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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic Invitation to Serve on the Exec Com of LLC Pre-1990 African Literature Forum in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe Executive Committee of the Pre-1990 African Literature Forum is always looking for people willing and able to serve on the committee, as it is a four-year commitment with one person rotating off each year. The main responsibility of committee members is hosting two to four panels on pre-1990 African literature, so the labor is not onerous. It…[Read more]
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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic Invitation to Mentor Members in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
The MLA is looking for ways to improve year-round engagement in the forums, and it has identified professional development as a critical area of need for many of our members. If you would be willing to mentor another member of the LLC Pre-1990 African Literature forum, please reply to this post here or email Wendy Belcher at…[Read more] -
Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited Chinese 211: Bibliography and Research Methods in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to the tools, methods, and history of sinology. Sinology refers to the study of China as performed in a philological manner. Philology refers to the historical study of language and literature in its fullest context. It is inherently interdisciplinary. It draws on the fields of…[Read more]
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Rosemary G. Feal started the topic Achy Obejas at the MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoGoing to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ for bios.
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Élika Ortega started the topic MLA19 582 Roundtable. Digital Hispanisms in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoPlease join us for a TC Digital Humanities sponsored roundtable on Digital Hispanisms with Alex Saum-Pascual (UC, Berkeley), Sylvia Fernández (U. of Houston), Nora Benedict (Princeton U), Vanessa Ceia McGill U), Lorena Gauthereau (U. of Houston), Hilda Chacón (Nazareth College), and myself.
This roundtable aims to spark a conversation on the i…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic MLA19 582 Roundtable. Digital Hispanisms in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago<h3>Digital Hispanisms</h3>
Alex Saum-Pascual (UC, Berkeley), Sylvia Fernández (U. of Houston), Nora Benedict (Princeton U), Vanessa Ceia McGill U), Lorena Gauthereau (U. of Houston), Élika Ortega (Northeastern U.), and Hilda Chacón (Nazareth College).This roundtable aims to spark a conversation on the intersections between Digital Humanities (D…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic MLA19 582 Roundtable. Digital Hispanisms in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago<h3>Digital Hispanisms</h3>
Alex Saum-Pascual (UC, Berkeley), Sylvia Fernández (U. of Houston), Nora Benedict (Princeton U), Vanessa Ceia McGill U), Lorena Gauthereau (U. of Houston), Élika Ortega (Northeastern U.), and Hilda Chacón (Nazareth College).This roundtable aims to spark a conversation on the intersections between Digital Humanities (D…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Matthew Omelsky deposited The Creaturely Modernism of Amos Tutuola in the group
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis article examines the global African modernism of Amos Tutuola through the lens of his nonhuman folkloric creatures. Though the work of the early Nigerian novelist is often characterized as modernism’s inversion, or “traditional,” Tutuola in fact articulates a succession of surreal monsters in The Palm Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the B…[Read more]
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Paige Morgan deposited This Talk Doesn’t Have A Name in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis talk discusses various aspects of working with data: the choices that we make when we create data, when we analyze data, and some of the social implications of those choices.
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Anne Donlon started the topic AHA-MLA THATCAMP, January 2nd in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWill you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.
Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]
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Sarah Ruth Jacobs deposited MLA 2019: Abstracts for Special Session 728, Readership Studies in the Age of Digital Media in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis panel considers the question of how traditional readership studies and reception theory have evolved methodologically, materially, and theoretically in the context of digital reading and online networks. While the panelists find common theoretical ground between studies of pre-and-post-internet networks of readers, they also chart substantive…[Read more]
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Edlie L. Wong started the topic Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoPlease note the following four sessions organized by the Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature at MLA 2019. We hope to see some of you there.
084: American Lives: Whitman and Melville (co-organized with the Forum on Life Writing)
Date: Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Time: 3:30 PM–4:45 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency – Roo…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro started the topic TC DH Executive Committee Voting in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoI am honored to be one of your nominees for the TC DH Executive Committee. I thought it might be helpful to share a quick bio here to help you make your decision. Currently, I am the Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric at Stevenson University, a member of the MLA Executive Council, and serve on the Editorial Collective of the Journal of…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic ERA Chair vacancy announcement for a professor in DIGITAL HUMANITIES in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoDear all,
Sten Kauber at Tallinn University has asked me to share this opportunity with the group. Please, see below:
Tallinn University (TLU) is launching a European Commission
funded ERA Chair project on Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN). As a first step we seek to fill the Chair itself – a professorship in cultural data analytics. This wo…[Read more] -
Paige Morgan started the topic November 10th Deadline! CFP: ACH Conference for Computing and the Humanities: in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe deadline for submitting papers to the inaugural conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is coming up on Saturday, November 10th. Have you submitted an abstract yet?
The conference will take place in Pittsburgh, PA, July 23-26, 2019 at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center.
ACH is the United States-based c…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic MLA + AHA THATCamp — Call for Organizers in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoOn January 2nd, we’re going to have an MLA + AHA THATCamp at University of Illinois at Chicago. We’re looking for a few people to take the lead on organizing it.
A THATCamp doesn’t have a program set ahead of time, so the work would mainly be to manage the registrations ahead of time and to facilitate on the day. Seth Denbo (director of sc…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited HON 313, Reading Machines syllabus and assignments (Fall 2017) in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSyllabus, project assignments, and milestones for HON 313, “Reading Machines” (Fall 2017), a first-year interdisciplinary experience course at NC State University. Reading Machines invites students into a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit ideas. The course…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Radiant Virtuality in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis chapter situates the Victoria’s Lost Pavilion project (https://pavilion.chass.ncsu.edu/) amid related work in virtual modeling and their interpretive problematics. Drawing from a tradition in textual criticism, the chapter renovates Jerome McGann’s notion of “radiant textuality” to extended virtual objects and built environments in digital…[Read more]
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