Literature Compass welcomes readers to comment on the special issue Global Circulation Project on Oxford Global Modernisms. Every Monday from October 1st until November 5th we invite all readers who have read the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms to enter the dialogue here on the Literature Compass blog. You can read an introduction to the set of response essays, for … Continue reading »
Global Modernisms: Multiplied Modernities and Modernisms?
Literature Compass welcomes readers to comment on the special issue Global Circulation Project on Oxford Global Modernisms. Every Monday from October 1st until November 5th we invite all readers who have read the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms to enter the dialogue here on the Literature Compass blog. You can read an introduction to the set of response essays, for … Continue reading »
Global Modernisms: Peripheralizing Modernity
Literature Compass welcomes readers to comment on the special issue Global Circulation Project on Oxford Global Modernisms. Every Monday from October 1st until November 5th we invite all readers who have read the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms to enter the dialogue here on the Literature Compass blog. You can read an introduction to the set of response essays, for … Continue reading »
Global Modernisms: On the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms; or the New WWJD
Literature Compass welcomes readers to comment on the special issue Global Circulation Project on Oxford Global Modernisms. Every Monday from October 1st until November 5th we invite all readers who have read the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms to enter the dialogue here on the Literature Compass blog. You can read an introduction to the set of response essays, for … Continue reading »
Global Modernisms: How to Feel Global
Literature Compass welcomes readers to comment on the special issue Global Circulation Project on Oxford Global Modernisms. Every Monday from October 1st until November 5th we invite all readers who have read the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms to enter the dialogue here on the Literature Compass blog. You can read an introduction to the set of response essays, for … Continue reading »
Global Modernisms: Translation and World Literature
Literature Compass welcomes readers to comment on the special issue Global Circulation Project on Oxford Global Modernisms. Every Monday from October 1st until November 5th we invite all readers who have read the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms to enter the dialogue here on the Literature Compass blog. You can read an introduction to the set of response essays, for … Continue reading »
The Global Circulation Project’s Forum on Global Modernisms
In April 2012, Oxford University Press published the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, edited by Mark Wollaeger with Matt Eatough, including 28 essays on some of the many modernist movements and works that emerged around the world between the later nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. These new essays treat authors from Viet Nam, Turkey, India, China, … Continue reading »
Teaching Guide for: ‘Writing Intimate Lives: Mediations in Biographical Praxis’
Rachel Morley University of Western Sydney, Australia Literature Compass Special Issue: Life Writing and Critical Practice, 2011 Further Reading Across the course of my research into issues of writing and representation and the affective power of research I have yet to come across a book that has affected me as much … Continue reading »
Scholarly Content on the Impact of 9/11
Navy videographer at Ground Zero In the 10 years since the events of September 2001 a vast amount of scholarly research has been written on the impact of 9/11. Wiley-Blackwell is pleased to share with you this collection of free book and journal content, featuring over 20 book chapters and 185 journal articles from over 200 publications, … Continue reading »
The Montreal International Poetry Prize
The Montreal International Poetry Prize will award $50,000 for a single poem in any style and in any English dialect. We will also produce an annual global poetry anthology – something curiously missing from our cultural environment. To reflect its global perspective, the Montreal Prize has assembled an editorial board of accomplished poets from Australia, Canada, … Continue reading »
Free Special Issue: Papers from the 2009 Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference
We are delighted to announce the publication of a Special Issue made up of papers presented at the 2009 Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference. The following papers are now AVAILABLE FOR FREE until January 2011! Communicating about Communication: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educating Educators about Language Variation (pages 245–257) Christine Mallinson and Anne H. Charity Hudley Abstract … Continue reading »
Conference Report: ESSE-10 Turin, August 24-28th 2010
By Victoria Nesfield, The European Society for the Study of English held its tenth international conference in Turin, Italy in August. The biennial conference, now in its twentieth year selects a different European city for each conference; ESSE-10 was the first time Italy has hosted the conference. With 800 delegates in attendance of 44 nationalities, … Continue reading »
It’s (for) You: The Post/human is Calling
There is, to reprise Avital Ronell, no off switch for the ‘post-human’. The call is always (for) you. It leaves you ringing. —Julian Yates, “It’s (for) You; Or, the Tele-T/r/opical Post-human” (forthcoming in the inaugural issue of postmedieval) I have been spending my holiday break in the final copy-editing throes for the inaugural issue of … Continue reading »
Coming Soon: Special Issue on Scholarly Editing in the Twenty-First Century
Keep an eye out for this great special issue coming soon in Literature Compass! The line-up is as follows: “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty-First Century” – Preface’, Regenia Gagnier, Literature Compass 6 (2009), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00672.x “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty-First Century” – Introduction’, Arthur F. Marotti, Literature Compass 6 (2009), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00673.x ‘Electronic Archives and Critical Editing’, … Continue reading »
The Conference Ends without Closing…
Now that we’ve come to the end, the Compass team would like to say a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to everyone who has participated and made our first virtual conference an overwhelming success. The authors and presenters have been, without exception, engaging and professional to the last. We’d also like to extend a special note of … Continue reading »
Virtual Conference Report: Day Nine (29 Oct, 2009)
By Paula Bowles Today marked the penultimate day of Wiley-Blackwell’s first Virtual Conference. As I am sure you will all agree, thus far, each day has contained many gems, and today has been no different. Eileen Joy’s (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) keynote lecture: ‘Reading Beowulf in the Ruins of Grozny: Pre/modern, Post/human, and the Question … Continue reading »
Virtual Conference Report: Day Eight (28 Oct, 2009)
By Paula Bowles Day eight of the conference was once again marked by some excellent contributions. The first paper ‘Cultural Sociology and Other Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in the Cultural Sciences’ by Diane Crane (University of Pennsylvania) suggests that for many scholars ‘disciplinary isolation is the norm.’ However, Crane proposes that by utilising what she describes as … Continue reading »
Virtual Conference Report: Day Seven (27 Oct, 2009)
By Paula Bowles The seventh day of the conference has continued with the key themes of ‘breaking down boundaries’ and interdisciplinarity. Roy Baumeister (Florida State University) began the day with his keynote lecture entitled ‘Human Nature and Culture: What is the Human Mind Designed for?’ By utilising the concepts of evolutionary and cultural psychology, Buameister … Continue reading »
Virtual Conference Report: Day Six (26 Oct, 2009)
By Paula Bowles Welcome to the second week of the Wiley-Blackwell Virtual Conference. The first day back has started with a keynote speech from Peter Ludlow (Northwestern University) entitled ‘Virtual Communities, Virtual Cultures, Virtual Governance.’ Conference delegates also had the opportunity to meet Peter at the Second Life Cocktail Bar. There were two other papers … Continue reading »
Virtual Conference Report: Day Five (23 Oct, 2009)
by paulabowles The first week of the conference has come to an end, and the final day has included two exciting papers, as well as a publishing workshop. The first paper entitled ‘Full Disclosure of the “Raw Data” of Research on Humans: Citizens’ Rights, Product Manufacturer’s Obligations and the Quality of the Scientific Database’ was … Continue reading »
