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Rielle Navitski started the topic Call for Session Proposals in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Screen Arts and Culture Forum Committee is seeking proposals from the membership for two of our yearly panel slots (one guaranteed, one non-guaranteed).
If you are posting a CFP for your session on the MLA site, the deadline is February 28.
We will consider proposals for sessions up through March 15. Please email your proposals, including…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Rachel Floyd started the topic Dissertation Research on Professional Development in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello! My name is Rachel Floyd and I’m currently working on my dissertation research in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. I’m researching the current professional learning needs of recent alumni from graduate foreign language programs, including those no longer in academia. Would you be interested in sup…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2023 through the close of the January 2028 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members also include…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoEdited Collection of essays on music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
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Chantelle Warner started the topic Seeking Nominations for New Executive Committee Members: LSL Applied Linguistics in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 4 years agoThanks to all who attended our panels this past week. Please also join me in thanking Joshua Thoms, our outgoing LSL Applied Linguistics forum president, who did much of the work organizing and coordinating those talks.
On behalf of my colleagues on the Executive Committee, I am writing to solicit nominations (including self-nominations) for a…[Read more] -
Corinne NOIROT replied to the topic MLA Sessions: 16c French Sessions in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoSpecial Zoom room for “French Drama in Context (1498–1610): Beyond Boundaries” (NOW VIRTUAL)
– ZOOM meeting ID: 895 2890 9673
– Passcode: theatrehttps://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89528909673?pwd=WEJCUlRiYm5nTHhLK0FsalVtNVBwQT09
Saturday 8 January ; noon–1:15 PM EST
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Matthew Thomas Miller deposited Advances and Limitations in Open Source Arabic-Script OCR: A Case Study in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis work presents an accuracy study of the open source OCR engine, Kraken, on the leading Arabic scholarly journal, al-Abhath. In contrast with other commercially available OCR engines, Kraken is shown to be capable of producing highly accurate Arabic-script OCR. The study also assesses the relative accuracy of typeface-specific and generalized…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.
The following sessions will now be held virtually:
Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Presider: Rielle Navitski
A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic MLA Sessions: 16c French Sessions in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello everyone,
Here is an updated list of our 16c French sessions for MLA, which is now essentially online (all times are Eastern):
- Putting Sensory Worlds into Words in Sixteenth-Century France on 6 January 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM [online]
- Joachim Du Bellay at Five Hundred Years on 6 January 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM [online]
- French Drama in Context…
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Corinne NOIROT replied to the topic 16c French Executive Committee: Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoI would like to nominate Alison Calhoun.
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic 16c French Executive Committee: Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoBeginning this year, the MLA Program Committee has updated the way Forum Executive Committees are created. In the past, the executive committee and the forum membership nominated potential candidates, who were then narrowed to two in the spring, and voted between in the fall election cycle. Now, to streamline the process and to avert the…[Read more]
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Dr. Elizabeth Hunter deposited Participant information for MLA 2022 Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoBios and recent work of the participants for the 2022 MLA Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” scheduled to take place on January 6, 2022.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Jobs in Digital Publishing and Digital Scholarship at University of Pennsylvania in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoKnow a talented digital humanist with Python and Docker skills, or someone with experience in digital publishing and an interest in building collaborative partnerships? The growing Research Data and Digital Scholarship team at University of Pennsylvania Libraries is hiring for two new positions—please share!
Digital Scholarship Programmer (…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoTo encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more] -
Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoTo encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more] -
Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Mahmoud Azaz started the topic Mahmoud Azaz -Applied Linguistics Forum Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues: My name is Mahmoud Azaz. I am honored and excited to have been nominated for the Applied Linguistics Executive Committee (LSL) at the Modern Language Association (MLA). I am an associate professor of Arabic and Second Language Acquisition & Pedagogy at the University of Arizona. I am also a Distinguished Fellow at the University…[Read more]
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Mahmoud Azaz started the topic Mahmoud Azaz -Applied Linguistics Forum Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues: My name is Mahmoud Azaz. I am honored and excited to have been nominated for the Applied Linguistics Executive Committee (LSL) at the Modern Language Association (MLA). I am an associate professor of Arabic and Second Language Acquisition & Pedagogy at the University of Arizona. I am also a Distinguished Fellow at the University…[Read more]
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