Groups – Activity – Abby Goode

Annette Kolodny deposited Schooling the Nation’s Newspaper of Record: The New York Times and Indian Genocide in the group LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

In late 1991, an editor at the Sunday New York Times Book Review asked me to write a feature article about that uniquely American genre, the Indian captivity narrative. When the editor called, I was dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. I accepted the Times assignment in hopes that writing this article might prove a…[Read more]
Hatem Akil started the topic Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities – MLA 2018 CFP in the discussion Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

Dear Friends,

Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.

Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities

Areas to consider for this panel might include: contexts and environmental flashpoints:…[Read more]
Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement (Creative Common License) in the group TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

This handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
Noreen O'Connor started the topic Call for Papers: Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield (due 3/15) in the discussion Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

The Elizabeth von Arnim Society and the Katherine Mansfield Society welcome scholars interested in Women’s Studies to the “Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence Conference” which will be held 19 & 20 July 2017 at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California

Conference web sit…[Read more]
Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement in the group TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

This handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement in the group HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

This handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
Kaitlin Mondello started the topic CFP MLA 2018: "Dark Ecology" in 19th-century British Literature in the discussion Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

In The Ecological Thought, Timothy Morton defines his eponymous title as “the thinking of interconnectedness” (1,7), with the recognition that this interconnection also “has a dark side” (EWN 184). This idea of “dark ecology”…[Read more]
Jeffrey Cohen started the topic MLA 2018, NYC–Call for Working Group Participants in the discussion Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

Posted on behalf of Sophia Dawn Christman-Lavin.

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Our working group seeks participants whose scholarship reflects on the notion of ecological citizenship.

The goals of the group include (1) contemplating the diverse ways in which ecological citizenship is revealed in literary works (any period), as well as through its various modes of pu…[Read more]
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

A Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative Literature

What is the “tipping point” that makes a scholarly argument persuasive? This panel combines the sharing of scholarly interests and discoveries that are the purpose of conventions with a pragmatic aspect of rehearsing the mechanics of comparative persuasion.…[Read more]
James Gifford deposited NOTES 1984 in the group TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

Lecture/class notes on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFPs for THREE ecological panels for MLA 18 NYC in the discussion Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

Please follow this link to access all three, or see below.

SITE SPECIFICS
How does place matter and insist, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference? The main focus of this roundtable is upon its NYC environs (at any point in time, and widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts,…[Read more]
Samara Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

Aggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more]
Laurie Rodrigues started the topic CFP MLA '18: Literary Studies in the Post-Truth Age in the discussion The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

Call for papers, Special Session to be proposed for the MLA’s 2018 Annual Convention. This session invites papers concerned with the stakes and importance of literary study in an era of misinformation and American cultural uncertainty. Areas of inquiry for discussion may include, but are not limited to:

– New (and/ or necessary) approaches to l…[Read more]
John Young deposited How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Processes of Textual Production in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

How to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O’Brien’s archival papers at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O’Brien’s works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such k…[Read more]
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays
A Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative…[Read more]
William A. Gleason started the topic Princeton University Press Call for Submissions in the discussion The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago

Now welcoming submissions, The Pocket Instructor: Writing (edited by Amanda Irwin Wilkins and Keith Shaw) will be a collection of creative exercises for teaching academic writing in the undergraduate classroom. It follows in the footsteps of The Pocket Instructor: Literature, edited by Diana Fuss and William A. Gleason (Princeton University Press,…[Read more]
Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months ago

This article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months ago

This article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
Howard Horwitz started the topic CFP-MLA Session 2018 in the discussion Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 9 years ago

Religion in American Public Discourse

Competitive session co-sponsored by the Religion and Literature Forum and the Forum on Nonfiction Prose. Religion has long figured in the public discourse of the United States. During election season in particular, religious issues figure in campaign and more generally political discourse. President Do…[Read more]
Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years ago

Imperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu).
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Abby Goode

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Abby Goode

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