[Comedias] FW: [GEMELA] FW: please send this message to all early modern Hispanists about MLA reorganization

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Hi all:

Please share this info with your email lists of members, subscribers, etc. 

The MLA intent to merge the 2 early modern Spanish divisions (drama and
poetry/prose) is pretty hard to find but I hope it can be forestalled.  If
you go to the web page http://groupsdiscussion.commons.mla.org/, you have to
scroll all the way down to Paragraph 108(!!)  And then, click within the box
at the right to see the comments on  paragraph 108 .  There you will see
that Marianne Hirsch has proposed: 
"Note that a split of periods along genre lines is unique to Spanish among
languages represented in the MLA. If these two 16th and 17th century Spanish
forums agree to merge, they can have 4 guaranteed sessions for the next five
years. "


Only a very few of us have replied (objected) because this drastic proposal
is so well hidden -- placed in the comments rather than in the body of the
proposal.


Looking at the comments section, note that no such proposal was made to
merge 16th century French and 17th century French - 2 fields with
considerably fewer members, journals, organizations, etc. 

And in regards to English: Margaret Ferguson reported in the comment
section:
Members made very clear objections to any amalgamations of divisions
organized by historical period during the period between 1600 and 1837.
There are currently 12 guaranteed sessions for MLA divisions of English
Literature focusing on the years between 1600 and 1837: these divisions are
devoted to Shakespeare, the 16th c., the 17th c., the Restoration and Early
18th c....   There are in addition  guaranteed sessions for topics in this
period through its rich set of Allied Organizations:   the Marlowe Society,
the International Spenser Society, the Donne Society, the Society of Early
Modern Women,  the Renaissance English Text Society, the Milton Society ...



The deadline for comments is imminent, so please voice your opinion  soon. 


-- 

Barbara Simerka, PhD
Queens College
Flushing NY 11367

Director, Transfer Honors Program
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