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Elena Garcia-Martin started the topic CFP for a volume on Pedagogies in Mixed Language Classrooms in the discussion
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoPlease consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues. Many thanks
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Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Extended deadline—please submit your abstracts by March 30th in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract by March 30, 2020 for the following panels:
Panel 1:
“A (Socio)Historical Perspective” Papers should address how language attitudes and/or ideologies have persisted, evolved, and/or changed over time and its socio-political implications. 300-word abstracts to Roshawnda Derrick, roshawnda.derrick@pepperd…[Read more]
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Kelly Aliano started the topic Looking for Participants for a Roundtable for MLA Conference 2021 in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years agoI am looking for participants for a roundtable for the 2021 MLA Conference. The description for the session is pasted below. Please reach out to me directly (kel.irene.aliano@gmail.com) with any questions or to submit a proposal.
Putting Writing and Performance in Conversation
This panel welcomes abstracts (max. 300 words) that explore the…[Read more]
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Tanja Stampfl started the topic Tenure Track Position in Composition and Rhetoric in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Department of English at the University of the Incarnate Word invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Composition and Rhetoric (tenure-track, 4-4 teaching load) beginning August 2020. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric, specialize in the teaching of Composition, and demonstrate a proven…[Read more]
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Kathi Inman Berens deposited Introduction: “What Is Creative Making As Creative Writing?” in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis special issue of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies centers on how creative writing changes when writers actively engage computers as nonhuman collaborators in “creative making.” Using examples from McGurl’s The Program Era, Emily Dickinson, and the crowdsourced “translation” of Melville’s classic into Emoji Dick, Berens suggests th…[Read more]
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Mary Hayes started the topic Language Theory Mentorship Program in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoDear all,
I am the current chair of the Language Theory’s executive committee. At the encouragement of MLA, I am putting together a mentorship program. We are all witnessing a difficult time in the academy, and a support system for burgeoning scholars is so crucial. You can sign on as a mentee or volunteer as a mentor.
Here’s how the first step…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Focus on “Henry V”: Navigating Digital Text, Performance, and Historical Resources in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago“Focus on ‘Henry V'” is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, digital Open Educational Resource co-authored and co-produced by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates on the innovative digital publishing platform Scalar. Chapters include guides to early printed editions, sources, and performance and cinematic histories of the play, as well as…[Read more]
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Nicole B. Wallack started the topic CFP: Deadline extended to July 31, 2019 — Call for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoCall for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay [Extended Deadline]
Overview:
The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay provides an overview of the theories, histories, contexts and forms of the essay as well as of current debates around the genre and its extensions. The co-editors seek brief (300-word) proposals for chapters that…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA 2020, CFP: "Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish" in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months ago51st Convention, NeMLA, Boston, March 5-8 2020
“The Old and the New: Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish”
The session seeks papers that examine Spanish in the United States (Mexican, Caribbean, Latin American) as it relates to old and new Hispanic community practices and border crossing (geographical, political, eth…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear RCWS Writing Pedagogies members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear LSL Applied Linguistics members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]
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Patrick Williams deposited The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis chapter details a credit-based orientation & information literacy course taught with local archival and special collections materials.
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Mary Hayes started the topic CFP: Constructed Languages Panel at MLA 2020 in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 7 years agoConstructed Languages
This panel will include papers that study “conlangs” in their historical, auxiliary, and fantastic varieties. Submit 250-word abstracts by March 8, 2019 to Mary Hayes (hayes@olemiss.edu). Submission Deadline: Friday, March 8, 2019
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor (slides) in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses (slides) in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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bonnie lenore kyburz started the topic CFP: Women & Language (via Leland G. Spencer, Editor) in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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