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Nancy Caronia started the topic NeMLA Panel seeking abstracts; Deadline September 30 in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoFor NeMLA: 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]
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Doug Steward deposited The Status of African American Faculty Members in English in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe article addresses a topic of pressing but long-standing concern to many in the higher education community: the disproportionately low number of African American faculty members in English, assessing the facts of the situation and how they might be addressed effectively.
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Doug Steward deposited Review of Scholarship on the Status of African American Faculty Members in English in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCompiled to support the work of the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on the
Status of African American Faculty Members in English, this scholarship review is not comprehensive. Much of the relevant literature treats diversity and equity issues in higher education broadly, a consequence of the difficulty of obtaining reliable data on specific disciplines and…[Read more] -
Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP: Society of Early Americanists 2017, Tulsa OK in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRoundtable: (Early) American Disgust
Expressed both publicly and privately, disgust is often a response to the new and the different, whether referring to people, food, behaviors, or ideologies, and this was no less true in the early Americas than it is today. Because disgust is historically and culturally constructed, early texts…[Read more]
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Kathryn J. McKnight replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoDear Rosemary and Erin,
Thank you both! Your posts are so helpful. Erin, I have downloaded the report on Baccalaureate Health Humanities programs and I look forward to the special issue. Rosemary, yes, I would love to see materials. I will email you separately.
Thank you,
Kathy
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Erin Lamb replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHi Kathryn and Rosemary,
Kathryn, I’m intrigued by your inquiry: “I am interesting in studying whether awareness of this linkage would have a positive impact on their engagement in learning critical textual analysis as well as whether it would encourage them to enroll in additional literature/culture classes.” I don’t know anyone else who is…[Read more]
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Rosemary Ila Weatherston replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHi Kathryn,
I have been looking at similar questions in my own courses and research and have found some success adapting required general education literature courses for undergraduate health professions students. These modified courses draw on the discipline of narrative medicine for their framework and combine a general study of fiction and l…[Read more]
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Kathryn J. McKnight started the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoDear Colleagues,
I just found this group and am thrilled you are here!
I am very interested in connecting with anyone who is engaged in transforming their undergraduate teaching of literature (and cultural studies) in ways that explicitly engage students with the arguments for the humanities in medical education. To be direct, many of our pr…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Panel on Disability in Anglophone Literature (NeMLA, Baltimore, March 23-26 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoNeMLA 2017 – Disability in Anglophone Literature (Panel)
48th Annual NeMLA Convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 23 – 26th, 2017Deadline to submit abstract: 09/30/2016
Categories: Anglophone and British Literature.
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
Institutional host: Johns Hopkins UniversityCFP: panel on “Disability in Anglophone Literature”
This…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3386: Studies in American Literature “Versioning Digital Humanities” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoEnglish 3386 equips students for critical encounters with the texts, images, sounds, and situations that constitute American life, politics, history, and culture. This section is organized around the theme of “Versioning Digital Humanities.” Many texts go through various “versions” as they are revised for republications, corrected for new edition…[Read more]
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Joseph Paul Fisher started the topic CFP–Disability, Athletes, and Athletics in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOn the DL: Athletes, Athletics, and Disability is the title of a proposed essay collection that will read competitive athletics through a disability studies lens. Given the myriad definitions of “sport” across the globe, On the DL is interested in compiling a wide variety of theoretically-engaged analyses of sporting culture. In addition to…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis essay maps out a six-year literary transformation of Paris noir from 1957 to 1963 that overlaps with the Algerian war for independence from France (1954–1962). In this journey that transits from Parisian utopianism to postcolonial criticism, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin’s love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner S…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited “Between Knowledge and Metaknowledge: Shifting Disciplinary Borders in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThe emergence of the digital humanities in specialized disciplines and librarianship alike necessitates a recalibration of the balance of knowledge and what Julia Flanders calls “metaknowledge.” DH in the disciplines has brought discussion of metaknowledge – data structures, archival and editorial standards, digital curation and representation -…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the NovelSpecial Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West”
Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more] -
Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Hawthorne Society Summer Meeting registration in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
June 2-5, 2016
The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
Early Bird Special for Registration ends April 1!Register here: http://www.planetreg.com/greenmountainhawthorne
Please please go to the website below to download a DRAFT of the program for the conference. This will be updated…[Read more]
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