Groups – Activity – C. Beth Burch

Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an: Practice, Realization and Teaching in the thought of Chang Chiu-ch'eng in the group TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago

An overview of Zhang Jiucheng’s 張九成 (1092-1159) thought on mind-cultivation and Zhu Xi’s 朱熹 critique of Zhang and other Buddho-Confucians of the early Southern Song dynasty (1126-1279).
Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago

n his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a peopl…[Read more]
Nicky Agate deposited The Syllabus as Scholarship in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago

One of a series of blog posts reflecting on #HumetricsHSS, the work of the Humane Metrics for the Humanities team at the Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute in 2016.
Laura R. Braunstein deposited Approximating the University: The Information Literacy Practices of Novice Researchers in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago

In a seminal essay, David Bartholomae asserts that novice writers need to “invent the university by assembling and mimicking its language.” Instructors and librarians who work with beginning academic writers confirm Bartholomae’s assertion. Our research asks how, precisely, novice writer-researchers go about inventing the university before they…[Read more]
Candace Barrington deposited Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks' The Anniad in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago

In this brief paper, I first introduce Gwendolyn Brook’s “The Anniad,” a 43-stanza ballad at the center of her 1949 Pulitzer-prize winning collection, Annie Allen. Next, I make a case that “The Anniad” is informed by a medievalism combining Brooks’ girlhood reading and the physical environment of Bronzeville, her Chicago neighborhood. Finally, I…[Read more]
Ruby Tapia posted an update in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

2017 MLA Panels Sponsored by the Forum on Race and Ethnicity Studies

Session 28. 05-JAN-17. Writing (against) the Prison, 12:00 noon – 1:15 p.m. Franklin 13, Philadelphia Marriott.

Presiding: Ruby Tapia, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. “The Life of Paper: Imprisoned,” Sharon Luk, Univ. of Oregon

2. “You (Shall) Have the Body: Ghostly…[Read more]
LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”

The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
Nancy Caronia started the topic NeMLA Panel seeking abstracts, deadline 9/30 in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

NeMLA Panel: The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed

The goal of “The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed” panel is to explore the Rocky franchise’s place in illuminating Italian Americans’ anxiety about whiteness in a post-Civil Rights era and black millennials’ continual struggle for autonomy in the post-9/11 twenty-…[Read more]
Darwin Tsen started the topic CFP Postsocialist Literature and Culture Under Comparative Lenses in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

Proposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)

Organizer:

Darwin H. Tsen, The Pennsylvania State University

A few nations still claim the socialist mantle today, but their practices paint a different picture. How do we, then, in an age where…[Read more]
Adam Toth started the topic CFP Race Theory and Literature in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

Proposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)

Organizers:
Pauline Moret-Jankus, Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena
Adam J. Toth, The Pennsylvania State University

Race Theory and Literature Emerging out of the practices of…[Read more]
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.

This group will host discussions of all types of lite…[Read more]
Monica Cure started the topic CFP Travel, Religion, and Interpretation ACLA 2017 Netherlands, Deadline Sep. 23 in the discussion Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago

Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.

If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper

Religion has…[Read more]
Val Dumond replied to the topic Member news to share? in the discussion The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

After a five year struggle, my book, American-English: The Official Guide, has been published and is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle. Not a “rule” book, it is aimed at writers and emphasizes the benefits of creating Your Style Manual and recording personal choices of grammar and punctuation usage. A special section offers…[Read more]
Pamela Herron replied to the topic Member news to share? in the discussion The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

My chapter “East to West – The Inter-Connectedness of All Things Created” will be published in the forthcoming book Sustainability in/and Writing Intensive Courses as part of the Lexington Books’ Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series. The book should be out by MLA 2017.

Thanks!

Pam
Nicky Agate started the topic Member news to share? in the discussion The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

Have you recently published a book, presented a project, or won an award? Share your news with other MLA members in the Commons Newsletter. Message me your news here on the Commons (@terrainsvagues) or e-mailcommons@mla.org over the next couple of days to be included in the September issue!
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic File deposit: Whiting Rich and Strange in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

I am notifying the Race and Ethnicity group that I have deposited a short story titled Whiting Rich and Strange. I have written six stories so far set in the Rust belt, a site of post-colonial activity. In my hometown of East Chicago. one census recorded 82 nationalities. Our part of Indiana is not known to the rest of the US, except as high cr…[Read more]
Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Whiting Rich and Strange in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

Title of short story: WHITING RICH AND STRANGE

A story of ethnic people in an oil refinery town in NW Indiana.
Comments are most welcome. This is part of a series of stories based in the industrial part of Chicago’s Indiana suburbs.

I am also placing the story in the Shakespeare group because–after all–it is a Romeo and Juliet story.…[Read more]
Doug Steward deposited Data on Humanities Doctorate Recipients and Faculty Members by Race and Ethnicity in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

The members of the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada noted at a recent meeting that they often make generalizations about humanities doctorate recipients and faculty members of color that would benefit from the light that systematic national data might shed on them. This report responds to the…[Read more]
Philip Smith started the topic CFP: The Novels of Elie Wiesel in the discussion Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

CFP: The Novels of Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel has long been a pivotal figure in Holocaust discourse. His book Night was one of the earliest works by a survivor and continues to be a significant point of reference in Holocaust literature. He went on to become an incredibly prolific writer, working in a range of genres. His death in July 2016 invites…[Read more]
Karl Steel deposited Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago

Here’s a key paragraph:
“This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present day fascinations with the Norse in popular music,…[Read more]
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C. Beth Burch

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