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Rebecca Kennison deposited Altmetrics in Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe spread of open digital forms of scholarly communication, combined with increasing institutional pressure to track research “impact,” has encouraged scholars and administrators in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) to turn their attention to metrics that promise to help in the assessment of research outputs. As a result of the lim…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on Friday, January 4, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. A longer…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago, on Friday, January 5, 2019 from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. Session 374, Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape, will feature a discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. A longer agenda with discussion…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Don’t Write About September 11th”: Meta-poetic Elements in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis article focuses on three post-9/11 meta-poems – “My Wife Says Don’t Write About September 11th” by Ryan G. Van Cleave, “How to Write A Poem After September 11th” by Nikki Moustaki and “To the Words” by W. S. Merwin – to demonstrate the point that the current scholarly understanding of post-9/11 aesthetics as something functioning like…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler deposited “Modernist Jane: Austen’s Reception by Writers of the Twenties and Thirties” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoDespite their commitment to Ezra Pound’s commandment to “make it new!:” modernist authors like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton, and Thornton Wilder referred to Jane Austen surprisingly often in their public and private writings. Although they excoriated her sexual inexperience and limited…[Read more]
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Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoA widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited A Vindication of Vernacular: Bennett, Goodison, Hippolyte, and Walcott in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis essay identifies four major factors responsible for the use of vernacular in Anglophone Caribbean poetry. Analyses of selected texts by Lorna Goodison, Louise Bennett, Kendel Hippolyte, and DerekWalcott illustrate that these four factors include the representation of working class characters, subversive protests against the imposition of…[Read more]
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Catherine Winters started the topic Revolt! Student Protests from 1968 to Today, A Symposium in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoFebruary 1968: three African American men are shot and killed at South Carolina State University during a protest against racial segregation. March 1968: Warsaw University students protest the banning of a performance of the play Dziady by Adam Mickiewicz.
May 1968: tens of thousands of students and workers take to the streets in France,…[Read more]
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Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoJoin us for the ACRL European Studies Research Forum at ALA Annual in New Orleans!
Sunday, June 24th, 8:30-10:00 a.m. Sheraton New Orleans, Bayside B
Brief welcome and introduction to the presenters
Presentations
The Nazi Conspiracy: German Fantasies and Jewish Power between Weimar and the Third Reich — Brendan Fay (Emporia State…[Read more]
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Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoJoin us for the ACRL European Studies Research Forum at ALA Annual in New Orleans!
Sunday, June 24th, 8:30-10:00 a.m. Sheraton New Orleans, Bayside B
Brief welcome and introduction to the presenters
Presentations
The Nazi Conspiracy: German Fantasies and Jewish Power between Weimar and the Third Reich — Brendan Fay (Emporia State…[Read more]
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Matthew Reznicek deposited A City She Must Postpone: The Parisian Geography of Kate O’Brien’s Bildungsromane in the group
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBy reading each of the novels of Kate O’Brien’s oeuvre as ‘a travel story’, just as we read Balzac’s Père Goriot, it becomes necessary to read them as ‘a spatial practice’, a narrative that locates itself in and responds to a specific space. The specific geography of Kate O’Brien’s Parisian novels of development, Without My Cloak (1931), The…[Read more]
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Marissa K. López replied to the topic ANNC: 2018 Futures of American Studies Institute (June 18 – 24) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoWondering why 2013 was the last year (at least as far as I’ve been able to tell, apologies if I’m mistaken) there were Latinx studies faculty at the institute. Are we not part of the future too?
A 2016 conference at Princeton on “The Contemporary” similarly included no Latinx studies scholars.
Though I am primarily a scholar of 19th century…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson started the topic ANNC: 2018 Futures of American Studies Institute (June 18 – 24) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe 2018 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures
http://www.facebook.com/futures.of.american.studiesMONDAY JUNE 18, 2018 – SUNDAY JUNE 24, 2018.
DIRECTOR: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
CO-DIRECTORS: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University),…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe relationship between obsolescence and innovation in the digital age is a peculiar one, conveying not past and future but instead demonstrating their eternal simultaneity.
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Geologies of Finitude: The Deep Time of Twenty-First-Century Catastrophe in Don DeLillo’s Point Omegaand Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe twenty-first century has seen a transformation of twentieth-century narrative and historical discourse. On the one hand, the Cold War national fantasy of mutually assured destruction has multiplied, producing a diverse array of apocalyptic visions. On the other, there has been an increasing sobriety about human finitude, especially considered…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCharles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various cha…[Read more]
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