HASTAC Commons | Olorunshola Adenekan | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/shola_adenekan/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Olorunshola Adenekan is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:15:34 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 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 c816b817b008b4edcd8fee8466805037 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:48:02 +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 43d10e2c2dda9fb669d591c1c11c1fa5 Matthew Omelsky started the topic Seeking graduate student self-nominations to be MLA Assembly Delegate in the forum LLC African since 1990 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-since-1990/forum/topic/seeking-graduate-student-self-nominations-to-be-mla-assembly-delegate/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:36:48 +0000 Greetings African Since 1990 Forum Members,

This year, our Forum’s executive council is tasked with submitting two nominees to stand for election to join the MLA Assembly for a 3 year term. We already have one graduate student nomination, and we would prefer to nominate a second graduate student, to avoid any imbalance in rank between…[Read more]

]]> 0 86e4e75ec10857b0692754404a40a12d Brian Croxall replied to the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/#post-1040727 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:11:21 +0000 As an update, we are extending the deadline for submissions to the poster slam at DH 2026 for the DH Pedagogy and Training SIG. Please submit proposals by Monday, February 9. Accepted participants will now be notified no later than 28 February.</span>

Please see the original post for full details.

]]> 0 ebbb4a01a4573f5eba5fd63eee70d12f Brian Croxall replied to the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/#post-1040727 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:11:21 +0000 As an update, w<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>e are extending the deadline for submissions to the poster slam at DH 2026 for the DH Pedagogy and Training SIG. Please submit proposals by Monday, February 9. Accepted participants will now be notified no later than 28 February.</span>

Please see the original post for full details.

]]> 0 2a134d04b52bbae087bb76be6fc88d27 Andrea Zemgulys started the topic Joint Conference in Twentieth Century Lit (FeministinterModernist Space Between) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/joint-conference-in-twentieth-century-lit-feminist-modernist-and-space-between/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:07:30 +0000 FORWARDING ON BEHALF OF OTHERS (see email for contact information!)

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

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

]]> 0 a08bc0563ba2c56c3663cdc183a8043e William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936465/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:35:30 +0000 0 1892c7f56b398edf0c5c5e82806be2a9 William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936464/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:32:29 +0000 0 94769bd097a589d0e3a2d734482ab6c6 William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936463/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:27:18 +0000 0 f33058fd0383b52730121af118e3445c William J. Spurlin started the topic Call for Papers for the African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the forum LLC African since 1990 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-since-1990/forum/topic/call-for-papers-for-the-african-literature-association-2026-conference/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:18:10 +0000 Please circulate widely.

]]> 0 a479c956d938c1e569ff3897ea2cc58d Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-5/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:55:30 +0000 Please consider applying and share widely.

]]> 0 6860801d45c0871e5b6be0bfa544f739 Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel-3/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:34:57 +0000 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of <b>ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature</b>

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

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

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

]]> 0 2026f89c16ec13126857a2eb4b9009d5 Brian Croxall started the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:13:02 +0000 Overview
The DH Pedagogy and Training SIG will hold a Pedagogy Poster Slam at the 2026 DH Conference in Daejeon, South Korea. The Pedagogy Poster Slam will take place during the SIG’s reserved slot during one of the conference’s two workshop days, either Monday, 27 July 2026, or Tuesday, 28 July 2026.

Posters will either focus on a) a spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 227876ecd355d0675cbe7ebd2574d1d5 Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP - Openness in Language Education in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-openness-in-language-education/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:34:04 +0000 📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review

I’m happy to share that The EUROCALL Review is launching a new thematic issue on:
👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”.

This issue focuses on the role and impact of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in language education worldwi…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8b2a73e1808fbbc74cee42424de5f98 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due 1/15/26 in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-1-15-26/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:47:57 +0000 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 0 58da3414739d0ec665d9eb3a651681a1 Shawna Ross started the topic CFP - A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-a-field-guide-to-lost-modernisms/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:03:35 +0000 A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
Call for papers

The Internet is a significant yet leaky infrastructure by which modernism circulates. Members of the public often encounter modernist literature and culture online, while students and scholars depend on the World Wide Web for conducting and disseminating their research. Worryingly, Internet assets…[Read more]

]]> 0 895c3dd6571a8af9459c5806c4ee68a8 Nattie Golubov uploaded the file: CFP Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2025-2025 to TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1924521/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:30:00 +0000 The first election of Donald Trump sparked a series of “Rogue” romance anthologies that framed love as resistance, and the romance genre as progressive and inclusive. Looking back after a decade, how has the genre registered and responded to ongoing political contexts–in the United States and elsewhere–of political radicalization, xenophobia,…[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 a3166754357999561411cebfb54f2992 Autumn Womack started the topic Seeking Nominations For Prose Fiction Executive Committee in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:47:10 +0000 We’d very much like nominations (self nominations count!) for new committee members for the Prose Fiction Forum.  The term would begin Jan 2026 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas: amwomack@princeton.edu

]]> 0 721593b1601eb008592ed7b92d2605ef Sarah Wall-Randell started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-ecocriticism-in-an-age-of-emergency/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:24:39 +0000 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>CFP for MLA 2026: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature hav…[Read more]

]]> 0 b877a6cf3316f13060c8bcaf632c4055 Robert Nguyen started the topic MLA 2026 CFPs, TC Adaptation Studies forum in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfps-tc-adaptation-studies-forum/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:39:32 +0000 Good morning,

Good morning,

As I thought they may be of interest to folks working in Screen Arts and Culture, I am posting here info on the panels that the TC Adaptation Studies forum will be sponsoring for the 2026 MLA convention. Also included is further detail on the panel we are co-sponsoring with the GS Comics and Graphic Narratives…[Read more]

]]> 0 daa2de088a7ab1be014cd337cae1f691 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-8/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:26:29 +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 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 db5e1f2431cafc9c6703e9142f0fe46e Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-4/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:26:51 +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 405dcc5c6cf6c0a64a3bddb0f6b74af3 Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers MLA 2026 in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-mla-2026/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:49:57 +0000 <div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
(Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities (Online)
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases,…[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 878be761cb9ed1473efb89de08891f30 Carmen Nocentelli posted an update in the group LLC 17th-Century English: The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912942/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:10:46 +0000 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature have flourished since the turn of the twenty-first century. As the climate crisis continually becomes more urgent, however, the…[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 e94efe99d5b627aed803ba118342e062 Tanya Shilina-Conte started the topic New Book: Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine in the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/screen-arts-and-culture/forum/topic/new-book-black-screens-white-frames-gilles-deleuze-and-the-filmmaking-machine-4/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:38:23 +0000 Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine by Tanya Shilina-Conte is now available from Oxford University Press<u>: </u><u>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-screens-white-frames-9780197511336?cc=us&lang=en&#</u&gt;
<div class=”clearfix text-formatted field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary…[Read more]

]]> 0 94eb6279aec1e3a9c638d2b8a1339ddd Carmen Nocentelli started the topic MLA2026 - GOING GLOBAL: QUESTIONS, CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/mla2026-going-global-questions-challenges-opportunities/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:37:17 +0000 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Going Global: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities.” We seek papers that critically examine the methodological and theoretical implications of global frameworks in seventeenth-century studies. Of particular interest are…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe06ac3e48ac4b994a09abb0edd2827e Jane Hwang Degenhardt started the topic Call for self-nominations for appointment to the 17th-Century English LLC in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-appointment-to-the-17th-century-english-llc/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:00:04 +0000 Dear all:We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC 17th-Century English. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements…[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 f9edd48711333aef3b4ef0e5b06f6868 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC African to 1990 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-to-1990/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-12/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:12:27 +0000 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 97c54fac0c4abafccc8c3666a3db0025 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-4/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:50:32 +0000 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 73215c5974629be9153feaf055551809 Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-3/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:55:17 +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 f7a21a2ea3119bcee61780937a76a474 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:02:35 +0000 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

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

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

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

]]> 0 13ba7be5f3cd204b8809c48eb3104b06 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:58:34 +0000 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

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

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

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

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

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

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

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

]]> 0 51dfa962c8509dc311cdee9b05cdc507 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:54:04 +0000 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

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

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

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

]]> 0 f5ec3a5c25c83fd9ea0bc470829eafb1 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:16:00 +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 d96b0196cf95344577f6bbedf241c451 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901836/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:03:50 +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 c5cc64396d5b9776ae727e5016cb122d Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-8/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:31:47 +0000 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

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

]]> 0 ffe44bb1e1225719504ae24b32cf6103 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-6/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:24:10 +0000 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

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

]]> 0 ff2c9ec8a0cce582a8832730e4ef2292 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-4/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:09:45 +0000 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

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

]]> 0 a9c660823fa9d38c62f504520db2f90d Peter Leman started the topic ACLA 2025 Session CFP: "World Literature and Disappearance" in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/acla-2025-session-cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-2/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:07:20 +0000 Hi All,

I am co-organizing a session with Joseph Wager for the 2025 ACLA. Our topic is “World Literature and Disappearance.” Please consider submitting, and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested. Full CFP below. Thank you!

Best,

Peter Leman

 
World Literature and Disappearance
Enforced disappearance has become a lingua fran…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8a6b7627444eb73c011563f94a4fc4d Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900966/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:13:45 +0000 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8dd031dfe5905ecc12ee8893ea78aa3 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900964/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:08:29 +0000 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ec34b11565be267a1b47eb36f4a4a09 Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900962/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:03:00 +0000 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

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