HASTAC Commons | Stacy Mackin | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/stacy/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Stacy Mackin is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:50:43 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6bf689b8ce758c33f230c63e72b3bed0 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/shakespeare/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-3/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:50:45 +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 a3959e4e2a62c924d45493a4a0b4b306 Dennis Denisoff started the topic extended deadline for a Vic/Ealy-20th-C Forum panel in the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/victorian-and-early-20th-century-english/forum/topic/extended-deadline-for-a-vic-ealy-20th-c-forum-panel/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:59:44 +0000 Dear all,

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

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

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

]]> 0 ad99cfd8924307e6d8ed9ebf2a820f80 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901835/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:02:09 +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 b771d381025eefe4fa630d4d6dd65e7d 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 LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900895/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:19:32 +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 34b43690873e15ca3daffe2e90b43646 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900889/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:11:44 +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 a264454de75d5bbb322c3400d99676b7 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 LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900884/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:03:46 +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 8919f8290898b89abe48a65c3c75d66f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900082/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:03:39 +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 0455d9132b8aed370faa30470461274e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891696/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:04:32 +0000 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

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

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

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

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

]]> 0 79239b18b248c82b0255988a174fcb52 Cristina León Alfar edited the doc Call for proposals, Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886889/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:47:07 +0000 0 75966ee742cd37c929e45192faa541f3 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886050/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:17:47 +0000 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

This year’s Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on the theme of global disability performances of Shakespeare. Curated by K…[Read more]

]]> 0 8dc8873edec5000109a201ad26f1ca60 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886046/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:10:53 +0000 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 73f2d3f11c5bc059c6284f247d583449 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878066/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:22:56 +0000 Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia by Alexa Alice Joubin. Lecture video now available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/R8mbUd_mHjQ Drawing on her forthcoming book, Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2024), Alexa Alice Joubin examines cultural encounters with Shakespeare’s plays as heterotopia, a set of parallel s…[Read more]

]]> 0 2dbaed96cf5cdf780c071e1cc0cbd155 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited CBC Podcast: Liberate Your Mind – Exploring Sex and Gender in Shakespeare, February 20, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878062/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:17:35 +0000 Full podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/dNhxFiaoIGM This is a CBC Radio podcast on gender roles in Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Taming of the Shrew, recorded live at Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada. “Liberate your mind, said English professor Alexa Alice Joubin, urging us to embrace the Bard’s open-endedness to ambiguity in…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 8752ad64bd27207defafac43906e437c Kendra Leonard deposited Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice (2004) in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877419/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:04:52 +0000 The performance history of The Merchant of Venice is one entangled with what producers and directors hear as the sounds of Jewishness, be it traditional prayer, like the Shema or Kaddish, or contrived nonsense, like the “old Hebraic song of sacrifice” sung by Anthony Sher in a 1987 stage production. In this essay, I interrogate composer Joc…[Read more]

]]> 0 89d3f836a88ec233866bf1be09182716 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility," The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 195-211. in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876056/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:03:50 +0000 Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, have broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a5fffba9788ea55877933430afe3cd3 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI, Theater, and Interface Theory, keynote at Imaging Across Time: Wenshan International Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2023 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875819/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:03:52 +0000 What happens when AI goes to theatre with human audiences? Generative AI’s natural-language conversational interface has frequently been cast as an anthropomorphic interface. In performance, digital screen as interface has evolved from a vehicle for dramatic messages to a meaning-making agent with an anthropomorphic presence. While the tendency to…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff55178d7dfdf974028113058a8a87d1 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872232/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:03:59 +0000 What a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 52e32a3c19dbd712005700b4465c168d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1872217/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:03:51 +0000 What a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 87bfd52dbbb528ba859da2085c95d8c8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of #SuchStuff Podcast by the London Globe, Early Modern Digital Review 6.2 (2023): 149-153 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1871760/ Sat, 20 Jan 2024 04:03:50 +0000 Educational podcasts have gained momentum in recent years. Closure of live performance venues and widespread lockdowns as part of public hygiene measures during the global COVID-19 pandemic further increased interest in at-home consumption of digitally delivered content for entertainment and education. Supported by the Globe Theatre’s education d…[Read more]

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

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

]]> 0 78010d9d737c9ed4f43944f6727c449b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness," Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866123/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:03:54 +0000 Inclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 ecae664839a80a622bd3011a905611e0 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Generative AI as Shadow Publics in an Inquiry-Driven Society, Symposium on Digital Scholarship. Hong Kong Baptist University, October 27, 2023 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864512/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:11:06 +0000 Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, simulate human writing and complicate the inquiry-driven culture we live in. These tools use singular first-person pronouns in their textual outputs and are often associated with anthropomorphic qualities. Within the humanities, conversations tend to focus on detecting new forms of plagiarism. What is missing…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ef5cd5e9cf68a031cc1f77d22d7d2da Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Plenary: "Are There Transgender Characters in Shakespeare?" Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia, November 4, 2023. in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864507/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:04:00 +0000 Video recording of Alexa Alice Joubin’s plenary is available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/8P5nNv86goQ There are certainly non-binary actors on stage, but are there Shakespearean characters who can be read as trans? The answer is yes. To ask whether there are transgender characters is to ask questions about the performance of gender roles. We are…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 98513ee47b821c4f46169f4ec2ed360f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook 20: Pericles, ed. Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Deanne Williams in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864065/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:03:58 +0000 This volume focuses on Pericles, Prince of Tyre, whose narrative of refugee suffering, familial loss, emotional distancing, people-trafficking, and eventual, joyous recovery speaks strikingly to our historical moment. The play’s internationalist reach, its images of cross-cultural relations, and its Eastern Mediterranean setting also promote a r…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ae83735da2016ff2dc4073dacd4c426 Cristina León Alfar deposited Abandoning Tragedy in James Ijames Fat Ham in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1862109/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:04:02 +0000 The story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is adapted and revised by James Ijames in his play Fat Ham, which ran from 12 May to 31 July 2022 at The Public Theater, coproduced by the National Black Theatre. Ijames’s play, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, plays with and departs from the plot of Hamlet to explore Black manhood, the fam…[Read more]

]]> 0 93b2eec1c8f268b8e2c34d42d2898937 Sophie Christman deposited * Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861775/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:11:59 +0000 This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more]

]]> 0 f696afa71955448884debd8081615db3 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861769/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:03:17 +0000 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f6ef451d6fec3a3fac44d30a90aaa5a Vimala C. Pasupathi deposited "TEACHING WITH COMMONPLACE BOOKS IN THE AGE OF #RELATABLECONTENT" in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857155/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:10:15 +0000 An Essay about a Commonplace book assignment I wrote and tested in 2012 (published in Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy in 2014) and have since revisited and reflected upon. The essay goes into more detail about aspects of my assignment that I had not discussed in my earlier, and more practical, publication for JITP––more spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea8268dfe81a6286a0d786eb3ae63fb0 Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855397/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:14:20 +0000 A book’s a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on “Counting (in) Early Modern Drama,” I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]

]]> 0 97edbde5d6cd85ad67afb2476a85e6c2 Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854431/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:11:42 +0000 According to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section “until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types.” 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4’s printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]

]]> 0 21f7d508e367a9adafbb932ffc469994 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847389/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:15:26 +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]

]]> 0 f746fdba991b01f88844310ee9302132 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847384/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:54:55 +0000 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 e85b73c27b6110d2896e13f7cc19f3b3 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin Receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846407/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:45:33 +0000 Alexa Alice Joubin received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, which recognizes Professor Joubin’s “contributions to social justice and inclusive excellence ” that exemplify “the ideals that Dr. King espoused,” particularly “community-based social justice organizing rooted in non-violence.” The MLK Award comes on the heel of her bell hook…[Read more]

]]> 0 90d2d4757c857d2b67637d80b5b00cbf Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Afterword: Adaptation studies and interactive pedagogies." Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences, ed. Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 187-200. in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846398/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:36:56 +0000 Criticism of the Shakespearean canon through adaptation as a genre has the capacity for liberation and social reparation. As a cluster of complex texts that sustains both past practices and contemporary interpretive conventions, Shakespeare provides fertile ground for training students to listen intently and compassionately to other individuals’ v…[Read more]

]]> 0 738dbc646f531bd2f9c928a5c3669f14 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "What makes Global Shakespeares an exercise in ethics?" Global Shakespeare and Social Justice: Towards a Transformative Encounter, ed. Chris Thurman and Sandra Young (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 58-77. in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846388/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:27:47 +0000 Stage and screen adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays raise ethical questions – that is, questions about how human beings should act and treat one another. In which contexts might cross-cultural enterprises be naturalising the values associated with Shakespeare to exploit unequal power relations among artists of different backgrounds? Con…[Read more]

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

]]> 0 cb23dfa14f58732a7c355175dae74e5d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Do English Audiences Have the Toughest Time with Shakespeare?," Quarto: The Magazine of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, Spring/Summer, 2023 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841709/ Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:29:13 +0000 All the world’s a stage, but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. “English audiences are at a disadvantage because the language has evolved and is more and more distant. They need footnotes, props and staging to understand,” said Alexa Alice Joubin, a Shakespeare schol…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a3d763e29c22a21c0ad6fae795ceaf0 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "English Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory." GW Today, April 12, 2023 in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841268/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:02:17 +0000 When ChatGPT was launched, Alexa Alice Joubin realized it was here to stay. She views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use it responsibly, not as a shortcut. “This technology is going to be with us, and students need employable skills in terms of curation, editorial repackaging and prompt engineering,” Joubin said. “They need…[Read more]

]]> 0 60bfc6a063cd0b882d4c64902daccd1e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Joubin receives the bell hooks Legacy Award in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841263/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 03:53:28 +0000 Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. The award recognizes Joubin’s a…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5e550a472fb10a264f2d4bd88d07053 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans as Method: The Sociality of Gender and Shakespeare." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840260/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:32:19 +0000 This special issue on contemporary performance proposes “trans” as method and as a social practice rather than as an immutable identity category that stands in opposition to more established ones such as cis-gender men or cisgender women. We ask new questions about Shakespearean performance: How might the meanings of the plays change if we…[Read more]

]]> 0 1039fc6008af36744a6fa30682222ba2 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Shakespearean Performance through a Trans Lens." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840255/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:24:32 +0000 Gender is a set of interpersonal relationships and social practices that evolve in the presence of other people , in social spaces, and over time. My theory of trans lens corrects the institutionalized cis-sexism that assumes the cis status of even those characters with fluid gender practices. It does so by questioning the purported neutrality of…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc7c502f010f0c897e8cf4e2cdd8f69b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "The Tempest as Trans Archive: An Interview with Scholar Mary Ann S. Saunders." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840250/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:16:43 +0000 This interview with Dr. Mary Ann Saunders, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, offers a new interpretation of Julie Taymor’s 2010 film The Tempest. Bringing her life experience to bear on cisgender biases in non-trans artists’ works, Saunders proposes a new interpretation of Ariel, as performed by Ben Whishaw, as a trans woman who is “both beautiful…[Read more]

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