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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News? in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoMembers of the Teaching of Literature Forum:
In October, the Commons Wire will return with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a new position, or received a promotion, please let us know by e-mail or private message (to @terrainvagues) by 25 September and we’ll f…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Announcing Teaching Literature Book Award Winner 2015 in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural 2015 winner of its Teaching Literature Book Award.
The Teaching Literature Book Award is an externally refereed prize, presented biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University.…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Alexander L. Kaufman started the topic CFP: "Greenwood Fashion," SEMA 2015 in the discussion
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCFP: Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) Conference. October 22-24, 2015, Little Rock, Arkansas
International Association for Robin Hood Studies Sponsored Session:
“Greenwood Fashion: Clothing, Textiles, Skins, and Furs in the Ongoing Robin Hood Legend”
The Robin Hood ballads and other Robin Hood tellings, from the past through the…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Art, Literature and Revolution in Latin America: Telling the Story in the group
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCourse Description: As German intellectual Walter Benjamin writes in his essay “The Storyteller”, “Experience which is passed on from mouth to mouth is the source from which all storytellers have drawn.” In the process of sharing experiences, more stories are born with authorship that are common while at the same time recognizing the individ…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Korean Literature Survey & CFProposals in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoDo you teach Korean literature? Please fill in our survey designed to gather information about instructors’ materials for teaching texts and translations of Korean works. We are also currently accepting proposals for this new initiative.
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Michelle A. Massé started the topic CFP Extension: Age Studies Forum panel, MLA 2016 in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.
What difference does age make in w…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher started the topic CFP: MLA 2016 Austin: Word Books and Material Culture in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWord Books and Material Culture
Sponsored by the new Theory and Method forum Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography (formerly known as the Lexicography Discussion Group).
ABCs, dictionaries, spellers, synonymies, thesauruses: what is the life of a word book? What stories do word books tell? Please submit 250 word abstracts by the deadline.…[Read more]
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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Teaching Memory Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Members of the Teaching of Literature group,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:
Teaching Memory Studies
Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flash…[Read more]
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Gwynn A. Dujardin started the topic CFP: MLA 2016 Re-approaching the Survey Course in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoProposals invited for MLA roundtable session on innovative approaches to teaching literature surveys. Papers may encompass the practical (e.g., syllabus design, teaching strategies, assignments/assessment), the institutional (i.e., ways of introducing curricular innovation), and/or the theoretical (i.e., on place of the survey course in our…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP: MLA 2016 – Literature and the Public Sphere in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”
The focus of this session is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that engages public events/ideas/issues, as well as exploring the ways lit…[Read more]
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Eve Salisbury replied to the topic Rethinking the Place of the Author in the discussion
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years agoCurrent status: Four of five presentations have now been posted, along with the letter from the New Chaucer Society. See “files.”
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Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years agoMaura Nolan’s response
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Eve Salisbury replied to the topic Rethinking the Place of the Author in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years agofour more papers are expected to follow.
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Eve Salisbury replied to the topic Rethinking the Place of the Author in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe NCS letter written in response to the MLA proposal may be read by clicking on “files”; also available there is Seth Lerer’s paper, one of five in the session.
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