for TWO positions on the committee: one replacement position for a 3-year term, and one new member for a five-year term. Our primary responsibility is to organize panels and roundtables for the MLA convention; we have two guaranteed panels per…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7c030560cec9ef12b283da07bfb0f8c Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic Nominations for LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/nominations-for-llc-16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:36:35 +0000 The MLA Forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose (D068) is seeking nominations and self-nominations to serve on the Forum’s Executive Committee.  Nominations can be submitted directly through the MLA here  or by contacting me directly at donalgs@uw.edu.  Additional information about MLA Forums may be found here.

We req…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d2331b86208f730b5a350865fdd59db Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941342/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:52:17 +0000 CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. Special Issue of Hispanófila.
Edited by: Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College) and Adam Cohn (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Proposals due March 6, 2026

]]> 0 21613f4d7281e7e57f243100ab1f58c4 Cole Rizki started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:07:48 +0000 Hi everyone, I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Friday January 23rd with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 f138030239ed8176067934af4463cdd5 Krista Brune created the doc Found Families: Migrant and Diasporic Voices in Portuguese in the group LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936699/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:22:21 +0000 0 046c3d1dc057395af9541702c25c40b4 Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim-3/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:57:44 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea4812be429fe3cb6ca501e8c73285c9 Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:46:31 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> 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 17fd2c14f0e6fff5b9dd3c0122dc9e25 Daniel Da Silva replied to the topic Call for Papers MLA Global Portuguese 2026 in the forum LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-global-portuguese-2026/?view=all#post-1039649 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:16:10 +0000 Deadline Extended to March 22, 2025 – submit an abstract and join us! – Global Portuguese panel for the upcoming MLA Conference in 2026 on Family Resemblances: Acts of Kinship, Comparison, and Relational Thinking in Lusophone Cultural Production . You can explore a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, comparative, relational, and in…[Read more]

]]> 0 abeaf91f0cec80ad29f1dc71961aa055 Daniel Da Silva started the topic Call for Papers MLA Global Portuguese 2026 in the forum LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-global-portuguese-2026/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:49:27 +0000 Join our Global Portuguese panel for the upcoming MLA Conference in 2026 on Family Resemblances: Acts of Kinship, Comparison, and Relational Thinking in Lusophone Cultural Production . You can explore a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, comparative, relational, and interdisciplinary perspectives on Lusophone cultural production…[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 38629fca75fe7b32a38be1f6544a0b6a Paul Michael Johnson started the topic CFP: Mediterranean Racialization (MLA 2026, Toronto) in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/cfp-mediterranean-racialization-mla-2026-toronto/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:56:11 +0000 How have conceptions of race shaped the Mediterranean, and how has the Mediterranean shaped the concept or lived experience of race? Potential approaches include racialization of nation, empire, and migration. 200-word abstracts to pmjohnson@jhu.edu. Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 15 March 2025

]]> 0 c92b65091a851503aea891c2101dc610 Paul Michael Johnson started the topic CFP: Iberian and Mediterranean Exteriorities (MLA 2026, Toronto) in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/cfp-iberian-and-mediterranean-exteriorities-mla-2026-toronto/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:51:36 +0000 Mediterranean territories “exterior” but connected to the Iberian Peninsula: Gibraltar, Maghreb, Ceuta, Melilla, Chafarinas, Baleares, Sardinia, Sicily, Naples, Sephardic communities, etc. All approaches considered. 200-word abstracts: MLA.Iberian.Lit.Cult.20th.21st.c@gmail.com and rpnewcomb@ucdavis.edu. Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025

]]> 0 5512468dfe66b60c9745c1b9e771aca9 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic CFP MLA 2026: Early Modern Women’s Violence in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2026-early-modern-womens-violence/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:56:59 +0000 <p style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Renaissance and Early Modern Forum executive committee invites proposals for a guaranteed *virtual* panel at MLA 2026 titled “Early Modern Women’s Violence.” This panel will explore representations of women’s violence across early modern literature and culture. How do early modern texts gender violence? How do they…[Read more]

]]> 0 f380e6bd4e1d426544acb32cbf6150ec Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026 CORRECTION: extended proposal submission deadline of MARCH 15 in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-correction-extended-proposal-submission-deadline-of-march-15/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 02:17:18 +0000 CORRECTION:  The deadline for submission of proposals for the three panels hosted by LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose at the 2026 MLA Convention has been moved back to MARCH 15, 2025.

CFP: Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period
CFP: A (Not So) Holy Office. Censorship, Academic Freedom and Research
CFP : Family…[Read more]

]]> 0 a442c1d651ce1ab1849e48b6fcb881b9 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP A (Not So) Holy Office. Censorship, Academic Freedom and Research in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-a-not-so-holy-office-censorship-academic-freedom-and-research-2/ Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:20:32 +0000 Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to March 10

This panel seeks contributions that discuss the challenges that research and teaching Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries have to face today in our workplaces. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4271312f261d3d6491a70b9c4348004 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-nature-writing-in-the-early-modern-period-3/ Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:15:04 +0000 Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to MARCH 10

This panel seeks proposals that study the relationships between humans and the environment in Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3d228bd3f20e041fb5e6d584bf20782 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP Family Ties and Intimacies in the Early Modern Hispanic World in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-family-ties-and-intimacies-in-the-early-modern-hispanic-world-2/ Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:09:45 +0000 Please note that the deadline has been extended to  MARCH 10

This panel invites submissions that explore the multifaceted concept of family present in Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald Gilbert-Santamaria…[Read more]

]]> 0 266d0d1713e443cc981345600cdbbe26 Krista Brune started the topic Call for Papers for 2026 MLA in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-2026-mla-2/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:38:00 +0000 Please consider submitting your proposals to the following sessions, organized by the Luso-Brazilian Forum, for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto:

Afro-Brazil as Method and Theory. Papers exploring Black theorists’ epistemological contributions to (re)thinking Brazil and its racial contradictions. Trends in Afro-Brazilian literary theory and i…[Read more]

]]> 0 e25de4624443bedcc56e3d2b42f5d385 Carmela Mattza replied to the topic MLA 2026: CFP Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-nature-writing-in-the-early-modern-period/#post-1039472 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:15:38 +0000 [like] Carmela V Mattza reacted to your message:

]]> 0 5c68b1cf0497b42d554f461542581b2e Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-nature-writing-in-the-early-modern-period-2/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:14:22 +0000 This panel seeks proposals that study the relationships between humans and the environment in Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald Gilbert-Santamaria (donalgs@uw.edu).

Narrative. Is it possible to link current…[Read more]

]]> 0 210d9e056b9b872b55a66782f22ee442 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP Family Ties and Intimacies in the Early Modern Hispanic World in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-family-ties-and-intimacies-in-the-early-modern-hispanic-world/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:09:32 +0000 This panel invites submissions that explore the multifaceted concept of family present in Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald Gilbert-Santamaria (donalgs@uw.edu).

Narrative. This panel invites submissions that…[Read more]

]]> 0 675364869983e790328442a754c3e353 Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP A (Not So) Holy Office. Censorship, Academic Freedom and Research in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-a-not-so-holy-office-censorship-academic-freedom-and-research/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:06:42 +0000 This panel seeks contributions that discuss the challenges that research and teaching Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries have to face today in our workplaces. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald Gilbert-Santamaria (donalgs@uw.edu).

Narrative. It is…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d8a9862c63415f52e13789018a075cf Donald Gilbert-Santamaria started the topic MLA 2026: CFP Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period in the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-and-17th-century-spanish-and-iberian-poetry-and-prose/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-nature-writing-in-the-early-modern-period/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:28:22 +0000 This panel seeks proposals that study the relationships between humans and the environment in Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose from the 16th and 17th centuries. Submit a 250-word abstract by March 10, 2025, to Magdalena Altamirano (altamira@sdsu.edu) and Donald Gilbert-Santamaria (donalgs@uw.edu).
Narrative. Is it possible to link current…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc9583b1ca27376010641589da70461f Krista Brune started the topic CFP: Modernisms in Portuguese for Portuguese Cultural Studies (deadline 3/20/25) in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-modernisms-in-portuguese-for-portuguese-cultural-studies-deadline-3-20-25/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:24:59 +0000 Fernando Guimarães (2007) elucidates the intrinsic connection between avant-gardes and the overarching paradigm of Modernism. Within the rich tapestry of the Portuguese language, seminal movements such as Orpheu, Futurism, Brazilian Modernism, Surrealism, and Concretism emerge as pivotal in shaping the artistic and literary landscape during the…[Read more]

]]> 0 995e7775c026c9279a403d0a6edb24b7 Kyle Pivetti started the topic Self-Nominations for Renaissance and Early Modern Forum Executive Committee in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/self-nominations-for-renaissance-and-early-modern-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:54:49 +0000 We invite self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the CLCS Renaissance/Early Modern forum. We appoint one new member annually for a five-year term. Our primary responsibility is to organize panels and roundtables for the MLA convention; we have two guaranteed panels per year.

Eligibility:

1. Only current MLA members are…[Read more]

]]> 0 c95335d4403ce9d68229f677e67b4672 Paul Michael Johnson started the topic Session on Mediterranean Sexualities this Saturday at MLA Convention in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/session-on-mediterranean-sexualities-this-saturday-at-mla-convention/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:48:59 +0000 For those who will be at the MLA Convention in New Orleans this week, please plan to attend our panel on Mediterranean Sexualities this Saturday, January 11, 10:15 – 11:30 a.m.  It will feature exciting presentations on asexuality, the queer female gaze, and alterity in ancient drama, Roman history, and Moroccan film, among other timely issues,…[Read more]

]]> 0 8764972e24cc7d05ecb3268cd2f3576d Krista Brune started the topic Nominations for LLC Luso-Brazilian Executive Committee in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/nominations-for-llc-luso-brazilian-executive-committee/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:53:55 +0000 Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to be a part of the executive committee of the LLC Luso-Brazilian Forum. The new EC member will serve from after the 2026 MLA through the 2031 conference. We are accepting nominations until Thursday, January 16. Thanks! Obrigada!

]]> 0 9d5e2d3e60d71708ad9ac3c103810696 Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the call for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907864/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:37:56 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce the call for Guaranteed Session Proposals for the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto. If accepted by our Forum, your panel is guaranteed a place at next year’s convention. We invite proposals that engage with a wide range of topics related to 20th- a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d62191f783a3cb76c17bd6d381ac13b Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907863/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:34:06 +0000 Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 15th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 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 10e0822b8fa7b2282eed7eb1e6e586a6 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/luso-brazilian/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-4/ Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:55:06 +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 d1ca42eebf710bee42180ac2c9232285 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901834/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:00:10 +0000 This chapter argues that
by including fan studies as part of appropriation theory scholarship can account for
this conversation, manifest in likes, re-posts and experimental fan work. Because of
the interplay between creator and audience, the focus of appropriative study shifts
from the end product, the new Shakespeare iteration, to the fan…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b64664b4c520f5dac09f7d56c458694 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics," Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900892/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:16:06 +0000 Whom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d7b2fd99fe4ae4f4b5300d18a5b628a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900887/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:08:19 +0000 How do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e282cc7c10e0f32f596bd7b427c96d0 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China," in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900882/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:00:09 +0000 This chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin’s interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3710f36cc43db4e8b25731ea2d647fc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900080/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:00:08 +0000 Focusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[Read more]

]]> 0 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]

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