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Blog Post
The Future is Female?: Griselda, Top Girls, and Rethinking Feminist Subjectivity
by Holly Crocker
Sacrifice and care are attributes that are difficult to map onto commonplace understandings of subjectivity. Perhaps that is because subjectivity has long been thought in gendered ways that leave little place for the seemingly feminine. more
Blog Post
When the Imperial Baroque State Is Not Sufficiently Baroque
by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
It is difficult to envision the sheer quantity of pearls dredged up from the New World by sixteenth-century colonists. An average of a 1,000 pounds of pearl per year in tax revenue alone. The social, political, and ecological challenges of producing such richness is the subject of a fascinating book by historian Molly Walsh reviewed here. more
Blog Post
Searching for Cavafy's House in Istanbul
by Gregory Jusdanis
Searching for the childhood haunts of the great poet Cavafy reveals both what has been lost to time and what remains alive in human memory. more
Essay
Postmodernism and Thing Theory
by Matthew Mullins
If postmodern literature reveals the constructed nature of our general categories, then what are the particulars out of which those general categories are constructed? more
Dibur Issue
Visions of the Future
Edited by Gisèle Sapiro, Vered Karti Shemtov, Anne Simon
How does today's art make sense of, reflect, and react to the pace of social, political, and technological changes of the last few decades? In this issue, twelve articles explore the question. more
Essay
Philology's Queer Children: Imitation, Authorship, and Shakespeare's "Natural" Language
by Jeffrey Masten
We should be contemplating and generating other philologies, future philologies, in Shakespeare studies. more
Dibur Article
The Helmeted Beholder
by Margaret Cohen
How does Jules Verne transform romantic images of beholding ruins as picturesque or sublime by putting a helmet on the beholder? more
Colloquy
Queer Environmentalities
by Irena Yamboliev
How can queer theory and ecocriticism inform each other? And why should they? Scholars working to bring these two fields together argue that each has undermined its central goals by keeping aloof... more
Colloquy
Prosody: Alternative Histories
by Eric Weiskott, Natalie Gerber
What are the historical stakes of prosody, and why should we ask? ‘Prosody’ refers both to the patterning of language in poetry and to the formal study of that patterning. In both senses, it is ... more
Blog Post
Returning to Order through Realism
by Santiago Zabala
Law and Order is the familiar rallying cry for a generation of contemporary right-wing politicians from Poland and Turkey to Brazil and the USA. In the context of such a political program, difference, change, and cultural others must be avoided as disruptions of the safety that order is supposed to represent. more
Colloquy
On Being a Medievalist and More
by Marisa Galvez
This Colloquy is one of two that originated in the "After 1967" conference in which we celebrated the work of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. While the other (soon to appear) Colloquy gathers papers and... more
Colloquy
Personification and Allegory: Selves and Signs
by Vladimir Brljak
What has allegory to do with personification, and personification with allegory? Are we justified in speaking, as we often do, of “allegorical personifications” and “personification allegory,” or... more
Colloquy
Critical Semantics: New Transnational Keywords
by Anston Bosman
This Colloquy arises from a 2018 MLA Convention session I organized on behalf of the Forum on Comparative Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. The original call for papers read simply: "Extend... more

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Modernism's Unfinished Business?

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The Artist as Interpreter: Caetano Veloso at MLA 2016

by Caetano Veloso

The singer and songwriter is interviewed by Marjorie Perloff at the 2016 Modern Language Association Convention in Austin. He discusses his early encounters with American music, how he views his...
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Humanities West: Shakespeare and Cervantes

by Roland Greene

How did Cervantes and Shakespeare meet, if not in person?
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On the Use and Reuse of History: Reading Hayden White's The Practical Past

by Winston James (moderator) / Robert Doran / Lisa Lowe / Edward Dimendberg / Ethan Kleinberg

Panelists discuss Hayden White’s perspective on “professional history."

Publications

Occasion Article
Introduction: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks and Their Aftermath

by Cécile Alduy, by Bruno Cornellier, by Dominic Thomas

International scholars, artists, writers, and activists offer a range of timely perspectives on the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Rofl Article
Secular Spectacle? Cervantes, Hardy, and the Question of Religion

by Sonia Velázquez

How a controversial Cervantes story and its French version help us reimagine early modern religion as circulation and mediation rather than sacralization
Rofl Article
'La gitanilla' in France: From Page to Stage

by Karen Newman

How the treatment of gypsies changes from the Cervantine original to its French translation and adaptation.

Recent Blogs

The Future is Female?: Griselda, Top Girls, and Rethinking Feminist Subjectivity

by Holly Crocker

Sacrifice and care are attributes that are difficult to map onto commonplace understandings of subjectivity. Perhaps that is because subjectivity has long been thought in gendered ways that leave little place for the seemingly feminine.

When the Imperial Baroque State Is Not Sufficiently Baroque

by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

It is difficult to envision the sheer quantity of pearls dredged up from the New World by sixteenth-century colonists. An average of a 1,000 pounds of pearl per year in tax revenue alone. The social, political, and ecological challenges of producing such richness is the subject of a fascinating book by historian Molly Walsh reviewed here.

Searching for Cavafy's House in Istanbul

by Gregory Jusdanis

Searching for the childhood haunts of the great poet Cavafy reveals both what has been lost to time and what remains alive in human memory.

Reflections from Trans;form

by Jin Yun Chow

How do we speak and write in a way that is concise and accessible to a wider audience and that can make an impact on social movements and on life in society?

Trans;form Response: Saqer Almarri’s “Identities of a Single Root: The Triad of the Khuntha, Mukhannath, and Khanith”

by Evan Alterman

Mixed forms are crucial not only to the understanding of khuntha, mukhannath, and khanith communities, but also to the very scaffolding of Almarri’s paper.