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Billy Clark replied to the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoThanks to all of you who came to Lizzie McNeill’s on Friday. It was a lovely evening and we will make sure we do it again.
I’ll be in touch soon (via all of the relevant fora) with other thoughts about how those of us with interests in language, linguistics and lang-lit can keep in touch and work together in future.
Best wishes,
Billy
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine (HUM450AJ.O) syllabus in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years agoAt the intersection of comics and medicine is the rise of the Graphic Medicine scholarship field. This course examines the ways in which the sequentialized hybrid of word and image is bringing new insights to patient, healthcare, and clinical experiences.
In any manner of ways, the comics medium (whether known as comic books, graphic novels,…[Read more]
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Billy Clark replied to the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoHi everybody,
Looking forward to seeing some of you in Lizzie McNeill’s at 7.30.
I thought it worth letting you know that it’s really close to the Sheraton where the presidential address is from 6.45 to 7.30, so quite possible to go to both and to get from one to the other very quickly.
Best wishes,
Billy
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Billy Clark started the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear all,
Happy new year from London! I’m looking forward to seeing you all in Chicago!
Here is some info on our sessions and a new idea we have this year for an informal get-together for members of all forums/fora with an interest in language, linguistics or ‘lang-lit’ on Friday evening.
Theater as Communication and Where Do The Voices Com…[Read more]
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Billy Clark started the topic CFP: Women and Language in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear all,
We are looking forward to seeing (some of) you in Chicago.
Before emailing you about the convention, here is a call for papers which I meant to pass on earlier in the year.
Best wishes,
Billy
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Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international,…[Read more]
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Laura L. Runge started the topic Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century in the discussion
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoMLA 2019 LLC Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
Sunday January 6, 2019: 10:15-11:30 AM, Randolph 2 (Hyatt Regency Chicago)
Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century
Session Chair: Laura L. Runge, University of South Florida
“Before We Were Normal: Disability and Aesthetics in the Early Eighteenth C…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & 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,…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 42, no. 3(Nov. 2018) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoDUTCH CROSSING : JOURNAL OF LOW COUNTRIES STUDIESVolume 42, Number 3, November 2018
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ydtc20/42/3?nav=tocListTABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial
Ulrich Tiedau
Stylometric Authorship Attribution for the Middle Dutch Mystical Tradition from Groenendaal
Mike Kestemont
The Re-education of Conversos in 17th Century…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature 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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religioncomics deposited Distinguishing the Comic Book Subgenre of Cancer Narratives in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoAn overview of proposed categories for the growing graphic medicine genre of cancer comics (i.e. cancer narratives in comic book form) and an initial theory on the significant linkage between this illness and particular medium.
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Stephen A. Ross deposited Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel: From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoFrom the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many tribes and subcultures of Britain’s teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of the most important contemporary British wri…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Coming of Age in Troubled Times: Son of Babylon and Theeb in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoJordan and Iraq are not countries that are often associated with a local film culture. Recently, however, a nascent film industry has started to grow in both Iraq and Jordan, producing films that have been shown in international film festivals. Even though the Jordanian film industry remains in its infancy, the films that have emerged of late…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited It’s Time for LISSA in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoReview of LISSA: A STORY ABOUT MEDICAL PROMISE, FRIENDSHIP, AND REVOLUTION (University of Toronto Press) by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, and Caroline Brewer
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William Lenz started the topic CFP: Travel & Tourism at 2019 Popular Culture Conference in Washington DC in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCFP: Travel and Tourism Studies
POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
2019 JOINT NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Wardman Park Marriott, Washington DC
Wednesday, April 17, to Saturday, April 20, 2019
For information on PCA/ACA, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org
For conference information, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org/nationa…[Read more]
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Rachael King deposited “Interloping with my Question-Project”: John Dunton’s and Daniel Defoe’s Epistolary Periodicals in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis article revisits the under-appreciated connection between John Dunton and Daniel Defoe in the context of their epistolary periodicals, the Athenian Mercury and the Review. While the wide-scale use of reader letters in early periodicals has been acknowledged if not fully appreciated in contemporary scholarship, each author devoted copious…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic Call for essay contributions for a volume on "Protest in the Long 18th Century" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoEighteenth century popular protest and resistance included not only riots which resulted from the rising prices of bread and other food staples in England, France, and Spain, but also those triggered by “new” policies on hats and coats, as well as riots and executions brought about from the displeasure with foreign competition. We invite ess…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 3: Assembled in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAssembled cigar box fiddle. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”
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Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 2: Disassembled in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThe label is under the soundboard. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”
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