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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the forum on Life Writing:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Aliso…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the forum on the teaching of literature:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comic…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exa…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell uploaded the file: CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection, DEADLINE 12/1/16) to
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAbstracts are sought for an edited collection on the comics of Alison Bechdel for the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists series at UP of Mississippi. Interdisciplinary approaches welcome; deadline 12/1/16
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Patrick Herald deposited Eng 260/AAS 264 – Introduction to Black Writers: Global Black Fiction in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis course focuses on developing skills of close reading and literary analysis, both in class discussion and in assignments, through the study of major black writers. This section will be a study of global black literature—novels, drama, and poetry—written in English from the twentieth century to the present. We will consider how major aut…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3386: Studies in American Literature “Versioning Digital Humanities” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoEnglish 3386 equips students for critical encounters with the texts, images, sounds, and situations that constitute American life, politics, history, and culture. This section is organized around the theme of “Versioning Digital Humanities.” Many texts go through various “versions” as they are revised for republications, corrected for new edition…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited “Between Knowledge and Metaknowledge: Shifting Disciplinary Borders in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThe emergence of the digital humanities in specialized disciplines and librarianship alike necessitates a recalibration of the balance of knowledge and what Julia Flanders calls “metaknowledge.” DH in the disciplines has brought discussion of metaknowledge – data structures, archival and editorial standards, digital curation and representation -…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic TAships Available ISU Graduate Programs in English and the Teaching of English in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
The M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English at Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) combine the study of English and American Literature with practical and theoretical coursework in the teaching of composition and literature.
We now have two additional TAships available for graduate students…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic TAships Available ISU Graduate Programs in English and the Teaching of English in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
The M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English at Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) combine the study of English and American Literature with practical and theoretical coursework in the teaching of composition and literature.
We now have two additional TAships available for graduate students entering in the fall, one for an M.A.…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: The Critic as Amateur in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSaikat Majumdar and I are inviting essays for a proposed collection tentatively titled The Critic as Amateur, with strong interest from Oxford UP. The collection will focus on literary criticism as an activity suspended (productively) between expertise and amateurism. It will explore the idea of the critic of literature as an amateur rather t…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The U.C. Berkeley Shakespeare Program in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis essay describes and illustrates the activities associated with the University of California at Berkeley’s Shakespeare Program, over the last forty years, covering teaching innovations, numerous research publications, multiple productions and videos of Shakespeare’s plays, and creation of websites, Shakespeare’s Staging and Milton Revealed.
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Linda V Troost deposited Getting My Feet Wet in a Small DH Pond: Teaching a DH Course in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoA description of a successful team-taught introductory literature/DH course on “Identity, Ethnicity, and the Digital Humanities” at Washington & Jefferson College.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited John Milton: the First Modern in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoJohn Milton is a hero to Millennials: C. S. Lewis based Perelandra on Paradise Lost; Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy mirrors the epic; Mark Morris’s best ballet is “L’Allegro and Il Penseroso”; digital artist Terrance Lindall created virtual images of Paradise Lost for the Oxford U. Press; Comus is the originator and lead Krewe for…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited ENGL 4864: History and Theory of the Novel in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThis syllabus delineates the readings and assignments for an advanced undergraduate course on the history and theory of the novel taught in fall 2014 at the University of Georgia.
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited Data Envy in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: What Is Critical Bibliography? in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoWe are excited to announce our first panel for MLA 2017 in Philadephia and provide the abstracts. Be sure to add this session to your convention schedule!
Chair: Ryan Cordell
Respondent: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (University of Virginia and Director, Rare Book School)
Barbara Heritage (University of Virginia), “Literature as Artifact: Critical…[Read more] -
Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Ken Martin started the topic CFP: SAMLA-Utopia, Dystopia, and the Search for Self in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoUtopia, Dystopia, and the Search for Self: This panel seeks to explore the relationship between utopia, dystopia, and the journey of self-development or the discovery of Self. By June 1, 2016 please submit a 300-word abstract, brief bio, and A/V requirements to Ken Martin, University of North Georgia, at kdmartin@ung.edu.
SAMLA 88 will take place…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Hawthorne Society Summer Meeting registration in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
June 2-5, 2016
The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
Early Bird Special for Registration ends April 1!Register here: http://www.planetreg.com/greenmountainhawthorne
Please please go to the website below to download a DRAFT of the program for the conference. This will be updated…[Read more]
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