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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor, Queer and Sexuality Studies, UW-Milwaukee in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoWomen’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in Queer and Sexuality Studies for 2022-2023. Must be able to teach Queer Theory and Feminist Theory courses. Apply by April 10, 2022 to ensure consideration. https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/33994
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic Call for Papers for MLA 2023: The Ecology of the Community College Classroom in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoWe are currently looking for presenters for next year’s HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Forum. This is a guaranteed session set for the convention in San Francisco, on January 5-8, 2023. If you are interested, please see the detailed call description below and the shortened call posted on the MLA site below it.
CFP for MLA 2023: The…[Read more]
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Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Teaching Queer Theory beyond the Western Classroom in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis article develops a theory of postcolonial queer pedagogy through reflections on teaching nineteenth-century literature at the National University of Singapore. Students draw on their experiences living in a culture torn between liberal and illiberal tendencies and recognize that such contradictions exist in both the Western and non-Western world.
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee service in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello Forum Members!
I recently posted information regarding the election for the community colleges representative in the MLA Delegate Assembly. The HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee is also interested in hearing from forum members who might be interested in serving on the Executive Committee. If you are interested in the committee,…[Read more]
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic Delegate Assembly Election Nominations for Community College Representative in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello Forum Members!
My name is Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta, and I am the current Chair of the HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee. I hope all of you are well.
We are currently asking for nominees for the MLA Delegate Assembly election that will take place later this year. Folks who would like to represent the HEP Community Colleges forum in the…[Read more]
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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Sydney Boyd started the topic Soliciting Suggestions for Election to Executive Committee in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe MS Opera and Musical Performance forum executive committee is actively soliciting suggestions for nomination to the committee. Please respond here or reach out directly if you or someone you know would be interested in serving, ideally before January 21, 2022.
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Kendra Leonard deposited Louise Talma: a Life in Composition in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoAnalysis of composer Louise Talma’s music using autobiographical theory
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Kendra Leonard deposited The Art Songs of Louise Talma in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 4 years agoAnalysis and scholarly editions of composer Louise Talma’s works for single voice and piano.
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Shawn Casey started the topic New 2022 Virtual Format: 600AV – Conflict and Contradiction… in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 4 years agoHi Everyone,
The HEP Community College Panel, 600AV – Conflict and Contradiction: Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Language Justice, and Institutional Priorities has been moved online. Panel time is still Saturday, January 8, 5:15 – 6:30 PM.
To access the panel, follow these instructions from the MLA Convention Online Session FAQ page. We hope to see you…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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Leigh Gilmore started the topic Job Opportunity in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoPosition No. 00005756. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInvited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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