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Carrie Johnston started the topic Join us for MLA 2017 Special Session, "Keep the H in DH" in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Please join us at on Friday at 1:45 pm for a special session, “Keep the H in DH.” (105B, Pennsylvania Convention Center)
“Keep the H in DH” will address the contributions of humanistic inquiry to the computational tools and methods taken up by digital humanities practitioners. While many humanists acknowledge the ways tha…[Read more]
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Mark Sample deposited Interactive Digital Narratives Syllabus (Davidson College 2016) in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoSyllabus for FMS 321 (Interactive Digital Narratives) at Davidson College, Fall 2016.
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James Gifford deposited Hellenism/Modernism: Negotiating Modernisms and the Philhellene in Greece in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPhilhellenism in modernist literature is familiar. I examine Lawrence Durrell’s works, locating him between Eliot’s Classicism (perhaps the hegemonic Modernism) and the Greek authors who responded to Eliot. Through his ties to Greek Modernists and Parisian Surrealists, Durrell contributed to the Anglo-American tradition in a mode that reflects the…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in c…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narratiion in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contempora…[Read more]
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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic Fellowships — Rachel Carson Center in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHi Nicole:
Thank you for the information regarding the Rachel Carson Center fellowships; though I’ll be waiting to apply when I’ve completed my doctorate, I’ll save the site and the information for future reference.
Victor Ochoa
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Joela Jacobs replied to the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDeadline Extended to Dec 10th.
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Joela Jacobs replied to the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDeadline extended to Dec 10!
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David Palumbo-Liu deposited Open Letter to MLA Members: Why Think About Palestine Now? in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn argument for more, not less, attention to issues of Palestine, and beyond.
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP: Contemporary Iberian Ecocriticism and New Materialisms in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers: 2017 Special Section of Letras Hispanas on
“Contemporary Iberian Ecocriticism and New Materialisms”
Editor: Luis I. Prádanos, Miami University
Deadline: June 1, 2017
The global proliferation of ecocriticism and environmental humanities is significantly enriching the depth and scope of literary and cultural studies worl…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Das Ich über der Natur (1927) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoEntry on Alfred Döblin’s book, Das Ich über der Natur, in the 2016 Alfred Döblin Handbuch.
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Subarno Chattarji deposited 'The Chameleon War': Passing Time and the Remembrance of the Vietnam War in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe article offers an analysis of W.D. Ehrhart’s memoir Passing Time.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Peer Review in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPeer review’s importance in academic research and scholarship suggests that it may present a particularly challenging and useful design problem for the digital humanities. How might scholars who are particularly engaged with the challenges presented by networks for the gathering, structuring, and analysis of data work together to develop flexible…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson deposited Digital American Cultural Studies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoSyllabus for a graduate level methods survey (introductory) course for the digital humanities. Taught Fall 2016 at Dartmouth College for the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program.
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: American Documentary Poetics in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAmerican Documentary Poetics
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MACall for papers on any topic related to American documentary poetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including p…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the 20th and 21st Century American Literature Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions for This Forum's Fall 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMS Screen Arts and Culture will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in an election that is scheduled for the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making n…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe deadline approaches…
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) o…[Read more] -
Alison Booth deposited Cyborgs Thirty Years On in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSteering committee’s opening roundtable for conference on the present and future of digital humanities at UVA: the career path of a feminist who embraced “A Cyborg Manifesto,” learned to love bibliography, libraries, and technology, and urges cross-pollination: “thrilling tedium of growing things together,” getting our hands dirty in humanist…[Read more]
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